Saturday
I’ve been on a movie burning tirade the past week, which will keep me occupied quite a bit. Too bad I’m spending all my time burning them and no time watching them hehe. Oh well.
I’m going to set up another laptop to run a Linux distro in the hootch, so that I don’t get rusty on that either. It’s hard to be an advocate for Open Source and not know how to use it. I’m seriously thinking of making my primary business plan revolve around the low cost solutions by using proven open source technologies. The lower TCO (total cost of ownership) should be a nice selling point to some clients, especially the one I’m considering to open with. A penny pinching guy who is a high school dropout but owns 3 companies that bring in roughly 200 million a year in profits, combined. His companies all interact with each other, but he has no information backbone with the exception of his corporate headquarters, which doesn’t even have much but a few servers to host email and a very antiquated webpage that probably brings more discredit than customers to him. But, that I can leave to the marketeers…
I have yet another movie I haven’t seen to copy….The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. It’s a comic book type movie, so I’m sure to like it.
Today has been super boring….only 2 salutes all day, no stupid questions about self explanitory issues. Well, somewhat of one. We have a new Super problem user. He thinks that the computer should answer his beck and call, and calls us constantly when it doesn’t. I understand that the crusty ole bastard still thinks of computers like the Entiac, but my god man, leave us alone….His new request, to have another computer (the two he has already are way too much) so that he can run a Terminal Services client on just that one, so he can check his email also….The problem lies with the VPN client, when he activates it for terminal services, it takes his computer off the local domain, adds him to another domain, and his addressing comes from that domain. Well, with TS up, he can’t check his email, can’t print locally, so forth….But he only needs to bring up the TS once a day. His argument is that He is the “only” one in theatre able to do this stuff…..I think not, if they trust him, anybody is ‘able’ to do it, it just needs to be deligated down….which can’t happen, because then old crusty wouldn’t have a job…ahh, he should just go out and play golf like god intended CSM’s and CW4’s to do…or walk around and Harumph at everybody….hell, even yet, teach the old dog a new trick, and make him enroll in the basics of computing class held here…damn, what an idea…but, it’s a Led Zepplin, and won’t fly.
