Cleaning House…
Well, once in a while I find it necessary to go through my bookmarks in Netscape (particularly brought on by the size of the Personal Toolbar Folder which, if you’re familiar with Netscape, acts much like its own ‘root’ of the bookmarks (e.g. they’re on the ‘same level’ as the bookmarks button). As this area is my catch-all, it gets clogged after a while and needs to be purged. This either means I file them in existing folders or remove them, depending upon their usefulness in the future.
Amongst the interesting ones I’ve come across include:
- Alaska DMV Office Webcam – This shows people sitting to wait at the administrative office of the AK DMV.
- How to Destroy Your Computer – Need I say more?
- Interesting (and unusual) Cat Story – This is a must-read if you’ve ever been attached to a pet. Albeit a long read, it shows the true extent to which some will go when it comes to saving their pet in an odd situation.
- Say It In Binary! – This is geeky, but interesting if you’ve ever done binary conversion.
Interesting Work
Lately at work I’ve been on the development team for a new piece of software (I won’t mention here). This requires data synchronization between the handheld and desktop units. The handheld portion is being developed by my work partner; I’m developing the desktop unit. We’ve decided on a ‘standard’ database for the two units…and now it’s a matter of making each side read/write to the dataset.
Once we can both read/write to the same dataset, development will migrate to separate, unique datasets — one master desktop dataset, and a temporary handheld dataset (to be imported to/exported from the master dataset). The algorithm for this is in my head and should work (mostly because I’m more familiar with databases than my development partner), but yet needs to be completely formulated and approved. But more about that at a later time, I suppose.
It’s definitely been an interesting learning process for both of us thus far, mostly because the desktop and handheld units are written in different languages. But that’s another story in and of itself.
Forthcoming Server Updates
Well, April 1 is not all that far away…and if I recall correctly is the day when official RedHat 9 support ends. This means that I will have to (sometime) migrate/upgrade to RedHat Fedora Core 1.
As the backbone of the office network is running on RH-FC1, I’ve already got some experience with the new OS. Thus far I’ve been impressed with it. It seems much lighter in weight than its older brother (RH9)…especially when running on older machines. So, one day I’ll grab the CD’s I made (which I’ve stored at work for semi-obvious reasons) and apply the update here at home… Then some minor reconfiguration (if necessary) and all should be good to go.
Anyway, until next time…
This post was upgraded to the MZ Online Blog on 8/25/07