HP ProLiant ML570R
At work we're getting a new hardware infrastructure to support growth in our department. Amongst blade servers and whatnot, we're also getting one of these. It's coming with 17 drives and 16GB of RAM.
eNATIS
The fancy new website for the National Traffic Information System (see related link), which is going live with a new system on Friday, had this to say. It was at 22:23 local time, three days before launch:
Cross-Platform Java blows chunks
Firefox and Thunderbird are resource hogs. Then again, what else is there that works the same way across all current platforms?
Happy Resurrection!
In my ongoing quest to rid myself of relying on Windows, I've finally got network printing working from the iMac. Yay!
Online again
Thunderbird is running and I'm online again, as it were. I transferred Cyberduck to the Mac, and now I'm investigating replacement software for all the little things I had on my laptop.
:-(
So yes … the laptop finally died. I now can confirm what I suspected last night: when the Caps Lock and Num Lock lights flash simultaneously, it means the machine is running too hot.
Breakthrough!
About two months ago, during our automation process, I wanted to add in "send a mail" functionality to notify certain parties of certain events in the process, as one does. This wasn't a problem with SQL Server 2000 and DTS, because it has a MAPI plugin that connects directly to the Exchange Server.
It’s time for “Good Idea, Bad Idea”
On the Animaniacs, there used to be a segment called "Good Idea, Bad Idea", which was probably my favourite next to Pinky and the Brain.
Odd day
Today is an odd day at work. Being the beginning of the month, we have several processes that need to run, but there are gaps in between hectic processing of databases and reports that I have a spare moment.
Technology Woes
I think my laptop is dead. It reached three years old and is finally in the throes of agonising component-by-component shutdown.