"OK, yeah…
That’s fine. Ok. I get it. Yeah. Now stop."
… is what I’d like to say to the ever-pressing march of things that keep me busy.
So I guess I should catch up on the last week or so since I last managed to squeeze in a post edgewise.
Home life’s been kinda slow. I watched up to current in Blood+ (I was already up to ep 6, so … not all that much to watch), and found it to be quite a good series. Very well made, high production values, etc … and an interesting story to boot.
Oh, and sleeping. Yeah, I’ve been working on that too. Not necessarily succeeding, but at least giving it the old “college try” :-p.
Work’s been crazy busy of late. I can’t even put my finger on why, but it just seems like there’s this random shitstorm surrounding me when I’m there. Even though nobody else has a whole lot to do, I’m dealing with very many things.
Of course, half of those things hinge on other people doing something. Like, I’ve got this sharepoint+activedirectory project going on. But I can’t progress on it until I get a data connector’s subnet changed… which is ITaP territory. The work order’s been in for a week, and it’s a trivial database update, but … just hasn’t been done yet for some unknowable reason.
But that’s ok, because the more I poke around with it, the more it seems like (a) it’d be a good idea to be using a full sql server 2000 install (rather than the bundled desktop edition) when I actually do the setup, because then I’ll have some ability to administer it at all.
I successfully created and registered a test domain today, and that worked surprisingly well. Except that I can’t talk to it from across subnets. I’m not sure if that means I botched it, or I got it right but need to widen the scope of the firewall rules, or what. More to the point, it may be the case that sharepoint can’t live on a domain controller — that is, maybe it needs to have a local admin account defined to be able to function. Oh, but on top of that, about 50% of the time, when sharepoint gets installed, it misconfigures itself somehow and renders the install useless. More reason for me to want to keep the actual database independent of the sharepoint instance.
Either way, I feel like all of this would be a whole lot easier if I had (a) a budget to work with, or (b) control of the network I’m working on. With that budget, I’d buy a second server, a third data port, split the sharepoint and activedirectory projects into two separate ideas, and generally be a happy camper. With the network control, I’d not have this problem in the first place, ’cause I’d be able to arbitrarily define another domain with samba, and not have to futz with activedirectory at all.
Anyway, back at the ranch, I had 3 hard drives in a row die on me, in 3 workstations in a row. I got 3 replacements — 80 gig, 7200 rpm, 8 meg cache maxtors. And one of them was DOA. So now I’m still down a workstation, while waiting for an RMA.
Then there’s the disk space issues I’m having. We’re suddenly generating large datasets (15-40GB), somewhere between once a day and once a week, and it looks like that’s going to continue indefinitely. I need to come up with a solution to that problem … but I don’t know what my budget is to do it, and nobody’ll be forthcoming about that. So I need to guess. Which sucks.
Anyway, there’s about 2 dozen other projects of moderate size that I’ve been working on all week. It’s been pretty hectic. And I’ve got CS lab 1 due friday morning… fortunately I’m like 2/3 done with it already. I really want to 100% this project though, ’cause I’m sick of doing stupidly badly in classes that I shouldn’t be doing stupidly badly in.
Grah. Yeah. Oh, I also finished the “musubi” ending in Nocturne. Just “shijima” left, and that’s only a 1-hour or so run up the tower of kagutsuchi away from being done. I’m disappointed though … other than which character shows up in some way or another and monologues for 30 seconds, the normal reason endings seem exactly the same. And use the same animation as the “neutral” ending. I’m hoping shijima gives me a different flavor, but I stand by the thesis that all 3 reasons are fundamentally the same, so it would follow that this one would do the same thing. I guess, much like Digital Devil Saga 1 and 2, you don’t really play this series of games for the ending(s), but for the gameplay and the story… but it’s still a slight disappointment.
Oh, and then there’s We Love Katamari. The biggest Katamari I’ve made so far is noly 2.4KM. Yeah, that’s right, 2.4KM. It’s pretty silly. In the last level, as you get really huge, the King of All Cosmos shows up, blowing rainbows around and generally being a dumbass. I’m told, but have yet to confirm, that around 3KM in katamari size, you can roll him up as well. I’m looking forward to it. Anyway, great game.
Jason and Adam have been harping at me to play Dragon Quest 8 for like 2 weeks. But of course, being in the financial situation I’m in, I don’t think picking up any new games (short of stealing them) is a good idea. I’d rip to the ps2 hdd and play, if I had access to a copy, but I don’t, so nyeah! :-p. Then, I still haven’t touched Xenosaga 2 or Shadow of the Colossus either.
Tired. Rambling. going away now.