Thursday, September 09, 2004
Can't Wait Till Payday
I can't wait till payday. I'm working on configuring one of our bigger, badder workstations to function as a demo for the upcoming EPRI conference, and Murphey, curse his name, is throwing a monkey wrench in everything.
Oracle doesn't buffer much of the file system into RAM, so the Web Apps we want to demo are slow. This gets the lead programmer pissed off. The network to BV is extremely slow today, so all the MDBs we want to FTP down here are going extremely slow.
I love programming. I hate IT. IT stuff is dreg work. You don't feel like your working, you don't really feel like you're accomplishing something, and you spend way too many times watching progress bars.
I'm convinced that windows, especially the server blends, are configured so that nothing will work right out of the box so the MSCE certification is worth money, if just to prove you can put up with the aggrevation of configuring a windows server.
In other news, I'm looking for someone who wants to work out around 6 or 7 o'clock at Bellefield Gym, and someone to go running with me when the weather's nice. If anyone's interested, leave some comments. I've modified my blog so that anyone can leave comments, not just blogger members.
Outie.
Oracle doesn't buffer much of the file system into RAM, so the Web Apps we want to demo are slow. This gets the lead programmer pissed off. The network to BV is extremely slow today, so all the MDBs we want to FTP down here are going extremely slow.
I love programming. I hate IT. IT stuff is dreg work. You don't feel like your working, you don't really feel like you're accomplishing something, and you spend way too many times watching progress bars.
I'm convinced that windows, especially the server blends, are configured so that nothing will work right out of the box so the MSCE certification is worth money, if just to prove you can put up with the aggrevation of configuring a windows server.
In other news, I'm looking for someone who wants to work out around 6 or 7 o'clock at Bellefield Gym, and someone to go running with me when the weather's nice. If anyone's interested, leave some comments. I've modified my blog so that anyone can leave comments, not just blogger members.
Outie.
