November 29, 2004 Posted by mitch |
dog |
Our dog Akira was schedualed to be spayed today. So I took her in early this morning on my way to work... she must not like riding in my car because she puked three times. She did that the first couple times we took her for a ride in the car, but for the last few times shes been fine. So, I really didn't think she would this time, but I still came somewhat prepared with a puppy pad we've been using for potty training her. It wasn't quite enough... After I dropped her off, the Vet did a blood test and found that shes anemic as well. However she wasn't that concerned. She's having us change her diet from the PetsMart brand food (Authority) to Science Diet. We are supposed to go back in in 3 weeks to see how shes doing then. Needless to say, my wife is worried about her now, wondering about all the things that might be wrong with her. Time will tell however... it always does.
Ok, I've been living with Fedora Core 3 for a couple weeks now... I also use Core 3 as a Desktop at work and I must say, for a Linux Desktop, Core 3 is great. However, my complaints are simply about multimedia on the web. All to often things are just written for Windows, and all the formats windows programs can typically read. My multimedia needs are simple... I want to be able to watch movie trailers off of apples web site! I've download all of the latest codecs from Mplayers website, and installed them in /usr/lib/win32 however playing off the web is still a pain... I really hope this will be fixed soon.
Well, my wife could really use Windows for school... (some of the DVD's and CD's she has for studing only work on windows or mac...) so, I thought I could run VMWare which would also allow me to play some games online with guys from work. I attempted the install in Gentoo, and the installer asks for the /etc/rcX.d directories, and since gentoo doesn't have them, i thought I could get away with creating some sym links to the directories they do have.... well, that ended up completly messing up my / partion.... So, instead of reloading Gentoo again and taking a couple days and then somehow maybe getting vmware to work. I desided to load Fedora Core 3. Since it was just released a week or so ago. I've been running it at work since the day it came out, and have really liked it. So I installed it and to my suprise I was able to load it in under 10 minutes. The SATA drives performance supprised me :) Anyway, loading VMWare from Core 3 so far has been cake. Just need to load an OS.
November 11, 2004 Posted by mitch |
house, life |
I had ordered a LoveSac from a friend at work a while ago. I ordered the 5' Sac-O-Love or something like that with the microsued cover. Got it home today and puffed it up... its huge! It's going to be wicked cool as soon as it fully fills up. I laid in it for a while today... it was so cool. Its going to be really nice for watching movies :)
November 8, 2004 Posted by mitch |
books |
The Review was written very well, and actually has me thinking about it. Because I must admit I was under the impression that crowds were dumb. However, after reading the review, I do believe I'm conviced to change my belief about that.
Linux.com has their weekly editorial of SysAdmin to SysAdmin. Today they published one titled "So you wanna be a SysAdmin". I liked the article so I thought I'd share it. Couple things I liked the mose are quoted below:
You can't get a certificate in administration, get a job, and stay put until retirement. You won't last three years. The job demands that you stay on top of new technologies.
The goal of the administrator is to automate oneself out of a job. This involves not only knowing tools, networking, systems, and services, but the scripting languages to make the tools, networking, systems and services take care of themselves.
However, the important thing to remember is that system administration is more than just a job. It's a lifelong craft. Technology is such that no one person ever knows everything about it. It forces you to keep learning and evolving along with it or be left behind.
Anyhow, I worked my way into system administration through a specialized fasion... From being helpdesk's web admin, and then promoted to the corporate DNS and DHCP admin with some inter-department web administration still. All and all its been fun, just need to keep on pushing to get where I really want to be...
