Archive for March, 2005

gnome 2.10

« 16 March 2005 | 1:24 | General | No Comments »

So gnome 2.10 hit the freebsd ports tree on saturday. The freebsd gnome crew put together a script that checks, removes, and rebuilds all the packages that require glib, which pretty much takes care of all the dirty work. It took a significant portion of sunday to rebuild everything, we’re talking 12+ hours here on [...]



something is wrong here

« 15 March 2005 | 23:18 | Work | 1 Comment »

no clue how that one happened. It just showed up.
Can’t get rid of the little bugger either.
edit: After a reboot, windows decided that it really wasn’t a critical system folder, and let me delete it. But there goes my 20 days of up time…



lab usage stats

« 8 March 2005 | 23:23 | Work | No Comments »

I’m not sure if I can take credit for the idea, as it was envisioned some time ago. Basically, each lab machine in the residential labs uses active desktop to display a small ‘lab notices’ page which allows us to easily post important lab related info, like when MyWestern goes down.
So this has [...]



work environment

« 8 March 2005 | 16:38 | General | No Comments »

I was checking the computer lab in Mathes today, and a couple maintenance guys were testing the elevator intercom by riding the elevator and calling each other jackasses. It was totally rad and made my day.
I’m glad we have such a laid back attitude in the ResTek office, it definetly helps make the time go [...]



Battlecity

« 2 March 2005 | 17:42 | General | No Comments »

Battlecity has finally returned! Almost.
I remember having a great time with this game back in the day. But people found cheats, servers got hacked and whatnot, and since it was closed source at the time, when the server went down, that was it.
Numerous groups have attempted to rewrite the game with varying degrees of success, [...]



printer stats

« 2 March 2005 | 17:27 | Work | No Comments »

I spent some time today working on a nice backend interface for managing the SNMP print monitoring we do. Now it’s a breeze to add new printers for monitoring, as well as configure things like duplex support. Now that the backend is complete, I can tie in my original printer stats code to use the [...]