Thoughts in a Pensieve

So my iPod shuffle came today via FEDEX and now my ears hurt. Not because of listening to music though, it's the stinking earbuds. I suppose it could be because I am not used to sticking things in my ears. Well, just thought I'd share that I now have portable tunes. Of course I could have always plugged my my Powerbook into my cassette tape player, but the shuffle is easier.

Well, off to continue reading Half blood Prince.

It turns out, part of the issue at work is that Cisco, even though it's an industry leader, doesn't correctly auto negotiate 100 full duplex. So they recommend forcing duplex status and connection speed on the main switch. But the problem is things are only connecting at half duplex. When I force my servers to be full duplex, things go worse and stop working completely. I will be looking into this more in the morning with our vendor. We really do have some good guys working with us, just had some frustrations last week as stressful items started to crop up.

The other half. I am Half way through the new harry potter book (The Half blood prince) Lot's of half stuff in this post. Anyway, It's pretty good so far. i'll probably share more of my thoughts on it later, and attempt not to spoil the plot for those that haven't gotten there yet.



Now I am off to research free ways to image PC images over the network. Similar to Ghost, but I don't want to pay for it. Plus Ghost is so confusing to buy. have you seen the pricing sheet?

eh. maybe I'll figure out how to buy it. It really does seem like the best solution. unless there are any other ideas out there.


So I am using ecto again. turns out you can "renew" your trial. it deletes any of your drafts, but re-downloads all your posts from your blog. So there is another half to this blog. a half-assed trial glitch. Oh well, another 20 days of trial on my way.

Well, I have no more days left on my ecto trial. So it would be interesting if this in fact posts my comment. Maybe if I keep linking to them they'll let me have it free. not that I have a huge audience though.

My computer network is up and running at work, but it turns out that our Novell Border manager server has a bad NIC. it has been getting errors all day. in 5 minutes, it attempted to send 2500 bad packets. nice. so we are looking into what kind of card it is.