Archive for October 2005
Well sort off.
I handed over the virtual testing environment to the full time staff last Thursday. I didn’t intend to do it, I had actually just arranged a meeting to show one of them what I had created. Keep them in the loop so to speak. And to keep them updated on my progress.
As time went by I realised what I had left to do and what little time I had to do it. The end result of the meeting is that I have a list of things to do that helps me complete my dissertation, and I’ve handed over the virtual testing environment. I wont be going back until the very end now just to see how they are getting on.
I left that day thinking “that was unexpected – and fast”.
So I’ve now got 4 weeks to write my dissertation up. As I’ve been writting bits of it up as I go it shouldn’t be as much of a problem were I not to have written any up. But it’s still not going to be easy.
Offers to write it for me will be gratefully received.
Not more than 5 minutes ago I was cleaning up some files I had downloaded earlier. A slip of the keyboard and before I know it I was delete all the files in my home directory. I was lucky in that rm can’t cope with directories unless you tell it, so it really was just my files. But I was still anoyed that I had gone from 80+ entries to around 20 with just a small slip.
Backups saved me, in less than 2 minutes I had mounted by backup disk and copied over the missing files.
Moral of the story: Don’t be lazy, do you backups.
They say that bad news comes in 3s and in the past 24 hours I’ve had 2 pieces of bad news.
Just waiting for the 3rd now…
The week before last I was finally able to purchase all the required parts needed to complete my dissertation. The VMware stuff arrived a few hours after ordering, the Redhat licenses the instant they had been purchased, and the RAM after the weekend. But surpirse surprise I am still waiting on MS to get off their butts and get the MSDN stuff sorted.
I’m still progressing, it just means that some testing environments can only last for 59 days. Oh and 2GB of RAM in my laptop is very nice, all be it temporary.
