Title: Report from the front
Music du jour: Melissa Etheridge, Breakdown
One of these days I'm going to learn PHP and DHTML and do a bunch of really nifty shit to my Web site. Really, I am. There must be an easier way to update the entries and links and stuff when I write a new entry. Right now it's just tedious. Oh, well.
Another twelve hour day -- so far. I'm currently building AMANDA to use as a backup system for the Unix side of the house here. This could be worse... the Windows guy is fiddling with Micro$oft SExchange. We're going to a Web-based system for mail, based on Exchange. I feel dirty. I know, I know... it's just for sharing calendars and such, which admittedly is one of the few things M$ is good at. Still. Yuck.
The real reason I'm still here is because the backup system has to be implemented by the end of the week. Normally I wouldn't push myself so hard on it, but I've never done much with backups, so the learning curve is a little steeper than it might be. Right. Okay.
All right, all right, I'm lying my ass off. The REAL reason is I'm leaving for Kansas on Friday, and the earlier I get this done, the earlier I can leave. Cynthia awaits. Which would I rather do... go see Cynthia or wrangle with 3GB tapes. Hmmmm, let me think.
Not that I'm really protesting the workload... I enjoy it, actually. It's such a welcome change from Spumco, where I had nothing much to do, and what I did have was paperwork. Even the Unix work required fifteen forms in triplicate with seventeen signatures and an act of Congress to get anything done. And forget installing GNU software... anything other than Perl and maybe gcc is met with staring and drooling. God.
Anyway.
Yeah. I like this place. So far, so good. The only thing I'm perturbed about right now is we're standardizing mail on Exchange instead of sendmail. That decision had to have come from somewhere other than IT Ops, because if I'd had anything to do with it, we would have ditched Exchange completely. However, I don't have to administer it, so I didn't put up as much of a fuss as I might have.
Anyway, I'm going to take a break... my boss, the Windows guy, the HR director and the president of the company are all stretched out in the middle of floor having a BS session, so I'm going to get a Coke and join them. Later, kids.
-- marcie.