Apparently the Major Client checked with his boys, and they said, "no, we don't need 4. 6 is good enough." So we're going with 6. I'll back off from my penis boasting comments. Still trying to generate a clean box to meet the new requirement. Major pain.

Got another job that ran for a month. I was getting ready to send results to the client and discovered that it was all wrong. Worse, it would have been easy to catch if I'd been paying attention. Dumb, dumb, dumb. Gotta do better on these simple ones.

More instructions from the Major Client today. We were already going to go with a cell size of 5 for the key components, with 2.5 for the grill. Not enough he says. He wants 4. But we're supposed to keep the total count under 9 million. Excuse me? Nobody's done one finer than 6, and he wants 4??? Only way to meet both criteria is to coarsen everything else. Wheels, exterior, even the grill. I'm beginning to think this is more about penis size than it is about doing the best analysis. So I play the whore and say "Sure, 4. Why not?"

Prediction: Next fiscal year, they'll be wanting 2.5. Only way that'll work is if they stop dorking around and give us CAD data that fits together - no gaps, no interfering. Otherwise it'll be pure penis boasting with no real value.

One more post to check formatting changes.

Spent much of the day negotiating with Sato over what cell sizes to use for the custom mesh. He wanted to keep the size high so it could be done on a linux box. I felt we had to go small even if that meant generating and cutting on 34 or 35, which are big (6 GB RAM) but slow. In the end we decided to break the domain up into three chunks which could be managed on any platform. Means tossing our fancy "Expert System" softare out the window, but that may be a good thing. The Big Boss says we gotta call the Major Client today and get their approval for whatever cell size we go with. Sometimes I wonder whose side he's on.

Not entirely satisfied with the look - too bright. One more post just to tweek it a bit.

Showed the results of Saturday's work to the Big Boss. He was less than enthused. Wants me to go with Plan B. More work for me. Wanker.

Lunux7's disk drives were full yesterday. 100% on u1, 97% on u2. One guy had 18 gigs on it. Told him to get his stuff off or I'd become him and rm -rf it all. (He's been promising for a couple of weeks to back it up and clean up). I think I finally got his attention - 5 or 6 gigs were gone immediately and he said he had a tape running. We'll see.

Red and Sky are both fully utilized these days. Good thing they got Red working finally. I think we need another 64 nodes soon, though...

Changed the template a bit. We'll see how it looks.

Gonna practice adding a link. monster.com. Ta-da.

Worked on the damn box around the hx package for six hours. Looks easy enough on paper, but the details get you. Lots and lots of details. Got a lot of them, still a few more to deal with. The Major Client better be satisfied with what I give them...

License servers were down for the Linux platforms. Glad thing I hadn't logged out when I left Friday.

Just updated the fonts on the template. Did it work?

Working now. Cool. Now to add a link from the Double-Secret web-page.

Still trying to post using ftp...

Got to go in to the office on Saturday, again. Got a Major Client with a real tight deadline. To make things more interesting, they want more stuff than we've ever done before, they want it faster than ever before, and they were nearly a week late with the CAD data.

Wankers.

Got to go in to the office on Saturday, again. Got a Major Client with a real tight deadline. To make things more interesting, they want more stuff than we've ever done before, they want it faster than ever before, and they were nearly a week late with the CAD data.

Wankers.

Entry number one.

Can I get this to work???