Catching Up

I should be able to get a couple of reports mailed out today. Since the work was finished in early January, I have to admit that the reports are a little late. Kinda shows how busy I've been with urgent projects. Seems like everything is urgent hese days.

Got a new workstation. Not an Opteron - apparently the order for these is still waiting for approval from IBM's finance department - but instead a refugee from the Plymouth office. Dual 2.4 GHz Xeons, 2GB RAM, 140 GB disk space. The disk space is the biggest improvement - I was in perpetual crisis with old '58'. Unfortunately, it has been like pulling teeth to get the SysAdmins to get all the various utilities and services that I need to have to be truly functional. Right now I can't burn a CD or write a tape. Most other machines can't see mine. It's a mess. You'd think after all these years there would be a procedure to cleanly add new machines to the network...

The Opterons are Coming!

The Big Boss sez we're going to get 4 dual-processor Opteron workstations with 4 or 6 Gigs of RAM each. No word on when, but at least they're coming. Thank God. I've only been lobbying for something to replace our aging workstations for two years now...