Dive into the archives.
- Data Migration pt.2
I’ve decided to go with a practice run before breaking my Assistant Principal’s PC.
pulled a fresh GX520 image from district server (Zen Imaging) and installed it on the Optiplex 755.
restarted PC and it booted. The display is out of wack.
disconnected the network cable so that Novell won’t scream about the LDAP.
when i rebooted the pc, [...]
- Log into Novell and Workstation automatically
i got a number of notebooks i need to set up. my issue is that my users don’t seem to grasp the idea of ‘workstation only.’ i found a quick and dirty hack to enable automatic login using novell. i won’t use this on teacher workstations, but i’ll selectively dole out this hack to laptop [...]
- Xerox Centreware pt.2
Ok, so i’ve had a day to low thru this Xerox software. Fhigh Points:
Good: I can configure all my machines centrally without having to keep up with all those IP addresses.
Bad: I have to have all those IP addresses to key them into the system. I set the software to automatically search for all the [...]
- Guy Meets Gal
‘male guy;
female girl;
bool isEngaged = guy.propose(girl); // will return false if guy.isJerk = true or girl.hasDoubtsAboutOurRelationship = true
if(isEngaged){
female child1 = guy + girl; // baby making session number one
while(girl.pregnant || guy.financiallyUnstable){}
male child2 = guy + girl; // baby making session number two
guy.bankAccount.withdrawDollars(10000000); // subtract $10,000,000 from cumulative life savings to support family
girl.weightLbs += 50;
for(;;){} // [...]
- Xerox Centreware
So my school just moved to a Xerox solution for printers and copiers. Its been a mess. The techs who came out didn’t know anything about NDPS or Netware. Hell, I didn’t know very much before I got here. We decided to use DHCP – which I can control via Netware anyways – to install [...]
- Lost WPMU Admin password
What do you do when you’ve lost your Admin password and the php_mail() ain’t working? Why, you just manually change your password in the DB. But how do ya do that, Curt? You can’t just pull up phpmyadmin and look because the password is encrypted… it’s a bunch of gibberish. It’ll take your crappy Amiga [...]
- Site Realign, New Host and other randomness
Site Realign
So if you’re seeing this, then you’ve obviously seen the site realign. Nothing has changed; I just combined a couple pages into one and moved some posts around. I have an issue with the table of contents though. The author of this theme used a nonstandard function to call the pages. It does many [...]
- Taking Criticism to Heart
I run a sports blogging site. It’s based on the Wordpress Multi-user. It was actually my introduction to all things wordpress. It was also my introduction to PHP, MySQL and a whole host of other stuff. Trust me, this isn’t the ideal way to learn how to admin a blog. I was stupid and overconfident. [...]
- 50 dollars will get ya anything you need.
If you haven’t already read Tech Sanity Check, download the PDG here. Pay attention to number 6
Your nontechnical coworkers will use you as personal tech support for their home PCs.
Yup, I’m there right now. Everyone who knows anything about tech knows and understands this. Most of my holidays, cookouts, parties, et al. are spent repairing [...]
- Empowering Your End Users
When ever someone asks me to build a web site for them, I generally do my best to get out of it. It’s not that I don’t want to build their site. It’s not that I don’t want to maintain the site. I just don’t want to charge them for it… To the people who [...]
