I’ve started working on a new version of this site, which will be a kind of merge with my internal home portal and some ideas that I had for a long time now. I’ve made some progress, which is mostly due to an excellence of Class::DBI perl module. This one is a sweety. It allows one to create database applications without a single line of SQL. Paired with CGI module (which allows one to generate web sites without ever typing in any HTML) it provides a fast development environment for a small project like mine. At the moment I don’t know how well it scales though, but I suspect – pretty much.
Category: Technology
I work in technology sector. And I do round a clock, not only from 9 to 5. It is my bread and butter, it is my hobby, it is the fascination of my life. And with the current rate of change particular in information technology (IT), there is always something new to learn, to try, to talk about. I often post news, thoughts, and reviews. And when I do, this is the category I use.
plugout resintalled
Finally I pushed myself to reinstall the plugout machine, which is responsible for entertainment in my living room. Amasingly fast installation and configuration of Red Hat Linux 9 and I have mp3s, DivX, and DVD playback with TV-out option in less then an hour. I can feel the experience. :)
SysAdmin’s Day
Today is the last Friday of July, which means only one thing – it’s a System Administrator Appreciatoin Day again! Yes, this is the day to thank all system, network, database, SAP, Exchange, and whatever-else-you’ve-got administrators for their hard, but invisible work.
Such a day calls for celebration, so we (Lev, Hazard, Olga, and I) end up in the Cleopatra lebanese restaraunt for an excellent meal, and nargile afterwards. Then we picked up Alexander Avanesov and continued in the brewerey, which was still out of beer (but they promised that next Friday it’ll be there!).
After few pints the evening was practically over, but it suddenly continued with new enthusiasm at Hazard’s place with watching the “Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood“. Unfortunately, we didn’t have the original copy, but there were two translated ones. One was the “noname” translation and another was done by Goblin. Somehow, Goblin’s translation was much worse then the noname one, so we switched in the middle of the movie. :)
Fire in the hall!
Oops! I’ve burned my Wavecom Wireless Video Set (just the receiver actually). Just in time – minutes before I’ve rented another couple of DVDs to entertain myself with. No problem – nobody like that wireless thing too much anyway. I’ll be getting myself an upgrade for the ex-home server machine (PII/233MHz), so that I could use it for DVD watching tomorrow.
Back to work on Hylafax
Interesting developments at work: suddenly my boss remembered, that there was once an effort to use HylaFax in stead of GFI’s FaxMaker for Exchange. This effort was done when we were migrating MS Exchange 5.5 to MS Exchange 2000 and FaxMaker was stupidly refusing to work. A lot of waters ran since that time and noone remembered where we stopped and what exactly has been done. Currently, we are about to renew our FaxMaker licenses and that is where everything starts. After a quick review and series of simple tests, it turned out that 95% of job has been done. There is a Red Hat Linux 7.1 machine with serial multiport card attached and configured. HylaFax is installed and it even can send faxes. There are two phone lines connected for testing purposes and even Exim has been configured to work as email2fax gateway. The remaining 5% of the job include things like proper coverpages, access rights, incoming fax routing to proper people, and reporting both for users and management. These 5% should be finished until the end of next week, so that several people could try the functionality. So, here I am on my night shift in NOC sending faxes to myself. And they say that shizofrenic people sometimes use email to talk to other personalities within themselves.