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Jun. 1st, 2005 01:45 amI bought some M-Audio SP-5Bs, and they sound positively delightful. I could sit here all day and listen to everything I own all over again. Which is good, because that pretty much describes what I do during the school year.
I'm starting to get the feeling that this week will not be as carefree as the previous one. I didn't realize until today that in 7 days I will be done with finals, so I should probably get off my ass and start studying for them. I've got nothing else planned between now and then, no excuses.
The pressure at work is starting to get to me. I've become too irreplaceable, too necessary. Everything I'm in charge of is broken or limping along. The new staff was supposed to take a load off, but neither have enough linux experience to be a general help, and until we get them up to speed on the Real Work, they're only marginally useful. I have no doubt they'll do their jobs well eventually, but my job is still mine and they're not making it easier all of a sudden.
For instance, I had this brilliant plan that we could use a surplused old blue and white G3 power mac as the new music server. The requirements were portable enough, just slap an SBLive and a big hard drive in there and call it a day, right? No, not so much. The sound card and OS (debian sarge) worked fine, but the hard drive didn't. It won't read or write the partition tables on the 80GB drive we need to put in there. It looks like it works, mac-fdisk will happily initialize and write a correct-looking table, but the next time you run it or reboot, poof, no tables. My last-resort option is trying to install the whole system onto the 80GB drive instead of attaching it as a slave. Maybe debian-installer will be smarter about it. I'll try that tomorrow and then give up. Sadly, I have no idea what else we're going to use the system for. It doesn't run quite fast enough to make a GUI fun, and we're getting 2 more G5s in a few weeks anyway. Sad, as it's been a nice enough system to work with (certainly better than the hoary old GX150s) that I'd like to see it put to consistent use.
Of course, in the process of working on this I had to tear down the old music server, which meant the tech support staff was annoyed with me because the lab was all quiet. The programmers were happy to play their own music, but wondered what I was doing spending time on the music server when our development server was out of space and breaking due to Iain's fuckheadedness. Can't please everyone, I guess.
I can't decide whether I need more competent staff or better delegation ability.
The weather has turned on us. 60F and rainy all week. I am at peace with this, as my enjoyment of the nice weather was getting me outside instead of studying, a pattern which would have been harder to stop had the weather continued.
I think. Perhaps I am merely consoling myself with false hope about my drive to study computer memory organization and filesystems.
Something should happen over spring intersession that would cause me to take the time off work. As it is I feel compelled to take the week off despite not having anything planned. I need the break, but that's the quietest week in Bellingham, no way am I going to just to sit around.
I was supposed to be in bed 15 minutes from now, but it will likely be 45 minutes instead.
It's been a long day, longer than it should've been.
I'm starting to get the feeling that this week will not be as carefree as the previous one. I didn't realize until today that in 7 days I will be done with finals, so I should probably get off my ass and start studying for them. I've got nothing else planned between now and then, no excuses.
The pressure at work is starting to get to me. I've become too irreplaceable, too necessary. Everything I'm in charge of is broken or limping along. The new staff was supposed to take a load off, but neither have enough linux experience to be a general help, and until we get them up to speed on the Real Work, they're only marginally useful. I have no doubt they'll do their jobs well eventually, but my job is still mine and they're not making it easier all of a sudden.
For instance, I had this brilliant plan that we could use a surplused old blue and white G3 power mac as the new music server. The requirements were portable enough, just slap an SBLive and a big hard drive in there and call it a day, right? No, not so much. The sound card and OS (debian sarge) worked fine, but the hard drive didn't. It won't read or write the partition tables on the 80GB drive we need to put in there. It looks like it works, mac-fdisk will happily initialize and write a correct-looking table, but the next time you run it or reboot, poof, no tables. My last-resort option is trying to install the whole system onto the 80GB drive instead of attaching it as a slave. Maybe debian-installer will be smarter about it. I'll try that tomorrow and then give up. Sadly, I have no idea what else we're going to use the system for. It doesn't run quite fast enough to make a GUI fun, and we're getting 2 more G5s in a few weeks anyway. Sad, as it's been a nice enough system to work with (certainly better than the hoary old GX150s) that I'd like to see it put to consistent use.
Of course, in the process of working on this I had to tear down the old music server, which meant the tech support staff was annoyed with me because the lab was all quiet. The programmers were happy to play their own music, but wondered what I was doing spending time on the music server when our development server was out of space and breaking due to Iain's fuckheadedness. Can't please everyone, I guess.
I can't decide whether I need more competent staff or better delegation ability.
The weather has turned on us. 60F and rainy all week. I am at peace with this, as my enjoyment of the nice weather was getting me outside instead of studying, a pattern which would have been harder to stop had the weather continued.
I think. Perhaps I am merely consoling myself with false hope about my drive to study computer memory organization and filesystems.
Something should happen over spring intersession that would cause me to take the time off work. As it is I feel compelled to take the week off despite not having anything planned. I need the break, but that's the quietest week in Bellingham, no way am I going to just to sit around.
I was supposed to be in bed 15 minutes from now, but it will likely be 45 minutes instead.
It's been a long day, longer than it should've been.
