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Sigh, it’s been a long couple of days… The good news is that almost all the Dean’s Office data has been migrated to its’ new home… More good news is that this has been done way ahead of my original schedule… The BAD news is that I was forced to migrate all the data yesterday evening (I worked until midnight) and today because a power of a power outage Tuesday evening (which I should have been informed of had someone not placed the notification fax directly into the recycle pile!) managed to damage one of the power supplies that and at least one of the drive in the external RAID array that all the data was stored on…

The short version, for the non-technical, is that the idiot cut power to my server without notifying me and killed my server… sigh…

Ah well, as I said, the upside is that it gave my migration project a hard, swift kick in the butt and now I’m almost done… and it only cost a day’s worth of data…

Sheesh, sorry to just be rambling about work… it’s just so frustrating that ALL THREE FRICKIN’ servers have decided to die on my just days before I was scheduled to begin properly migrating the data off them… I was really hoping I could at least have the chance to do ONE of them the right way… ah well…

Anyway, it’s done, over, fixed, complete (mostly), and once again I’m the Sys Admin version of Scotty from Star Trek, a miracle working in the eyes of the people I support… Which, I suppose, isn’t such a bad thing…

But I’m rambling… time for bed I think… Maybe, one day soon, I’ll actually be able to blog about something OTHER than work… :) Won’t that be nice…

Yeah, yeah, I know… It’s been more than a month since I last blogged… again…

Work’s been a bear this past month or so… For those of you who don’t know my current working conditions, my services are currently shared by the University of Virginia Department of Psychiatric Medicine and the School of Medicine Dean’s Office… Well, the Dean’s Office was in desparate need of some upgrades when I started, and I found myself faced with a Sept. 1 deadline to get every PC in the department upgraded to Windows 2000 (either thru replacement or rebuild) and migrated off our aging Novell server and onto the hospital’s centrally managed servers… Not such a small little task… :)

Anyway, to make a long story short (TOO LATE) I’ve been working my butt off to get that done and really just haven’t had a whole lot of time to blog… But that should be changing soon, since I’m down to only 1 PC to upgrade (waiting on some equipment) and one server full of files to move… When that’s completed I’m sure a resounding “WOO-HOO” will righ throughout my website…

Anyway, I know I still owe everyone a bit of info on my new project. That will be coming soon, promise! I’m going to work on getting a whole little subsection of the site set up for it… for right now thou, you can go here:

CarPC Project

And check out some pics…

Anyway, back to work… :PPPPP