It’s been terribly hot the last few days. Up to 36°C. Luckily, we have air conditioned workplaces and my car is also equipped with climate regulation.
But since yesterday the sky gets covered by lightning and heavy rain. I hope it doesn’t start hailing suddenly, my car is parking unprotected.
… I think I shouldn’t have asked the helpdesk in the first place: I got a mail forwarded from my team-leader in which the helpdesk-guy asked some responsible for EMEA, who I am. This got forwarded to the IT responsible at our location who itself forwarded it to my team-leader. Seems I’m kickin’ up some dust in the company.
All I wanted was some information on how to access the mailserver and global addressbook with Mozilla, because Outlook is too insecure and inflexible for me (no good spam filter etc). I’d like to know on which "watch lists" I’m on now…
Well, I still can receive mail into my overloaded mailbox but I’m not able to send mail over it. Doesn’t bother me, I can do that over our old mail-server with the new sender-address 😉 Me is so bad…
Another funny thing, the helpdesk is not able to tell me the Base DN of the LDAP-Server which I need to have auto-address-detection in Mozilla-Mail. They just ask me what I need it for and to tell them what my mail-app does wrong (it can’t do anything wrong without being able to log in to the server) …
Ha! We finally found a way to connect to the VPN of our company without a migrated computer. Getting rid of that Outlook Webmail at last and using the real Outlook now. The first thing I did was to import my 90 megs of saved mail. Things worked fine until now, I think it took a while until the mailserver recognized, that I’m way over the mailbox limit I guess 😉
Beginning to delete old mail…
Been on spontaneous vacation for a few days. And being back I had to arrange an ‘Iteration meeting’. (Ya know XP?) I think it was not that bad for my first time, perhaps I also have to manage the next one in two weeks.
Ever wanted to throw away all your old code and write it from scratch because it sucks? Don’t do it…
Hoard doesn’t even work on Solaris9 64bit although Sun is referring to it as an alternate memory manager… crap.
Good news, a works committee has been founded today at work, I hope this helps that working conditions don’t continue to degenerate as they have done in the recent past.
One nice detail about our new project-management software: It doesn’t accept working hours in HH:MM format, it has to be recalculated to a hundred-base: 08:30 -> 8,5h Will be fun calculating my odd workload of, for example, 09:23…
…Supported systems include: (blah blah) AIX
Sounds promising, but after some trying I have to admit, that it doesn’t work on AIX with applications which are more complex than "Hello World". Better use the MALLOCMULTIHEAP environment variable 😉
But it could greatly reduce the memory-bottleneck on the other mentioned platforms…
Great. Today we had a 2-hour presentation on how to use the upcoming project-management software (SAP) which will be used to account our working hours to projects.
Everything will be better, you just need an half hour more to sort your hours into the sheets…
And still many unanswered questions, for example how to account taxes in traveling bills (nothing to do with hour-counting but traveling management which changes too…) Thinking about changing the employer…
But there are positive news too, today I (finally) found the person which is responsible for the old hardware at our location. I could need RAM and HDD… Making a meeting tomorrow with him.
Gaaahhh… Webaccess to our mailboxes is down. I think they’ve got a network overload overseas. Should have thought about the enormous traffic earlier, which is caused by separate VPN for every employee, central Win2k administration/domain and mail-management (Outlook or webmail, doesn’t matter)
Now anyone who depends on mail, like project managers etc., is unable to do any constructive work. What a mess and useless waste of cash and time.
Btw.: VPN-login for all migrated computers seems to be dysfunctional too… Doesn’t hurt me, still haven’t got my mail-machine 😛