Sproing

Nothing really too exciting to report, really. I switched both my checking and savings accounts over to new types of accounts yesterday morning, and am thinking about accepting a 0% interest credit card offer. Not that anyone in the world (except me) cares about those things.

House calls continue to be busy. I've had either a house call or meeting every night since last Monday. The problem with these latest house calls is that most of them are not easy fixes. Some of them I haven't even been able to solve quite yet, even though I've spent many hours troubleshooting the problem. It's frusterating. I feel like I'm losing my touch. Printers that won't print. OSX that won't install. Pdfs that can't be made. Wireless networks that drop in and out of existance. They're all taunting me. "Haha, Jeff. You can't fix us, you loser."

Still waiting for our test bunny Apple XServe to arrive here at work. We're evaluating new server solutions and I have been able to convince Apple to send me a demo XServe to beat & bang on (evaluate the performance of the product). We'll see how it stands up to server solutions from other major companies that we're considering, like Sun.

I think most of the others here in ITS aren't taking the XServe seriously. These are the folks that still question why we use Macs at all here at Martin. These are the folks who think the only solutions come from Redmond, WA. These are the folks who refer to Apple's operating system as "MAC".

I hope to seriously surprise them. I hope the XServe doesn't let me down.