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April 16, 2004

Lynx In Da House

I'm entering this blog from a command prompt via Lynx while I'm installing Gnome 2.6. Neat, eh?

This weekend is the big changeover to our new servers. Kyle and I have been busting our asses trying to get prepped for this Sunday. He's been working really hard on getting some new machines ready to go out, in addition to acting as my backup server configurator. I, on the other hand, have been concentrating heavily on server configuration, directory cleanup (both department and users), scripting and overall general automation. I'm pleased to say that the system is roughly at 95%, and it should be ready to go 100% by this Sunday. In addition, Brenda from corporate is on her way down as I type this, getting in to town sometime later this evening. We're going to meet up tomorrow at the station around 10am and work on getting the files transfered over, in addition to some last minute tweaking of the system. I think Brenda is going to be impressed by what we've done thus far. Now, if she can get the Exchange 5.5 server to integrate properly, we'll be all set.

My biggest concern thus far isn't really about this weekend, although there's quite a bit of work ahead of us yet. Instead, I'm worrying about what'll happen come Monday morning when all of the users try logging in for the first time. Sure, we'll have a few people over the weekend who'll be able to log into the system and we'll get a good feel for how everything is working by they're reaction ... but there's no real way to test the load that the machines will be taking on Monday morning until Monday morning happens. I'm hoping that everything will go smoothly and there will be no problems. I do have a feeling, however, that I'm going to have to get to work extra early on Monday just to make sure that everything starts off as smoothly as possible.

On another note, tomorrow is Thunder Over Louisville. We were originally going to be doing the entire event, but at the last minute management decided that we were only going to be doing the airshow, but not the fireworks. I was really wondering if we were going to back down at all, but I guess that the bad press that we've been getting over the past few weeks finally made some hard decisions for us. Don't get me wrong, I'm for whatever management is for, but only as long as it doesn't hurt the reputation of the station and the employees that work there. I was concerned that some people might take something out on an employee just because they work at the station. Something like keying a car because it has the station parking tag or something of that nature. Regardless, things seem to be calming down a bit now, although I hear that the festival isn't thrilled that we're still doing the airshow. I guess that they need to just chill a bit themselves ... they got the part that mattered most, at least in
my opinion.

Anyhow... back to compiling. This is going to take a while.....

Posted by ed at April 16, 2004 08:18 PM

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