Phasor Burn

The rest of the servers showed IE7 as a high priority update, with borg-like insistance that resistance was futile. I caved and allowed the IE7 install to go through on all the servers. Each server that got IE7 installed needed four reboots to get all the IE7 patches and the latest Server 2003 patches installed.

Meanwhile, while I was repeatedly rebooting the Windows servers, Mac Software Update popped up on my Mac. It wanted to do an OS update. I let it, and it finished and went away. No reboot.

Read the whole thing.

Well, yes. Although you do get into repeated rebooting on the Mac also, but only under very specific circumstances. Such as installing from original 10.4.0 media and then running software update to get you up to the latest. There will be a few system level updates that require a reboot and a second trip to software update. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a three-trip-update (or worse) though.

No matter what kind of field you may get into, even as a amateur hoping to get their break, never sell yourself short. Don’t accept working for free or peanuts just because you want to “get noticed” or get your foot in the door so to speak. Listen to Harlan. If your work is worth using, it’s worth being paid fairly for it.

Meow.

One can only hope, but it does appear that the writing is on the wall for Darl McBride. How long until the SEC comes down on McBride and friends for shareholder fraud?

It also looks like the UNIX bits of SCO might be sold off. Way too late to make any difference in desktop UNIX, now that Apple OS X Leopard (10.5) on Intel is certified UNIX 03 and on the server end of things there’s really only two players of note these days, Solaris and Linux.

Someday, She’ll Be Showing This To Her Therapist, originally uploaded by pcarpen.

Truth in captioning, yes.