As most people know I am evil. And being evil one needs an army of darkness in order to take over the world. In order to proceed with those plans I am moving onto the next phase in the project. As most people witnessed in the "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones", clones can be a useful commodity when fighting a war. Coming up with the genetic makeup for the perfect clone is not an easy task, but as most people will agree, the obvious place to start is with evil itself. Thus continuing the project, we are starting on our fourth genetic mixing project. The first three are doing well, we expect this one shall as well. Possibly recombining genetic material from these four subjects or using one singly for the prototype clone army is still feasible. Approximate completion date for this phase of the project is February of 2003.

Well ask and you shall receive aye? Since the last post I have been right busy at work and enjoyed it immensely. I got to install Oracle 8i (8.1.7) to be precise. I had not installed Oracle in ages, and on a Solaris system ta boot. Thats fun! Got to install the intermedia option then run the configuration for that. All fun and interesting stuff. Glad it happened! Unfortunately still very unimpressed with the boss. The problem is I do not think i have ever had a boss like this. He tries to be technical, and he has some technical knowledge, but well he is just slow. Our firewall died the other weekend, we had been running a Linux box with Checkpoint, very good firewall if you are in the market for one, and the hardware was cheap :). So rather than build another linux box and put the stuff on there again, he wanted to go with a PIX firewall that they had used for their previous company. Fine by me, its a hardware solution, its by Cisco, great, I knew the configuration would not be near as easy as the Checkpoint. And I was right, but upon watching my boss do it for about 5 minutes I determined 1. I could do it quicker 2. its not that difficult to do the basic stuff. Unfortunately he of course did not get it running, in fact it was not until three days later that it was actually in place and working properly. Oh and did I mention that I had taken the Friday and Monday off around this weekend, and ended up working on that Friday, Saturday and Monday? Gotta love it. Lets see, after being given a power supply by a friend of mine got my old box up and running linux on it. Had a heck of a time getting the network going, for some reason Mandrake recognized the card and got the drivers running, though it would never boot after finishing the installation. But Redhat 7.3 would boot fine but not recognize the network card, I tried upgrading the Mandrake install to RedHat that did not work. Finally I caught on and grabbed the settings that Mandrake used for the card, that still did not work. Except magically after not doing anything network wise, it started working. And they say Windows acts weird. I also got a webcam to work under Linux too. Thats kind of cool, not quite sure how to pass parameters to the module on startup though. Yes I know about the module.conf file, but putting the driver in there with the options did not seem to work, in fact it rendered me unable to rmmod or modprobe the driver at all... Now I am trying to get the console to go through the serial port out, so that I do not need a monitor on that machine, even for bootup incase there is a screw up. Unfortunately that does not seem to want to work. I have done it with several boxes at work, but they were all running RedHat 6.2, not sure if there is something different about 7.3 or not. Oh, I also moved at work. I am now in an area all by my lonesome. I actually like it. All the friends I really had at the company have been let go, the people in "my group" moved to Andover MA, so they are no longer around. I get to play music without headphones, and not be bothered by someone looking for someone thats not me. Oh and I get to have more natural light than I had at the old cube space. Gimme natural light and screw that florescant stuff.