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Carnival holiday in Holland (mainly Limburg) so there is not much trafic. And I got to Venlo about 10minutes faster than usual. I just love hollydays ;~) Road conditions were predicted to be dangerous, with rain and sleet on frozen ground, but there was in fact no problem in Limburg. I am going to install GUI/400. At last. I also must prepare the Modification 2 environment and do some prelimary testing. Tomorrow can be spent largely on it as well. The installation routines have changed significantly so this is taking much longer than expected. For TeleSales2000 (Progress) new schemas must be built on a local PC and on the German NT server. Then compilations must run. First try produced errors. We solved these and ran again. This may take some more iterations so tomorrow will disapear. |
1999-02-16, Tuesday
<-see yesterday->
I braught Mita to Venlo for backup to ZIP. The defective harddisk seems to run OK most of the time but once something towards the end of the disk is needed problems start with the disk stopping and restarting and eventualy she doesn't start again. I removed her, tomorrow I'll install the new disk and put Win98 on Mita.
I installed the S3 PCI video card in Miona and tried to configure the X-windows server (XSF86Setup) but the S3 Virge drivers were not instaled. The only way to get them installed was to reinstall Linux totally. I presume there is another way but I don't know it and it is nowhere in the manual. Running LISA while installing lets you chose which drivers you want to install. Running LISA afterwards you don't get that selection screen! Linux is deffintively not a piece of cake, it is rather spicy.
Anyway I now have X-windows running (at 640x480).
I still have no idea about the network side of things. While installing and booting Lisa and Lilo both fail to recognise the networkcard. It is a WyseCom 10BaseT ISA card, not yet connected to the hub. Maybe that is the problem. But I want to start the network with Miona as server and add the other computers to it later. What am I doing wrong.
I am going to take the 3Com card from Yaku home and try that first.
1999-02-17, Wednesday
I brought the Win98 set and the Bus Toaster diskettes and the new disk for Mita to Venlo. But the Win98 startup diskette doesn't find the CD and I cannot load the Bus Toaster SCSI drivers because the 'Card Socket drivers' can't be found. This looks like a chiken and egg problem. Win98 is not realy easier than Linux.
Louis Anderson came in with a list of PRSes for OMSI-3 that should be solved ASAP (before fryday?!) They have status Registrated (00) while I typicaly only check for status To_Be_Solved (02). So I'll have to solve 6 problems. Fast. And do GUI/400, and the problems in Spain and handle other interuptions as well.
Sven called from France to report a problem with the AR file. All records are duplicated after the conversion. The situation prior to the conversion is not known so it may be an error while copying the files from Production. It is OMSI-2, for Peter Hilberts but he is ill so ...
I am losing half a day on it! at least.
Jan Geurts came in to warn me about a call from Guy Voortmans (USA). He is going to ask questions about the order-progression from shipped to invoiced to closed, which today does via the trigger file (TH). I should prepare for that before this evening. More lost time.
Guy didn't call so I don't know what he wants for information. I looked up some things but as long as I don't have a specific question I am driving in thick mist. I'll just wait for that call.
Modems are in fact network devices so I added a few paragraphs on modems to the network knowledgebase.
1999-02-18, Thursday
Wilbert and Ronny are off to Germany to install the Telesales2000 system. This is a first ever installation.
I created a new project in the GUI/400 ADK : M2 and did a fresh setup for it. All seems to be OK. Out of about 200 pictures only three have subfile-norec problems so they must be added to the precoltool file before the next collection. If all works out reasonambly I will have everything ready for action next week.
Everything went well so I am ready to cick off on friday evening.
Ronny came back (at a quarter to five). The installation in Germany went more or less smoothly with just a few problems with authority. So instalation is finished and they can start testing. next week will be bussy (as if this week was calm!).
I brought the PC Card drivers for Mita along but I still cannot get the damned thing working! This will cost time so maybe I should move the lot home.
Linux
Installing with the 3Com card and a non-AGP videocard works. There is however a problem with LISA. When assigning addresses tou your computer and the network you get in a loop and the only way to get out of it is saying NO when LISA asks if you have got a network card.
1999-02-19, Friday
Because the installation went well in Germany yesterday Ronny has taken a day off.
The problem in Norway, about the F58010, crops up again. John isn’t solving it, he passed on to Danielle Verlinden. Danielle cannot solve it because she has no data, as far as she knows it is an OMSI-3 problem. I cannot solve it because OMSI-3 does fill the appropriate fields and sub fields just as it does in all the other opco’s and presents the filled records to CS.
This is a “Mary go round” with nobody solving the problem.
I prepared (and mailed) a document (q:\documents\progress omsi\omsifiles.lwp) containing the file layouts we use and a subset of the records we send (copied from the CS save files). This should allow them (Danielle & Danielle) to determine where the actual problem is.
I spent some time filling the time sheets on the mainframe. I was 7 weeks behind on that. I am still a week behind now.
I have changed the daybook-layout. I now use one table per day because putting everything in one table forces the browser to load everything before displaying it. Now each day is displayed after it is loaded and before everything for the following days is loaded. That is because a browser will only display the contend of a table when the </TABLE> is encountered. The target and title are above the table, with a line in between. Each table has only one row, with two columns. In the left column (100 wide) there are navigation URLs while the text is in the right column (500 wide). I use a fixed width table because 1) I fits my default browser size well and 2) I don’t know how to do variable width tables (yet).
Last day for the M2 development. The GUI/400 Collector must be started on the AS/400 so I can fill the M2 environment first thing in the morning on Monday.
1999-02-20, Saturday
Shopping, carwash and a visit to the barber ate all of the morning. The afternoon was spent on reading up magazines, I am a few month behind and catching up is not easy. Unless I drop articles that are less interesting, up to now I have been reading everything, even stuff I am not interested in. Work on the attic is progressing slowly.
1999-02-21, Sunday
I got a nasty cramp while running, in the right calve this time. This will keep progress on the healing muscle of the left calve up a bit I'm afraid. I wonder what the problem is but I am getting cramps more often. Watch out.
I went to Diest to relocate a television set which is to heavy for Suzan (and to big for her car). The biggest problem was opening the front door of the house, it is an old shop with a double narrow front door. To get the TV out the second half must be opened and that part hadn’t been used in years. Probably because it was stuck against the on the uneven flagstones. After a severe struggle I won the fight. at the cost of some skin.
In the afternoon Peter came along with a few new drawers. So I’ve been assisting again on the attic.
I added a few paragraphs to my UNIX guide. But then a heavy thunderstorm paid us a visit with lightning strikes close enough to unsettle my screen so I did shut down. About 5 minutes later the mains failed for a few seconds.
We had no damage and no losses.
With the heavy rain and wind water is seeping in by the chimney again. It will be broken down somewhere in the summer but for now it’s a big annoyance. Until they make waterproof desktops.
Svenson © 1999
A day you don't learn something new is a wasted day.