Endings and Beginnings

It’s offocial I’ve finally caved and created a Facebook profile. I’ve hit most people in my email already if they have a profile. If I missed you it’s because I have a different email address then what’s in your profile.

Cheers!

I couldn’t sleep so I decided to use the time to fix a few problems I’ve been having and updating the blog. I’ve added a photo gallery feature that I plan on using extensively and combining my two sites into one. I’ve also added a few features to make it easier for the search engines to index my site. This may not be a beg deal to you, the reader, however to me it makes it nice if people can find my rants.

Also I’m sure some people will notice I have also added Google Search bars to the top and bottom, replacing the search that came with wordpress. Since most people that find my blog are already finding it through the search engines it really didn’t make sense to have another method of searching the same thing.

There are a few other improvements/modifications with feeds, but I don’t think anyone will notice besides myself. If anyone has suggestions or comments please let me know in the comments.

Thanks

I find myself looking up this page rather often. Rather than consulting Google all the time I figure I will just put the link here.

This is a livejournal page that has, what appears to be, a very inclusive list of all the SMS email gateways. This makes it really easy to page a person with a message without whipping out the phone and typeing on the keypad. It’s also helpful for those of us that need to get paged if something happens on our networks. It’s really easy to setup a system to send an email for an event, and now you can send that email to your phone… or if it’s really annoying forward it to someone else.

http://www.livejournal.com/tools/textmessage.bml?mode=details

Recently I’ve started getting involved with the whole “Web 2.0″ & “Social Networking” thing. This includes Twitter, LinkedIn, Scype, and various Google tools. This includes loading IM clients and software on my phone and being continiously connected as determined by battery life.

Twitter - I try and keep everything up to date and Twitter makes it really easy since I can text my tweets and have them updated basicly anywhere. Twitter ID - twimprine

Scype - Scype is a little different and I don’t have it working on my phone yet, however for making calls to other Scype users it seems great, especally if you want/need to video conference. I still need to purchase that camera. Scype ID - thomas.wimprine

LinkedIn - Just search for my name

I may be a little behind the curve here, which is normal for me, but I’m certainly finding good use for these tools and it’s nice to stay in touch with friends that live a little farther away and we don’t get to talk as often.

Blog - I’m thinking of moving my blog and pictures to GoDaddy. I’ve had some availability issues and it seems that I can get the same service and more features for about the same price. Has anyone had any issues or comments on thier services?

Dad - My father should be coming home from the hospital today. They determined that his problem was a disection of the artery in the back of the neck. This caused some clotting in the artery that came lose and entered the brain causing the stroke. He’s on blood thinners and stuff for about 3-6 months. Hopefully that’s the extent and the disection will heal properly.

School - I’m currently enrolled in UNO for a double major in CS and Mathematics. This is my first semester taking classes in things that count and are relevant to my major. We are learning Java which is actually pretty cool, but the teacher is horrible. Calculus is REALLY cool so far, however I may change my mind next semester.

If anyone is following me on Twitter they will know my father had a small stroke. He’s fine and should be coming home today after some more tests. I don’t think that I’m one to usually wear my heart on my sleeve, however this one kind of struck me hard. If there is anyone in my family that you think would always be there it’s my father.

Our relationship has changed a lot over the years, and I’m sure anyone that has known me for any length of time can imagine the angel I must have been growing up. Now I would consider my father one of my best friends.
Things happen quickly and quite randomly so those you care about can be gone instantly. I’m happy he’s fine, but it drives the point. Don’t take people and relationships for granted, they may not be there later.

More profound wisdom from me…

I’m not one to really get into the political discussions but there are a few things that just really strike me really hard and I figured I would post them here. I heard a few things and I know I had read them before so I looked them up again, in some old political writings of the 1800’s.

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralisation of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal libility of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.

I think there are things in here of which both parties are guilty. Get the facts before you vote, please. The original document can be found here. <— Please look at it!!!

I just determined that my writing sucks. I’m not going to recap what happened and what’s going on, because it’s actually quite simple.

My family and I evacuated the New Orleans area and ended up in Allen, TX. Nice place and work requires me to be here occasionally.

The New Orleans area is still messed up about a week later. We still do not have electricity and flushing the toilet is a gamble on whether you are going to have your package returned. No thanks…

I’ll end up going back but honestly, I’m not in any rush and if I could I would stay here…

I haven’t updated in awhile so I’m just going to get everything up to speed real quickly.

• Katrina interrupted my educational plans so I’m re-enrolled at UNO double majoring in mathematics and computer science
• I am planning on running in the Mardi Gras marathon on Feburary 1, 2009
  • I have been running with my brother lately, however I don’t think I can convince him to do it. Now my sister may be doing it with me, so if anyone would like to come out and support us feel free. I’m sure we will need it around mile 24 or so…
• I am planning on getting some computer certifications this year starting with TSM, AIX then possibly my MCSE from Microsoft.
  • TSM should be really simple for me so I may go take the test in about a week or two, depending on school.
  • AIX – I don’t have a clue
  • MCSE – should be a total pain

 

I’ll try and keep my progress up to date and everyone informed…

http://xkcd.com

There are times we have servers on the network and we don’t remember exactly what they are for or who set them up. Having the computer description in AD and in the properties of the servers helps out, however they are not synchronized so it’s possible to have different descriptions in both places. This script will take the computer description from AD and put it in the description field on the system(s).

get-qadcomputer [Server REGEX] | select-object name,description | foreach {

write-host $_.Name

$a=get-wmiobject -class win32_operatingsystem  -computername $_.Name
????????

$a.Description = $_.Description

$a.Put()

}

I’ve started running recently. I’m finding that I’m having difficulty getting into my clothes and need to do something. I have friends and faimly that have run marathons and I think that’s a great goal, not to mention all the health benifits.

I’m not setting the marathon goal right now but I think it would be a great thing to achieve eventually.

All this is to point out I’m training and am trying to stay modivated, so I’m posting my workout log. If I start slacking harassass me…

This is one of those “Clean up AD” projects. We needed to find all the user accounts that don’t have managers assigned to them along with other contact information. It’s not hard but I like to have it available to see whenever I need it…

get-qaduser -ObjectAttribute @{manager=”"} -sizelimit 0 | sort| ft name,phone,email

Every time I reload or get a new laptop I run into this problem and need to search for the answer.

When I terminal into a Windows 2003 server from Vista the session is really slow on all the mouse clicks, however keyboard input is normal.

The fix is to enter this at the command prompt and reboot.

netsh interface tcp set global rss=disabled
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

 

Here’s the explanation of what those two parameters actually do – I copied it from here on the Microsoft site.

 

rss

Optional. Specifies one of the following values:disabled: Disable receive-side scaling.enabled : Enable receive-side scaling.default : Restore receive-side scaling state to the system default.

 

autotuninglevel

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