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By staze
Yesterday I went to the doctor and got a throat swab taken. After the lab tests, it came back negative for Strep, so, it’s a virus. yay. While the fever seems to have gone, my throat still hurts like hell, and the congestion can gotten worse. So, I’ve stayed home yesterday and today. Not sure about tomorrow yet.
Can’t really discuss anything that Apple has told me recently. Only that progress has been made, good or bad.
I haven’t done a whole lot the last few days other than sleep. Ah well…
By staze
So, my event filled Memorial Day weekend was truncated by a fever and sore throat yesterday, and now just a sore throat today. This has probably been coming on for a week or so since I’ve been having pretty bad congestion on my Eustachian tubes have been clogged.
The only things we did get done were to clean the garage (much needed, and it’s SOO much better now), to get the bed out of the office, and to run the soaker hose around the blueberries. The sawdust seems to do an amazing job at keeping the soil moist. Even after a week of no rain, and fairly warm days, sticking a finger down into the sawdust reveals moisture about 2 inches down. We figure running the soaker hose for 30 minutes once or twice a week should be plenty for the blue’s.
If my throat doesn’t get better tomorrow, I’m going to hit the doctors office. I have chores piling up (mowing the yard, for example). That, and having a sore throat is about the most uncomfortable symptom I can think of, since it’s nagging.
You might notice the “reviews” page that has shown up. I’m hoping to do some short, one off reviews on various items. We’ll see how that goes… look for the first one in a week or two.
Well, take care.
By staze
So, after my last post, I figured I’d give an update on that issue as well as other projects for the coming weekend.
As to my last post, there’s cautiously good news. My Apple SE escalated the case to AppleCare Enterprise, who have been very good about gathering the needed data, and keeping me updated as to the status of the issue. So, this last Tuesday, after a weekend of running with 10.5.7 and having a really crappy day Tuesday of trying to make things work, I decided I would downgrade back to 10.5.4. Well, after 3 hours of wiping the two servers, and installing 10.5.4 and things looking good, the next day we still had issues. Better, but not by much. So, I heard from AppleCare Enterprise that day (Wednesday, which I took off), and I got him the info he needed that night, and Thursday. Today, seemingly, Engineering thinks they have a fix. Bad news is, it might not make it into 10.5 but rather 10.6. But, they’re going to try. So, goodish news on that front.
Also for the past week (since 10.5.7), we’ve been having issues with a program called KeyAccess. Basically, this program allows us to “key” an application, and install it on all the computers in the building, then a server piece basically keeps track of how many instances of the programs are running, and keeps that inline with how many licenses we own. It’s the best thing since sliced bread. Job would be extra impossible without it. So, 10.5.7 comes out, I install it in 4 labs, and things seem to work. Only, I only tested on Intel Macs. On the PPCs, KeyAccess doesn’t launch on the client, and therefore applications won’t run. So, I email the company that makes the software (Sassafras Software, Inc), and tell them what’s up, and we think we have a fix, until the next day, when it’s still happening. At that point, I email back, and they say they’ve also had word from another location having the same issue. So, at home I email back and forth with one of their people who is 3 hours ahead of me about the issue. I send some logs, and some ls output, and he basically says they’ll try to work on it in-house the next day. So, next day, I’m working with them, and they get some more info, and finally get the issue reproducible in house. Today, they send me a new build that seems to work. Say it’s a timing issue (not sure quite what they mean by that, whether it’s coming up before networking, or whether it’s not syncing with the server)… so, 2 days, bug fix. Gotta really love small companies (I’m guessing they have probably 12-15 people, at most).
On the home front, we planted a medium sized Daphne ordora ‘Marginata’, which is a “typical” winter daphne, in the space formerly occupied by the very unhealthy Rhododendron (which, I placed in a pot, and is doing much better now). Hopefully we’ll have some nice, knock you on your ass, daphne to smell come next February.
Blueberries are doing about the same, though they seem far less impacted by the warmer weather we’ve been having recently than they have in the past. Be that the mulch, or the older plants, I can’t say. But they seem VERY happy.
This weekend is probably really going to be a fair amount of cleaning the garage, yard work, and various household tasks. I’m going to weatherstrip the front door, maybe trim the door so it’ll clear a rug, which also means changing the threshold. I don’t think I’ll be doing the PRV, but I might try to at least dig the old one out so I can tackle it next week.
Oh, btw, I got some new pedals for my bike. They’re Nashbar (http://www.nashbar.com/) Highlander Pedals, which are rebranded Wellgo WAM-D10’s (Review: here). They’ve got a nice big platform for normal shoe riding (with great spikes to bite into your shoes) on one side, and MTB clipless on the other. So far, I’m very happy. Previously I was using the stock Shimano clipless pedals with plastic clipless platforms, which sucked. Now if I could just get my saddle to not kill me. Oh, and btw, the Nashbar version was $30. The Wellgo ones are $50.
BTW, my bike is a 2001 Bianchi Volpe. I’ve replaced the Saddle with a more comfortable one, the pedals (now), and the tires with some 28 x 700 Gatorskins (hard, but smooth and nearly puncture proof).
That’s all for now… maybe I’ll post more this weekend.