what were you expecting? kidding… I don’t know any blackhat shazbot. I would tell you how I accidently deleted my wordpress theme though if I actually had any idea ‘how i accidently deleted my wordpress theme’. haha, guess it’ll have to chill for a bit, the damn thing just stood up and walked off I suppose.

Did find some really cool stuff today. Got LAMP? Actually…no. But I did discover this amazing tool today while I was working…have you ever wanted a Windows Apache MySQL Php environment in the snap of a hat? The Uniform Server has got your back brother! It’s lightning fast [read, instantaneous] setup, preconfigured, prepackaged, and can be easily disabled and removed. This rocked my world…it means I can play around with PHP while I’m at work without having to install a gazpacho of heavyweight server apps on my puter.

thankyou people at uniform, you just made me a very, truly happy cookie, may blessed backlink of PR-zero blog eternally send some radiance your way.

i just posted a pseudo mean comment on Johnchow.com 13th comment today. i wonder…think it’ll drive some traffic? what would the traffic even do if they got here at any rate…fucking look at flicker photos? maybe I should start serving the good on TRIPLE P. Porn, Pills, and Poker. yall come running then wouldn’t cha? yeah, I know how it goes…

im off to do the dairygoods…smoke some lucky number nine!

I’m building a backup system for a client today. She just upgraded from an old XP workstation to a vista business edition workstation. The computer they sold her came with no IDE bus and no CDrom drive. She wasn’t expecting that…it must have been one of those ‘good deals!’.

Since it has no IDE bus, her old tape drive is out the window, and the arcserve backup software she was running doesn’t work with Vista. She needs daily automatic backups with the option to take things offsite. This is what I did.

I got her two external mybook 320g’s, and started off writing a batch file using xxcop, but it has this user control intervention with windows Vista where you have to hit an input key. I googled around a little bit looking for a way to send keystrokes inside a batch file, and started testing out a few different methods until I realized that the batch file does not pick up control until the first command xxcopy passes back a return value, and thus it would not fit my purposes.

Next I checked xxcopy documentation to see if it had a switch to remove the “This version of xxcopy has never been testing in the current operating system environment.” No game.

After that, I moved on to start playing with robocopy. After a few failed steps I found the /MIR and /W:n /R:n switches to come up with these commands.

robocopy C:\users\laura\documents E:\backuproot /mir /R:2 /W:5
robocopy C:\old.hd\data E:\Backuproot /mir /R:2 /W:5

The first two segments are the source and the destination, respectively, the /mir switch creates an exact duplicate of the file structure, the /R:2 switch limits file retries to 2 times, and the /W:5 waits for 5 seconds between file retries.

Tried this…only apparently the /mir switch includes a /purge, and since I am running two separate commands one right after another with the same destination directory, this causes them to overwrite each other.

Alright next idea…we’ll split the destination folder into two…now we have

E:\backuproot.data
E:\backuproot.docs

with each robocopy command going to it’s own folder. This test is running now. I intend to have the client rename the backup folder to the current date whenever she wants to create a permanent backup…if she does this I wonder if robocopy will be smart enough to create it’s own destination folder. We’ll check that next.

Sweet, robocopy went ahead and created the new destination folders all on it’s own. One little thing, right now she has to copy these two folders into a new location in order to create a lasting backup, I’d like it if she only had to rename the existing folders as planned, in order to do this, I’ll have to nest those two destination folders inside a new folder and update the batch file to reflect those changes.

For once in a long long time, everything seems to be going smoothly today. The stupid DJA server migration has actually stabilized and they haven’t had any new problems with it in at least two days. I’m downgrading from endpoint 11 today back to SAV 10.2, we discovered [the hard way] that endpoint 11 is not ready to be put in a production environment, could have saved myself hours of work if I had just checked some forums to see what people thought of it before placing it on someone’s server.

I am going to dcpromo the poweredge today too, the proliant has been managing the domain all by herself for about a week and one day. We’re going to wipe 2003 sbs off the poweredge and put a raid card and three 500g sata drives in it. It’s going to be a raid 5 array, then we put server 2003 standard on there, and set it up as a backup server to the proliant.

Maya was still sleeping when I got up this morning…no shower again, but I have the vetivere oil my mother gave to me, I rubbed a bit in my hair. I suppose it looks a bit wild, but I smell nice :P I sent my dad a copy of the “Compare People” app data on my facebook page..he always tells me that I stink, and I wanted him to see that It was agreed I was #1 nicest smelling in our network. I was being bratly and sent him the rest of the stats…*not because I’m proud or anything, right :P* including that I was #1 most desired, #1 most likely to skip class, [hah I don't even go to school?], #1 most kissable, #2 most reliable, #2 best listener.

He replied back with oh how proud he was of me…and then he told me that their Dog died…which was blatantly not true. I think he was trying to tease me because I told him that I fed their dog some raw kefir and he liked it. And in another email few hours later he sent me a picture of the dog [ still living ] and said that he was resurrected just like jesus. Then he told me it was a joke. Well…I took it that the resurrected part was the joke, and figured old PJ really had kick the bucket. It took me a couple of days to catch on…I didn’t let him know that though, :P.

I had a good talk with my Mommy last night. I usually don’t tell her how I feel about things, but last night I told her some of my concerns with NSA, the company she has created her business out of. She was very adamant that I was wrong of course…but we talk about it which was good. And she had a few very good points. It isn’t a perfect world…and changes are slow. She takes the point of view that you just have to do what you can to move people in a positive direction, no matter how small the changes seem to be.

I think there is a lot of merit to her viewpoints, but I have trouble realizing them in my own life. When I see something that bothers me, I want to change it RIGHT MEOW! It also means I can get frustrated easily with things, because not everybody/everything is always ready to change RIGHT MEOW. Myself included. Sweet Mom, she’s wonderful…somewhat delusional I think, but wonderful. I should probably tell her that more often.

Facebook is definitely silly. And it can waste a lot of time, and maybe you find yourself crooning over your profile when you could be DOING something, but it sure does float some basic social instincts. It was always funny to see how quickly people caught on once they SAW it. You could tell them about it all the time…but once somebody saw it, it immediately tuned into something inside them, and they were off!

Lol, Facebook. Okay…dcpromoing almost done maybe…brb. Close…at the Windows directory, shouldn’t be long now.

Helena this weekend. Elk, lots of butchering. A hide too. need lye. Dry Socket. eck flegm. OWWW!!!! Meds, happies, pills, and poppers. Fuzz buzz fuzz, back at worik, nurse rinses it out, equips me. yes, I can has power too! More painkillers.

Worked for a bit today on making an adsense site. I told myself I want to make just one, to go through the process. Test out the waters so to speak. I’m thinking I am going to use wordpress to manage the content, I’ll probably just write it for sake of simplitude. I pulled a good list of keywords out of google’s tool, registered a domain name, bought some related content on onedollarwiki.com, and installed wordpress. Until my boss Alex, pointedly asked me if I had work to be doing. I really rub him wrong when I’m off task. I understand why, if I was paying someone by the hour to be doing work, I’d have pretty solid views on what they did with their that time too.

I get so damned bored, and the allure of das internets takes over. Given it’s a pretty uninspired allure, but it beats heckling symantec enterprise tech support about their buggy products they sold us for gallons of cash. I don’t want to drive Alex up the wall. He’s really cool, and fun, and works way too hard, but he has a family and that’s all he knows. And he does a really good job at what he does.

I either have to not work on my sites…which is totally bunk, because usually I just get distracted reading and [trying to] absorb gounds of infomation, rather then actually doing much. Or, pay attention to whether Alex is in the building, and stay 100% on task while he’s present. Feeling relentlessly rebellious with a righteous dose of apathy today I’m going to try the second option.

Truth is, working a job sucks. I don’t have a degree, I’m not really sure whether that would be any better. Yeah, I’d have a larger check every few weeks, but I’d still have to contribute 1/3 of my existence to colonizing human creativity and shelling it out to likely suitors. Schools not really any better. I don’t want to work anymore, but I don’t really have any other choices if I want to stay in Missoula.

I will try to not think about it. There are so many other things I can address right now, fretting of things I can’t fix…tsk tsk. I love my father, I think he feels the same way about work, but he has this attitude that there is nothing to be done about it, except set yourself up to be higher in the system. That is not entirely true…he also told me the trick is just to find something you love. There is some truth in that I think. If I were fully energetically engaged all day long, I wouldn’t give a shit about money. But that seems like something so remote right now. I have rent due today, and not enough money to pay it…bills, I don’t think I’ve paid the electricity bill in three monthes. But I’m not in debt…I just owe people a fair hunk of money. =)

I have no rights to complain, about anything. There are so many people out there that have much more pressing concerns then their rent and electricity bills. I’m going to make along just fine…as long as I keep that job hah!…There are many positive things in my life that don’t get appreciated. It’s a terribly well-spread story. As a little boy, my mother would ask me to tell her ten things I am grateful for as we were going to sleep. I resented it as totally not-important and a waste of time. These days, I’m not so sure.

I live with the most wonderful young woman I’ve ever known, she is radiant, glowing with care and love. She is fun to be around, very well centered and balanced, but incredibly tough and adventurous. In a wild dream, we would be people of the earth, caring for it’s bounty and laughing into eternity. We work well together as a domestic couple of humans too. We have little (perception) money, but we have access to foods and nourishment that most of the world, and all of America has forbidden to them through one means or another.

We could have anything we desire, I could have anything I desire. If I was willing to work for it. If I wanted to get a degree, I could easily have one with no student loans when it was all over. How many people have that opportunity? To go to school and be able to walk away with no debts. That is extremely lucky. How many people fought tooth and claw for their rights to even attend school, for that opportunity, how many dedicated years of their efforts, energy, intent, and dreams to that fantasy of education.

There is a whole slew of terms that need apply. My parents don’t even bring them up at the dinner table…at the rarity that I show up for dinner, they have been divorced forever. Both remarried, some children involved here and there. Both make good money, work very hard, for themselves. They are somewhat secretly hoping that I will come to my senses and hop back on the schooltrain. Who knows…all this talk about taking things for granted, and I’m starting to feel a wan fondness for good ol’ school. It wouldn’t last long. Two weeks back in the system, and I’d freak the fuck out and lick somebody on the face. It feels good to be writing again. Thanks Celina for the comment the other day. I think very highly of you. You can be my blogsister if you like, Morgan won’t mind she is really cool and probably about your age. I am very impressed with how saavy you are for being so young, and your schooldirt reminds me of all the people I don’t know any longer.

Thanks Rachel the Imaginer for your magic…and care to the tinier moments. You take the time, and I drop the jar. Shatter-ed! I’m so lucky to be around your lifeblood. It’s about time I put some pictures up. A rocky ledge overlooking Missoula, and a picture from the Occidental Plateau outside Jefferson City. Montana, all my dreams are belong to you. huhur =)