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Well I have had it reading Technical papers on the internet. I am turning up the music and letting it force the neurons to move to the beat.

Don't worry, I am not nuking the site. I am just retooling it. The links to the site will be coming back on the left side as soon as I learn some css coding and get things set up there. This will be a process but they will come back soon. If you have them bookmarked they should still work until I get to changing them, but then they will show up on my page. here.

Here is a picture of me at the end of a long day with my Yellow Computer Glasses on. And yes they actually help my eyes. It helps so that I don't feel the need to pull my eyeballs out from all the CRT rays bouncing off them.

Try this out for size... I feel like one sometimes.

Click Me

Well today I am going to be working on an Exchange Email Server with some technical Support helping me.

Hope everything goes well.

Just saw the new Star Wars Galaxies into opening to the game. Looks and feels like Star Wars, but this time you are part of the experience. I think this game will become a standard for a while to come. Hopefully they will work on the issues they have with it. And I am sure they will.

Another late day at work and things look good. That is compared to the email server I am working on. More and More of it is falling into place. I like it when that happens.
Here is a picture I made in Lightwave of some Star Wars Imperial Cruisers

Star Wars

Well that is all for today from work. Cya at home whenever that happens.

I put together a Dual Processor system last night. Hmmmm.. AMD's MP 2600+ which clock out around 2.2 gig. I installed everything checked it twice, and booted the system. Installed Windows XP Prof and when it was all finished installing, all it saw was one processor. I got upset about this since I did pay for the Dual Processor board and the extra processor. So I installed Windows 2000 Prof instead thinking that maybe it was something to do with XP. Once again failure. Only one processor shows up.

I am not in contact with the company that sold me this combo and see what they have to say about it. If they can't come up with a good answer then I will have to return these to them and wait till I can buy a Xenon Dual Motherboard system.

You maybe asking why I need that. Well, when I do my renders in Lightwave, they take a long time. This way I will be able to render twice as fast as well as having a machine that will complete things I am working on faster.

More information will be posted as I find things out.

I will continue learning basic CSS tags and how the work in the scheme of html overall.

As I progress, look for some changes in the site. And as I promised I will get more of the links up and running as I learn what I am doing. I'll also get the forums up and running too.

I am working on making the Computer screen grabs reload correctly. Right now there is a Java issue and a refresh issue going on. I am working with the company that makes the Java Applet that is supposed to fade to the next image automatically. Until that is resolved you may have to close your browser in order to get a new image to show up from the last time you visited the Comptuer Cam Page. Once again I think it is related to IE not recognizing standard Java code. It seems to work at home though so I am not sure what the solution will be yet.

Hope to put an update on this soon.

UPDATE
I put a link to the Java Updates on the Computer Cam page. If you click on either one of these you should get the proper java download. This is weird. The Internet Explorer version is 1.4.0.3 and the Mozilla version is 1.4.2. Since I have mozilla installed I got that java package installed and now it works for IE also, even though I had 1.4.0.3 for IE

Sooo Here is what I have done. If you are using IE try the link and get java installed. Reboot the computer and see if the image fades to a new image. If it doesn't during the day, your only other option right now is to get Mozilla installed on your machine and then click the link I have to get that java package. Then you can uninstall mozilla if you want, and everything will work just fine.
I have to say once again. Microsoft and their proprietary crap is the cause for things not working correctly with java. Someone kick them in the pants will you. :)

Ok this is starting to piss me off again. We now have the Mozilla and Internet Explorer Wars. Something looks good in IE but looks better in Mozilla. Mozilla uses Java 1.4.2 IE uses 1.4.0.3. If you are unlucky enough to upgrade your Java in IE then some of my Java applications won't work, like the fading images. The Remote Control Cam should work. But here is the kicker, If you use or installed Mozilla and then got the Java update from SUN.com you now have 1.4.2 for everything since it is a newer version of Java. Now when you launch IE the Fading images will work but the Remote Control Cam won't, or at least the image coming from the camera won't update. The camera will zoom all over the place with the remote controls, but you won't be able to see anything from it every 5 seconds.

So the Wars are on AGAIN. Now I am have to see if there is any other software out there that is newer for the Remote Control Cam. If webcam32 doesn't update it's software, I may be forced to either buy new software or just get rid of the remote option till someone comes out with some that utilizes NEW Java.

Arghh!!!!

Yesterdays Flight home was interesting to say the least. I was ready for the takeoff and so were all the other passengers. We started out down the runways. FULL SPEED...... Then it happened. PUT THE BRAKES ON!!!....... Yep halfway down the runway right before the nose was about to lift off, the pilot slammed on the brakes. We all looked at each other wondering what the heck just happened.

**This is the Pilot. We had some strange readings on one of our gauges so we decided to abort the takeoff** Hmmm... Maybe they forgot to go to the bathroom and wanted to make one last pitstop. LOL But really, it wasn't too scary at least from my point of view. I ended up getting to other airport 1 hour late from the takeoff to my final destination. Bummer... Had to sleep in a Motel6 and had Tom Bodet give me a wakeup call at 6am.

Its been a long day but I am glad to be back at work and alive.

I'll see about putting up some more links tomorrow if I'm not to busy.

Talk to you all later.

Well there is a Hurricane hitting just south of Houston. I can see on the radar that the rain front is just 50 miles outside of my town. Looks like we maybe in for some rain as soon as the jetstream gets a hold of this thing and blows it our way.

I don't know how to answer that becasue I can go both ways on it.
So far my experience with setting up an email server is more positive than negative. But this is just for the initial setup. I think during the lifetime of the server it will be more of a headache due to the maintenance and upkeep of user information, but once again that is to be seen.

One end I do see being a problem is that due to everyone needing to use Outlook as their email client, we will be open to a lot more Virus's do to the hackers targeting Outlook as the spreader. One good thing is that we have Virus protection on the Exchange Server as well as anti-virus on each computer in our network.

Only time will tell how this helps on my search for Administration Knowledge, but I am sure it will, since I have now conquered another Server issue. Next Stop...The Linux Zone!!!!

Here I am at work. Where are all the Dancing Women I was promised. LOL

Well today is the email change over for the Entire IT Staff. Now we will see if the Exchange Server is up to the task. I sure hope so. Woohoo!!!!

Other Thoughts...

Hmmm.... Mountains, Cool Air, Clean Pine Air.... Boy I miss the mountains and how it recharges me.

You know... That title should suggest that there will be total destruction. Worlds are pretty big things.

But I have to say that this album is pretty neat.

My vacation is coming up and I need to start looking at rental cars. I am going to be one driving fool, if I can't get things organized with my friends. WooHoo... Either way, I am heading to the Mountains for a couple Days. I need it. I can smell it now. Cool Pine Air. Ahhhhhh... I am feeling relaxed already.

Well, back to organizing my Office again. I got a new L-shaped Desk and am now arranging things on it. I'll see if I can get a snap shot of it later in the day.

I made it back from my trip to California. I wanted to see more of my friends but I just couldn't make it to see all of them. There will be other trips so all is not lost. LOL

As soon as I get the pictures uploaded I will post some of them here to show you some of the things I did. It was a great trip, and getting up into the mountains helped me immensely.

And yes I escaped California one more time. WOooHooooo!!!

My days consist of converting Users from Novell Groupwise to Outlook. I am also looking to computers with Virus's to stomp them out where I find the. Such is the life of an IT Man. LOL

Actually I had to take a break this morning when I found a link to Star Wars Kid. The unfortunate soul who video taped himself fighting imaginary foes with his modified broomstick. I am finally recovering from laughing so hard with all the funny remakes of his antics. I am also glad that people are donating money to him and sending the petition to Lucus to have him in SW3 with a cameo apperance.

You can check this out at. http://jedimaster.net The Top 6 video's are the best, but some other deserve watching also.

So take a tour with me to the lighter side of laughter today. Smile and be happy. :)

Just got an email telling me that Dana, my friend from Los Angeles is coming out for two weekends. WOW..... I was planning on going on a road trip on one of the weekends but I will have to put that off now to accomdate a good friend.
So if you see someone else on some of the webcam images that is probably him from the 5th through the 15th.

I may just have to update this page a little more also. I am getting tired of not having a true forum where you can all post questions and replies to things. I'll see what I can whip up.

What a day... Seems this email conversion at work is going to take till the next century with all the interruptions I get at work. One of these days it will be over and all will be calm.

Today was a good day weather wise. It is finally cooling down and the evenings are cool enough to actually leave the windows open, which the Cats Love. They sleep guarding me, one at each window. Too bad they would split the second someone came into the backyard though. But they are trained to attack BZORG's on sight.

I have the webcam back up now. I am working on things a little at a time and will have the remote control part back in working order by tonight I think.

The Weather Station software is all messed up right now and I can't seem to find the update to the version I had. So I will be contacting the owner about this and see if he can give me the link to the latest version and see where to go from there.

Looks like I may have to mount the Web Cam someplace else or turn off the ability for it to see anything of my roomies computer. He disconnects the power to the remote control motor every morning. Bothers me a little but if he wants it that way then I will redesign the places to look at and make sure that it doesn't see anything he does.

I'll talk to him about this and see if he is ok with that. Either this or I will have to move it to my bedroom where there won't be much action there except to see my cats sleeping or eating, or maybe me walking out of the shower at the wrong time. LOL   

I am going to see the Matrix tonight so I will not be home till late. Hopefully I will be reloaded from the movie at 10:30pm. : )

Well during my duties and waiting for other people to finish conversions with our email I decided to color something. Hope you like it. Turned out pretty good.

Dear Bonnie,

I am ok. I just had a short memory lapse and haven't written on my blogger for a week is all. That's why the main page is as empty as a blue background. :)

I have this weekend off thank goodness, I'll be working on some things and hopefully I will put some more rantings and ravings on UFO's this weekend.

I get to work and while I am driving to the front of the building I see a whole bunch of trucks and cars outside. Hmmm... I think to myself, what could be going on. So I go on my way and park in my assigned spot and start my trek into the main offices.

I get to the front door and I see trash everywhere. hmm... I think to myself again...what could be going on. Then I smell Smoke or what I should say is left over from a fire that happened. Turns out someone left a candle burning which then caught some things on fire. So now there is soot everywhere and it smells like a campfire in our offices.

Such is life in the big city.

Soo... once again I work for some people that have never been in a corperate environment in an IT department. And it shows.

We are now moving people into a brand new facility and have a lot of computers there that will need support. The original proposal was to move one computer support person over there so we could have better coverage of calls from the whole department in general. We are also hiring a new person to help in the calls and to free up our programmer from having to do such issues.

NOT!!!!!

In their grand vision they once again throw all common sense out into the cold and go with a new plan.

They are now putting the programmer in the new facility to handle all the trouble calls in that new area and we are still hiring a new computer support person and he will be in the office next to me. What a mess. Now we will have twice the coverage in one building and still force people to wait for help in the other buildings further away.

I am constantly surprised by choices like these.

All I can say is this. If the Programmer wants to be a computer trouble shooter he should have applied for the open position and we should have put an add for a new programmer instead.

Getting off soap box now.

Ok... Once again I am going off the deep end when it comes to work.

We are hiring a new Microcomputer Support person. At first it seemed a good idea to hire someone with a lot of Mac Experience so they could handle any Mac issues that came up, and we had a lot at the time we talked about it. Now two months later we have no mac issues. We were also thinking about a certain individual because he had some computer lab experience. Now the new person is not going over to the new athletics building so we don't really need that.

Of the people we have interviewed we came up with two decent prospects.

One person with a lot of Mac Experience and no Novell experience, along with no real computer trouble shooting experience with current technology. His last computer to build was a Pentium 500 MHz.

Person number two has worked on and built computers as of a week ago. Has a lot of computer trouble shooting skills and has used Novell in the past to administer the network. The only thing he doesn't have is MAC experience.

So I find out today that they are going to offer the job to guy number one. I would prefer guy number two since I won't have to sit down and teach him how to do his job. Plus I get along better with guy number two.

If you would like a challenging job. Go into the Computer Industry. It is constantly changing and will overflow your mind with new operating systems and software every three years if not yearly.

I am constantly having to learn new things and remember old things to make some things work. LOL Seems just as we get a computer or Server all set up, some new software comes out that then makes us change up configurations.
I really wish they had matrix like memory plugins so we could use it as short term memory to know how to work certain computers for a couple hours.

But back to reality. I am working on some Server Hardware which is giving me an early morning brain blank. Seems that maybe BZORG is blocking my brain wave patterns. STOP IT!!!! LOL

Merry Xmas and Happy Holidays to everyone.

Thanks to BZORG I now own Hostileplanet.com and org. Not to mention Spacemanconspiracy.com and .org also.

I would like to thank Go Daddy .com though for having the domain names so cheap at 8 bucks a pop.

Boy is it hot. Although it is 55 degrees outside, it is over 90 degrees inside. Seems the Janitors turned up the heater this weekend. My office is now 90 and the server room is over 100. I'm not the only one affected by this either. Seems some people lost some plants due to them turning it up this weekend.

I may have to go home and put on a short sleeve shirt if this keeps up.

Not to pop anyones bubbles but get a grip here. I was just reading all the stories about how the rover landed in what they once believed as a lakebed. Now this would be great news if the lake had just dried up a few years ago. We could find all sorts of things in it. But listen.... This lake has probably been dry for millions of years, swept many times by dust storms and by dust devils. I suspect that there is so much dust that we would have to dig pretty far down to find anything that might have been the actual lakebed. Even then who knows if all the radiation has destroyed any left over critters.

I am interested in them finding pre-life in this lakebed but am not going to hold my breath at them just being able to look close up and tell that "Yes, Fungus from a Lakebed" on them. Turn some rocks over and then look if you can. Dig a trench and look in the fresh dirt. Then come to some conclusions.

With all that being said and done. I will update the site from time to time when I can, and if I find something related to the Mars Mission.

p.s. BZORG... do you know lgf site.

Woke up this morning sweating..... Yes...and NO I am not sick, eventhough it may seem that I am sick in the head sometimes. Turns out the stupid heater was stuck in the on position. Which I turned off really quick. Then I realized how cold it was outside when I opened the window for the cats to go into the backyard. Brrrrr....28 degree's.

But back to work.... As promised I will post some information on UFO stories since no one is updating the Mars Rover Site.

Here is the first Color Image from the Mar Rover. This is a High Detail image. The original is 1600x1200 so I won't upload that here.

Enjoy.

Microsoft launching new PR attack on Linux



The campaign claims to bring "leading companies and third-party analysts" to bear on the truth about Linux versus Windows, a move which will no down generate a whole new round of FUD accusations, fights, and general geekery.

Just got this in.... Here is the link and the text. It is pretty short.
UFO Report
Story:
There are reports of an unidentified flying object coming out of northeast Indiana.

Three Huntington county police officers claim to have seen a strange object in the sky on the day after Christmas. They say it moved out of the northeastern sky, drifted toward a church steeple and then shot straight back north without a sound.

The sighting is drawing a lot of attention to the small community. An organization that studies UFO's is actually traveling to Huntington to investigate. MUFON investigator Roger Sugden said the officers reported the object was flying so low that they expected it to hit the church steeple.

The Fort Wayne airport says they saw nothing unusual on the day on their radar tape. News 8 will keep you updated.
End:

Ok now I still want to believe but it sure sounds crazy. Three officers see something but none of them have a camera and all they can come up with is some strange object, which the reporter covering it, forgets to get any details on it. What was it a ball of light, weird shaped craft, what..... How long did it take to come from the great white north and shoot straight back up. Was it on Xmas and was it Santa Clause. Now since there is no evidence and no pictures some group MUFON is sending some bozo out to ask the same questions that this reporter supposedly did. What are they going to garner other than the sparse information we have.
I thought Police are trained to take detailed notes on things they see, so when they go to court, their testimony will stand up in court. Nope not these three officers.

Well that's it for now. As these stories come feeding into me I will post them with my comments. I am also going to do some research into MUFON and see what bunch of people are running that organization.

Not that I like to just point to other websites but this article is pretty good at exposing UFO Fakers.

UFO Fakers

It seems that 50% of the Chineese now believe in UFO's. Could this be a catching thing for countries that are going High Tech, to all of a sudden start seeing these things.

Well here is the link. I read it and once again there is no hard proof listed anywhere in the article. Seems once again we are left to wonder about the reports that come in, even from China.

Chinese UFO's

I have added the logo's for Spacemanbob.com to the bottom right of this page as well as to the Sig's section of the Forums Page. If you use them please link back to my site, Thanks.

Things have been pretty busy at work but not too busy to get off of work at 5:40pm. I then have been going to the Gym and working out for a couple hours, which has trimmed off 3lbs so far(5 day period). I am also playing Eve-Online again which is sortta fun since I am taking my time learning what to do and not in a rush like I was before trying to be the master of the Universe.

I have to remember not to drink 5 gallons of water when I come home from my workout and then expect to loose weight the next morning when I step on the scale. I gained 1 1/2 lbs and I know I didn't eat anything bad yesterday. I bet tomorrow will be a better day for weighing in on the scales to see what I really hit the scales with.

But all is going well with the workout. I am jogging 7 laps now around the rec center(4 1/2 is a mile) without stopping and an average of 2:17 per lap. Then I hit the Eliptical Stairmaster for a level 5 workout for 30 minutes resulting with a shirt that is soaked from the neck all halfway down.

I am loosing weight and I am starting to finally see a change in the mirror. I hate that. Takes two weeks to see anything when you start working out.

I'll be posting more today as I get the chance.

Seems that MUFON the ultimate source of UFO sightings is nothing more than just a news station now. I went to their UFO News section and all they have there is news on the Mars Rover and other astronomy related stories. Nothing on any UFO Reports at all.

If they can't keep up on their date and report findings or new sightings then it should state that there is no activity, not post links to other sites around the web. That's what gets me the most with a lot of peoples sites. They just have links to other sites since they have no real data or articles to talk about on their own site.

Give me data or shut your site down MUFON. LOL
MUFON

It's amazing how the web cam goes from being in focus to totally out of focus and reset when someone shuts the power off on it.

I don't get it. If you don't like a remote webcam in the same room then let someone know. Don't pull stunts like changing the focus and unplugging the power and plugging it back in.

Maybe I am being a little wacky here but it's not like anyone can tell what you are doing on the computer anyways. Maybe I'll just move it into the bedroom so I can look at my cats when I want to.

Okay... Getting off soapbox now. LOL

As usual it gets colder in February than it does in December and January. I sure hope that this cold snap goes away soon enough. It makes it hard to walk calmly from my car to the gym without freezing my ass off.

On the good side. I am still going to the gym and working out. The bad news is that I am sore every single hour of the day it seems, except when I am working out.

Once again I am at work and waiting for the network to come back up from the campus. Have gotten a lot of calls this morning telling me our network is down just to find out that it isn't our network but the campus network.

There was a scheduled network outage for today but it wasn't supposed to be for this long and it wasn't supposed to effect the areas that it is now keeping offline. What can you say. Nothing I guess.

I have been working long and late hours. Since I am covering Football and they are starting their practices, I have to stick around till the coaches leave or finish using the computers to do a majority of their work. My hours are now letting me leave work around 9pm each night.

Because of this, I have just gone home and played a little with Battlefield 2 or opened up Lightwave and dabbled in it for a bit.