Archives: 2000 August
Drought Causes Restrictions on Watering
August 30th, 2000, No Comments
Today is the 61st day without rain here in Texas. That’s several days beyond the previous 58 day record set back in 1934. Water supplies are low enough in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area that water rationing has begun. Normally, during droughts, we get every-other-day restrictions on residential watering but this year it looks like every-five-days [...]
Going to a Live Auction
August 27th, 2000, No Comments
Susan and I went to a computer auction saturday and picked up a few interesting odds and ends. Live auctions are strange; they can be really boring sometimes and a lot of fun other times. But eBay is a lot more convenient most of the time. All the work with JSP and servlets that I’ve [...]
Which Portals Scale the Best?
August 23rd, 2000, No Comments
I’ve been working with a client using Epicentric to develop portal sites lately. I’ve worked on portals for other customers in the past and have lately started wondering what the most efficient way of developing these sorts of web applications would be. The Epicentric product is Java-based and relies on a fairly huge stack of [...]
Dinner for the IT Department
August 21st, 2000, No Comments
I’m almost caught up on my work for the week. If it weren’t so late, I’d write a nice long account of my evening. The short version is that the IT department at the company I’ve been working with the last few weeks had a dinner at a nice (and expensive!) restaurant. A good time [...]
B-Ark Middle Management
August 19th, 2000, No Comments
It’s been nearly two weeks since my last news update – I think that’s the longest gap in over a year. It looks like the recent on-site work that’s been sucking up so much of my time will coming to end fairly soon, however. We’re still working on server migration issues and the client is [...]
Dream Recursion
August 6th, 2000, No Comments
I set up an LDAP server last night. Actually, I just had to configure it – this was on a Red Hat 6.2 system and OpenLDAP comes already installed. It was much easier than expected. I’ll be spending a few days trying some experiments with Samba to see if I can get it working with [...]
Why Build a Website When You Can Build a Portal?
August 3rd, 2000, No Comments
If I haven’t been doing a very good job of keeping my news page up to date lately, I can only make the excuse that I’m running a little short of free time these days. I’ve been helping a client migrate a lot of Solaris and Linux boxes to a new data center and it’s [...]
