Not much new going on. NOLA is still scheduled for a Sept
10th release. The payroll might only be about beta quality
on release, but everything else seems solid. The windows
and unix installation software will be made available then
as well. It's unfortunately configured very statically for
our purposes, but hopefully someone can make it a little
more universal. The windows install is Installshield
based, asks about 4 questions and installs and configures
NOLA, Apache, PHP, and MySQL. The unix install is a shell
script that asks the install path and compiles and
configures everything.
Time Warner finally fixed my circuit. I can't believe such
a large organization has so few people with clue. Not only
was my assigned static IP not being routed, but I had to
console into the provided cisco router to find out what ip
it was even supposed to be. Not a single person there
could give it to me. Among my many helps calls with them
was a "router tech", who told me that my subnet was
255.255.255.252, and my router address ended in .32 (which
has to be a network address with that subnet), a different
customer had .33 (yeah, thru my router?!), my static ip
was .34 (it wasn't, but this was at least possible), and my
broadcast was .35. Really, my router was .37 and my static
was .38. I realyl haven't had many other bad experiences
with them, I just hope they don't get the ameritech
attitude of 'Because we're the phone company, that's
why.'
Beth has been very sick all weekend. I think she is stressed from her work. She hasn't had a day off in something like 28 days, working 60 hour weeks.