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So, it’s the holidays. Status update time!

It’s Advent already, and time to wind down the holiday projects. Finished a implementation ‘proposal’ for an assignment at work, and now gearing up to extend Staff Profile with features someone’s asked me to add to it.
Here’s hope towards initiation and completion before camp; it all depends on environment, environment, environment, it’s all about the abstraction available to the developer. Being both a project manager and developer at the same time is difficult, context switching is expensive.

COMPSERV has been an utterly uninteresting place recently, and it’s no longer a decent source of entertainment. We’ll see how everything turns out when the December Camp rolls around (or doesn’t). If it’s a success, great, that means that the comm is capable of packaging a camp together in the 7 days just before it. If it isn’t, there are more important things to worry about than Recruitment 2007 and internal HR and placement.
Ironically, the preparations for another camp elsewhere have been assisted by yours truly. Much better. Hey, they got nice African theme and nice tees!

In other news, there are currently got a couple of HP racks and a bunch of HP Netservers (with accompanying HP NetRaid-4M cards) sitting around being unable to do anything thanks to it being brought in for a doomed project. They’re likely to be expensive to run, ~700-800W or thereabouts.
Nope, I’m quite sure you don’t want them, they range from 2U to 8U, from two hard drive bays to about 16 or so. But one thing’s in common – they’re Pentium III systems, require HP ECC RAM, as well as SCSI hard drives, and HP hard drive trays, etc.

Plans to find the money to fix or get a new macbook are still underway, if something that’s decently profitable cannot be thought up, a new LCD panel will have to do. That’s about two years at current income levels.

I’ve found a nice article that’s somewhat related to Sphereosoft, here it is, and the connection is left as an exercise for the reader.