Today I had to give a presentation on how to use a program I'm not particularly fond of, and pray that I'll never have to implement in my area. Sometimes I feel like a sell-out, but hey - for the record, it worked as expected and did what I asked it to. The developers deserve kudos for a job well done. It's just slow, and that isn't the developers fault. Using this product to image a machine versus the solution we're currently using is like comparing snail mail to e-mail - both will deliver most of the time, it's just that one is WAAAAY faster than the other. I'm still trying to figure out why I was the chosen one to stand in front of all the other LAN managers and give the presentation - surely it's not my wit and style ;-)
There are certain things about Nashville which would drive a Baptist minister to drink - in public. One of these things is the entity known as NES. Whenever NES isn't out butchering trees, apparently they're arbitrarily turning off power to entire city blocks. Granted, we had a storm the other night. Granted, there were a lot of people without power, and there was a transformer damaged. But notifying Vanderbilt 15 minutes after you've already done it that there will be "intermittent" power outages, then leaving the power off for an hour and a half, just doesn't seem Kosher to me. Blakemore is very busy street, as is 21st. I know that the traffic lights on Blakemore between Natchez and 21st were out, no police presence, just reliance that folks driving in Nashville would know to treat the intersections as 4-way stops. Since I swear two-thirds of the population doesn't understand the concept of a 4-way stop, this was a bad idea. Meanwhile, back at the ranc...
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