chuma.org

As you may or may not have heard, I’m moving to a new apartment this coming Thursday. Since a number of Newton sites are run by me, I though I’d give everyone here a heads-up of what sites may be down for an extended period of time. I do have a new 3Meg DSL connection on order, but whether it is lit up on moving day or 8-9 days afterwards I don’t know yet. Hence this list:

SITES THAT WILL BE AFFECTED:

-guelph.unna.org: this mirror will be completely down. Since all UNNA file submissions are run by this server, UNNA uploads will also be unavailable. -Error Codes DB (guelph.unna.org/errors/) will be completely down. -Searchable Newton Glossary (guelph.unna.org/glossary) will be completely down. -WikiWikiNewt (guelph.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/) will be completely down. -Misato NPDS Tracker Server (misato.chuma.org:2110) will be completely down.

SITES THAT WILL NOT BE AFFECTED:

-newtontalk.net -all other unna.org mirrors -www.chuma.org and my chuma@chuma.org e-mail

I’ll still be able to read my e-mail and post here, don’t worry. I will likely be very busy for a few days assembling new furniture with tiny little allen keys.

How can so much stuff be packed and yet so much stuff is still around? Will moving be awful, hellish hell or will our volunteer packers come through and not die of exhaustion? Tune in on Thursday…

The Home Show sucks ass. Oh, and here is the BIG SECRET: all of the prices on the price sheets are X’d out. The actual price is listed below, next to the item’s entry in the list, but the numerals are printed backwards. So, and item might look like:

BLUE COMFY CHAIR      [product ID]      87126     $699.99

The actual, “member” price is $621.78, represented by the number 87126. Stupid. I have the feelign they are getting around some kind of pricing laws by doing this… also you need a $29 membership to buy almost anything there. And it’s still expensive. Blah. What a bust.

In other news, I bought a really nice new learning remote at Best Buy. It looks like this and was only $30, which is awesome for a six-function learning remote. I entered the TV and VCR via the numeric codes no problem, and “learned” the usual functions of the DVD remote in about 5 minutes. Sweet. And only $30! I don’t remember learning remotes being so cheap. Dad: go to Best Buy and buy this remote, IT WILL WORK WITH THE STARCHOICE RECEIVER.

Saw a little movie called Spider on Thursday, directed by David Cronenberg. Since Sandy had to watch a few of his films for her Canadian Cinema class last semester, we delved into a few of his classics a few months ago – namely The Fly and Dead Ringers. Spider was a really great film, not a gore-fest by any means, but I actually found it very suspenseful. If you don’t mind watching the first 30 minutes of a film trying desperately to figure out what the hell is going on, then you will enjoy this. I don’t know where you’ll be able to see it other than at an indie cinema, but try to find it.

As usual with Cronenberg’s films on IMDB, the comments on Spider are completely bipolar: people always seem to love or hate his films. Sometimes I wish I had an IMDBPro account just so I could write comments on films.

…and because of this, my application still doesn’t work. I want to know who wrote this library, I want to know their address, and I want a plane ticket to the closest city. And a baseball bat. Grrrrrrrrrr.

(addenum: and as I find the open SMTP server on the internal net, I want to cry as I’ve just wasted 2.5 days of work.)

All shall rejoice, for I have discovered how to login to an Exchange mailbox using CDO 1.21 via Perl/Win32 using a temporary profile!

Not that anyone is going to understand what that means…

So I lost my security pass for work two days ago. I went to the building management office yesterday to order a new one, it costs $25. In the meantime I’ve been signing myself in at the front desk.

So I go this morning to pick up my replacement pass, $25 in hand. But wait! They’re not allowed to take cash. I don’t have anything else. And here is where being friends with the building management & security people is key: since the person knew me, she gave me my replacement gratis and said “Oh, this replacement pass stuff is silly anyways.” Cool.

The other day Oliver (the cat) killed our multi-remote. (It’s probably just a loose or broken battery connection, but I haven’t snapped the thing apart to look at it yet). This morning I discovered that he has broken the front output tray on my Personal LaserWriter NTR. DAMMIT! I use the front output because I usually put stuff on top of my printer, blocking the top output. When we move I’ll have to put my things such that the top output isn’t blocked… as you can see from the link Sun Remarketing doesn’t even have that part, which means it’s never getting fixed…