The Life of Eric

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As if there weren't enough things to worry about...

Back in the day, years ago, when people thought cell phones were "cool" and not a necessity....We talked to CIS about moving our @AggieNetwork.com email accounts off our current provider (4-letter word removed for the sensitive ears and to protect the 'innocent') and move on to a system they operate and maintain.

That sounds like such a great idea, doesn't it? Yes, it does. You have to agree with me. It's a great idea until of course, we PAY for the stupid thing. They (the definition of they is varied since there are so many rungs of the ladder you have to climb to get stuff done with CIS) have been dragging their feet since about, oh, September. We were supposed to have a system to test and use by NO LATER than November 2004. Obviously we aren't there yet. We had to a) buy and setup the servers even though we thought they were doing that b) request them to move the network port (still isn't done) and then c) hound them until the sun goes down.

To this day, we only have the servers installed with the core OS, and nothing else. Not even a network connection. Mind you we installed them at CIS' datacenter in November. You'd think they would notice a new rack sitting there with blinking lights saying "Please install me!!!"

I guess it is somewhat poetic justice that they choose one of the server's names to be "Timmy" I don't care if it is random, I am saying he is named after TIM-AH from Southpark, just to prove we indeed, have a retarded server.

TIM-AH!!! Live-a-lie!!! TIM-AH!

While we're on the subject of email... Let me see a show of hands on who likes receiving email while they are at work...yes personal email counts, so you should raise your hands. Well, luckily an overdue bill from (again I won't mention our service provider here, but they suck) that has been sitting around for the last month. Thankfully it will be paid today to avoid any outages, but good grief. Wouldn't that be fun.... Porter calls down "Yeah, I haven't received any email today, is something wrong" and I reply "ummmmmmmm, did we pay the bill?"

Oh well. Enough today, maybe I'll start writing more? Probably not, but it is worth a shot.

posted by Eric Webb @ 1:50 PM