Dallas Bound, Again...

Great, just when I thought I was going to be able to hang out all weekend, the guest network at the Dallas Hotel is freaking out.
Since Monday, I've been getting calls about the 2nd floor acting up... People loosing signal strength, not getting IP address's issued, etc.
Yesterday it went haywire, and we had one of the VP's of Disney staying with us. I called and damn near blew my top at the "Tier 1" support guy... They escalated the call but no one would call back, after 3 calls in the afternoon.
My boss called and threatened to cxl the contract and guess what? The Mo' Fo's called back. (note to self... Money talks) LOL
So now I'll be up there Sunday night and plan on spending all week there until it's resolved. Our ISP for the guests are sending their top technician out here to figure out and fix the problem.

Damn Users!!!

Ok, so I'm feeling good as I helped a guest up in the lounge connect to our wireless hotspot up on the 2nd floor. I'm comming downstairs when one of the gal's at the desk mentions that she cant get to any of her forms, that it keeps telling her to delete the shortcut.
I'm like... "huh? Whatchu talkin bout, Willis?!" (OK, her name is Lorena)
So I go look at this shortcut on the desktop that mapes to a shared drive on the server. It's where everyone puts everything that everyone MIGHT need as long as it's not confidential.
Everything is gone, except a folder called Access. EEEEEK!
Now, I'm thinking... Hmm, I cleaned up MP3's off the server, I cleaned up all the goofy assed movies people save from thier E-Mails... but surely I didn't delete important crap off the shared drive!
Ok, I might have, but I honestly dont think so. I was scavenging the /user directories, not the /shared drive. Could I have been that careless?
Well the last time I had to get into the backup software (Veritas Backup exec) was about 6 months ago when I was having issues with backups not working. I went in, hit restore, found the folders to restore and 5 minutes later everything is hunky dory, as long as they didn't put any crap there since 11 pm last night, lol.
The point of this is... Am I that careless or old and forgetfull? Nope, someone else did it!
I sure as hell wouldn't be that stupid!
Damn Users!

Holy Crap!

It's been a long time since I posted anything....
Lets see, I've been working and um... working.
I gave up on the truck puter project for now, instead I bought a Onmi-Fi DMP1 from W00T! a while back. I had it installed and they did a pretty crappy job at Fry's. Some kid that was still in training did it. What sucks is he did a better job than I could have, but for the money I paid, I was pretty disappointed. I'll have to post pics soon. (by the way, go check out the unofficial "wooters with hooters" contest we are having. It's on my website.
It's pretty cool, it is basically a 20 gig notebook hard drive mounted inside a box that runs Linux.
I can upload my music via USB cable or plug in a USB wi fi adapter and synch my music while I sleep.
I went up to Dallas a few weeks ago for work, nothing exciting there... I did go out with my buddy Duster to a cool bar. Had a little teen age waitress that was one of those "cute but rough" looking things. She had a pierced tongue, tight jeans and was real friendly. Yeah, she got a good tip, LOL.
The week before that I went up to visit my Sister in Hershey, PA. We had a real nice time but the weather sucked. It was about 10 degrees colder than the weather channel had predicted, so I didn't take a good selection of clothes. I had also bout a remote control T-Rex dino for my nephew. I think it went over pretty good. He's a big dinosaur geek but lately he's discovered star wars so his Star War's lego's won out most of the weekend.

This weekend is "network the house" weekend.
I plan on crawling up into the attic and dropping down CAT cables and putting in faceplates all over the house. It should turn out pretty damn cool.
I have a 16 port switch that was hot off a truck at one point. I bought it from a guy for $20 and it works like a charm. It is going into the old water heater closet in the hallway. Yes, Pics will be posted of that too.
Ok, time to get back to work.