the day draws to a close

so what am i going to do? i'm going to blog.

today was a pretty busy day. we had issues with the clinicians not being able to transfer which i came into, but that seems to have been resolved. not entirely sure if it was something i missed when i did some minor changes to our dbase server, or if it was a switch thing, but it's working now. DH hardcoded some IP addys in the switch which should help with the routing as well, and so far no complaints. i was able to get a work-around to work, so if nothing worked, there was an option, altho i wasn't looking forward to having to dump the fix on the near 200 laptops we have, not that i couldn't script it. but it would still be a pain in the ass.

the other problem was the PCs we have for some pharmacy students were not seeing the network, so that took a lot of time to try and troubleshoot. at first, i couldn't even get my laptop to recognize the network (bad sign) so i traced the wires and moved them around, then it did work. but the PCs wouldn't. moved the NIC in one PC to a different slot, that didn't work. moved the cables to a separate switch that needed to be lit up (no biggie, stole a cable and that was online) and i even throttled the ports back from auto speed to 10mb. that didn't work.

decided to try using a different NIC and after 20 or so mins of dloading drivers, finding a floppy, that did work. undid my changes on the switch. still worked. moved it back to the original port it had been plugged into. still worked.

so, it looks as tho my thought of picking up a bunch of inexpensive NICs might be a pretty good idea. DH seemed to think that was a good possibility, so we'll see what happens. i'd want to buy 1 and test it before buying a bunch, but i'll discuss that with him.

and now, there is finally some quiet time. just got a call from TK-8103 asking what theater my tickets were for (12) which match what his are, so we won't be screwed when we get there. that did present a little doubt in my head this morning as i bought the tix (what if we were in different theaters?) but it was nice to hear that we are in the same theater. saves that awkward "well it was nice seeing you" thing when we are all at the theater. well, time to go home.

later.