Archive for August, 2005

Upgrading dilemna

Saturday, August 6th, 2005

I think I have recovered (a little) from my obviously lethargic condition during the past weeks - had it been 2 or 3 weeks? I was able to absorb some ideas about the SQL statements we should be executing to fix the tables. I should concentrate on learning SQL. Really. Since we were told to focus on the database migration project.

About my previously-handled project (DCIS), the external client boss proposed some changes and I already consulted my internal bosses. Now I need to extend about a week of my time for the changes. And to think that since we’re using Liferay, we should also test the version 3.5… Huhu… Well, that’s my discretion… but I think I’ve got to try 3.5. It has a lot of promising features. I downloaded it already but the webapp (together with the container JBoss+Tomcat) is over 90MB. Whaddaheck…

Btw, our PFT is on the 11th. I need fervent prayers.

Poor Pytri

Saturday, August 6th, 2005

“You suck!” is the last phrase I could yell at our old PC at home. I said it nevertheless. :( Almost a month ago, both of our PC’s at home broke. All the fault’s drawn to the RAM, both RAMs. The tech who diagnosed the disfunctionalities asked for almost a half-worth of a 256MB RAM, that’s 750PhP off my budget. :( I bought his old 64MB PC100 RAM (which is already phased out from the market) for Pytri. Imagine… just for the love of Pytri. I could just leave the poor PC on the corner since my Toshi is doing all the needed automation for me, but I couldn’t. As long as the motherboard’s working fine, I wouldn’t really think of ditching the PC…

So I don’t have enough budget to buy the other PC’s RAM (the one shoti is using). [I emailed my imouto about it and *hinted* that if he wants his PC fixed he should buy the RAM. Heh. No avail. He didn't get me at all. Guys are totally dense. *rolls eyes* He'd rather rent at the nearby computer shop than have his PC fixed. This is perhaps where computer majors (or geeks) differ from the others... Imouto is a PC/console gamer but I've never seen him tinker with technical electronic stuff.]

Two weeks ago, shoti used the Pytri I just fixed and installed RO. The video drivers failed (naturally) since Pytri’s specs are lower than what are needed in Ragnarok.

I reinstalled Windows 98. It didn’t work so I decided to format drive C. But the damn installation is failing on Pytri! I saw some weird files on drive D. I have a huge suspicion that Pytri is virus-laden. (;_;)

Agh… I don’t wanna give up on Pytri. But I guess its time has come.