Thar be Penguins Here!

New PC’s and Win7

tjagoda — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:19:52 +0000

So, as I have blathered to many people, I just recently built a new PC for my father.

The physical construction went great, and I was able to get Win7 64-bit loaded on the first attempt. The major malfunction, however, came when I tried to trust windows to do the restoring file copies..

After three attempts at copying from Win7 to Win7 other both wired and wireless networks, I broke down and pulled out my Ubuntu laptop. Two clicks, and a 15-second automatic download from the repos later, my workbench looked like this:

The files then proceeded to transfer both speedily and easily. I’m really impressed with how easy I was able to set up a windows share in Ubuntu – and in how much more efficient the file transfer went as opposed to between the two Win7 machines.

VICTORY!

tjagoda — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:36:30 +0000

After literally five days of attempt, reformat, and re-attempt, I have succeeded in installing IQ. Here are some brief metrics:

Number of Support Calls Placed to IQ: 3

Number of DVD’s shipped to my workplace: 4

Number of DVD’s shipped to my workplace that I actually needed: 2

Number of times I considered finding the author of a relevant technote, and strangling him: 16

Number of times a technote procedure worked on the first try: 1

Total System Re-Formats because it was just easier than trying to uninstall Oracle: 3

Yet, still, it’s better than Infor and it’s Trans4m….

I was wrong about VirtualBox

tjagoda — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:04:42 +0000

Sonofa! Worked great until I tried a re-install of XP with more than one proc core. Sadness.

Time to try out VMWare?

Virtualbox is apparently not Virtualsuck

tjagoda — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:48:45 +0000

I have gotten further with VirtualBox than I did with Parallels. Woohoo! It does seem to light my 3.0 GHz Core Duo on fire though, so I’m wondering if things would work out better had I configured the virtual machine to use both CPU cores as opposed to one.

I also discovered an annoying Ubuntu/Compiz papercut bug, in which compiz disables the ability to switch workspaces by scrolling mousewheel over the window switcher applet. Boo! Its also been open since about 2007, so I’m hoping somebody fixes it for 10.04. I miss my mousewheel!

I hope VirtualBox is not VirtualSuck

tjagoda — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:34:01 +0000

So, after an incredibly brief foray with Parallels Desktop 4.0, I am fleeing back into the gracing comforts of VMware and Virtualbox.

From my brief experience in dealing both with Parallels partnership through the Canonical store, and the actual software itself, I am not impressed by the company or it’s user experience. Buggy. Difficult to install. Hard to download. In comparison to VMware/Virtualbox, that is.

On the ERP front, I have finally managed to get Oracle10g and IQ installed. Needed a database schema to fire it up, and just received that this evening around 4:00. We’ll have to see how it goes on Monday when I try to import the Schema and log in. Wahoo! Progress!

I’m going to go back to Virtualbox now, and try to get this WinXP image going. Then it’s into my stockpile of Lo-Carb Monster, and plowing through a text on DNS and BIND (my next area of linuxification at work – a subject which I may chart out in future bloggery).

ERP does not stand for Extra Reasonable Process.

tjagoda — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:48:32 +0000

I yearn for an ERP system which prides itself on technical user friendliness.

Oracle: 1

tjagoda: 0

Here we go for round two. I may post a more detailed observation on my test-implementation of IQMS later.

Updates

tjagoda — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:39:14 +0000

Hola!

After an eternity of a respite, I’ve purged and updated this trusty old WordPress to the latest version.

Maybe I’ll even post?