Matt-J.co.uk : Ramblings

Whyyyyy am I still up.

Anyway, still have a full bottle of coke left so i’ll continue..
Just a tech update really. If you install OCS and none of the clients ‘Report in’ with their inventory’s.. Don’t go scratching around your linux box for something broken. There probably is nothing wrong, It’s just the default update interval time is 24 Hrs after installation. Test it works properly by manually running this command on a client:
(from the ocsInventory program files folder) ‘OCSinventory /debug /server:ip_to_server’

You should see an entry now in the admin interface for that PC. Time between updates can be changed with the prolog_update setting in the web config settings page. Hope that helps someone

//Matt

Everyone gottit wrong! Computers obviously dont hold one ascii char in 8 bits, they hold it in like 7.5. Which means what everyone thaught was going to happen at the millenium, is happening today!

• My Cars Broken
• Adams 7900 Graphics card has died
• Neils computer is borked
• Mike’s E-mails at work are being irrational
• My phone batteries died and the charger is aaaaaallll the way over the other side of the room

Dunno whats up with my car, Got in it today, windscreen wipers were going, so went to switch them off.. and apparently they already are! no matter where I move the windscreen wiper level too, they stay at the same speed. Finally turned them off by turning my heater fans off! Seems that my heater fan control now operates my windscreen wipers! oh.. and the next time i got in my car, the same happens, but now the fans don’t come on at the same time, so everything steamed up, was cold AND freezing my tits off!!

Anyway, Been in work again today, Started deploying a remote inventory system (http://ocsinventory.sourceforge.net/ If your interested) It also seems to support package creation and deployment, which would be cool if i could just set up windows and the client for this on new hardware, and then let this deployment system do everything else! Anyway, will keep you posted on if its any good.

Gonna go talk to some MSN people now… Oh, by the way, changed my MSN email address. If you havn’t got it try e-mailing the old one! and i’ll reply.

//Matt