牛仔很忙
Yep, title says it all - I’ve been busy rushing for assignments the past week, and am still rushing for assignments till the end of the first week of December. From two simple assignments, it has ballooned to three, and two labs are dependent on one assignment, so its pretty much tight. Unfortunately, this is also a busy time at work (for some strange and unknown reason), so the pressure is on. Just today I had to help a teacher with converting her CCA video to VCD (for speed purposes, its a waste of time to do a DVD on a really slow computer, moreover the deadline is in 3 hours), and I finished just in time for her to show it to her students, despite the blackout happening during transcoding to VCD. Not that it’s a bad thing though - this sort of stuff is like tying shoelaces to me, and she has an easygoing personality, so its not really stressful.
Recently, StarHub’s internet speed has slowed down to a terrible crawl to the point that I am almost frustrated at the speed at which websites load - as bad as 56k access. Wish they could do something about it - as much as I’d like to complain, I’d doubt they’d do anything about the complaint, since they seem to care for their profit margins more than customers.
At work, I’ve found a nifty open source software inventory & deployment solution, and it is compatible with both linux and Windows. The solution to my insanity is now here. I can deploy applications en masse by simply packaging and deploying the software installation down to all the agents installed in the PCs. Can’t wait to try it out - looks like I’ll have to wait till the end of the university semester to play with it.