This (http://www.overduemedia.com/archive.aspx?strip=20050314) pretty much sums up my life.

A few notes:

1. SuSE (http://www.suse.com) Professional 9.3 has been announced.  It will include KDE (http://www.kde.org)
3.4 (not yet released), OpenOffice.org 2.0 (not yet released) and
Firefox (http://www.spreadfirefox.com) 1.0 as the default browser (I know that will make a certain
someone happy).

2. People keep asking me to buy videos and stuff, but no one gave me
any money.  I was told by the bosses downtown that I have no A/V
budget.  But, they said, my building might have funds set aside
for it (yeah right).  So, they sent me two brand spankin' new DVD
players, but I only have one DVD (it was donated).  Why are we so
slow to make the transition from video tapes?

3. I dumped MEPIS on the CIRC/CAT and installed SuSE (http://www.suse.com).  I have my
personal reasons, but professionally speaking, I don't think MEPIS is
ready (or even designed) for the business world.  SuSE (http://www.suse.com) is more
polished, and definitely ready for a production environment.

4. (I know I said a few).  Server has been going for a couple of weeks now without incident, alhamdulillah.

Bulletin Board: Mission Accomplished.

Today, I'm weeding.  I'm weeding big time.  I'm tired of
looking at a lot of this junk.  It was here when I started working
here, but I needed to see if anyone would check any of this stuff out
before I tossed it.  Well, no one did, and some of the stuff
hasn't been checked out since '95.  I even found some film strips.

So, I'm giving the staff a free-for-all.  If no one wants the
stuff, it's going to pasture.  And I will not back down to, Oh
yes, I want to keep this, but can you keep in the library for
me?   No, either take it with you or kiss it goodbye.  God,
give me strength.

First of all, let me state clearly that this is not a complaint. 
I called my mentor and told her that we have received a lot of books
from various places (other than our main vendor).  I asked her how
I go about getting them cataloged, barcoded, etc.

Well, as it turns out, I have to do it.  I don't actually do the
MARC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARC_standards) records, but I still have to enter in all the info for each book,
wait for the books to be cataloged, print the barcodes, print the spine
labels, and apply all of it to the books.  But like I said, I'm
not complaining.

When I was in Chicago, I had to do the MARC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARC_standards) records too, so this is a step up in the library world for me.

OK, so as it turns out, it wasn't Apache (http://www.apache.org) or Redhat (http://www.redhat.com).  It was a
little program called slocate.  It's sets up a cron job (not on my
computer) in cron daily that runs its updatedb command (not on my
computer) every morning (not on my computer).  The server was
setup this way (but not any other server I've had).  I know,
from running, updatedb at home manually, that it takes up
resources.  I would usually run it and go get a sandwich or
something.

Running it on a server every day, with a lot more information to
update, is silly, in my opinion.  After removing slocate.cron from
cron.daily, I've now had quite a few days without any problems.

I also discovered that the system time was set to central time.  I
changed it to eastern (not that it matters) so that everything I do is
synced.  Since the backup server is in a different state, it makes
sense to have the crons running on the same schedule.

Anyway, I'm sitting here in front of a blank bulletin board.  My
goal is to have it filled by today (ain't I ambitious?)  I had
some kiddies write essays starting with My favorite book is…  
Now, I'm thinking of posting the best ones (along with a list of all
their favorite books) and then having some type of vote.

Of course, they'd have to read all of them..hmmmm..  Also, I have
a display table in front of the board, so I think I'll display some of
the oft-favored books on there.

I'm having serious issuse with student helpers right now.  Something must be done, but I don't know what yet.