Spent the day working on little projects and getting ready to build a “temp” server. I have to upgrade 2 servers from Red Hat 7.2 to RHEL 4. So I need a server up and running while I do the upgrade to transfer the data and services while I upgrade the OS. This way I don’t have to rush the builds and can get everything right.

Avery;s last day at Lawrence Intermediate School was today. She got on the honor roll all 4 marking periods and had good report cards all year. So we took her out for dinner at the Chines Buffet after we got some stuff done.

Spent the night working on getting billing done for the business and getting the ticket count figured out for the LUG/IP baseball night.

Tomorrow night starts the beginning of Dance Recital week. Avery has dress rehearsal and then her first performance is on Friday night and second on Sat. My parents come to town on Sat for it. So it should be fun…

Spent most of the day yesterday fixing a Windows XP machine. The symptoms were:
Boots up and trys to go into windows and then reboots again. This would happen even when trying to go into safe mode. At one point I noticed that a blue screen would pop up right before the reboot. What had happened was I must have turned on reboot when there is a problem so it was in a vicious circle. Solution to the rebooting problem was: I had to do a parallel install of windows in a a different windows directory. I then booted into the new install and got into the registry of the old install and set the machine not to reboot when there was a problem. The Knowledge Base article at Microsoft is 314466.

So the problem that was causing the blue screen was a corrupted ntdll.dll. This is the DLL that is called by everything so when it is corrupted the windows doesn’t work. So again I booted into the new install of Windows and copied the file from there to the old version of Windows. I then rebooted into the old version and it worked.

Carmen and I were also able to test the IP phones yesterday. Carmen had to go to our Woodbury office to make some changed to there phone system. So he took one of the new IP phones we will be using in this office and we were able to get it working over the VPN. Good sound and no echo or loss of sound. Now I will have to figure out how I am going to set up the system to work from the owners house….

Gov’t Mule played the Festival Pier in Philadelphia Sunday night. It was a great show a good way for me to start the summer concert season. Here is the set list….

Set 1:
Slackjaw Jezebel
Perfect Shelter
Bad Little Doggie
Bad Man Walking
About To Rage
She Said, She Said
Tomorrow Never Knows
Jealous Kind w/Ron Holloway on Sax
Sco-Mule w/Ron Holloway on Sax

Set 2:
Maybe I`m Amazed
Soulshine
Thorazine Shuffle
Devil Likes It Slow w/Ron Holloway on Sax
Drums>Jam>
My Oh My
32/20 Blues w/Ron Holloway on Sax
Mule

Encore
Low Spark of High Heeled Boys w/Ron Holloway on Sax

It was a great night weather wise, once the sun went down we got a nice breeze off the river and it kept things cooled down. Now I am still amazed at the amount of people who get so trashed at these shows. Yes I have a few beers, but not to the extent that I sit down an fall asleep during the show. I have been seeing more and more this at Mule, Alman Brothers and even Phil and Friends shows. Or they get so trashed that they just stumble around. We had a guy who sat down right in front of us and went right to sleep. To me that’s a wast of money. See my rant about concerts fans and the spectrum it’s at the bottom here.