Status Reports

For your information.
When we are very busy, regular status reports just waste my time and yours.
1 day a week 'reporting' means 20% of time is being wasted.

When I've got a workload that implies I need 3 weeks each week in order to keep up, (2 'full time' projects + day job) the day of reporting impacts all of them.

And yes, I'm aware there are enough hours in a week to do 3x. But I'm not going to.

The Curse of the Internet

There used to be a day, when software, even the free stuff came in a single, simple distribution.

Over the last two days I've been installing LPRng. It's the 'next generation' of LPR printing server.

My crib notes on how to install go something like this:
( snipped, because it's geeky, and probably irrelevant. Suffice to say, it's pretty long )

_Then_ of course, you get to configure it.

Which is actually relatively easy, even to the point of not even having to specify the printer driver, since it basically talks to the printer over SNMP, and sort of generally asks what sort of printer it is, and whether it likes JCL, PCL, PJL, Postscript or some other print format. 3 lines of config per printer, and that's only because I want logs.

I don't know whether to be impressed at the level of integration, interconnectivity and development the 'net has triggered, or to be shocked, hurt and generally pissed off that i've been playing 'chase the fucking archive' for 2 days now.