It’s hard to believe that

It’s hard to believe that the last blog posted was August 31st. I have been unbelievably busy. My work situation has changed significantly. I have been given the technical lead for one of our companies. The company is DRMNetworks. What we do is provide licensing and business management for multi-media owners. Our system is based on Microsoft’s Document Rights Management. It’s a great way for media owners to manage their product. The system architecture is Microsoft ASP, IIS, and SQL Server. However, I will be moving us to ASP.NET and C#. The majority of my time now is spent reviewing all the existing code and documenting the design.

I never did get Linux installed on the HP pavilion ze5468CL. Have tried several versions, all with the same result. The system hangs trying to load the video drivers. I even attempted to run Knoppix from the CD-Drive to no avail. The only solution was to run Linux within VMWare. I have purchased a license for their workstation 4 and now run Red Hat 9, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 enterprise server, and Windows 2003 enterprise server. I find the performance to be very good. In the case of the windows installations, just give it 512 MRAM and they run great. You can sent each up to get their own DHCP assigned addresses. Then each will look like just another box on your network. Have had no issues with Red Hat 9. Using VMWare seems to have eliminates all the hardware issues. Don’t even have to worry about duel boot. Networking is simple. Don’t think it can distinguish between the wireless card and ethernet card.

I have been following the adventures of Matt. Stumbled onto his blog while following some Java links. What caught my eye was his discussion about moving form a Powerbook to a PC Notebook. At the time I was in the process of making the same transition. It was interesting to read about his experiences. It seems he did return his PC and I believe is now back with a Powerbook. I have stuck it out with the PC, but miss my Powerbook badly. I am still having withdrawal pains. However, with my work situation I really must have a PC. As far as PC Notebooks go, this HP is the best. Others will disagree. I can only say that it has handled everything I have given it with out complaint.