Bern had the following coversation with Bec:
Bec: Where’s Daddy?
Bern: Daddy’s at …….?
Bec: Home. (Giggle) No Daddy’s at work.
Bern: That’s right Daddy’s at work.
Bec: Doing stuff!
Bern: Doing stuff?
Bec: Yep, doing stuff.
It’s nice to know Bec thinks I do something…
Bec is getting to the stage where we are looking to move her into a full size bed, so we decided to take the plunge and move the spare bed in there just so she could be used to having it around. Of course, she immediately wanted to sleep in it, but during yesterday afternoon’s sleep, that only lasted about 3 minutes, after which time we heard feet on the carpet and moved her (as agreed) to the cot.
For the night sleep she wanted to try again, so we dutifully tucked her in and left her to sleep. which she did, until about 4am when she woke us up, crying. I went in and found her lying on the floor in front of the change table (right beside the bed) crying in her sleep. I think she was probably just cold due to a wet nappy and no blankets. I took her to the potty and then put her back in bed where she stayed until after 8am.
It is kind of scary to see her in that huge bed, and Bern was really teary that our little girl was growing up so fast, but I don’t think she’ll be moving out on her own just yet…..
You know the stereotype where you put food on a kid’s spoon or fork and then zoom it around their face before the aeroplane lands in their mouth? Someone has taught Bec (I think it might be her cousin Jessica) and she occasionally asks for it if she wants us to feed her.
Last night she took it to a new level. Sitting there eating her own dinner, I noticed her pick up a piece of carrot, then she said aeroplane, zoomed it around a bit and stuck it in her own mouth.. I nearly fell of the chair laughing.
I rang up AAPT today to get Global Roaming and GPRS turned on for my Mobile. They have a service where they SMS you the details of how to setup GPRS on your phone, if they have it in their database of most used phones, but the girl had never heard of a Handspring Treo 180g before. She wondered if “”Handspring Treo”” was 3 people doing flips down the road….
I guess I cant fault the logic…
Today Croydon Hills Primary School became the second school in the state to roll out a wireless network based on the WINS program, and the first to be completed entirely by the local technician.
It was a long couple of weeks doing the site survey, configuring all the access points and then connecting them and placing them in the right place. The final part of the puzzle was put in place this afternoon when the EduPaSS server arrived and was installed.
Not that it’s entirely finished mind you. There are still certificates to create and install on all the teacher laptops, and once we have some students back we’ll begin the process of real-world usage which will see us fine tuning the placement of Access Points for the next 12-18 months.
In order to be able to manage OSX Macs with workgroup manager, the client Macs need to know where to fing the LDAP address of the server. This is usually set on the DHCP server using the LDAP Server setting.
That all sounds great, but our DHCP Server is a windows 2003 Server and the LDAP Server option (option 95) seems to have mysteriously been left out. It seems there was even an attempt to remove it from the DHCP standard "::because no-one was using it":: linkname but Apple pointed out that thay had been using it for the last 4 years.
Buried deep in the microsoft support pages I eventually found this which lead me to contrive the command:
netsh dhcp server add optiondef 95 ldap-server string
which will then give the option to add an LDAP Server to the DHCP options being sent out. Now all the Macs are happy.
Bern & Bec were respectively working and playing away in a bedroom the other day. Bern heard Bec say shoes” and Bern thought she must have found some shoes in the corner by the bed. Then Bern noticed she was just saying it over and over again, and when she finally looked up, there was Bec, proud as punch surrounded by dozens of ti-shoes….. and a half empy tissue box 🙂
I managed to get a new 80Gb drive for my machine to replace the the verry full 30Gb drive I had in it, so I happily went off and ghosted the old drive to the new, changing a few of the partition sizes along the way, and getting everything ready.
I went from /boot 15Mb, C: 22Gb, D: 6Gb to /boot 55Mb C: 30Gb, D: 25Gb linux 25Gb which means I can reinstall linux and continue down the path to freedom, but that wasn’t the snag I hit.
The snag was that the machine wouldn’t boot.
The LILO that was on the boot partition has obviously lost track of where Windows was sitting and simply sat with LI on the screen. I tried a win98 disk to fdisk /MBR no luck. I booted of the 2K disk and ran FIXBOOT and FIXMBR from the recovery console but no luck. I then tried to do the same again but the machine blue-screened during the process, just before it got the recovery console!
I then tried a variety of linux rescue disks which told me I didn’t have linux installed anymore (which I new, but I still had a broken Linux boot loader.) I might have been able to fix it from there but in the end I grabbed the most recent linux I had available, Fedora Core 1 and just installed it.
Problem solved! This time I made a boot disk as well. 🙂
A special happy mother’s day to to Mummy.
Daddy & I made you a special
breakfast in advance, we hope you like it.
Love,
Bec
Bec went to a new playgroup today, down at Lilydale Lake. They have one set activity and some playtime, and today’s activity was to make a finger puppet. Bec calls hers Doll
I’m so proud!