Thanks to Doug over at the NJ State Office of Information Technology I was able to come up with a valid connection string for the new WMS server at the NJOGIS. I’ve added the new 2007-2008 high resolution orthography to maps.njpinebarrens.com.
Enjoy, if you’re into that sort of thing!
I think I have my fingers in too many pies.
I got home from work today totally exhausted. Flopped down on the bed for about two hours, woke up, ate some Doritos, checked out Facebook, and then spent a bit of time in front of the keyboard.
I’m extremely frustrated at the lack of piano transcriptions for the music I want to play. Specifically, I’m trying to pick up some of Pete Townshend’s solo music. All I can seem to find are guitar tabs which help somewhat for chords, but unless all I want to do is play chords, I have to figure something else out.
Earlier today I also spent some time trying to get this new orthographic imagery that the NJ OGIS released added to maps.NJPineBarrens.com. It seems that I either a) forgot how WMS works, or b) the OGIS changed their WMS server, or c) both as I was totally unsuccessful at getting that data integrated with the site.
I’m extremely frustrated because there are so many things I want to do, and I’m really not all that great with any of them. Obviously splitting my time up between so many hobbies isn’t going to allow me to excel so far in anything, but for some reason I am compelled to be this “renaissance man” who can do it all, and I’m failing fairly well at everything.
Except for sleeping.
At work I have a Windows 2003 server running on a Dell Poweredge 2650 that’s just fallen out of warranty. I have a brand new Dell Poweredge 2950 that I want to bring up as a replacement. The thing is, I don’t want to have to manually create the 200+ file shares, 400+/- local groups, and permissions on the new box. It’d be so easy to P2V the old server and turn it into a VM, but that’s not an option here. So, I figured out a pretty halfway decent way to image the server over using free tools.
The long and short of it is that, on the old server, you need to load the drivers for the new RAID controller. You’ll have to do it manually. (Add new hardware, have disk, etc.) Then I took a CentOS 4.7 rescue disk, booted it, and DD’d the disk over to an image file on an NFS share (my iMac). Then on the new server, boot the CentOS rescue disk, dd the image from NFS to the local disk, and reboot.
Windows comes up, and will complain about needing to find new drivers for everything. But the server is now running on new hardware. Sweet. Linux to the rescue in a Windows shop!
Well, in any event, a little late. The first post of the year comes at the tail end of March. Ah, well.
I finally did get the redesign of NJPB online. It’s running Drupal 6. There’s still some bugs that need to be squashed, but they’re not showstoppers so I’ve been lax in dealing with them. Soon, I promise.
I’ve started a new job. I now work for Princeton University as the systems administrator for Facilities IT. The jump from the high paced world of a Manhattan tech startup to a 250+ year old academic institution has been a big one. It’s a much different culture. In a lot of ways, I’ve learned that I had taken a lot of what Manhattan offered for granted.
Laura and I are getting divorced. Can’t talk too much about it here. Drama abounds, but we’re both moving towards a better place for ourselves and Dana.
I am in the process of totally reinventing myself. A lot of things that I have always wanted to do are now in reach. And a lot of things that I’ve wanted to change about myself are now in the forefront of my mind. I’ve started playing the piano again, after a 12 year hiatus. I’m trying to read more. I’m trying to think more. I’m trying to live more.