Protraction
Eh, I'm still awake again, so you get a little update. I really shouldn't be, because I need to be leaving for work by 9, but I just can't sleep. I took today off because I didn't feel well, or at least not well enough to take the stress of running the 'new system', which is what I was supposed to be doing. We trialled it again on Monday, at it was actually all going well, but I had to call it off after an hour because of a small printing bug. I'd been testing the ticket-printing code on my PC using Microsoft's XPS printer driver, but not actually tried a real printer. The difference that caused the problems, is that the XPS printer had hard margins of zero, whereas real printers generally do not. This led to the printable area being calculated wrong, and the output being too wide to fit on the paper. I'd only got two hours sleep that morning and was feeling horrible, so I'm kind of glad it ended so soon. We left about 8pm, and had a couple of drinks in our local on the way home. Though it was nice, it wasn't a great idea considering how tired I was and that I hadn't eaten anything, so I spent the next few hours drunk, the rest of the night depressed, and the morning feeling awful. Our heating had also been broken for a week, so it was freezing cold. Like our shower, which is also broken and cold. I'm guessing today is going to go much the same way.
Regarding work though, there is some good news at least. I can barely believe it happened myself, but... our servers are in a data centre. They're finally safe away from anyone who might like to pull their power, in a rack in a locked cage, connected to a gigabit fibre connection, behind a dedicated firewall, in a fully air-conditioned room. Running fully licensed operating systems. It was so sudden too. After fighting for so long, suddenly it was just... agreed, and happening. And paid for!
Everything else is still the same. I can't stand this.
Regarding work though, there is some good news at least. I can barely believe it happened myself, but... our servers are in a data centre. They're finally safe away from anyone who might like to pull their power, in a rack in a locked cage, connected to a gigabit fibre connection, behind a dedicated firewall, in a fully air-conditioned room. Running fully licensed operating systems. It was so sudden too. After fighting for so long, suddenly it was just... agreed, and happening. And paid for!
Everything else is still the same. I can't stand this.