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NWS, you keep doing it wrong
Jun. 21st, 2010 09:47 pmYou're supposed to set off the radio alarm for a warning BEFORE the storm comes through the area, not wait until after it is gone. I don't know what their problem is, other than, as I keep suggesting, the possibility that they've laid off all the experienced employees who know how things work and how to actually read a map.
Lately they keep inserting warnings for Henry County (at the other side of the state) into the local forecast and omitting McHenry County, which is right here. Evidently someone doesn't understand that the two are separate entities.
It's raining, but not hard. No wind, lots of thunder. Hardly seems like a "severe thunderstorm" to me. Especially not after what we saw here on Friday afternoon.
Work wasn't any better. I think I mentioned that a major system went down in the storms and would not reboot due to errors in the file system. It prompted for the root password so it could recheck the file system in single user mode (normal for Linux or UNIX) but since the software is maintained from outside under contract, I don't have the password. The support request I filed on Saturday got a response this morning supplying the password and instructions for what to do once it was entered (though I knew that part.) There was one little hitch: the password didn't work. After several tries, upper and lower case, etc. I reported this back to the vendor. They deliberated for a couple of hours and then told me to reinstall the entire system. So I did. Now it's missing a number of recent patches that they will have to apply again.
Moved the new director's new PC into her office, now vacated by my former boss. Hooked up the small laserjet printer that is in there. (HP Laserjet 1012.) Went to install the printer, found that Windows 7 offers no official manual installation for a USB-connected printer. It tells you it recognizes the printer automatically. Nope. It could see the printer, and attached the right name to it, but had it as an "unknown device." HP has no drivers for Windows 7, neither does Microsoft. What gives with that, HP? So I downloaded the Windows Vista drivers from HP on the theory that those should be most compatible with Windows 7. Of course there's no SETUP.EXE to install them. You have to do "Add Printer" from the control panel and then point to the disk or directory on which the HP drivers reside. Trouble with that is that "Add Printer" gives no option for USB attached printers, since they are supposedly auto-installed. Finally figured out after several false starts, that you specify "IEEE" as the port type and then the USB printer works. Slowly, but it works. It never was a fast printer.
Doubtless tomorrow will hold more of the same. Grrr.
Lately they keep inserting warnings for Henry County (at the other side of the state) into the local forecast and omitting McHenry County, which is right here. Evidently someone doesn't understand that the two are separate entities.
It's raining, but not hard. No wind, lots of thunder. Hardly seems like a "severe thunderstorm" to me. Especially not after what we saw here on Friday afternoon.
Work wasn't any better. I think I mentioned that a major system went down in the storms and would not reboot due to errors in the file system. It prompted for the root password so it could recheck the file system in single user mode (normal for Linux or UNIX) but since the software is maintained from outside under contract, I don't have the password. The support request I filed on Saturday got a response this morning supplying the password and instructions for what to do once it was entered (though I knew that part.) There was one little hitch: the password didn't work. After several tries, upper and lower case, etc. I reported this back to the vendor. They deliberated for a couple of hours and then told me to reinstall the entire system. So I did. Now it's missing a number of recent patches that they will have to apply again.
Moved the new director's new PC into her office, now vacated by my former boss. Hooked up the small laserjet printer that is in there. (HP Laserjet 1012.) Went to install the printer, found that Windows 7 offers no official manual installation for a USB-connected printer. It tells you it recognizes the printer automatically. Nope. It could see the printer, and attached the right name to it, but had it as an "unknown device." HP has no drivers for Windows 7, neither does Microsoft. What gives with that, HP? So I downloaded the Windows Vista drivers from HP on the theory that those should be most compatible with Windows 7. Of course there's no SETUP.EXE to install them. You have to do "Add Printer" from the control panel and then point to the disk or directory on which the HP drivers reside. Trouble with that is that "Add Printer" gives no option for USB attached printers, since they are supposedly auto-installed. Finally figured out after several false starts, that you specify "IEEE" as the port type and then the USB printer works. Slowly, but it works. It never was a fast printer.
Doubtless tomorrow will hold more of the same. Grrr.
