Daylights Savings Time

Why oh why do we use this system?  Let's just go to periods of awkward periods of light and dark.  I mean it make sense to me to just go with the flow of the natural way of things. Why mess up what happens with a system no one wants that has only been used for 100 or so years?

Ha

http://xkcd.com/867/

Interesting

Supermicro and Fusion-io team up to deliver new SuperServers -- Engadget

Poop and boogers

That is all

RT Change Queue when Ticket Reaches Final Priority

Where I work, we use RT for our ticketing system.  Previously we had only about 12 or so queues that ran a priority from 1 to 100.  More recently we changed to a tiered or leveled approach.  That is each queue, now has three tiers such as Antivirus L1, L2, L3 or Networking L1, L2, L3.  However, I needed each ticket in a given queue to automatically move from L1 to L2 or L2 to L3 when the final priority for that level was reached.  I should not I am using rt-crontool to adjust the tickets priority, such as the following example illustrates:

/usr/local/bin/rt-crontool --verbose --search RT::Search::FromSQL --search-arg "Queue = 'Antivirus L1' AND (Status = 'new')" --action RT::Action::EscalatePriority --transaction last

So for each L1 and L2 Queue I have I made a scrip with the following conditions:

Description:
Condition:	- On Close  On Comment  On Correspond  On Create  On Owner Change  On Priority Change  On Queue Change  On Reject  On Reopen  On Resolve  On Status Change  On Transaction  User Defined
Action:	- Autoreply To Requestors  Create Tickets  Extract Subject Tag  Notify AdminCcs  Notify AdminCcs as Comment  Notify Ccs  Notify Ccs as Comment  Notify Other Recipients  Notify Other Recipients as Comment  Notify Owner  Notify Owner as Comment  Notify Owner, Requestors, Ccs and AdminCcs  Notify Owner, Requestors, Ccs and AdminCcs as Comment  Notify Requestors  Notify Requestors and Ccs  Notify Requestors and Ccs as Comment  Open Tickets  User Defined
Template:	- Global template: Admin Comment  Global template: Admin Correspondence  Global template: Autoreply  Global template: Blank  Global template: Correspondence  Global template: Email Digest  Global template: Error to RT owner: public key  Global template: Error: Missing dashboard  Global template: Error: bad GnuPG data  Global template: Error: no private key  Global template: Error: public key  Global template: Forward  Global template: Forward Ticket  Global template: New Ticket  Global template: PasswordChange  Global template: Priority Change  Global template: Resolved  Global template: Status Change  Global template: Transaction
Stage:	TransactionCreate     TransactionBatch     Disabled

You will want to change the name-of-queue to whatever your queue is called.

Custom Action Preparation Code:

my $status = $self->;TicketObj->;Status;
my $final = $self->;TicketObj->;FinalPriority;
my $priority = $self->;TicketObj->;Priority;
return 0 unless $self->;TransactionObj->;Field eq 'Priority';
return 0 unless $status eq 'open' || $status eq 'new' || $status eq 'stalled';
return 0 unless $final >; 0;
return 0 unless $final == $priority;
return 1;

Custom Action Cleanup code:

my $newqueue = "#";
my $final = $self->;TicketObj->;FinalPriority;
my $priority = $self->;TicketObj->;Priority;
my $T_Obj = $self->;TicketObj;

$RT::Logger->;info("Auto assign ticket #". $T_Obj->;id ." to queue #". $newqueue );
my ($status, $msg) = $T_Obj->;SetQueue($newqueue);
unless ($status) {
$RT::Logger->;warning("unable to set new queue: $msg");
return undef;
}
$RT::Logger->;info("Change Ticket Priority ". $T_Obj->;id ." to ". "#" );
my ($status, $msg) = $T_Obj->;SetPriority("#");
unless ($status) {
$RT::Logger->;warning("unable to set new priority: $msg");
return undef;
}
$RT::Logger->;info("Change Final Priority ". $T_Obj->;id ." to ". "#" );
my ($status, $msg) = $T_Obj->;SetFinalPriority("#");
unless ($status) {
$RT::Logger->;warning("unable to set new final priority: $msg");
return undef;
}
return 1;

You will of course want to replace the Queue # and Priority # with the actual number of the new queue and new base and final priority settings.

This can be very tedious to setup for each and every queue, but it seems to work for me and I am sure it can work for you too!

It's a girl!

Great News.  We found out today, its a girl!  I couldn't be more happy or excited.  I am looking forward to it.  I think we've more or less decided on a name, however anything could happen, so we'll see.  It is going to be another few months before the baby gets here, so now comes the fun stuff.  We're going to start working on our registry and getting the room ready, eventually.  The room we were going to make the baby's is currently blue, but I don't know if we'll want to paint it.  I am not sure what all we need on our registry, but my wife seems to be making good time and has some stuff filled in already.

331 pounds

So, the scale and I are at war.  It says I weigh 331 pounds, I say its a stupid piece of crap.  Unfortunately, no matter how much I threaten to remove the nine volt battery it refuses to behave.  Maybe I have to come to the realization that the scale is right and I just need to lose it.  Weight, that is.  For some reason I find that even though I know I am fat, or according to the CDC body mass index morbidly obese, I feel that I don't seem to care.  I am apathetic to my cause, even though I know it is dire.  I need to, in my opinion, drop down, first to 300, then 275, 250 and so on.  I just don't know where or how to begin.  Obviously I need to adjust my diet and start exercising.  I suppose I will try spark people again.  I think they're the way to start, because they'll allow me to track calories.  Of course, I need to start doing something, essentially my day starts with waking up, going to work, sitting at work for 8 hours, driving home, sitting at home either watching tv to on the computer, eating dinner, watching more tv and sleep.  Of course, that is a rough idea of my average weekday, but as sad as it sounds it is pretty true.  I think I need to start slow, just walking outside.  I like my neighborhood because I have noticed the circle around my street is roughly a mile, so including the distance to and from my house it would be a mile.  So I am going to start there.  We'll see how it goes as diets and I don't get along.