Category Archives: Phil

Phil 7.19.11

8:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • More whitepaper
  • Learned to use ctrl-alt-end instead of ctrl-alt-delete with remote desktop
  • Talked to Mike regarding issues of trust. And passwords. The upshot is that he’ll put in the config file if a particular swf is trusted. If it is, then the system will attempt to log in. Otherwise the user will have to log in separately.
  • Talked to Bill D. It looks like we are going to have a big demo in mid August. Hopefully we can have Trish’s input on whether we’ve implemented her changes correctly and if we are producing reasonable reports by the time for rehearsal.

Phil 7.18.2011

8:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • Whitepaper
    • Need to do some drawings. Installing Inkscape
    • Drawings are mostly finished. Got the current, minimal, and desired optins fleshed out.
  • Showed Dong the printout of the DB contents that I printed out on Friday. He’s going to see what updates I need to do.
  • Talked to Bill D. about the SP form. I believe that Brian got started on it and said that the two should coordinate before Bill goes off on a mission.

Phil 7.14.11

8:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • More whitepaper.
    • Finished Usage Model
    • Writing Current Work
  • Fire drill for PPM
    • Deployed new system
    • Deployed new documentation
    • Wrote up some justifications
    • Set up an account for Tangela and invited her over for some detailed walkthrough.

Phil 7.13.11

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • Finishing up (hopefully) SF-86
  • Poked around Dong’s flash player problem. Set him up with an account on my Ubuntu server, so he can try that OS as well.
  • Back to Web IDE writeup
    • Finished abstract
    • Finished Concept
    • Finished Components
    • About halfway through Usage Model
  • Wrote up a status report for Bill D.
  • Jeff bailed on the SPF, so I sent out an email asking if Bill or Denise knew who could fill it out.
  • Brought Brian up to date on the whole agonizing process.
  • Tanji would like to try out the new version with documentation tomorrow.

Phil 7.7.11

8:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • Remembered my SF-86 stuff, so more paperwork today
  • And when I’m done with that, work on the web IDE paper
  • OK, I brought in the wrong (well, incomplete) forms. Working on the paper instead.
  • According to Vernon, The firewall request I had submitted was never going to get processed because it was associated with the wrong type of ticket. He created a new ticket, which I have now associated the request with. This is the most fun ever!

Phil 7.6.11

8:00 – 4:00

  • It looks like the webIDE concept is going to require a server that supports VMs in hardware. At this point, it’s no longer something that I can do on my own, so I’m going to write a whitepaper for FGM specifying what’s needed and punt.
  • Prepping the hand for a demo. Have forgotten how to calibrate the sensors, which have drifted. Oh. No power supply == no sensors. That’s whatr those two wires were for…
  • Well this is cool: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adc-presents/control-the-desktop-with-your-mobile-device/
  • Also good: http://www.paultrani.com/blog/index.php/category/flashactionscript/
  • In the ongoing saga of our problem child server, Vernon sent out an email that he had addressed all concerns. I responded that port 443 was still closed and attached screenshots of everything working fine inside the firewall and blocked outside. Gee, I wonder if there will be any progress tomorrow?
  • Made some progress on my SF86, but forgot to bring in my old form.

Phil 7.5.11

7:30 – 3:30VISIBILITY

  • OK, where was I? Let’s see – the server is still up and the compiler is still working. The choice is either to a) see how it runs on the actual Internet or b) start working on virtualization.
  • Looking at virtualization first.
    • Ubuntu has a script-driven system called vm-builder, but it’s at version 0.12. Here is some documentation.
    • IBM paper describing the process. It’s for Red Hat, but a good start
    • Hmmm. You need hardware support for VMs. If you run “grep -E ‘vmx|svm’ /proc/cpuinfo” and get a non-null result, you’ve got it. My server does not. fgmedev does, but it’s a vm already, so what does that mean?
  • Gave Jeff all the information I think he needs to get the paperwerk approved for his server. I gave him a followup call to verify that the information was what he needed and he seemed to think so. That being said, he was going to give the info to someone else to enter, so thay may have questions later as they get into the details
  • Started on my SF86 update

Phil 6.23.11

7:30 – 5:00 VISIBILITY

  • I’ve reinstalled Ubuntu 10.10 after all of yesterday’s (failed) efforts. Trying FreeNX, following the directions here.
    • Installed openSSH
    • apt-get install freenx took *forever*. I think it installs gnome…
    • Might need this later – we’ll see.
    • KDE didn’t work, but GNOME did! Looks nice, and the server required no addition of the desktop outside of the basic install. However, it seems to have limited functionality. For example, I can’t launch a terminal window and the ‘Accessories’ menu is not there.
    • Going to try installing the standard ubuntu desktop (i.e. apt-get install ubuntu_desktop. Well, another long install, but things work quite nicely now.
    • Installed Eclipse (New version – Indigo!). Needs Java
    • Installed Java
  • Worked on the server some more. Sent Jeff an email with a link to a page that show how to set up the interface.
  • Talked to Vernon about my login problems. He thinks that it’s the result of a reorg they are going through. Still no luck with my SSL port.Testing the new PPM. It appears to still be missing the capability of setting it so that a user with a particular role is only able to see projects that they are associated with (as a Program Manager, Financial Analyst or POC(?). Added as bug 6097.

Phil 6.22.11

8:00 – 7:00 VISIBILITY

Phil 6.20.11

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY