Jared Ottley

A reporter in the Superdome is reporting that there is water in the Superdome. Some water is making its way through the roof into the dome. (”Like in a sprinkling rain.” he just said.)
Several years ago, when they used the dome as a shelter, it became a disaster. They had people breaking [...]

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Link here from wdsu (Local New Orleans station) and jackson,miss. sister station.
Watching this is kind of crazy. It hasn’t even been a year since we moved away. They just said that that the pumps in the city have failed. This is really not good. The pumps in the city are the [...]

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I did a lot of thinking last night about a recent post by Dave Camp on the possibility of snorp working on some patches to backend Jabber to Hula. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like that is going to happen….yet.
So, just my high level overview, not knowing a lot of the internals of either, I’m [...]

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If there were any topics that people would be interested in hearing about dealing with Novell Open Enterprise Sever, could you please send me your thoughts…. {jottley at novell dot com}
Thanks
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Today is Adrienne’s first day back in school. This should prove to be exciting. Chemistry is twice a week and an online Biology class.
She took Cameron and Olivia to the doctor yesterday. I went down to the University Bookstore to return one textbook for her and get another. It appears that [...]

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I have amassed a small collection of RPMs, from various sources, that I use and share with other team members. Instead of pointing them all to the different repositories and other sources to get them, we set up a shared directory through which people would just grab them and updated them as needed. Knowing [...]

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This past Monday we went to the preview exhibit for the new “possible” aquarium in SLC, The Living Planet. It is a nice, small (10,000 sq ft) exhibit. It appears that this is mostly a fundraiser and market research. They want to know if it is, or will be, worth it to [...]

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I have a lot of thoughts on different things brewing in my head, but haven’t had much time to put fingers to keyboard to hash them out and post them. Hopefully, I’ll get a break tonight. Since there was such a good response to the last set of pictures I posted, thought I [...]

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It was refreshing to read this earlier this week. I had just been talking about this same problem with my father. [He works for LockheedMartin, as does my mother and father-in-law. As did his [my father-in-law's] father and his father-in-law….hey! What happened to me!? Here I am working at Novell! Actually, I had [...]

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Dad sent some photos from STS-114. These are some pretty nice shots.
 
 
 
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