Foiled Again!
Jul. 6th, 2003 01:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caraigI go into school this morning -- yes, July 4th Weekend -- to get some final compositing work done on Project Take One. I find, however, that the license server isn't running, and I can't run Shake (the compositing program) without the license server running. And apparently it's really hard to get someone to come in on July 4th weekend.
Excuse me, but, this is asinine. If I was handed a beeper, no matter what the holiday, and it was part of my contract to (a) keep computers working and (b) take beeper duty, then I wouldn't make myself scarce. I'd suck it up and rake in the money for being on beeper duty. There's probably some mitigating circumstance here, but honestly, if the computers are being used, someone from Network should be there.
But, who am I kidding, the school doesn't seem to care about that. They just want to make money, as evidenced by the eighty people going through one of the classes now like a monolithic wave of students. Keep in mind that the average lab group is set up to handle about fifteen people, and you get some idea of the workload being put on the instructors. All because the school wants to make a few extra bucks.
Anyway, enough kvetching about that. I got a little bit else done on my project today; it does look like I'll be able to get something decent in by the end of the month, so that's good at least. I'm going to be curious to see how I can get this all to a dupe house to make videotapes, and how I'll be able to do that once I get out of here. I really don't want to buy a DVD burner, those are still a little pricy and I'm a poor ramen-munching student as it is.
Saw Wag The Dog in lab yesterday. Good movie, I liked it, but it was... spooky. A bit too eerie. Probably hit a bit too close to home.
Not much else, really. My birthday is tomorrow. Thirty-one years. I feel... well, no, I won't go into all that depressing crap. You-all have heard it all before anyway.
I'm going to head off now and relax a little, and send out bills to people. Did you know that Progress Energy and Winter Park are having a saber-rattling contest? The city of Winter Park wants to governmentalize the power distribution system, citing that Progress Energy is doing a poor job of it. Progress Energy wants to remain the power supply monopoly in Winter park, citing that they're doing a great job of it. Who's the hell is telling the truth here? Answer: Neither. The truth is a three-edged sword. I just wish corporations and governments would grow up and stop acting like babies.
Excuse me, but, this is asinine. If I was handed a beeper, no matter what the holiday, and it was part of my contract to (a) keep computers working and (b) take beeper duty, then I wouldn't make myself scarce. I'd suck it up and rake in the money for being on beeper duty. There's probably some mitigating circumstance here, but honestly, if the computers are being used, someone from Network should be there.
But, who am I kidding, the school doesn't seem to care about that. They just want to make money, as evidenced by the eighty people going through one of the classes now like a monolithic wave of students. Keep in mind that the average lab group is set up to handle about fifteen people, and you get some idea of the workload being put on the instructors. All because the school wants to make a few extra bucks.
Anyway, enough kvetching about that. I got a little bit else done on my project today; it does look like I'll be able to get something decent in by the end of the month, so that's good at least. I'm going to be curious to see how I can get this all to a dupe house to make videotapes, and how I'll be able to do that once I get out of here. I really don't want to buy a DVD burner, those are still a little pricy and I'm a poor ramen-munching student as it is.
Saw Wag The Dog in lab yesterday. Good movie, I liked it, but it was... spooky. A bit too eerie. Probably hit a bit too close to home.
Not much else, really. My birthday is tomorrow. Thirty-one years. I feel... well, no, I won't go into all that depressing crap. You-all have heard it all before anyway.
I'm going to head off now and relax a little, and send out bills to people. Did you know that Progress Energy and Winter Park are having a saber-rattling contest? The city of Winter Park wants to governmentalize the power distribution system, citing that Progress Energy is doing a poor job of it. Progress Energy wants to remain the power supply monopoly in Winter park, citing that they're doing a great job of it. Who's the hell is telling the truth here? Answer: Neither. The truth is a three-edged sword. I just wish corporations and governments would grow up and stop acting like babies.
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Date: 2003-07-06 12:19 pm (UTC)That means people are running it on computers that can wander around and be just about anywhere when the user clicks on that icon! So it should be working with or without a network.
Check your preferences. Something's screwy.
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Date: 2003-07-06 12:49 pm (UTC)Both Alias|Wavefront's Maya and Apple's Shake use a licensing system callled FlexLM. One option is as you stated above, for a single-use machine. But in production houses and schools (like ours) a separate server manages the licenses and distributes them to the individual computers. If the license server is down, the program can't get a license and it flat-out refuses to work. It's rather annoying but that's the way they've chosen to run their licensing schemes.