Disgruntled Technology Newbie

I hate being so relatively new to the Computer Science field. I don't know many technical terms and inside stuff. Like the fact that the picture I posted in my previous post will only show if you go to the actual site I got the pic and capture it into my PCs cache (at least, that is what I think is going on). If I go to my site and right click on the pic and select "Show Picture," it won't show unless the pic is in my cache. I hate the fact that I'm actually linking a pic from another site instead of from my own server; I know that is gauche, but I don't know any other way to until I can concentrate on getting a PC (which seems to be happening really soon since I'm being hired on) and securing a host site or whatever.

At work, there is no consistency in the naming conventions of the components we use for our Servers. Someone kept talking about RAID Controllers and I couldn't find these on the site. I was like, "There is a 'Controller Card,' a 'Standard Disk Controller,' and a 'RAID Card.' I'm told that the RAID Card is synonymous with RAID Controller and is used because it is a desktop naming convention used for the consumer; it's assumed the first-time-server-buying consumer will understand a "Card" concept better than a "Controller" concept, a term used specific to a server. The reason all the bellyhoo: We're replacing all our server matrix pages with compare (complete systems) pages, something we implemented for our Desktops, Portables, "All in One," and "Destination" categories (I am not going to link to the matrix pages nor any Gateway pages except the home page; I don't want to jeopardize my job in any way). A little background: our matrix pages had all the systems (for example the 910C or the 910S) within a series (The Gateway 910 Series) displayed with several components listed (such as hard drive, operating system, or processor). The consumer could then compare all the systems within a series to each other and see what the main differences are between all the systems or servers within a given series. With a server, we want different information displayed in the columns (like processor, hard drive, etc.) for each series. So not only do we want to have different columns added for the servers compared to Desktops and Portables, but we want them platform (series) specific - and this is made more combersome since there is no naming convention consistent for Controllers. So there is a lot more coding we have to add to our ASP files. As I've said, RAID Card is synonymous with RAID Controller, but a RAID Controller is not the same as a Controller. So we have to specify for column A pull information from "Standard Disk Controller" and "Controller Card," then create column B to be populated with "RAID Card (Controller)" information from our database. This is what's been decided after literally 27 emails (I counted) and 5 telephone conversations. What a nightmare!

Some Random Thoughts...

I've decided on mid-January to get my car. That way, I don't have to be too frugal with my money, and can also get something in the $2000-$2500 price range. Though I went looking at www.signonsandiego.com and perused the used cars currently available; looks like some great buys for less than $1000. I think I'll save money with January 15th as a target date to purchase a car, but I'll look around and if I see anything nice that I can afford at that time, then I'll snag that.

It's official; later tonight I will officially enroll at 24hr fitness. I am so conflicted about this gym, but it so conveniently located near my home.

I agree with Jason (who subsequently agrees with Ben Brown, whoever he is); I hate that all I do is post links to other weblogs when I have so many ideas for essays, poems, and other assorted narcissitic ventures.

I'm so glad I'll have a notebook soon!! I get one so I can work from home whenever there is an emergency fix for the website or if I'm running late or can't come into work that day. This will be very convenient when school starts the end of next month!