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Getting this Microsoft CRM 4.0 “Status Reason”:

Waiting For Resources

in Settings->System Jobs? Custom workflow not firing? Check that the “Microsoft CRM Asynchronous Processing Service” is started. I suppose it is waiting for “resources”, however, I still think the quotes are warranted. How about a simple “Microsoft CRM Asynchronous Processing Service isn’t running”? Too long? “CRM Asynchronous Processing Service isn’t running”. Still? Even a simple “service isn’t running” error would be more descriptive.

For quite some time now, I haven’t really been listening to music. I have a ton of it, I just hadn’t listened. No idea why, really. The gift of a shiny new Nano kicked me back into it. I’ve been using Amarok to organize my music, but damned if the ipod library it depends on doesn’t support the new nano very well. Yet.

*Sigh* So, I’m now booting back into Windows just to run iTunes. On the upside, I got off my duff and organized my music, moving out the stuff I knew I wouldn’t listen to (analysis paralysis, maybe?) and sorting things that had bad id3 tags. Maybe part of the problem was that I used to dread opening either application knowing that I had to get all that data from a network share. ntfs-3g to the rescue. An old drive in my desktop later, and there’s an ntfs-formatted local copy. Amarok now manages the music/podcasts and iTunes just consumes the music in the folder. On top of that, SyncToy in Windows and rsync in Linux keep it pushed to the network share regardless of the OS into which I’m booted. The slimp3(yeah, I roll 2001 old-school like that) gets to keep local access to the music files, too. Double the storage? Yup. But storage is cheap:

/dev/mapper/stor-data
1.3T 604G 601G 51% /stor

No, that’s not all music, and yes, it is 1.3 Terabytes or storage.

Now, to the title. I saw the The Flaming Lips on Austin City Limits some time ago. Sweet merciful crap did I think they sucked. Just sloppy. Felt like more effort went into the stage show than into the music that night. I avoided them after that. Thankfully, I was digging through my music and lo and behold there’s Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. No clue why I decided to listen to it (robots in the title?), but man am I happy I started listening to music again. The author regrets the error.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Attributed to Robert Benchley

All of this is in the queue, just need to finish them up and click “Publish.” In no particular order:

• Finally saw Hot Fuzz
• Finished The Club Dumas
• Burning hatred of using hasn’t-been-updated-since-’96-won’t-compile-without-hacks-and-deprecated-to-boot modules in production environments (Net::LDAPapi, I’m looking at you)
• Finished American Psycho
• Finished Freakonomics
• Had Beryl running on a laptop with a cheesy 32MB ati video card
• Had XP running in a VM under Feisty
• Saw Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie Film For Theaters
• Finished The Grifters
• Finished Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
• Finished Spook Country
• Finished Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville
• Can’t seem to finish Off The Books
• Finished Among The Thugs
• Saw Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
• Writing this line from my XO

I guess domain is really important to Domino replication. So important that you have to specify it to replicate from one server to another in the same domain. This fails:

> pull servername foldername\dbname.nsf
11/14/2007 09:40:57 AM Database Replicator started
11/14/2007 09:40:57 AM Starting replication with server servername
11/14/2007 09:40:57 AM Unable to replicate foldername\dbname.nsf
11/14/2007 09:40:57 AM Finished replication with server servername
11/14/2007 09:40:57 AM Database Replicator shutdown
11/14/2007 09:43:23 AM Searching Administration Requests database.

This works:

> pull servername/Domain foldername\dbname.nsf
11/14/2007 09:57:00 AM Database Replicator started
11/14/2007 09:57:00 AM Starting replication with server servername
11/14/2007 09:57:00 AM Pulling foldername\dbname.nsf from servername foldername\dbname.nsf
11/14/2007 09:58:25 AM Replicator added 5 document(s) to replicaservername foldername\dbname.nsf from servername foldername\dbname.nsf
11/14/2007 09:58:25 AM Replicator updated 2 document(s) in foldername\dbname.nsf from servername foldername\dbname.nsf
11/14/2007 09:58:25 AM Finished replication with server servername/Domain
11/14/2007 09:58:25 AM Database Replicator shutdown

So, I have a set of log files in csv format that look similar to this:

date, DATA, DATA1
mm/dd/yyyy,DATA,DATA1
”,,DATA,DATA1
”,,DATA,DATA1
mm/dd-1/yyyy,DATA,DATA1
”,,DATA,DATA1
”,,DATA,DATA1

Yeah. So, that makes it a little difficult to parse that log since date is missing if it hasn’t changed. how do you fill in those blanks without clobbering what’s there in, say, Excel? Some combo of IF(ISBLANK) or LOOKUP? Nah. Circular references abound. Try this:

1. Select your column
2. Select “Edit”
3. Select Go To…
4. Select “Special”
5. Select “Blanks”
6. Select “OK”
7. Type “=”
8. Press the Up Arrow Key
9. Press Ctrl-Enter

Your column should be filled w/out clobbering what’s already there. Um, yay Excel? Boo, bad log design? Both?

Passing inputs to a POST form in a cgi from the command line (to DProf scripts, etc):

echo “attribute=value1+value2…” | perl -d:DProf scriptname.cgi

Alternately, “attribute=value1+value2…” (no quotes) can be in a file, testfile.txt. Then you just:

perl -d:DProf scriptname.cgi < testfile.txt