RAJE's PC
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: work
Rico yesterday reported to me that RAJE's PC #1 (used for downloading Rover files from the billing system) is not detecting its hard disk. He told me that he tried the hard disk on his PC and it was working, and that the RAJE PC didn't detect another HD that he tried on it.

So I opened up the case and tried the secondary IDE connection but it wouldn't work also.

Upon further inspection, I found some moist, sooty dirt all over the motherboard, so I cleaned it out with WD-40.

After around 16 hours (late morning of today), I tried it again, and it was STILL not detecting its original HD, but it detected another HD which is a non-working one AFAIK.

I therefore conclude that we need to replace the unit (the whole box) because it might have already been damaged way beyond recovery -- it might even damage hard disks in its current condition.

vBackOffice Install
Mood:  amorous
Now Playing: Miss Pakipot - Parokya ni Edgar nga ba ito? hindi yata
Topic: work
Spent about an hour in total, installing Crys Rep 7 (tried version 8, futile attempt, was taking too long to extract the files from the .zip) on Glopm workstation, in preparation for Gina's installation of vBackOffice, some program she did for Glopm.

AGD's Pixma printer
Topic: work
AGD texted me yesterday after office hours and told me to have his Pixma replaced/repaired. He said:

"Please change my printer. Fm da tim u instald it, it never workd wen i nid it. Always hav 2 play w conections at da bak. Now it das not even respond 2 da play w wires. Fix it or return it. Stil under waranty. Do dis tom asap. Tnx."

I'm not sure what the problem really was, but when I tried it, I just unchecked "Use this printer offline" and it printed out the pending docs.

So I told him the printer was fine, but he insisted that I replace it with the other pixma in the same batch. So I did. I replaced the printer unit without the wires/inks/cartridges, etc...

Posted by Samboy at 12:01 AM JST

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BCMS
Topic: i-Solv Project
All right, BCMS is almost done! Only minor details to take care of, besides the major task of checking whether the data was migrated properly or not.

Note to self: Remember to insist upon migating the old data into historical tables!

Above-mentioned minor details include:
1. Changed Meters - handling
2. Stopped Meters (Last Reading) - handling

BCMS bill computation checking
Topic: i-Solv Project
Did further bill computation comparison... Alma Ice Plant totalizer was only missing submeters...

My latest requests were granted (status gauge, etc.)...

SM Bill computation
Topic: i-Solv Project
Whew! Finally, we got the correct computation for SM's bill! :-)

Bugs/Suggestions in "May 24 bcms.exe"
Topic: i-Solv Project
1. Teller module...

Run-time error '13' (Type mismatch) occurs when teller selects "No current Bill" from list of bills.

2. Display a gauge in "Customer Count" module.

3. Customer Count shows no data for April and May 2005. 6 customers only for Dec 2004, Jan 2004.

4. Customers with Zero-KWH Consumption -- run time error (File not found).

Strange XP Problem
Mood:  lyrical
Topic: work
Rico approached me early to report that mapping6 was logging off automatically after displaying a dialog box saying:

"A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking the license for this Computer. Error code 0x80090019"

After fruitless searches in Google and MS.com, I had to reinstall XP. Fortunately, all I had to do after installation were the ff:

1. Install OS updates
2. disable the digital signing bla bla
3. re-register some DLL's and OCX's for viewer.

In addition, I installed AVG and myodbc, and ran the audit script for winventory. :-)

I spent about 2 hours including some cleaning of the external and internal components and installing a used CD-ROM drive.