PAD make chaos in Thailand

I have not had time to write about what is happening in Thailand. But now I can not really hold back. Not that I have more time. I only feel the need to put as much light as possible on what is happening in Thailand.

PAD that has been occupying the government buildings in Bangkok for some time now, have gotten tired to only sit there and nothing happens. So they have become active again. They have tried to occupy some other government buildings and now also the new airport. And they are using quite allot of violation too. There seem to be more about this in new outside of Thailand then inside. But I can not really confirm this. In the links to different newspapers bellow there is allot more articles.

If you understand Swedish, you can follow the progress at Maleés blog. She is very actively reporting the progress.

Read more: CNN, BBC, Bangkok Post, The Nation

18 years since last time

It is about 18 years since I played nethack. And no, it was not really fun to play again. I guess it would be little bit fun if I really felt I had some time. Or at least it would feel nostalgic. But I felt I had do try now when it is the yearly November tournament.

It is said to be the oldest game still in development/maintenance. But I do not feel like it could be called active development/maintenance. Last release was in December 2003. But at least people are still playing it. So in some way it is active.

To many things to do

Not that I was planning to write here very often. At the moment there are to many things to do. And nothing has really come to some kind of milestone so it is worth writing about.

About BMC Remedy AR System 7.1 at boot of windows. I think it is all about AR System trying to start before RPC has been set up on the machine. I have tried to set up dependency on the AR System service to the RPC service. But on the windows machines I have available nothing happens. All tools I have to check if the dependency is set show it is set. But at boot it is still the same, AR System start before RPC. I have asked the people managing and setting up windows, but they can not give me an answer why. Maybe AR System install should add that dependency. The workaround at the moment is to set the service to manual start and then start it as a schedule at start up. It works.

Another thing I also tried about the start up of AR System. On a service you can set what to do if start up fails. But it does not do what I set it to do. So either windows does not detect the failure, or the setting is not read by windows.

More BMC. I kind of was surprised about how fast and how well they seemed to handle the reimbursement of my cost for the canceled conference. But now I am still waiting for the money. One part, the conference fee, they blame people quit work. So they have not had time to manage all reimbursements. And the cost for travel seem to have gotten stuck too. Yesterday, after I asked for more info, I got a new mail saying that they have accepted to pay my cost. And the again want my bank info.

I do not know if this is fun or sad. I know a person who reported a bug about BMC Remedy Usertool 7.1. It was already reported and BMC answered it was scheduled for release in 7.5.1. 7.5 does not even exist yet. OK, it is not a production critical bug. But for us users who use keyboard shortcuts it is really annoying. In some special situations pressing Ctrl-Enter does not save the record, it opens a new modify window.