No meetings and only 10 minutes of power loss – a great day! Ruchi and I dug in and tackled the new system and came out smiling. We proved that we could very quickly enter a whole sub directory of reports in one fell swoop and within a minute they were indexed and therefore searchable. We set up the main users and assigned group privileges and then proved that we could log into the system from other computers. We set up some project information metadata and then loaded some project reports. The system forced us to enter the mandatory project info metadata before allowing the load to complete.
In the afternoon, the IT consultant’s right-hand man, Karan, joined us to try and figure out how to assign a static IP address to the Knowledgetree server. I don’t think he quite understood what I was trying to get at so Ruchi took a stab at it in Nepali. Finally I googled the problem and once he saw it in plain text he caught on. I guess the Canadian accent is as tough for him as the Nepali one is for me. Between the three of us we figured out how to do it and now it works like a charm. We decided that we make a good team. One other thing Karan was able to help me with was loading the fonts for Nepali characters. Now Word documents in Nepali display properly. I had been having trouble because I had installed Word before I left but had not tried running it. It wouldn’t accept my product code so Karan was able to re-install using the CMF product code. Much later it struck me that I had changed the time zone on the computer when I got here and I wonder if the product code hashing depends on time zone. Who knows?
Bernie came by after work. I think he is making some headway in his project but he says his clients are very much like his Canadian clients – more concerned with the visual than the functional. We wandered over to Anne’s to pick her up to go to Trendy Cafe for supper. She had already eaten but kept us company. Bernie and I tried vegetable thali which was delicious. Trendy is on the top floor of an office building close to my place. It affords a decent view and is a fairly classy joint, but best of all, the food can be trusted.
Anne may go with us to Nagarkut on the weekend. If there aren’t too many clouds we should be able to see Everest from there.