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Every couple of weeks or so, I'm required to make an actual physical paper deposit to the bank. The actual edifice. Online banking may be thriving, but you can't do everything just yet. Hence, these buildings. With people in them. I usually turn my stereo all the way down, as to not be rude. Its hard enough to carry on the limited conversation required to complete these drive-through transactions, and I've been on the other side of the window - those speakers pick up everything. All things being equal, however, I was particularly board and/or aggressive that I chose to simply turn my radio down. Very low. Where only I could hear it. Its my CD named, "Cartastic" which contains Firefly, Serenity, Stardust, half of Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Transformers. For reasons which sounded good at the time, I have exactly 4 (four) vocal tracks on there, all at the beginning. This are (in order) Pistolero by Juno Reactor (thanks
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drax0r), Starry Eyed Surprise the remix by Paul Oakenfold (thanks galinda822), Butterfly by Crazy Town (because of the movie Orange County), and Porcelain (because of the movie The Beach.) In case you don't see where this is going - I forgot about those first four songs, and inserted the disc. It was also louder than I expected it to be. And the first line from the first song, clear as a bell, states, I HATE ROBBING BANKS.Thought I was going to die.
I Drank half a bottle of Pennslyvania Dutch style Brandied apple cider. That night I dreamed that Brinkmeyer's current wife and I were deeply in love (it was if he didn't even exist). And she was oh so frail. We had a house built out away from everyone, in the country. Her father was always around, keeping an eye on her and doing handyman stuff around the place. Lived with us, I think, but he didn't trust me. Always had that look in his eye. And it was difficult getting alone time with her. [dream change sequence] A very flamboyant
photogoot and I are doing dancing stage shows wearing sequined black tie formal attire (one dressed all in sequined white, the other in sequined black) and living together again, this time behind the stage in a very small apartment with exposed wood walls (painted all in brick red). And that's when Niobe chose to come home. She was so skinny. I fed her and gave her love. This marks the third time I've dreamed she's come home since she went missing.I still go out to call for her every evening, and modified my garage door to lock while leaving six inches open.
We truly stand on shoulders of giants, and have no reason to be arrogant in our knowledge. I was staring into the Texas night sky while smoking a cigar thinking to myself, "I can't prove that the earth is round, nor that the earth orbits the sun and not the other way around." Others can, and have. I am meek in my knowledge of worldly things, despite having traveled the globe.
They say man created God. Man also created science.
And now a word on satire:
- lehah posted a promo shot from the in-production movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and one of his readers was making fun of the scene which included Harrison Ford, Karen Allen (from the original Indy, and Shia LaBeouf ("Sam" in Transformers.), riding in an old truck. I replied to his humorous observation with, Indiana Jones? I thought that was Sam Witwickey and they were riding in Optimus Prime? This isn't a scene from Transformers 2?
- Within the comments of my post on the new camera there was an extremely funny play-on-words concerning a rooster which ended with me giggling like a retard. By Grapthar's Hammer... Anyway, as funny as that was, its wasn't nearly as humorous as the call I later received, asking if I really did own a rooster:
"No, it was a play on words."
"I get that."
"No you don't, this question proves it."
And having been fed up beyond fed up, and now requiring a computer for each individual under my roof, and wanting to make someone DIE for writing, marketing, selling, and using Windows XP, I turned my work laptop and my primary x86 workstation at home into a dual-boot xubuntu box, and an now trying to fix my old mac so I can put xubuntu on it as well. Going to buy an OSX-compatible USB wireless card for my boy's PowerMac G4 today, and I need just one more computer (and/or a very small 12" LCD monitor so I can put teh other mini in the kitchen for the wizzle. Here's what I need to overcome:
- I found my Leopard install disc - its in the broken mac and no amount of on-boot key-sequences will eject it, and I can't force it out when its disassembled. Next plan of attack? swap the gorram drives within the two mini's!
- Pretend that I know something, anything, really, about Mac hardware and un-fux0r the broken mac to the point I can install xubuntu PPC on it.
- Get wine to completely launch Lotus Notes (I'm almost there) because the only thing worse than Notes is the Notes Java Web Client.
- Get my Intel i810-driven framebuffer to properly dual-head (i.e. one large workspace across two monitors). Right now it simply displays the same workspace in two locations.
- Call AT&T and get my static IP. I know this sounds easy. I'm just not looking forward to making the call. Interacting with people takes so much out of me, and I already know it will be a fight.
- Call AT&T to get a phone jack installed in my home office. (See excuses above).
- Make sweet love down by the fire.
- Install Solaris 10 on my Netra t1125.
- Install ubuntu-server on my second Rave AXi.
Less important, but still on my radar:
*le sigh*
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Why, pray tell - you denizens of the Solaris world, must I have a DHCP server to jumpstart my X4200? I never had to have one using SPARC architecture, and its beyond my present understanding why one is required to jumpstart an x86 box with Solaris 10.
Here's one answer, but it doesn't make my question any less valid:
From Sun:
That's not an explanation as to why it doesn't work. All my research points to x86 being able to support RARP and TFTP/BOOTP both. Sun calls the DHCP boot PXE's default configuration suggesting alternate methods which do not require DHCP.
Taking advantage of this new twist however, I told my boss my jumpstart project was now complete...in theory.
unixadmin)Why, pray tell - you denizens of the Solaris world, must I have a DHCP server to jumpstart my X4200? I never had to have one using SPARC architecture, and its beyond my present understanding why one is required to jumpstart an x86 box with Solaris 10.
Here's one answer, but it doesn't make my question any less valid:
From Sun:
Jumpstart on SPARC machines traditionally made use of RARP, BOOTP etc to get the required information for building over the network. This method does not work on x86 based machines, and required that there be a boot server on every subnet.
DHCP is the method used by x86 based machines to start a non-attended network boot, and it also has the advantage of being able to traverse subnets through the use of DHCP forwarders.
However, its often a little more difficult to set up, configure and manage . To accomodate the x86 based servers, and the ability to jumpstart over multiple subnets, we have added DHCP support to the core toolkit.
There are also some new x86 specific configuration variables in the base module.
Possible DHCP configurations
* Local DHCP server hosted on the Jumpstart server.
* Remote DHCP server.
* Multiple remote DHCP servers.
If all you need to do is install x86 based servers, then the first option is the easiest to configure and set up. Additionally if you configure the routers as DHCP forwarders, you can also jumpstart on any subnet that can "see" this DHCP server. Unfortunately this scenario is slightly unrealistic as its likely that there's a real DHCP server lurking somewhere.
This is where option 2 becomes useful. If there is already an enterprise wide DHCP server, and its running Sun's DHCP, then you're in luck! All you need to do is set up an ssh relationship between your server and it, and JET will do the rest for you.
Finally, there may in fact be multiple DHCP servers, possibly one per subnet. JET allows you to specify which subnets are served by which dhcp server.
That's not an explanation as to why it doesn't work. All my research points to x86 being able to support RARP and TFTP/BOOTP both. Sun calls the DHCP boot PXE's default configuration suggesting alternate methods which do not require DHCP.
Taking advantage of this new twist however, I told my boss my jumpstart project was now complete...in theory.
NO SPOILERS!
Watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Friday. Bought the book at midnight and have been reading it, slowly. Three books ago, I read the entire thing in a day, and then became pissed off and morose since I didn't have any new Harry Potter to read, so I read it again. Two books ago, I read every chapter twice - to force myself to take my time. That lasted about a quarter of the book. I finished the last three-quarters in a day reading it straight through. Last book - well, I was moving (again) so it was pretty much split-up and took me a week. This time, however, I want to blow through it, but life, it seems, has gotten in the way. I'm lucky to read 4-chapters, every other day. To assist me with this, however, I've burned every album onto a single mp3 disc which I listen to in the car, followed by all the albums back-to-back which I listen to on my iPod at work. I'm finding some real gems in there!
In other news, I've recently acquired another Rave System and am pimping it out with half a gig more RAM & a DVD-ROM drive to put Solaris 10 on it, I'm upgrading the 300Mhz/1280MB U30 at work with a U10 I'm filling with Rave System parts (a 440Mhz chip, two 60GB drives, a DVD-ROM & 2GB of RAM and possibly more importantly, a Raptor framebuffer to get the graphics off the CPU), and am thinking of restarting the Ampache project on the ubuntu-server box to see if I can glean anything at all from it. 13-hours at work today which is fine since my wife and kids went to Wichita to spend some time with her mother prior to school starting. I'm knee-deep in work, but work is such a joy! I can hardly contain myself.
Watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Friday. Bought the book at midnight and have been reading it, slowly. Three books ago, I read the entire thing in a day, and then became pissed off and morose since I didn't have any new Harry Potter to read, so I read it again. Two books ago, I read every chapter twice - to force myself to take my time. That lasted about a quarter of the book. I finished the last three-quarters in a day reading it straight through. Last book - well, I was moving (again) so it was pretty much split-up and took me a week. This time, however, I want to blow through it, but life, it seems, has gotten in the way. I'm lucky to read 4-chapters, every other day. To assist me with this, however, I've burned every album onto a single mp3 disc which I listen to in the car, followed by all the albums back-to-back which I listen to on my iPod at work. I'm finding some real gems in there!
In other news, I've recently acquired another Rave System and am pimping it out with half a gig more RAM & a DVD-ROM drive to put Solaris 10 on it, I'm upgrading the 300Mhz/1280MB U30 at work with a U10 I'm filling with Rave System parts (a 440Mhz chip, two 60GB drives, a DVD-ROM & 2GB of RAM and possibly more importantly, a Raptor framebuffer to get the graphics off the CPU), and am thinking of restarting the Ampache project on the ubuntu-server box to see if I can glean anything at all from it. 13-hours at work today which is fine since my wife and kids went to Wichita to spend some time with her mother prior to school starting. I'm knee-deep in work, but work is such a joy! I can hardly contain myself.
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I want to build my Netra t1125 as a Solaris 10 box running containers. Unfortunately, I don't know a whole hell of a lot about Solaris 10, and the deeper I dig, the more I find changed. Fortunately, I get paid to do this, and the last couple of weeks my task has been to migrate a couple of boxes I built seven years ago onto a Solaris 10 container. Nice. Getting paid to figure all this out before I apply it to my own server.
Unfortunately, during this process I've decided to also upgrade Apache, MySQL, PHP and some of the applications we've been running and let me tell you - it hurts. I wish I ran x86 archetecture. Everything just seems to...work. Solaris is so very cantankerous. Despite my deep-seeded belief that nothing runs better on SPARC than Solaris, I've decided to try ubuntu server for SPARC on my U30 deskop. Just for giggles, you see. Simultaneously, I'm going to install the x86 version on my sandbox. We're going to see what's what once and for all.
In the meantime I have a deadline of Monday to have at least one box migrated. I've been spending too much time trying to get the SAMP components playing together. Along these same lines -
drax0r turned me on to Drupal a configurable drop-in open source PHP web site. This requires a second-look.I want to do all of this now.
Unfortunately, I disabled my Netra t1125 to the point I can no longer access it. This makes me sad. To compensate, I almost brought home another RAVE to play with. Of course if I really get desperate, I could build out my HP9000/712. Unfortunately, I don't have an external case for my SCSI CDROM - a necessity on that particcular box.
I want to do something.
Everything's moving much too slowly for me rght now.
And that lady who's selling our house? Haven't heard from her. At all. The kid across the street told
galinda822 its showing like crazy. If that's the case, where are my offers?And as I am not going to work (in fact, not doing ANYTHING) tomorrow, I decided some Glenmorangie was in order. Yes, I've already started.
This weekend, however, will be quite busy. A high-school friend (the one and the same I joined the USAF with) is now stationed in San Antonio and will be in the area starting tomorrow throgh Sunday. We'll likely meet up after work Friday in Boyd, stay the evening with my folks, then my family and I are spending Saturday and Saturday night with
celtmanx and his family. Speaking of family, drax0r's grandmother, cousin, cousin's husband and their 18-month old departed, just in time for jesskd26's sister, borther-in-law, and their 18-month old to arrive. What a busy place! Everybody wants to see baby Chole! Of course sometimes solutions to unix prroblems come to me in my sleep. So maybe I'll just go to bed.
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Breakfast with the family at IHOP Saturday for brunch, then to the hotel. I checked in and by the time we unloaded the car and made it to the room, discovered it wasn't a suite. Back to the front desk. The clerk didn't know what to say. "But I paid for a suite." I showed him the receipt he had just given me. He was very confused. The manager came out and made everything right. Of course at 0100 the fire alarm went off, bright strobes filling the room with white light; the klaxon blaring. Neither I, nor the children awoke. My wife roused me from my slumber, ready to snatch up the children and exit the building. "I'll be right back." I told her. I made my way down the hall towards the front desk. The alarm went silent. There was a group of young men and women standing in the foyer. One of them put his hand up and said, "It was a false alarm, you can return to your room." I stopped dead in my tracks, looked him up and down, and walked right past him. Asshole. I got the same story at the front desk, so returned to my room. This shit has happened to me before. My wife's rush of adrenaline kept her awake another hour or so while I fell back into a deep sleep. Until several hours later, when the 46-inch plasma television in our room powered itself on, once again filling the room with light and noise. I chose to sleep through this one, and at some point my wife reached for the remote and powered it off. In other words, not much rest this weekend. My parents were at a wedding the next morning, so we went shopping and drove out to visit MADDOG and pick up his gift to me, a Netra t1125:
As this is a telco box, it has no Sun PS/2 ports - so defaults to tty. Mr. MADDOG provided a USB/FIREWIRE card and I helped myself to the Raptor GFX framebuffer from the spare (read Tony's) RAVE (thanks dude) in order to bring it up with a head. Unfortunately, the USB mac keyboard via Belkin Flip KVM didn't do the trick, so when I get home today with my newly acquired Sun Microsystems USB keyboard (which, from my understanding WILL init a display) I'll have to reeingineer a few things to get back on target. If all goes well, I'll begin my build this evening.
Afterward we hit the Half-Price Bookstore where I bought the following:
- John Williams: Seven Years in Tibet (With Yo-Yo Ma on cello).
- Graeme Revell: Aeon Flux
- Run Lola Run
- Beethoven: Fidelio (the full opera)
- Silva release: The A to Z of Fantasy TV Themes - Battlestar Galactica
( Track Listing )
Some of these songs sound like cheap knock-off's, but to have some of these themes I haven't seen anywhere else is pretty cool. This is made up for however, with the Essential Zimmer I ran across. It nice to have full orchestrations of his usually synthesized work. It adds depth. Very nice.
The Sun keyboard didn't work. I pulled the USB card out of the 66MHz slot and put the framebuffer in there - still didn't work. I daisy-chained some Molex power connectors to power the firewire port on the car just in case - nothing. Mr. MADDOG is sending some serial connectors my way. I lost my terminal console during the dissolution of WDT :(
darkvoyager.com will be offline today between 1230-1330 for patching. Thank you.
My Solaris 9 box now has the DST patch on it. Yes, I could have simply installed the individual patch, but decided to take this opportunity to bring it down into single-user mode and run the 9_Recommended patchset against it.
Oddly enough, I found that I didn't have the showrev command installed. Because I built a tight little box using the "Core" install (which misses a lot of little items), I keep an online repository of Sun packages for just this purpose. Its one of the smartest things I've ever done.
My Solaris 9 box now has the DST patch on it. Yes, I could have simply installed the individual patch, but decided to take this opportunity to bring it down into single-user mode and run the 9_Recommended patchset against it.
Oddly enough, I found that I didn't have the showrev command installed. Because I built a tight little box using the "Core" install (which misses a lot of little items), I keep an online repository of Sun packages for just this purpose. Its one of the smartest things I've ever done.
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Brought up Toast on teh max0r and selected files from my nfs mounted Solaris volume to make a hard-copy DVD backup of my server, and to consider the possibility of using iTunes new built-in backup application. Toast couldn't read a good majority of my nfs mounted files, yet on the server side I ensured everything was world readable. I may try to mount the volume as root (in place of read-only) to see if that helps. In the meantime I'm making multi-gig tarballs to drag over (thankfully bypassing any scp) and burn locally. The learning-curve of mounting Solaris volumes on darwin aside, the GUI representation of such is pretty nifty.
Simultaneously, I decided to upgrade phpmyadmin to minimize mucking around with mysql. I had one hell of a time, however getting that all straightened out. I'm not a big fan of cleartext passwd's in my config files and for a time ran apache2 just so I could have an egress into https (not that cleartext password are mutually exclusive, in fact I'm now running 'cookies' for secondary logins) I don't recall the reason I turned that off, but I'd really like to either get back to running them both, or perhaps, running only apache2. There were reasons I didn't pursue that 18 months ago, but I've been away from it so long, I don't remember what they were. Since getting my server up and running again, I've really been hitting the unix hard - trying to keep my mad Solaris skillz sharp, but its such an uphill battle sometimes - and I had to completely relearn my systems particular quirks.
All this work has led up to me wanting to completely revamp my box. I have an identical Rave AXi in storage I'd like to build-up better, stronger, and more secure. Running both systems in parallel, I'm sure I'll be able to manifest a most awesome system. This begs the question of when I might actually have time to do this. I have a few ideas, and look forward to discussing them with
drax0r who I know would be all over that. He's really a brilliant unix admin who tempers my rashness when it comes to these types of activities. I've missed working beside him these last 18 months - especially on side projects such as this. Unfortunately for me, he gets easily distracted and doesn't like to focus too long on any single thing. Couple this with the fact that he's now married (and expecting) I feel our time would be quite limited in this endeavor. I keep an online copy of each and every Solaris package on the install discs for hand-crafting as small a system as possible after a core install. Its a time-consuming process, but one I feel necessary for the discrete control I prefer to have over my boxes. Who knows, maybe I'm just a gluten for punishment. Hey, my 440MHz UltraSparc-II is a lot faster than some of the bloated newer boxes I've worked on in the past - I feel my attention to this detail is the reason why.Oh, I did finally get myphpadmin upgraded and secured - but its been a fight. I do well by locking myself in my dungeon office for hours on end without a break in train of thought, which has been nigh impossible this weekend, the weekend of my son's three-day-long birthday party sleepover (special arrangements had to be made concerning split-custody children who ended up here since Friday evening). If only I had the means to concentrate more. Anyway, I made my first sql backup of my database using the webtool, which turned out to be much larger than when I do them by hand (indicating to me I've probably been missing something) as well as a backup of the entire directory, and my webspace on wilddamntexan - something else which should probably be reorganized as well.
iTunes built-in backup/restore utility. Wow. How very convenient, how very idiot-proof, how very BAD. Almost no configurable options. I managed to cull my database down to 41GB after deleting 7GB of CD's I own the physical media to and was prepared to auto-span volumes. This was going to be my first test of the dual-layer portion of the drive. Would it auto-detect the 8.5GB capacity? Would I waste a very pricey disc of optical media? Unfortunately one of the first files it tried to write was a file it could not 'find' on the spinning disc, which all-but hung iTunes (despite the application identifying only six tracks ahead of time I was willing to sacrifice. I will now attempt to hand-verify the remainder of the files. Next on my plate? Lookup the darwin command for Soalris' tip to facilitate serial connectivity from teh max0r to my server. I don't even know if that's capable on a mini. I've seen some serial-to-usb connectors, but doubt off the top of my head if they'll work without windows-only drivers. I lost my wyse terminal when I moved to STL. Still, to be able to ditch the physical console and serial in from my desktop environment? How cool would that be?
Upgraded my Gallery (which is sometimes the only way I can find out where the things I broke in the process of upgrading others) and for the first time in several hours, things are working again. I have quite literally spent all day down here, and I have other issues now which require me actually touching a *shiver* XP box. I'm going to attach my physical iTunes volume to it, and the dual-layer DVD burner (which is running awfully slow on the mini) and see if I can't better accomplish my backup with the processing power that box has. We'll see. As a quick reminder, I've had the processor overclocked, installed the max capacity of 1GB RAM (thanks to drax0r), and running from a 7200rpm 8MB/cache drive. But as loaded down as this box is, I sometimes turn to my XP box for crunching. It has a 10k SATA drive (albeit the 16MB/cache drives weren't at the time available, so again, 8MB) and a quickly-becoming-dating 2.8GHz hyper-threaded chip.
These things are much more fun with drax0r adjacent me, and a bottle of whiskey between us.
It'll likely be an even longer night.
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And I edited my Man of La Mancha post to include an mp3 of the song I was quoting to put everything in perspective. What a fantastic track!
There was an issue at work where documents we were sending out were taking 30 minutes to open at other sites. They told us it was a Microsoft template issue and that we were creating templates with errors - templates which had to authenticate against our servers' .dot file prior to open. Carla told them that was horseshit. So we had this big conference call where I effortlessly opened, but to everyone's chagrin, the document in 4-seconds flat from my mac Notes client under Word for Mac, via VNC. They weren't convinced it was an Office XP vs. Office 2003 compatibility error and wanted us to open a Microsoft trouble ticket. As Carla pointed out, "This is the same way we've been doing it for seven years, so it doesn't sound like our issue." I agreed that the problem fell entirely on the remote site, and was aching to prove it. I told everyone I would perform a promiscuous snoop of my interface and capture the output to determine whether or not the document was trying to authenticate to our servers prior to opening. I'm a genius...or not. Apparently, there is no snoop for OSX. What a retard. A scour of the forums shows that tcpdump ships with OSX. I've used tcpdump infrequently, but never for the same reasons I've used snoop, that I can recall. Ethereal wouldn't launch due to a Gtk error, even after setting DISPLAY=0.0 and on OSX even a super-user cannot snoop in promiscous mode without first setting the interface with the pfconfig command which was nonexistent! Pressing on, I came up with this:
Which determined that (once ports 22 & 5900 were removed from the equasion) whatever issues remote sites were having from opening Word Documents that originated from this facility, nothing within the document was trying to authenticate back to this office.
I love troubleshooting, this is true - but I also love using my tools to swat away annoying amature suggestions.
With great power comes great responsibility.
That responsibility is now my burden alone to bear.
So I have 5 IP addresses, and I want to assign three of them to three different boxes. I want to be able to run HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, VNC, on all them if I wanted to, and have them connect via DNS entries for each. I want to open gaming ports to my XP box, which will NOT have an externally accessible IP. I don't know how to go about any of this, but with a little persistence, and a lot of time, I'm sure I will arise the victor.
Fun times ahead.
My gallery is on my Solaris box - as well as a backup of most of my scores. The gallery runs over the web & uses MySQL. The box is pretty secure, not running any errant services or open ports. I can't see myself using this box for much of anything else, outside of Solaris-specific tasks. It has mirrored drives, an UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz RISC chip and 1GB of RAM. I'll want to run http/https & ssh on this one.
My primary workstation is my OSX box, a mac mini OC'd to the gills. Don't know that I will be running HTTP from this box, but want to be able to if I so choose. VNC & ssh at a minimum.
My firewall will be my slackware box. It's a 1.6GHz P4 w/768MB of RAM and two identical drives I don't know how to mirror yet in linux. The kernel wouldn't see the hardward IDE-RAID card they were previously attached to. I want to be able to run ssh and http on this box. As this is my firewall, I don't yet know how that works, one of those things I have to figure out as I go along I suppose.
In other news,somebritinmass has joined us on lj! He was very busy today, so it's unlikely we'll hear from him anytime soon. And I'm sure once he and celtmanx go head-to-head we'll all see the fireworks. Let the games begin!
BorgQueen:~/Desktop ehowton$ sudo tcpdump -i en0 -U >> /Volumes/max0r/tcpdump
Which determined that (once ports 22 & 5900 were removed from the equasion) whatever issues remote sites were having from opening Word Documents that originated from this facility, nothing within the document was trying to authenticate back to this office.
I love troubleshooting, this is true - but I also love using my tools to swat away annoying amature suggestions.
With great power comes great responsibility.
That responsibility is now my burden alone to bear.
So I have 5 IP addresses, and I want to assign three of them to three different boxes. I want to be able to run HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, VNC, on all them if I wanted to, and have them connect via DNS entries for each. I want to open gaming ports to my XP box, which will NOT have an externally accessible IP. I don't know how to go about any of this, but with a little persistence, and a lot of time, I'm sure I will arise the victor.
Fun times ahead.
My gallery is on my Solaris box - as well as a backup of most of my scores. The gallery runs over the web & uses MySQL. The box is pretty secure, not running any errant services or open ports. I can't see myself using this box for much of anything else, outside of Solaris-specific tasks. It has mirrored drives, an UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz RISC chip and 1GB of RAM. I'll want to run http/https & ssh on this one.
My primary workstation is my OSX box, a mac mini OC'd to the gills. Don't know that I will be running HTTP from this box, but want to be able to if I so choose. VNC & ssh at a minimum.
My firewall will be my slackware box. It's a 1.6GHz P4 w/768MB of RAM and two identical drives I don't know how to mirror yet in linux. The kernel wouldn't see the hardward IDE-RAID card they were previously attached to. I want to be able to run ssh and http on this box. As this is my firewall, I don't yet know how that works, one of those things I have to figure out as I go along I suppose.
In other news,
somebritinmass has joined us on lj! He was very busy today, so it's unlikely we'll hear from him anytime soon. And I'm sure once he and celtmanx go head-to-head we'll all see the fireworks. Let the games begin!
My job is to build galinda822 a computer for her home office. She's going to order DSL, we already have a monitor, and we're working on making her desk. In previous posts, I've identified the parts we need for her computer, and they run about $125. Then we can get started. However, in a stroke of brilliance this morning, I've decided on something far more fantastic for her future home-office: The Mac Mini.
That's right. With bidding starting ~$150 on eBay these days, she can surf the web in style and free herself from the bonds of XP. I don't have to build anything, either ;) Anyway, I'm pretty excited for her, and I hope you are too! And, no Tom, I will NOT be installing Opera for her. She'll be using Safari, and is prepared to ignore your every comment on the matter. Thank you for your understanding in this matter.
My weekend just got a lot busier. I'm receiving a FedEx shipment of an HP wintel server to rack-mount this weekend to expand the quickly diminishing space of our existing email server. Fun, fun! Oh yeah, the wife doesn't know about that yet. And seeing how tonight we're drinking margaritas and grilling for movie night, I sure as hell hope I'm able to answer the front door by 1000 tomorrow.
At home I run Photoshop CS on my 1200x1600 display. That's a lot of real estate. Imagine my frustration trying to finish up projects at work using Photoshop Elements on a 1024x768? Grrrrrrr.
So, I've pretty much decided I'm going to do everything I need to do on my linux box. I'll use my laptop for Outlook and the few times I need to launch IE. That's really about all it's good for. The linux box is an unbuntu install on a Dell Optiplex SFF with a 3GB P4, half a gig of RAM and a 7200rpm SATA drive. I couldn't ask for a better box on my desktop here at work.
Yahoo! Mail gives me 2GB for my email space. Each site I've been at gives me nearly unlimited email space. The company I work for however, a technologies company, gives me 110MB, and bitch if I don't archive. Nice. You know, I would archive - if I hadn't had 10 computers across 4 accounts the last six years. There are some things I will never understand.
Got to de-rack a Solaris box and tear into it this week. The highlight of my week, as usual; back to my roots. The power-supply had blown and I will likely be here this weekend replacing it.
*sigh*
galinda822 a computer for her home office. She's going to order DSL, we already have a monitor, and we're working on making her desk. In previous posts, I've identified the parts we need for her computer, and they run about $125. Then we can get started. However, in a stroke of brilliance this morning, I've decided on something far more fantastic for her future home-office: The Mac Mini.That's right. With bidding starting ~$150 on eBay these days, she can surf the web in style and free herself from the bonds of XP. I don't have to build anything, either ;) Anyway, I'm pretty excited for her, and I hope you are too! And, no Tom, I will NOT be installing Opera for her. She'll be using Safari, and is prepared to ignore your every comment on the matter. Thank you for your understanding in this matter.
My weekend just got a lot busier. I'm receiving a FedEx shipment of an HP wintel server to rack-mount this weekend to expand the quickly diminishing space of our existing email server. Fun, fun! Oh yeah, the wife doesn't know about that yet. And seeing how tonight we're drinking margaritas and grilling for movie night, I sure as hell hope I'm able to answer the front door by 1000 tomorrow.
At home I run Photoshop CS on my 1200x1600 display. That's a lot of real estate. Imagine my frustration trying to finish up projects at work using Photoshop Elements on a 1024x768? Grrrrrrr.
So, I've pretty much decided I'm going to do everything I need to do on my linux box. I'll use my laptop for Outlook and the few times I need to launch IE. That's really about all it's good for. The linux box is an unbuntu install on a Dell Optiplex SFF with a 3GB P4, half a gig of RAM and a 7200rpm SATA drive. I couldn't ask for a better box on my desktop here at work.
Yahoo! Mail gives me 2GB for my email space. Each site I've been at gives me nearly unlimited email space. The company I work for however, a technologies company, gives me 110MB, and bitch if I don't archive. Nice. You know, I would archive - if I hadn't had 10 computers across 4 accounts the last six years. There are some things I will never understand.
Got to de-rack a Solaris box and tear into it this week. The highlight of my week, as usual; back to my roots. The power-supply had blown and I will likely be here this weekend replacing it.
*sigh*
Correction: My cat Daisy was not sleeping on my head while I was gaming. I apologize for the missunderstanding. In my last post, I stated,
Gamed until 2300. Daisy slept on my head.
That is, I meant to suggest, that these two events occurred sequentially. I apologize for the confusion.
Entry Begins: Slept on my 600-thread count sheets last night. It was like a dream. Perfect and unending. Until the phone woke me at 0400. Another outage at work. Fortunately, my on-call guy was onsite and the issue resolved with no customer impact.
I've been....well, emotional lately. And it dawned on me I've been doling out advice here lately without time in between to stop and ponder things in my own life; to take a little of advice I so freely give. So, here is my haiku:
Even keel and calm
On the inside
Chaotic
Someone else took my advice and posted the lyrics to the song, Smile by Nat King Cole. Let me tell you, reading those lyrics in that circumstance made me ache, and it was much easier to say what I said, than to read someone else's perspective on it. What a bitter pill we sometimes are forced to swallow.
My life is never dull (though I consider myself somewhat boring) though I wish it were. There is always so much going on around me, that sometimes I can't simultaneously assimilate it all at once. I have to have a priority ticketing system in my head. And when people's feelings are at stake, they don't always like being prioritized. That doesn't always work out for them. And lastly, my newest reply to someone's post. I really don't feel that I am qualified to give advice, so what I usually end up doing is sharing how I feel in hopes that something positive can be gleaned from it:
( Read more... )
In other news, Solaris-admin turned SSDM comes to teh rescue on an Sun Netra X1 box being used as an (passive) Intrusion Detection System which did not come up after the power-outage due to an corrupt file system. It was the most exciting thing that happened to me all week.
I leave for an emergency trip to Wichita and will be out of the office all week. I'll post when I can, and as always, I look forward to the comments you leave on this site, as I enjoy posting comments on yours.
Take care.
(Photos provided for Tony, who likes pictures.)
( Tony )
The 2WIRE DSL modem is retarded. Any static IP (i.e. any device it itself did not assign via DHCP) shows as an 'inactive host' thus the router won't route traffic to it. How dumb is that?
( Modem )
Since my wife and I have engaged Galinda to suffer Firefly and Battlestar Galactica with us, it was only fair when the 6th season of The Soprano's began to air, that we immerse ourselves in her world. Unfortunately, my wife and I have never seen any of the episodes. Kind thanks todrax0r for loaning me his box sets so we could catch up. I was pleasantly surprised to find it far less violent and with far less cursing than I had expected. Think Deadwood for my expectations. I despise an overabundance of violence and needless cursing.
( Sopranos )
I usually dislike popular music. Until later. Then I can appreciate it. I hated Motley Crue when they emerged. I hated them equally 10 years later. However, I get an occasional riff in my head, and now enjoy some of their work. So I downloaded their 'Greatest Hits' last night and burned it CDDA format so I could listen to them on my short drive to work and back. However...something just wasn't right. Now, a seasoned fan would have noticed right away that it wasn't Vince Neil actually singing. The first that that tipped me off was the secondary chords being different. Only after skipping through most of the tracks on the CD did I realize...it was a Japanese band doing a cover CD. I ejected the disc and snapped it in half.
( Cover )
Will be compiling on my Solaris box today and hopefully get slackware installed at home this evening. Slackware is gnu-friendly. Solaris is not.
( Rave )
I'm wearing Polo Black this year. Thank you for noticing ;)
( Polo )
Have been listening to Lighnin' Hopkins while building my network at home. I'm only halfway through the second half of Double Blues (as I only use the main play window, arranged by 'Date Added') and am digging it so far. Texas Blues they call it.
( Lightnin )
Lastly, in looking for future used cars to replace the Cav...I've pretty much settled on the yet-to-be produced Dodge Challenger:
( Tony )
The 2WIRE DSL modem is retarded. Any static IP (i.e. any device it itself did not assign via DHCP) shows as an 'inactive host' thus the router won't route traffic to it. How dumb is that?
( Modem )
Since my wife and I have engaged Galinda to suffer Firefly and Battlestar Galactica with us, it was only fair when the 6th season of The Soprano's began to air, that we immerse ourselves in her world. Unfortunately, my wife and I have never seen any of the episodes. Kind thanks to
drax0r for loaning me his box sets so we could catch up. I was pleasantly surprised to find it far less violent and with far less cursing than I had expected. Think Deadwood for my expectations. I despise an overabundance of violence and needless cursing.( Sopranos )
I usually dislike popular music. Until later. Then I can appreciate it. I hated Motley Crue when they emerged. I hated them equally 10 years later. However, I get an occasional riff in my head, and now enjoy some of their work. So I downloaded their 'Greatest Hits' last night and burned it CDDA format so I could listen to them on my short drive to work and back. However...something just wasn't right. Now, a seasoned fan would have noticed right away that it wasn't Vince Neil actually singing. The first that that tipped me off was the secondary chords being different. Only after skipping through most of the tracks on the CD did I realize...it was a Japanese band doing a cover CD. I ejected the disc and snapped it in half.
( Cover )
Will be compiling on my Solaris box today and hopefully get slackware installed at home this evening. Slackware is gnu-friendly. Solaris is not.
( Rave )
I'm wearing Polo Black this year. Thank you for noticing ;)
( Polo )
Have been listening to Lighnin' Hopkins while building my network at home. I'm only halfway through the second half of Double Blues (as I only use the main play window, arranged by 'Date Added') and am digging it so far. Texas Blues they call it.
( Lightnin )
Lastly, in looking for future used cars to replace the Cav...I've pretty much settled on the yet-to-be produced Dodge Challenger:
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Compiled most of the day on the mac.
Wished I was on my Solaris box.
It's not accessible yet.
It will be once I get my router in place.
Maybe a slackware box would be more fun?
MAYBE I'LL PUT MY SLACKWARE BOX BEHIND M0N0WALL.
Asses.
This would be easier if I were smarter.
I had a spring in my step and a song on my lips yesterday.
Today it was backwards. I stepped on my song and sprung my lips.
I don't know why.
Perhaps...just perhaps, I should drink some Pilzner Urquell tonight.
Yup, that's exactly what I'm going to do.
I only made it through 5 full James Bond albums today.
At five daily, it will take me another three days to listen to them all.
The office is off Friday for Good Friday. I call that a GREAT Friday.
slackware has 136 seeds on torrent. That rocks.
Wished I was on my Solaris box.
It's not accessible yet.
It will be once I get my router in place.
Maybe a slackware box would be more fun?
MAYBE I'LL PUT MY SLACKWARE BOX BEHIND M0N0WALL.
Asses.
This would be easier if I were smarter.
I had a spring in my step and a song on my lips yesterday.
Today it was backwards. I stepped on my song and sprung my lips.
I don't know why.
Perhaps...just perhaps, I should drink some Pilzner Urquell tonight.
Yup, that's exactly what I'm going to do.
I only made it through 5 full James Bond albums today.
At five daily, it will take me another three days to listen to them all.
The office is off Friday for Good Friday. I call that a GREAT Friday.
slackware has 136 seeds on torrent. That rocks.
I am indeed getting 5.0+ Mbps down, and approximately 500kbps up. Not too shabby.
Galinda, my wife and I completed the Firefly series and watched the movie Serenity Friday night. Both were fantastic!
Patched my Solaris operation system, upgraded my Gallery software and de-installed BIND and CommuniGate. The built-in router in the DSL modem is crap, and I don't want to spend the money on a hardware router, so I'm contemplating Tony's suggestion of building a linux router, even though I have no idea of how to make that work. Like Galinda says, "You love a challenge." I might argue this point with her.
My wife and I constructed a desk using two dilapidated file cabinets of dissimilar size and the wooden door from my son's closet which we had previously removed. To adjust the height of the smaller rusted filing cabinet, I used my 2U SPARC server, quark. It's adequate until we get our new office furniture (which will be purchased from IKEA at some future date - my wife is planning a trip to the store). It ain't pretty, but it's functional.
OK - I think I'm going to use m0n0wall as my router using basic NAT; no port translations. If I can get that to work the way I want it to, I should be set.
It's only 1300 and I have meetings from 1400-1600. At least it's been a slow Monday...
(2:34:38 PM) studleyqbeefpile: i say, old bean, have you seen my hat?
(2:34:48 PM) studleyqbeefpile: oh yes I have
(2:46:09 PM) EricHowton: Alrighty then.
(2:49:36 PM) studleyqbeefpile: i say, old bean, have you seen my hat?
(3:00:50 PM) EricHowton: Heh, the programmed AIMbots are more verbose than you!
(3:04:36 PM) studleyqbeefpile: i say, old bean, have you seen my hat?
(3:04:37 PM) studleyqbeefpile: reeeadinggggg
(3:04:48 PM) studleyqbeefpile: what does that mean?
(3:05:05 PM) studleyqbeefpile: and why do you have my screen name??
(3:07:20 PM) EricHowton: Dude, you popped up on mine. I have no idea.
(3:07:44 PM) studleyqbeefpile: erichowton: i say, old bean, have you seen my hat?
(3:07:50 PM) studleyqbeefpile: youve sent that to me like 3 times
(3:08:17 PM) EricHowton: (2:34:38 PM) studleyqbeefpile: i say, old bean, have you seen my hat?
(3:08:30 PM) EricHowton: It shows here you've sent that to me three times.
(3:08:40 PM) EricHowton: We've been infiltrated!
(3:08:44 PM) studleyqbeefpile: youre a relay bot
(3:08:53 PM) EricHowton: Hmmmm, I'm running OTR
(3:09:12 PM) EricHowton: And I'm behind a corporate firewall. Wonder how that's possible?
(3:09:33 PM) studleyqbeefpile: i dont even know what that means i just typed in the hat thing on google with your sn and the first thing that came up gave a list of sns that were relay bots and yours was on it
(3:11:08 PM) EricHowton: Odd.
(3:11:10 PM) EricHowton: http://zamiel.livejournal.com/1010889.html
(3:12:40 PM) EricHowton: Found out what it was. It's a bot that pairs up random screennames from livejournal, and IMs them both with the same sentence. As you talk, it also changes the other persons screenname visible to you to 'studleyqbeefpile'. There are a bunch of different ones, apparently. Pretty clever. Seems benign; annoying at the very worst.
(3:13:12 PM) studleyqbeefpile: so no viruses or anything
(3:14:26 PM) EricHowton: Nope. How weird. Sorry for the intrusion.
(3:14:39 PM) studleyqbeefpile: ditto.
Galinda, my wife and I completed the Firefly series and watched the movie Serenity Friday night. Both were fantastic!
Patched my Solaris operation system, upgraded my Gallery software and de-installed BIND and CommuniGate. The built-in router in the DSL modem is crap, and I don't want to spend the money on a hardware router, so I'm contemplating Tony's suggestion of building a linux router, even though I have no idea of how to make that work. Like Galinda says, "You love a challenge." I might argue this point with her.
My wife and I constructed a desk using two dilapidated file cabinets of dissimilar size and the wooden door from my son's closet which we had previously removed. To adjust the height of the smaller rusted filing cabinet, I used my 2U SPARC server, quark. It's adequate until we get our new office furniture (which will be purchased from IKEA at some future date - my wife is planning a trip to the store). It ain't pretty, but it's functional.
OK - I think I'm going to use m0n0wall as my router using basic NAT; no port translations. If I can get that to work the way I want it to, I should be set.
It's only 1300 and I have meetings from 1400-1600. At least it's been a slow Monday...
(2:34:38 PM) studleyqbeefpile: i say, old bean, have you seen my hat?
(2:34:48 PM) studleyqbeefpile: oh yes I have
(2:46:09 PM) EricHowton: Alrighty then.
(2:49:36 PM) studleyqbeefpile: i say, old bean, have you seen my hat?
(3:00:50 PM) EricHowton: Heh, the programmed AIMbots are more verbose than you!
(3:04:36 PM) studleyqbeefpile: i say, old bean, have you seen my hat?
(3:04:37 PM) studleyqbeefpile: reeeadinggggg
(3:04:48 PM) studleyqbeefpile: what does that mean?
(3:05:05 PM) studleyqbeefpile: and why do you have my screen name??
(3:07:20 PM) EricHowton: Dude, you popped up on mine. I have no idea.
(3:07:44 PM) studleyqbeefpile: erichowton: i say, old bean, have you seen my hat?
(3:07:50 PM) studleyqbeefpile: youve sent that to me like 3 times
(3:08:17 PM) EricHowton: (2:34:38 PM) studleyqbeefpile: i say, old bean, have you seen my hat?
(3:08:30 PM) EricHowton: It shows here you've sent that to me three times.
(3:08:40 PM) EricHowton: We've been infiltrated!
(3:08:44 PM) studleyqbeefpile: youre a relay bot
(3:08:53 PM) EricHowton: Hmmmm, I'm running OTR
(3:09:12 PM) EricHowton: And I'm behind a corporate firewall. Wonder how that's possible?
(3:09:33 PM) studleyqbeefpile: i dont even know what that means i just typed in the hat thing on google with your sn and the first thing that came up gave a list of sns that were relay bots and yours was on it
(3:11:08 PM) EricHowton: Odd.
(3:11:10 PM) EricHowton: http://zamiel.livejournal.com/1010889.html
(3:12:40 PM) EricHowton: Found out what it was. It's a bot that pairs up random screennames from livejournal, and IMs them both with the same sentence. As you talk, it also changes the other persons screenname visible to you to 'studleyqbeefpile'. There are a bunch of different ones, apparently. Pretty clever. Seems benign; annoying at the very worst.
(3:13:12 PM) studleyqbeefpile: so no viruses or anything
(3:14:26 PM) EricHowton: Nope. How weird. Sorry for the intrusion.
(3:14:39 PM) studleyqbeefpile: ditto.
Watched Elektra last night. Haven't been that bored in a long time. And I guess I'm in the minority because I don't think Jennifer Garner is hot. So seeing her wiggle her ass as she's all dolled up in tight red leather showing her midriff was not what I wanted to see. I actually found it more boring than Daredevil, which is hard to do.
In other news, they stuffed my hetero-lifemate in a box and put him on the cover of BHG's newest album! Hooray man-boobs!
I got home last night and the primary volume on my macintosh was full. Hmm. That's a 72GB drive. So I start deleting some files to alleviate the pain. Later, it fills up again. WTF? Further investigations revealed a 26GB log file detailing my SHOUTcast transcoder's activities. I trimmed it and turned off logging.
Sprite is a poor substitute for tonic water if you're drinking G&T's.
Sometimes I don't even know how I get as far as I do. I didn't have math.h so I couldn't compile an upgrade to PHP.
How do I always seem to manage these things?
In other news, they stuffed my hetero-lifemate in a box and put him on the cover of BHG's newest album! Hooray man-boobs!
I got home last night and the primary volume on my macintosh was full. Hmm. That's a 72GB drive. So I start deleting some files to alleviate the pain. Later, it fills up again. WTF? Further investigations revealed a 26GB log file detailing my SHOUTcast transcoder's activities. I trimmed it and turned off logging.
Sprite is a poor substitute for tonic water if you're drinking G&T's.
Sometimes I don't even know how I get as far as I do. I didn't have math.h so I couldn't compile an upgrade to PHP.
The following packages are available:
1 SUNWlibm Forte Developer Bundled libm
(sparc) 5.9,REV=2001.12.10
How do I always seem to manage these things?
Just finished the BSG mini-series. It rocked - and, the music was fantastic. Starting Season One now. Listening to "The Shape of Things to Come" as a prelude to the show. I was trying to compile rot13 and elinks on my Solaris box. Both failed on gettext. I'll have to track that down. Was supposed to help build out a SPARCstation-5 this evening, about 45 minutes ago, actually, but the ass never showed on AIM - so an episode then bedtime for me!
Thanks for checking the water in my humidor David!
"Frank" the LiveJournal goat pisses me off,
But I do like LJ's heavily armed monkeys...
Thanks for checking the water in my humidor David!
"Frank" the LiveJournal goat pisses me off,
But I do like LJ's heavily armed monkeys...
I love gin.
I love my wife and miss her something terrible.
I watched the movie "Soldier's Girl" this evening.
My children are annoying and distress me when I'm near them. Nonetheless I miss them when they are gone.
I am listening to the Telarc release, "Choral Masterpieces" with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Probably under the direction of Robert Shaw.
I can't sleep. I am very sleepy. I am wide awake. I will pay for this in the morning. If I could get away with NOT sleeping tonight, I would.
I need to be in early in the morning.
I have already picked the tie I am going to wear tomorrow.
I cannot believe Richard Penn wanted me for this job.
I'm enjoying my job, but I'm not entirely comfortable in it yet. I'm sure that will come in time.
I have compensated for not being a unix admin by re-doubling my efforts on quark.
I need more disk space on my server.
I want another server up.
I wish Jay would put quark with his servers. It's only 2U!
I wish Tony would bring up osCommerce so I could at least provide Dan Smith with what he wants.
I miss Tony.
I miss my cats. Mleko is integrating into David's household. Speedbump thinks he owns their house.
I will eat steel cut oats for breakfast.
I have not been on my high blood pressure medication for nearly a month.
Houses here are fucking expensive!
These Logitech X-230's are not a poor replacement for my fried Bose.
Bose are overrated anyway.
I always preferred Infinity.
I don't know that Infinity makes multi-media speakers.
I don't know why they wouldn't.
I annoy most people who know me.
The only reason my co-workers tolerate me is because I'm the new manager.
I listen to "The Shape of Things to Come" at least 4 times a day.
I wish my Cavalier had more horsepower.
I'm thankful for my family. Everything I do is for them, even when they don't realize it.
I've thought about becoming Amish. I could really do that.
It was fun living with David and Wendy.
We had a house picked out in Burleson.
I drink a lot of water (when I'm not drinking gin).
I need to urinate.
I have a Sun 711 multi-pack.
I don't know where it is.
I miss Daisy.
I like OSX.
I am no longer functional with XP because I try to use OSX commands.
It makes me look retarded.
I love my wife and miss her something terrible.
I watched the movie "Soldier's Girl" this evening.
My children are annoying and distress me when I'm near them. Nonetheless I miss them when they are gone.
I am listening to the Telarc release, "Choral Masterpieces" with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Probably under the direction of Robert Shaw.
I can't sleep. I am very sleepy. I am wide awake. I will pay for this in the morning. If I could get away with NOT sleeping tonight, I would.
I need to be in early in the morning.
I have already picked the tie I am going to wear tomorrow.
I cannot believe Richard Penn wanted me for this job.
I'm enjoying my job, but I'm not entirely comfortable in it yet. I'm sure that will come in time.
I have compensated for not being a unix admin by re-doubling my efforts on quark.
I need more disk space on my server.
I want another server up.
I wish Jay would put quark with his servers. It's only 2U!
I wish Tony would bring up osCommerce so I could at least provide Dan Smith with what he wants.
I miss Tony.
I miss my cats. Mleko is integrating into David's household. Speedbump thinks he owns their house.
I will eat steel cut oats for breakfast.
I have not been on my high blood pressure medication for nearly a month.
Houses here are fucking expensive!
These Logitech X-230's are not a poor replacement for my fried Bose.
Bose are overrated anyway.
I always preferred Infinity.
I don't know that Infinity makes multi-media speakers.
I don't know why they wouldn't.
I annoy most people who know me.
The only reason my co-workers tolerate me is because I'm the new manager.
I listen to "The Shape of Things to Come" at least 4 times a day.
I wish my Cavalier had more horsepower.
I'm thankful for my family. Everything I do is for them, even when they don't realize it.
I've thought about becoming Amish. I could really do that.
It was fun living with David and Wendy.
We had a house picked out in Burleson.
I drink a lot of water (when I'm not drinking gin).
I need to urinate.
I have a Sun 711 multi-pack.
I don't know where it is.
I miss Daisy.
I like OSX.
I am no longer functional with XP because I try to use OSX commands.
It makes me look retarded.
Silence.
The very thing my dear wife so desperately craves...is what keeps me prisoner.
I purchased my Bose MediaMate Multimedia computer speakers from the Nebraska Furniture Mart in 1996 for $250. They have a manufacture date of March 1995 on them, and they went out today. Plunging me into silence. I feel as though I am in solitary confinement. Ah, another thing my wife so desperately craves - solitude. Another prison for me.
It's true that the prices have plummeted on these speakers, now called the Companion 2 and only $99. They might as well be $1000. I no more have a hundred dollars to spend...and if I did, I'd be on my way to Wichita. Not sitting here in the dark, alone, in the silence.
I do have another set of speakers in Wichita, in storage. They suck. Still, what I wouldn't give for having the foresight to have brought them with me. It's been a month since I set foot in Kansas, and I'm ready to go back. Ready to leave St. Louis and hit the open road once again. To travel more than 11 miles at 45 miles per hour. Ready to...fly!
I suppose, as a last resort, I could burn mp3's from iTunes, then play them on my Dream Machine. I had just started Equinox, Part II, the first episode of Voyager Season Six when my audio died. I am at hotel nursing a cold which started around 0100 Friday morning. Was this brought on by the sharp change in weather we've had this week, or lack of proper sleep since my family left? I don't know.
Audio Device: RAW sample output
Playing: calling_sky_captain.ogg
Ogg Vorbis stream: 2 channel, 44100 Hz
Title: Calling Sky Captain
Artist: Shearmur, Edward
Genre: Soundtrack
Date: 2004
Album: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Track number: 04
Assuming raw pcm input filef 03:26.24 (170.9 kbps) Output Buffer 3.1%
LAME version 3.93 (http://www.mp3dev.org/)
Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 18671 Hz - 19205 Hz
Encoding to calling_sky_captain.mp3
Encoding as 44.1 kHz 192 kbps stereo MPEG-1 Layer III (7.3x) qval=2
There are quite a few things that Darwin can do better than Solaris, or shall I say PPC can do better than SPARC? I never could get LAME to do well, anything worthwhile on my Sun boxes. Those of you who run x86 exclusively won't have a clue as to what I am referring to. Suffice it to say, not EVERYTHING just 'works' outta the box on non-x86 architecture where OpenSource software is concerned.
I don't know if I can go a week plunged into silence. I tried unplugging everything and listening via the built-in mac speaker. That was the worst idea I've had in a long time.
My mac mini is slowly degrading. Because of the network set up I have constructed in this hotel, the Operating System cannot gain access to some online functions. The ports required to be opened are blocked and my research thus far has been unsuccessful in determining which ones are required. Software Update is disabled, as are various application optimizers which try to run, but lack the ability to access their online updated definitions. I'm hoping the box lasts another 5 months or so, and that I can restore her to full functionality once I'm free of this kludge.
Then it hits me. I purchased a holder for my cell phone which was ineffective and I was going to take it back to Best Buy. I could use that return to exchange it for some speakers. I'm really in no condition to travel, but what is the alternative?
No one at home when I try to call my wife. They have their own life now. Just have to hold on 6 more days...
Picked up some Logitech X-230 2.1's. They actually sound better than I thought they would. Maybe this weekend won't be so bad after all. Things are starting to look up.
The very thing my dear wife so desperately craves...is what keeps me prisoner.
I purchased my Bose MediaMate Multimedia computer speakers from the Nebraska Furniture Mart in 1996 for $250. They have a manufacture date of March 1995 on them, and they went out today. Plunging me into silence. I feel as though I am in solitary confinement. Ah, another thing my wife so desperately craves - solitude. Another prison for me.
It's true that the prices have plummeted on these speakers, now called the Companion 2 and only $99. They might as well be $1000. I no more have a hundred dollars to spend...and if I did, I'd be on my way to Wichita. Not sitting here in the dark, alone, in the silence.
I do have another set of speakers in Wichita, in storage. They suck. Still, what I wouldn't give for having the foresight to have brought them with me. It's been a month since I set foot in Kansas, and I'm ready to go back. Ready to leave St. Louis and hit the open road once again. To travel more than 11 miles at 45 miles per hour. Ready to...fly!
I suppose, as a last resort, I could burn mp3's from iTunes, then play them on my Dream Machine. I had just started Equinox, Part II, the first episode of Voyager Season Six when my audio died. I am at hotel nursing a cold which started around 0100 Friday morning. Was this brought on by the sharp change in weather we've had this week, or lack of proper sleep since my family left? I don't know.
Audio Device: RAW sample output
Playing: calling_sky_captain.ogg
Ogg Vorbis stream: 2 channel, 44100 Hz
Title: Calling Sky Captain
Artist: Shearmur, Edward
Genre: Soundtrack
Date: 2004
Album: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Track number: 04
Assuming raw pcm input filef 03:26.24 (170.9 kbps) Output Buffer 3.1%
LAME version 3.93 (http://www.mp3dev.org/)
Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 18671 Hz - 19205 Hz
Encoding
Encoding as 44.1 kHz 192 kbps stereo MPEG-1 Layer III (7.3x) qval=2
There are quite a few things that Darwin can do better than Solaris, or shall I say PPC can do better than SPARC? I never could get LAME to do well, anything worthwhile on my Sun boxes. Those of you who run x86 exclusively won't have a clue as to what I am referring to. Suffice it to say, not EVERYTHING just 'works' outta the box on non-x86 architecture where OpenSource software is concerned.
I don't know if I can go a week plunged into silence. I tried unplugging everything and listening via the built-in mac speaker. That was the worst idea I've had in a long time.
My mac mini is slowly degrading. Because of the network set up I have constructed in this hotel, the Operating System cannot gain access to some online functions. The ports required to be opened are blocked and my research thus far has been unsuccessful in determining which ones are required. Software Update is disabled, as are various application optimizers which try to run, but lack the ability to access their online updated definitions. I'm hoping the box lasts another 5 months or so, and that I can restore her to full functionality once I'm free of this kludge.
Then it hits me. I purchased a holder for my cell phone which was ineffective and I was going to take it back to Best Buy. I could use that return to exchange it for some speakers. I'm really in no condition to travel, but what is the alternative?
No one at home when I try to call my wife. They have their own life now. Just have to hold on 6 more days...
Picked up some Logitech X-230 2.1's. They actually sound better than I thought they would. Maybe this weekend won't be so bad after all. Things are starting to look up.
I once read a very in-depth whitepaper on why USB could never be used for networking. Which is funny, today. And yet at the same time, so very, very dumb. My USB Networking Device...stopped responding today between 0730 and 0800. Wired networks are really the only way to go.
My primary Solaris server died today at 1040. My homepage is down, my gallery is down, my virtual Sun CD is offline, and my O'Reilly books are inaccessible. I was going to play with postfix this weekend. Sweet Tony has volunteered to swing by the ADC on his way out of town to fix, but that would delay him many hours and I'd rather he make it to East Texas safely and rested instead.
It's Friday and I have absolutely nothing to do. I'm guessing I'll make dinner at the hotel, watch a movie on the computer, maybe even install an operating system and build a mail server...sleep in a little Saturday morning.
Such is the life I lead whilst on travel.
My primary Solaris server died today at 1040. My homepage is down, my gallery is down, my virtual Sun CD is offline, and my O'Reilly books are inaccessible. I was going to play with postfix this weekend. Sweet Tony has volunteered to swing by the ADC on his way out of town to fix, but that would delay him many hours and I'd rather he make it to East Texas safely and rested instead.
It's Friday and I have absolutely nothing to do. I'm guessing I'll make dinner at the hotel, watch a movie on the computer, maybe even install an operating system and build a mail server...sleep in a little Saturday morning.
Such is the life I lead whilst on travel.
Well, it was worth the wait. And the frustration which followed. Extended Stay America issued me a publicly accessible static IP for six months. I was able to ssh into teh max0r from quark while I had the tech on the phone. I'm kind of embarrassed to admit this, but I'm using Windows XP as my firewall/NAT/port-forwarding router. I really can explain why, but that doesn't make it any less embarrassing.
Tony, I added teh_max0r to your DNS and restarted bind.
I'm looking at getting sendmail to work either on my Solaris server, or my mac, I haven't decided which yet. And as they have a new release of FreeBSD, I may rebuild that box or, perhaps gentoo and use that instead. At any rate, I'm running out of time now. It's nearly 0100, half my St. Louis raspberry weizen microbrews are gone, and I have an early appointment tomorrow...
Tony, I added teh_max0r to your DNS and restarted bind.
I'm looking at getting sendmail to work either on my Solaris server, or my mac, I haven't decided which yet. And as they have a new release of FreeBSD, I may rebuild that box or, perhaps gentoo and use that instead. At any rate, I'm running out of time now. It's nearly 0100, half my St. Louis raspberry weizen microbrews are gone, and I have an early appointment tomorrow...
User called yesterday, "I cannot access my blade100."
"From where?" I ask.
"From my PC sitting right next to it." He replies
"Telnet? SSH? How are you trying to access it."
I find he's trying to browse his share with Windows Explorer. "I think there's something wrong with samba." He suggests. I've been trying to get into his box remotely the entire time during the conversation. I offer this: "Is your box powered on?"
"Uh...no."
"I can guarantee you that 100% of the time you will not be able to browse your samba share when your blade is powered off."
...
My heart jumps every time I see a picture of my wife.
...
Rec'd an email today approximately 2MB in size with the subject line reading, "This will take awhile to download but is worth it."
My reply to him:
Thanks for sharing! Oh, and for the record, it took approximately 6 seconds from my OC-3, slowed only by the speed of my ISP which sustained 187/kbps with peaks of 213/kpbs!
...
Wife is driving down tonight! I took Friday off and made a hotel reservation! w00t!
"From where?" I ask.
"From my PC sitting right next to it." He replies
"Telnet? SSH? How are you trying to access it."
I find he's trying to browse his share with Windows Explorer. "I think there's something wrong with samba." He suggests. I've been trying to get into his box remotely the entire time during the conversation. I offer this: "Is your box powered on?"
"Uh...no."
"I can guarantee you that 100% of the time you will not be able to browse your samba share when your blade is powered off."
...
My heart jumps every time I see a picture of my wife.
...
Rec'd an email today approximately 2MB in size with the subject line reading, "This will take awhile to download but is worth it."
My reply to him:
Thanks for sharing! Oh, and for the record, it took approximately 6 seconds from my OC-3, slowed only by the speed of my ISP which sustained 187/kbps with peaks of 213/kpbs!
...
Wife is driving down tonight! I took Friday off and made a hotel reservation! w00t!
The following is a picture of my VNC session at work into my wee mac at the ADC with the desktop wallpaper set to a screen shot of work's computer desktop manager. I'm so sneaky!
The gallery2 troubleshooting forum has 72 billion entries, and no search function.
LDAP on Solaris 8 is even more gay than LDAP on Solairs 9 or 10.
My wife is gorgeous. I miss her.
Troubleshooting an entire network migration remotely is retarded. I want to scream. I am the sole Solaris administrator for the D.C. office as well. Grrrrr. Oooh! Best part? I sent them written instructions on exactly the steps they needed for migration, but they thought it might be wrong, so they changed some stuff. Better yet, despite my specific instructions to ONLY migrate one box at a time, they managed to render unbootable both the NIS master, and the NIS slave! They called me when they couldn't get their boxes to come up. Nice, huh?
So I'm thinking of implementing LDAP on my servers at home. Why? To learn. Of course I'm considering using openldap, not this Sun ONE iPlanet hack. You see, you've got some kid running linux in his mother's basement. Will that get him a job? Maybe. But will this kid be able to set up a multi-terabyte filesystem on an Enterprise distro of linux? Who knows. But take a home Solaris user who's set up iPlanet LDAP and openldap and now you've got some real world experience. Enterprise LDAP is just larger. My thoughts for the day anyway.
Oh, and the guy in DC? I opened up his netmask, deleted /etc/defaultdomain and got him back up. Now we're just running ypinit -m ;)
SunOS quark 5.9 Generic_118558-04 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-Engine
System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u SPARCengine(tm)Ultra(tm) AXi (UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz)
System clock frequency: 110 MHz
Memory size: 1024 Megabytes
========================= CPUs =========================
Run Ecache CPU CPU
Brd CPU Module MHz MB Impl. Mask
--- --- ------- ----- ------ ------ ----
0 0 0 440 2.0 12 9.1
========================= IO Cards =========================
Bus# Freq
Brd Type MHz Slot Name Model
--- ---- ---- ---- -------------------------------- ----------------------
0 PCI-1 33 1 ebus
0 PCI-1 33 1 network-SUNW,hme
0 PCI-128 33 1 scsi-glm Symbios,53C875
0 PCI-128 33 1 scsi-glm Symbios,53C875
0 PCI-128 33 2 pci108e,1000-pci108e,1000
0 PCI-128 33 2 IntraServer,hme-SUNW,hme IntraServer,ITI-5132E-+
0 PCI-128 33 3 TSI,gfxp GFXP
No failures found in System
===========================
========================= HW Revisions =========================
ASIC Revisions:
---------------
Cheerio: ebus Rev 1
System PROM revisions:
----------------------
OBP 3.10.13 2001/07/25 08:35 POST 1.11.0 1999/03/17 08:42
Compiled my very first program on Mac OSX.
It was uneventful.
Compiled nmap.
Also found I didn't have it installed on quark.
So put it on both machines so they could portscan each other.
...NmapFE will not be made --
your system lacks the capabilities (perhaps GTK)
for this graphical frontend.
You can still run command-line nmap!
nmap graphical frontend? Who knew? My ass bleeds cause I can't run GUI mode. *eyeroll*
quark:
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
80/tcp open http
443/tcp open https
borgqueen (teh max0r):
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
5900/tcp open vnc
quark has been up for 80 days. Not too bad considering all he's been through, the move and all, and the rebuild. I taught myself minimal Solaris loading on quark. Which is why I brought him down...it's patching time! This could take awhile, I'm not sure. He's probably only three rev's back, and he's got probably twice the throughput of those Ass Blade's at work. I don't know where quark will go, or what I'm going to do with him, but I'm sure I'll figure something out.
I started dismantling unused servers at the ADC today. Of course the trash was in the way, so I bundled up all that and took it out. Then I got hungry and had to hunt some food. After that my headache was worse, so I made a pot of coffee. Sat down to drink the cup and starting adding album art to iTunes. Needless to say, I haven't actually dismantled anything yet.
David came over last night and we played a few rounds of Holomatch before organizing the pictures of his last 3 years at the Star Trek convention in Vegas. while I cleaned out my desk. I used to like the one-on-one hunt, but we've been playing massive maps against as many bots as I can fit in. It's been a lot of fun.
...
All patches run and blastwave packages updated. quark is back online! I also managed to stack some unused boxes for relocation.
Ok, so I admit it's sometimes hard for me to delete entire soundtracks that are in my iTunes database. But there I was, innocently listening to music and updating album art, information, etc, when I run across "All About the Benjamins" <-- the entire album! So I think, "WTF?" Now, I must admit that I had already assumed what type of music was going to be there, and as I previewed each song, I had to admit it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, but I had to ask myself, "Will I EVER sit and listen to this crap?" So I deleted it. I'd rather listen to Tony's entire collection of Blood Hound Gang than spare the disk sectors on...oh who am I kidding. I'd keep 50 copies of "All About the Benjamins" on spinning disc before I listened to any BHG.
I started dismantling unused servers at the ADC today. Of course the trash was in the way, so I bundled up all that and took it out. Then I got hungry and had to hunt some food. After that my headache was worse, so I made a pot of coffee. Sat down to drink the cup and starting adding album art to iTunes. Needless to say, I haven't actually dismantled anything yet.
David came over last night and we played a few rounds of Holomatch before organizing the pictures of his last 3 years at the Star Trek convention in Vegas. while I cleaned out my desk. I used to like the one-on-one hunt, but we've been playing massive maps against as many bots as I can fit in. It's been a lot of fun.
...
All patches run and blastwave packages updated. quark is back online! I also managed to stack some unused boxes for relocation.
Ok, so I admit it's sometimes hard for me to delete entire soundtracks that are in my iTunes database. But there I was, innocently listening to music and updating album art, information, etc, when I run across "All About the Benjamins" <-- the entire album! So I think, "WTF?" Now, I must admit that I had already assumed what type of music was going to be there, and as I previewed each song, I had to admit it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, but I had to ask myself, "Will I EVER sit and listen to this crap?" So I deleted it. I'd rather listen to Tony's entire collection of Blood Hound Gang than spare the disk sectors on...oh who am I kidding. I'd keep 50 copies of "All About the Benjamins" on spinning disc before I listened to any BHG.
Went off on the Team Leader yesterday. I feel sorry for him, really. Asking me stupid questions. Poor guy.
Email he rec'd:
I've had a problem using ssh to connect from my box (blade100) to v120. Eric is to resolve this problem; and it's been several weeks. Iris is waiting for me to test the DB that she moved over there. Would you please see that this issue resolved ASAP? Thanks!
Oh, I fixed that problem alright. THREE WEEKS AGO! I deleted his third-party licensed ssh client and used Tony's brilliant SunOS 5.8 tarball to install all the packages necessary for a Solaris 8 box to run secure shell. Then I kindly (oh, so kindly and gently) explained to him how to use IP's in place of hostnames to do exactly what he wanted to do, and he was a happy, secure-shell'ing fool when I left him. Now this. And then the questions about his email from a guy who doesn't know what 'ssh' stands for. Grrrr. I exploded and walked away to work on LDAP. Today, this came in the mail from someone else:
v120 now has a new IP address. When it was given the new IP address three weeks ago, it was not added to the DNS tables or the NIS+ tables. To make matters worse, (1st email guy) and I had resolv.conf files on our Sun boxes that pointed to (old dns server), which is no longer updated but is still functioning as a DNS server and still thinks v120 is at the old address.
Ya think that might be the problem??? Asses.
He asks me yesterday, "So how's L.D.A.P. going?"
"Commonly pronounced, 'LDAP,' it's going fine thank you."
So, I've been using Photoshop Elements in place of Photoshop CS these days for several reasons. Basically, if you know CS, Elemets will just piss you off, as all the same tools are in different locations and some of the features of CS are just non-existant. By far the most wonderful thing about Elements is that it retains batch processing. I tell it, "Take these 400 images in this directory and all it's subdirectories, resize to 50% of their orginal size, make it a gif, and overwrite the original file." Nice.
Sun ONE is gay.
Almost nothing can be compiled from source on a SPARC linux platform and that's sad. The good news is that it can be compiled via the 'emerge' command if it's available. I'm constantly in awe over the number of run-of-the-mill applications gentoo has ported for SPARC linux.
Had a user tell me today, "vi on Sun is so much different than vi on linux," I began to think of the one thorn in my side of vi vs. vim - page width limitation for editing (which is why the first thing I do these days on Solaris is compile vim), when he completes with, "It took me forever to figure out how to insert text!" Hmmm. ln -s /bin/pico /bin/vi?
When you call credit card companies, before, during and after you navigate the phone menu maze, they often implore you to accomplish your needs online. Oddly enough, exactly zero credit card companies have a "Close your account" tab online! Of course when I tried to close the account over the phone, she suggested I keep it active because I had accident coverage for One hundred million thousand dollars! WOW!
Updated the Gallery today!
Had a user tell me today, "vi on Sun is so much different than vi on linux," I began to think of the one thorn in my side of vi vs. vim - page width limitation for editing (which is why the first thing I do these days on Solaris is compile vim), when he completes with, "It took me forever to figure out how to insert text!" Hmmm. ln -s /bin/pico /bin/vi?
When you call credit card companies, before, during and after you navigate the phone menu maze, they often implore you to accomplish your needs online. Oddly enough, exactly zero credit card companies have a "Close your account" tab online! Of course when I tried to close the account over the phone, she suggested I keep it active because I had accident coverage for One hundred million thousand dollars! WOW!
Updated the Gallery today!
Fun in the Sun
Solaris 9's implementation of GNU Apache spreads the binaries, configs, and logs across the directories Solaris uses as defaults for it's binaries, configs and logs (i.e. /etc/apache, /usr/apache, /var/apache). When compiled binaries are placed in these directories, they override the defaults unless something goes wrong. Apparently, during the patching of v100r2 during the 'ginode' problem, Solaris reverted back to it's original file structure without overriding any of the new files. No amount of 'configure runtime linking environment' or ldd was affording me the opportunity to realign the libraries, so a fresh new install of Apache2 has been installed under /opt/csw/bin for integration with the old site.
Seeing this instead of the website you expected?
Do what?
Examine your config.php file and learn the basics of its structure. You will find multiple complete single configurations that each start with ?php and end with ?, with some additional content above, below and between these sections.
Copy each configuration in the combined file into separate single files. Each new file should have ?php as the very first line and ? as the very last line with no extra spaces or blank lines at the top or bottom, and there should be only one of each of these tags. Place each new single config.php in the multisite directory for that site. The case 'domain/path': line just above each configuration in the combined file will help you determine which config.php goes in which multisite directory. Note that this "case" line does not go in the new config.php file. The last configuration in the combined file has default: just above it instead of "case". Rename the combined file to something else and put this last configuration in place as the config.php in this directory.
Now access the primary site and run through the upgrader. Make sure everything is working correctly with this site.
This is why some of my links no longer work in LiveJournal...
There was an old poof from Khartoum
Who brought a lesbian up to his room,
They sat on the bed
Looked at each other and said
"Who does what, with what, to whom?"
--Thanks Phil!
Solaris 9's implementation of GNU Apache spreads the binaries, configs, and logs across the directories Solaris uses as defaults for it's binaries, configs and logs (i.e. /etc/apache, /usr/apache, /var/apache). When compiled binaries are placed in these directories, they override the defaults unless something goes wrong. Apparently, during the patching of v100r2 during the 'ginode' problem, Solaris reverted back to it's original file structure without overriding any of the new files. No amount of 'configure runtime linking environment' or ldd was affording me the opportunity to realign the libraries, so a fresh new install of Apache2 has been installed under /opt/csw/bin for integration with the old site.
Seeing this instead of the website you expected?
Do what?
Examine your config.php file and learn the basics of its structure. You will find multiple complete single configurations that each start with ?php and end with ?, with some additional content above, below and between these sections.
Copy each configuration in the combined file into separate single files. Each new file should have ?php as the very first line and ? as the very last line with no extra spaces or blank lines at the top or bottom, and there should be only one of each of these tags. Place each new single config.php in the multisite directory for that site. The case 'domain/path': line just above each configuration in the combined file will help you determine which config.php goes in which multisite directory. Note that this "case" line does not go in the new config.php file. The last configuration in the combined file has default: just above it instead of "case". Rename the combined file to something else and put this last configuration in place as the config.php in this directory.
Now access the primary site and run through the upgrader. Make sure everything is working correctly with this site.
This is why some of my links no longer work in LiveJournal...
There was an old poof from Khartoum
Who brought a lesbian up to his room,
They sat on the bed
Looked at each other and said
"Who does what, with what, to whom?"
--Thanks Phil!
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Why does HIGGS!
Suddenly appear,
Every time
I start to fear.
Just like ME,
He hates XP
Use FreeBSD...
Wasted time today creating an auto-launching web-front end Solaris disk to follow up a minimum install. I'm building a web-server which will sit in the DMZ and they asked me to lock it down. Oh, I'm going to lock it down alright.
My buddy DALE GREEN is in town this weekend, so I'll try to see him Sunday evening -
My longtime friend DAVID EATHERLY is working today at the Cingular store and who walks in but Peter Mayhew! That's right boys and girls! Chewbacca himself!
Haven't heard from you in awhile; thought you might be dead, if that's not the case; get your ass outta bed!
I don't know what possesses me to fight, tooth and nail, every step of the way, against the corporate grain. Perhaps it's simply because I'm an ass? I certainly don't think I'm smarter than everyone else. Perhaps it's because corporate is usually so frustratingly stupid? Either way, Lotus Notes corporate upgrade. MONTHS of pre-planning, announcements, little java cartoon reminders. Anyway, I waited until the third "YOUR MAIL WILL BE SHUT OFF TOMORROW!" message before I did anything. And really, what they wanted me to do was remove my mail file from the server, and make local copies of my mail file across multiple machines. Look, I don't know what IT rock you've been living under for the past 5 years, but I've been on three accounts, with a grand total of 5 laptops and 3 NTish desktops. Homey really just does not play that. So I changed my location information, upgraded my mail client (in a day, I might add), and continue to receive mail normally.
mud'd a little today for the first time in very long time. I'm ready to level, but I fell in a pit and have to find a shaman leveler dude or somesuch. I really do suck. I was hoping the god Talos would find me, have pity on my pathetic pit-self, and put me in his pocket for awhile. Maybe drop me off at a guildmaster leveler dude shaman. This pit is kinda nasty. Lots of body parts and gore. But there is a nice mud-covered cat I like to pet. Hard to pet him in between battling the boars and insane warriors. kill warrior; pet cat; bash; kick Still, I like to think that Skoal is a spot of sunshine in the pit-cat's miserable mud-caked existence.
bash-2.05# uname -a
SunOS v100r2 5.9 Generic_112233-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2
bash-2.05# showrev -p | grep 113073
Patch: 113073-05 Obsoletes: 113005-02 Requires: 113454-08 Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWcsr, SUNWcarx
bash-2.05# showrev -p | grep 113454
Patch: 113454-04 Obsoletes: Requires: Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWcsr, SUNWcarx
Patch: 113454-14 Obsoletes: 115251-02 Requires: Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWcsr, SUNWcarx, SUNWhea
Patch: 113073-05 Obsoletes: 113005-02 Requires: 113454-08 Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWcsr, SUNWcarx
Patch: 113026-10 Obsoletes: 113069-04, 113282-01, 113333-02, 113491-01, 113276-04 Requires: 112233-07, 113454-01, 114127-01 Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWmdr, SUNWmdu, SUNWmdx, SUNWhea
If 'bad inode number 0 to ginode' is a hardware problem, it should have been cleared up when I broke mirror, inserted a new harddrive, sync'd, broke mirror, and removed the old mirror. It did not. Now, I bark up the patch tree.
I sent this to a friend who was out sick today:
Ode to Wellness
I hear your tummy's in a bind
Try to keep it in
If you feel you have to poop
Just go ahead my friend.
The word around the campfire
Is that you eat too much
Well don't you worry your pretty little head,
I'll take them all out to lunch!
These things do sometimes happen
But happen more often they do
When only you eat at Pancho's
And then forget to poo!
They make this stuff called water
And not just to mix with Coke
If just occasionally you would drink it
You'd be a much happier bloke.
Your bowels are kinda funny
Unless broken they become
Then there's no more laughing
Just runs and runs and runs!
I hope you get to feeling better
So you can come out and play
With just one more sick-day this week
You'll have only had to work 2-days!
Get well soon.
mud'd a little today for the first time in very long time. I'm ready to level, but I fell in a pit and have to find a shaman leveler dude or somesuch. I really do suck. I was hoping the god Talos would find me, have pity on my pathetic pit-self, and put me in his pocket for awhile. Maybe drop me off at a guildmaster leveler dude shaman. This pit is kinda nasty. Lots of body parts and gore. But there is a nice mud-covered cat I like to pet. Hard to pet him in between battling the boars and insane warriors. kill warrior; pet cat; bash; kick Still, I like to think that Skoal is a spot of sunshine in the pit-cat's miserable mud-caked existence.
bash-2.05# uname -a
SunOS v100r2 5.9 Generic_112233-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2
bash-2.05# showrev -p | grep 113073
Patch: 113073-05 Obsoletes: 113005-02 Requires: 113454-08 Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWcsr, SUNWcarx
bash-2.05# showrev -p | grep 113454
Patch: 113454-04 Obsoletes: Requires: Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWcsr, SUNWcarx
Patch: 113454-14 Obsoletes: 115251-02 Requires: Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWcsr, SUNWcarx, SUNWhea
Patch: 113073-05 Obsoletes: 113005-02 Requires: 113454-08 Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWcsr, SUNWcarx
Patch: 113026-10 Obsoletes: 113069-04, 113282-01, 113333-02, 113491-01, 113276-04 Requires: 112233-07, 113454-01, 114127-01 Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWmdr, SUNWmdu, SUNWmdx, SUNWhea
If 'bad inode number 0 to ginode' is a hardware problem, it should have been cleared up when I broke mirror, inserted a new harddrive, sync'd, broke mirror, and removed the old mirror. It did not. Now, I bark up the patch tree.
I sent this to a friend who was out sick today:
Ode to Wellness
I hear your tummy's in a bind
Try to keep it in
If you feel you have to poop
Just go ahead my friend.
The word around the campfire
Is that you eat too much
Well don't you worry your pretty little head,
I'll take them all out to lunch!
These things do sometimes happen
But happen more often they do
When only you eat at Pancho's
And then forget to poo!
They make this stuff called water
And not just to mix with Coke
If just occasionally you would drink it
You'd be a much happier bloke.
Your bowels are kinda funny
Unless broken they become
Then there's no more laughing
Just runs and runs and runs!
I hope you get to feeling better
So you can come out and play
With just one more sick-day this week
You'll have only had to work 2-days!
Get well soon.
It was a beautiful spring morning. Tony was still at work from working overnight when I arrived at the office. We went to the caff and had Richard make us some fantastic omlettes, came back to our desk, Tony put on a little Ella, I was dancing in my chair. This stunted prick 7 cubes down races to Tony's cube and loudly announces, "DON'T YOU HAVE HEADPHONES?"
What Tony said: "Uh....yeah."
Leave a comment of what Tony would have liked to have said!
Yesterday morning I grabbed the 2.2 litre polycarbonate water bottle my wife gave me to ensure I drink plenty of water at work and began my trek to one of the further water fountains, as it is the coolest, and has the highest arc - required for filling bottles! As I was 3/4 done this largish woman stands behind me with an empty glass in her hand. I say, "2.2 liters, 70 second to fill, and I'm 75% done." She replies, "You know, there is a sink down the hall."
What I said: "Thank you."
Leave a comment of what I should have said!
There was an accident in Fort Worth at approximately 2200 last night. The driver apparently hit, or caused to be knocked down, a pole. This particular pole was a power pole and knocked power out of more than a block. Our building lost power. Our generator kicked in as it was supposed to, but the battery the generator feeds, failed. Every server went down. I've been bringing them up one at a time. I got here late today, even. My boss had most of the important ones up bright and early. "Monitor every box we back up!" He tells me. So....some workstations on users desks are powered off and they're gone for the holiday weekend and the doors are locked. You're thinking, "Brilliant," right? What a pain in my balls this is:
Added bb start script to v480e, launched blade11, couldn't get access to blade1 so removed it from monitoring, fixed blade31, fixed callie, fsck'd blade9, fixed top on ncgcasm01, added bb startup to blade2502, updated vmewdevweb's bb start script...
Leaving for Kansas in three hours. It looks like a stormfront is going to cover I-35 from Dallas to Wichita. Fantastic.
Updated every package on my primary Solaris box at the ADC, quark.xirr.com <-- this took forever too!
docs.sun.com: If a system fails power-on diagnostics, then auto-boot? is ignored and the system does not boot unless the user does it manually. This behavior is obviously not acceptable for a degraded boot scenario, so the Enterprise 250 OBP provides a second NVRAM‐controlled switch called auto-boot-on-error?. This switch controls whether the system will attempt a degraded boot when a subsystem failure is detected. Both the auto-boot? and auto-boot-on-error? switches must be set to true to enable a degraded boot.
So on my last system, a v100, I get the error, "bad inode number 0 to ginode" when I fsck. Same error when I do a superblock fsck. Sun says, "Contact your service provider or another qualified person." WTF? It appears irreparably damaged. So I call a qualified person, Steve Price who, after laughing, explains that I have to low-level format this ATA drive, replace the standard Sun cable with an 80-pin, and restore the data. Fortunately, it's mirrored, so after I pull the drive to format it, I'll whing-ding the sync and may still get outta here on time! Thanks Steve. Still, I don't understand if its a missing inode on a mirrored filesystem, which drive do I pull...and how is resyncing going to fix it? I think I'll just start pulling drives.
Grrrrr.
What Tony said: "Uh....yeah."
Leave a comment of what Tony would have liked to have said!
Yesterday morning I grabbed the 2.2 litre polycarbonate water bottle my wife gave me to ensure I drink plenty of water at work and began my trek to one of the further water fountains, as it is the coolest, and has the highest arc - required for filling bottles! As I was 3/4 done this largish woman stands behind me with an empty glass in her hand. I say, "2.2 liters, 70 second to fill, and I'm 75% done." She replies, "You know, there is a sink down the hall."
What I said: "Thank you."
Leave a comment of what I should have said!
There was an accident in Fort Worth at approximately 2200 last night. The driver apparently hit, or caused to be knocked down, a pole. This particular pole was a power pole and knocked power out of more than a block. Our building lost power. Our generator kicked in as it was supposed to, but the battery the generator feeds, failed. Every server went down. I've been bringing them up one at a time. I got here late today, even. My boss had most of the important ones up bright and early. "Monitor every box we back up!" He tells me. So....some workstations on users desks are powered off and they're gone for the holiday weekend and the doors are locked. You're thinking, "Brilliant," right? What a pain in my balls this is:
Added bb start script to v480e, launched blade11, couldn't get access to blade1 so removed it from monitoring, fixed blade31, fixed callie, fsck'd blade9, fixed top on ncgcasm01, added bb startup to blade2502, updated vmewdevweb's bb start script...
Leaving for Kansas in three hours. It looks like a stormfront is going to cover I-35 from Dallas to Wichita. Fantastic.
Updated every package on my primary Solaris box at the ADC, quark.xirr.com <-- this took forever too!
docs.sun.com: If a system fails power-on diagnostics, then auto-boot? is ignored and the system does not boot unless the user does it manually. This behavior is obviously not acceptable for a degraded boot scenario, so the Enterprise 250 OBP provides a second NVRAM‐controlled switch called auto-boot-on-error?. This switch controls whether the system will attempt a degraded boot when a subsystem failure is detected. Both the auto-boot? and auto-boot-on-error? switches must be set to true to enable a degraded boot.
So on my last system, a v100, I get the error, "bad inode number 0 to ginode" when I fsck. Same error when I do a superblock fsck. Sun says, "Contact your service provider or another qualified person." WTF? It appears irreparably damaged. So I call a qualified person, Steve Price who, after laughing, explains that I have to low-level format this ATA drive, replace the standard Sun cable with an 80-pin, and restore the data. Fortunately, it's mirrored, so after I pull the drive to format it, I'll whing-ding the sync and may still get outta here on time! Thanks Steve. Still, I don't understand if its a missing inode on a mirrored filesystem, which drive do I pull...and how is resyncing going to fix it? I think I'll just start pulling drives.
Grrrrr.
The Wichita trip was uneventful. I pray for uneventful road trips. Had a fantastic time with the wife and kids, both together, and later, separately. Three weeks is too long to be away from the kids, and this is probably the last time the separation will be that duration. Mother-in-Law (anagram of "Woman Hitler") put me to work right away, cooking food for 40 people who were showing up at the party, and I helped the father-in-Law around the house here and there. Yes, it was hot and humid. The brother-in-law and family show up on schedule and fun ensues. The kids played together nonstop for two days, leaving us to smoke cigars, drink beer, and visit. In the evenings I would attach a homemade chariot to the back of a lawn tractor and pull the kids around the acreage at full throttle. It was really a fantastic time.
I rolled in at 1600 yesterday and stopped at the folks for a bite to eat, fix computer issues, and upgrade mom's Dell with some RAM Tony donated to the cause from his Mac Mini when he upgraded. From there to the ADC where Tony and I enjoyed a long embrace and got to work on one of our clients laptops. From there to Remote Location Alpha, where I cleaned kitty boxes, gave love to kitties, relocated my cot from the computer room to a spare bedroom, and played an hour of Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast.
That brings us to today. Two ladies showed up bright and early at my cube this morning, excited that the Solaris guy was back! They were both taking turns talking to me about their problems as I studied the last gurgle of the coffeemaker dispensing my first cup of coffee of the morning. They continued to talk while I poured a large mug full and brought it to my nose inhaling deeply the bittersweet aroma. I closed my eyes and took my first sip as their voices faded out...When I opened my eyes they were both looking at me. I explained, "If it appears that I am much more interested in this cup of coffee than your problems, it's because I am." One started to go into great detail about Oracle databases and accesses and versions of Oracle and Standard versus Enterprise editions but I waved my hand at her and said, "All I hear is blah-blah-blah can't mount filesystem, blah-blah-blah need it back up. Is that accurate?" (It's really all I needed to know.) As it turns out, it's a Veritas filesystem. "Wait until Eric gets here tomorrow." they all said. Is that the same Eric who CSC has promised Veritas training to for 5 years but never sent? Why yes it is! So here I sit trying to fix a problem which in all honesty looks like I could fix quickly if it weren't encapsulated by Veritas. Also, during the domain migration, my co-worker was able to fend them off re-imaging my laptop for the time being, but they went ahead and uninstalled AIM for me. So, I emerge'd GAIM on the gentoo box.
r0ckin'
I leave you with this, my son, on the Slip 'N Slide:
I rolled in at 1600 yesterday and stopped at the folks for a bite to eat, fix computer issues, and upgrade mom's Dell with some RAM Tony donated to the cause from his Mac Mini when he upgraded. From there to the ADC where Tony and I enjoyed a long embrace and got to work on one of our clients laptops. From there to Remote Location Alpha, where I cleaned kitty boxes, gave love to kitties, relocated my cot from the computer room to a spare bedroom, and played an hour of Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast.
That brings us to today. Two ladies showed up bright and early at my cube this morning, excited that the Solaris guy was back! They were both taking turns talking to me about their problems as I studied the last gurgle of the coffeemaker dispensing my first cup of coffee of the morning. They continued to talk while I poured a large mug full and brought it to my nose inhaling deeply the bittersweet aroma. I closed my eyes and took my first sip as their voices faded out...When I opened my eyes they were both looking at me. I explained, "If it appears that I am much more interested in this cup of coffee than your problems, it's because I am." One started to go into great detail about Oracle databases and accesses and versions of Oracle and Standard versus Enterprise editions but I waved my hand at her and said, "All I hear is blah-blah-blah can't mount filesystem, blah-blah-blah need it back up. Is that accurate?" (It's really all I needed to know.) As it turns out, it's a Veritas filesystem. "Wait until Eric gets here tomorrow." they all said. Is that the same Eric who CSC has promised Veritas training to for 5 years but never sent? Why yes it is! So here I sit trying to fix a problem which in all honesty looks like I could fix quickly if it weren't encapsulated by Veritas. Also, during the domain migration, my co-worker was able to fend them off re-imaging my laptop for the time being, but they went ahead and uninstalled AIM for me. So, I emerge'd GAIM on the gentoo box.
r0ckin'
I leave you with this, my son, on the Slip 'N Slide:
