November 2007
18 posts
This woman is my HERO →
She’s had a few other posts that made me think she deserved the title of Captain Awesome, but this one takes the cake so far. Be sure to check out her nyquil and tailgater stories. That is all.
Yikes. →
“The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch...”
– Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
so wrong, but so right. →
tis the season to be charitable
Normally, I would be ranting that charity needs to happen all the time, not just around the holidays. But, I just found out that the company I work for will match up to 200$ of donations that I make to a particular charity. Yet another reason why I like working for this place. :D
it's about damn time. stupidfilter.org →
geek poetry
! * ’ ’ # ^ @ ` $ $ - ! * ’ $ _ % * < > # 4 & ) . . / | { ~ ~ SYSTEM HALTED Translation Waka-waka bang splat tick tick hash, Caret at back-tick dollar dollar dash, Bang splat tick dollar underscore, Percent splat waka-waka number four, Ampersand right-paren dot dot slash, Verticle-bar curly-bracket tilde tilde CRASH. (Fred Bremmer &...
my new word for today
dreck |drek| (also drek) noun informal rubbish; trash : this so-called art is pure dreck.
bad things come in three
I took the dog to the groomers. She now looks and smells wonderful, but she’s managed to come home with fleas. The full fledged symptoms of my cold arrived on Sunday. I did get to go out on Saturday, so perhaps I’m patient 0 for a bunch of people. Sweet! Adam meant well when he put stuff out for recycling, but xmas presents got recycled as well. I suppose it could be much worse.. I...
k3ri vs udev
Task: set up a 14 drive raid with 1 hot spare for a customer. First I yum update. No reboot necessary, which was nice. Next, I learn the finer points of mdadm, as I’ve never actually done RAID 5 on a live server. Since the machine is remote, the chances of my screwing it up increase dramatically. Then, I fdisk the drives, all 14 of them. Then, comes the part that I can now do in my sleep....
hooray for google, even though, as my boss said: “google does know evil” Yet, it did come through for me when I got finished with my renumbering our network and moved to mdadm. Man pages? Pshaw. I have google. I know someone else out there has done this at least once, and written about it. Create a raid with 13 devices? No problem! Add a hot swap to the md raid? No problem! What did...