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If you're going to anounce a OS release, it would be nice to make it available!

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Oh yeah... I have one... Maybe I should start using it.

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maybe I should buy a coffee pot for the office

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Done with Industrial... now on to Industrial Metal: Fear Factory!

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Ratpoison is the best WindowManager out there. C-T excellent!

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.... Happy fun time Ninja Death Clan... that's who!

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Making stupid mistakes with Perl coding... who knew you needed "sub" for a function....

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Why I'm taking latin... to name servers.

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Yummy Lipton tea.

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catching spammers.... creating cool IKE wallpapers

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"What the frig!?!?!"... I'm auditioning for Ghost Hunters.

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If I was smarter I would be pulling metadata instead of cut-copy-paste

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OK... Apple's Genius is kind of cool

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OK... it's a Napalm Death, code-in-perl morning.

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When chuck Norris does division, there are no remainders

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The pen is mighter than the sword, but only if the pen is held by Chuck Norris.

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If Chuck Norris wants your opinion, he'll beat it into you.

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Chuck Norris knows the last digit of pi.

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Time waits for no man. Unless that man is Chuck Norris.

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In the Bible, Jesus turned water into wine. But then Chuck Norris turned that wine into beer.

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have I ever mentioned having an office is W O N D E R F U L

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drat... a student worker turned on the hall light... Oh well, guess I will close the door.

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The lights are off in the hallway at work so it's nice and dark. My monitors are giving off most off the light... this is wonderful

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I really think vxmake should be renamed vxwait... geeks get this

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This morning is a "Napalm Death && Headphones" type of morning.

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Now I'm craving cury.

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Listening to the Bombay Dub Orchestra I checked out from the library... it's some good chillout music.

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turning off Soundgarden, switching to Lamb of God... maybe this will wake me up

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too tired... Can't even focus on simple script writing.

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Writing up Wallgreens list: lip gloss, tweezers, bronzer, beer. 8-)

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Checking out fashion tips at http://www.njdouchebags.com/

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Calling it a day and heading home.

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Applied for Admission to ISU... Student at large... trying to figure out what I am going to do with my life.

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Wagner's Tristan und Isolde... I guess I'm getting old... I'm really liking this stuff.

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Arg... I need the mysql root user and I don't have it's password!

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Ahhhh. La Bamba for lunch again... talk about going to the dark-side of food digestion.

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Checking out the couple of hundred new Lab computers... Geek Xmas in July

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Back to parsing regular expressions across multiple lines... why can't it be easier?

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compile my little program complie!

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Listening to Hole, "Live Through This"

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$0.99 Taco Tuesday @ La Bamaba's.... cheap but filling

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I have to love ZFS and it's NFS export options!

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I am annoyed at the /etc/fstab and /etc/vfstab differences btw Linux and Solaris

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it's been a while since I messed with NFS... forgot about rpc and portmaps!

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I need to get a Pepsi from the book store 20oz for $1.06. I should buy a case.

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Tomoato, Cucumber, cheese sandwich (with a pickle) for lunch. YUMMY!

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Listening to the Lords of the New Chuch (it's my youth thing) and cursing X4500

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Back after a long 4th Weekend. Back to patching servers.

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ILOM firmware upgrades, you gota love them!

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logadm.... you have to enjoy the level of disconnet between the manpage and implementation

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OK... found Psychotic Homicidal Dismemberment, Pulverizing Prostitutes For Pig Feed. Which makes me wonder why I like Death Metal.

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Found Bruce Lash, Prozak for Lovers I and II on CD. I'm really feeling mellow right now.

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Reading Hardcore Zen by Brad Warner... I can't put it down.

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Steve Roach, "Piece of Infinity" is 100% better when it's slowed down by a third.

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writing shell based cgi and listening to Static-X

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RBAC + authorizations = NO SUDO!

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Reading up on ZoneMgr... good grief this makes zone management simple and easy.

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listening to R.E.M.'s Accelerate. They finally put out a decent CD.

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playing with zfs snapshots on opensolaris... this stuff is cool

The Worst thing about Patching

... is when your backout directory does not exist. Then when you try to backout of a patch, you can't. So what can you do but rebuild your server ... one more time. 

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OK... solaris and smpatch are really nice. But patching a sun system is like pulling teeth. Ugh.

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Now I just need to find a Naplam Death station that doesn't play Damage Plan or Pantera. Ugh.

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I found www.wgbh.org/classical the other day, and I have not been disappointed. It's nice to find a good classical station to listen to.

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Ah... early morning Nagioa pluging writing.... The birds are singing, the sun is shinging, and return codes are zero. Life is good.

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Wathing Family Guy.... it's too good.

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It's a nice warm day. Took Wedel out for a very long walk on the Trail.

Long Week

Yeah... I know it's been a short work week. But for some reason it feels just the opposite. I guess getting bounced around multiple support tickets (Sun, Blackboard) can take a lot out of a person. Even when you don't have much to do. It will be nice to resolve those things and get back to other projects. 

I finally got my iMac back. If I haven't said it before, Time Machine is the best program out there. I just need to find a better, faster disk than my little PATA. It's going to take all night to back up my drive again.

Oh well. 

Zen time!

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I have to say bash's built in substring functions are wonderful: I get what I want with ${disk:0:4} without using `cut`

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readding all my disks into veritas so I can get the same default private regions.

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Had a very nice, very long weekend

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I haven't herad Mercyful Fate in years.... must urge satanic temptations... ha

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Hmmm... it looks like I can't post to twitter for now... I need to code a timeout on my little BLOG script.

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The library got a lot of new "old" metal. So now I get to listen to the music I loved as a kid.

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got a couple of new disk... testing them to see if they are good.

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You know... I loved LOM, but stop changing the freaking user interface wit each release!

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The start of a wonderful new day... it's about to rain outside and the weather is w o n d e r f u l

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A funny thing happened... I saw the very same scrubs episode I watched this morning while at the gym.

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Saturday Night and I'm doing laundry at the laudromat.

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Mama's Boy is a movie I need to see some time.

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I need to compile a list of Elliot's odd self-referential stories.

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Watching scrubs, Season 5...Paig Cox is hot.

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Well, I just modified my twitter account... posted a nice pictuer of Wedel on his blog.

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I LOVE PERL!!!

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I'm blogging this and twtting at the same time

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test from home

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I have to say... Ubuntu eye-candy is really great. I think I spend half my time placing windows around the cube than doing actual work.

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testing my workstation rebuild

Computer Rebuild Day

My iMac died on me this morning. So that was fun. I know it's the disk, and it's been flaky for the past couple of months. Hopefully the Mac servicecenter will replace it this time, instead of telling me it's nothing more than a corrupted OS.

Work was dead today. Really dead. No one was there. That's the nice thing about an University during the summer time. So I took the time to rebuild my workstation to Ubuntu 8.04. I originally put 7.04 on it and a subsequent upgrade turned it into a flake monger. Compiz would die for no reason, the screen saver wouldn't take at time. It was time to rebuild.

The problem with rebuilding is I have to reinstall all the programs I use on a day to day basis. It's easy to do with Ubuntu... with any Linux OS nowdays... but it's still a pain. The biggest one is getting all the perl modules loaded.

Hence why I didn't update my blog until now. The CLI program I wrote is in perl.

Today is a day to just sit around the porch and watch the ducks quack.

Oh... and yesterday's server that would not start? Corrupted XML in the config file!!! What caused it? The program.... a known bug. Fun.

Off to Zen.

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Don't you hate it when your server doesn't restart and you have to stay at work... waiting for tech support to call you back, so you can bring up the only system that people want to use? I do. 8-)

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waiting for 4:30 so I can restart blackboard. There's nothing finer than a large, monolithic application that has a single access point.

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Back from lunch... a nice picnic held indoors. There's nothing like a free box lunch.

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Looking at why people can't log into the Spam Quarantine Page. I've never seen PHP code before... it looks nice and clean.

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Sigh... Matt, my coworker, just bought ZZ Top's Greatest Hits.

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It's clasical music time... www.cpr.org/listen . That's what Wedel is listening to now. All that jazz was making him a little... existential. "I bark, ergo WOOF"

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waking up at work.... I got me some nice coffee. The weather is wonderful!! Cloudy and around 50 F.

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looking at docs for changing JES logging specifications

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ok... it's a Devildriver afternoon!

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acking portal load average alerts... darn kids want to know their grades...

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it's a 90's type of day for music: Helmet, Hole, L7, Prong, Smashing Pumpkins, Screaming Trees.... where's my Soundgarden?

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heading home for lunch to walk the doggie and eat some yummy Medici bread!

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wrote out CLI script to easily post to this blog

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fist blog posting