Thursday, December 24, 2009

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its days like today that I wish I was more software than hardware, more programmer than sysadmin

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

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7.5.1.2.4 V$SQL_WORKAREA_HISTOGRAM..... my brain is melting

Friday, December 18, 2009

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Napalm Death makes working F U N ! ! ! !!

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When booting from a ZFS file system, the root device is specified by the boot -B $ZFS-BOOTFS parameter on either the kernel or module line in the GRUB menu entry

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It's too early for: Booting From a ZFS Root File System on a SPARC Based System

Thursday, December 17, 2009

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EVIL unix sysadmin (in training)

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I've progressed from deleting files to deleting file systems to deleting virutal clusters bruhahahahahah

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clzc delete orazc burrrrhahahahahahaha

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clzc uninstall orazc

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zfs destory rpool/cluster2 bruhahahahahahahahaha

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just realized I have officially been in the computer biz for 10 years.

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today today what in the world is a "doay"? Durn 10 year old keyboard.

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I really don't want to do anything doay

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

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Oracle Support sucks

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sometimes I just like to sit and stare at my desktop

Monday, December 7, 2009

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My pockets are out and running about

Saturday, December 5, 2009

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Sat. 4am maintenance.... ugh

Thursday, December 3, 2009

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The server is keeping track of inodes??? I'm too used to zfs!

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

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arrrg... cheeto crumbs in my wristpad!

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

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I have to say, it's kind of fun to sit on the kitchen table and to work.

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Bin ich nun frei?

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commuter service

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filbert

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Best thing about working at 4AM: Blasting Swan Lake throughout the house.

Monday, November 30, 2009

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rebuilding Virtualbox kernel because the update blew away the old one

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back from a very long weekend

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

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bla bla boot disk1 -xr bla

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ORA-27154... 10 years as a sysadmin and this is the first time I've had to tune a kernal! Sweet!

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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Cloning Servers... too bad they won't be EVIL clones

Monday, November 23, 2009

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OK... I'm too used to Unbuntu, Fedora is crap slow!

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where is the Sun Cluster command, cldestroy ?

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Ahhhhh, a nice empty campus to work in!

Friday, November 20, 2009

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fun fun fun, no disks responding, data corruption, funFunFFFFFun

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PARTIALLY TRUNCATED INODE I=834 .... aaaarrrrrgggggggg

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SGI O2 keyboard still as wonderful as the first day we met 10 years ago! True luv!

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second rule of Sun Cluster: its never right

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Nice cold morning

Thursday, September 10, 2009

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Webct Backup F00

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Airport is messing up, but in middle of an upgrade/download. Sigh.

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Morning Coffee Foo

Thursday, September 3, 2009

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Typing on my 1999 SGI keyboard is wonderful, but loud and annoying to my coworkers

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

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Joy Division Morning w/ kick A#* Chromium Linux Foo

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Chromium Linux Foo

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

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work work work work... facebook work work tweet

Monday, August 10, 2009

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Here in my Car / I feel safest of all / I can lock all my doors / its the only way to live / in cars

Friday, August 7, 2009

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never realized how loud my EeePC speakers are... once you get into a quiet room

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waiting for FedX

Thursday, August 6, 2009

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It's always good to edit your files BEFORE you issue a init 0

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

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why can't I remember this command... tar cf - * | ( cd /target; tar xfp -)

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You know when you're getting old when you up your terminal font to 9x15

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call me... cluster boy

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clrs create -g web-rg -t HAStoragePlus -p Zpools=web-app-zpl web-app-zpl-rs

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zpool create -m /global/web-app web-app-zpl /dev/did/dsk/d5s0

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what I do all day...

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clnode evacuate .... is a good thing

Monday, July 27, 2009

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Drum and Bass mix today

Friday, July 24, 2009

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sometimes, when I walk around work, I pretend my iPhone is a tricorder.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

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having fun giving new server latin names, no I'm not calling one Marco

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My keyboard is enjoying my coffee quite nicely.

Friday, July 17, 2009

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I think the next LOM should be FLOM

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Why does sun keep chaning LOMS and OBP functionality with every freaking server they produce?

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

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10 minutes in a server room basement: cough cough cough cough

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paying for typing "reboot -- -s" instead of "reboot -- -x"

Friday, June 19, 2009

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For those music sites tolling my feed: MISERY INDEX MISERY INDEX MISERY INDEX

Sunday, June 14, 2009

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Why do people keep sending passwords when we keep telling them WE WILL NEVER ASK FOR YOUR PASSWORD?

Friday, June 12, 2009

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OK... KDE4 is realy wooing me here

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

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tilda rocks for those lazy Unix people who like to have a lot of open windows

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Done with my perl dance... taking a rest.

Monday, June 8, 2009

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Team isn't here. Turning off lights, closing door, cranking up Death Metal.

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It's apple day. It's Apple Day. IT'S APPLE DAY!

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Wow, pkgrm removes the packes from my whole root zones! I've never done this before. It's cool.

Friday, June 5, 2009

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arg! compiling mysql on a branded zone in a 1.3GHZ box = v e r y slow

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This is cool: Linux olim 2.4.21 BrandZ fake linux i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

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I love this message... WARNING: your kernel is veeery old. No problems.

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Did you ever have one of those days where you just want to blast Death Metal through the headphones?

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

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it's been a while for perl... can't remember basic syntax

Thursday, May 28, 2009

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OK, EEEbuntu is cool, but I keep hitting the left click button and creating new folders!!

Monday, May 18, 2009

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documentation day <format> f u n </format>

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OK it's a Hanzel und Gretyl morning... too bad I can't blast out the hallways like I did this weekend

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still not waking up this morning.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

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Installed Ubuntu on a usb stick. RUnning this off my Eee Pc. This is cool

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

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and whatever I don't have, I can easily compile. it's back to /usr/local/bin for me!

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OK.. Zenwalk is pretty cool. The applications work, and they work well.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

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OD'd on coffee this monring. Now I need another jolt. Sigh. When will I learn to regulate my dosages.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

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why can't I type my passwords today?!?

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

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The best thing about an office: leaving your music playing over night and walking in to an Archie Shepp solo first thing in the morning.

Monday, May 4, 2009

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How many times will I type "echo format" instead of "echo | format" ????

Friday, May 1, 2009

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finally fixed whatever I did to my Opensolaris box. XORG is back on line.

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it's a 70's electronic morning with the best atmospheric CD's from Tangerine Dream: Phaedra, Rubycon, Stratosfear and Zeit

Thursday, April 30, 2009

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graphic wise Opensolaris is killing my Duron 1.3. But it makes such a cool desktop

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yeah KDE4's Konsole is starting to look really nice. I still think they need some new backgrounds / themes.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

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Documentation Day!

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

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After a days worth of grunge music I'm so happy to have Napalm Death's new one.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

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Listening to My Bloody Valentine because I live in the middle of nowhere and the good bands don't come here... which is ok

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Why am I downloading Ubuntu????? I'd rather have opensolaris over Ubuntu any day of the week.

Monday, April 20, 2009

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Select job from huge corporation where skillset in ('Oracle','Solaris') and system = 'sparc';

Friday, April 17, 2009

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Jinxed myself with the alter table remark... my alter index statement killed my RDBMS. Sigh.

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apt-get remove meeting-boredom

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rebuilding webct indexes, alter table die die die

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In a Ministry / metal mood

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

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listening to the Dronezone on Somafm.com

Thursday, April 2, 2009

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upgraded desktop, rebooted, lost sound. Thank Goodness for iPods.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

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Listening to Prodigy, really wish I had Lords of Acid.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

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Zeppelin's In through the Out Door, is ALWAYS good to listen to.

Monday, March 30, 2009

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watching my patches fail on install... maybe I should just do an upgrade

Friday, March 20, 2009

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starting to get sick... crap

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

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I'm quite annoyed at how a cow-orker is giddy-as-a-school-girl happy when he makes people doing annoying things

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It's a string quartet morning: Kronos Quartet

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I tell you, for loops with conditionals are da'bomb

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

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Hey SUN.com, try an easy to find naming convention for your document that don't take up 84 columns!

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Wagner + PostgresSQL in a Non-Global HA Container Deployment Example = fun afternoon

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Burritoes and Dorritoes for Lunch... Y U M M Y

Monday, March 16, 2009

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I corrupted the partition table to one of my disks. It's now toast. I love toast, I hate toast. Ah, paradoxes.

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Not waking up.... Skinlab and coffee, a nice mellow start to the morning.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

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The HAStoragePlus resource type provides additional file system capabilities suck as checks, mounts, and forced unmounts.

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Wathing webcam of blizzard in Grand Forks. I can't believe I still call that home.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

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Found it... it's the amplify effect.

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2 opterons + SAS drives = a kick ass I/O

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I need to find a way to use audacity (program) and make a soft sound louder

Sunday, March 1, 2009

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so much time this weekend... not sure what to do

Thursday, February 26, 2009

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at least I'm getting a lot of postgres initdb practice down

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Oh, it doesn't do it when I post, but when I type "clearr" iit repeats

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wondering why my keyboard is repeating a lot of keys that I type

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listening to Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

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reading up on pfexec, true crypt, iscsi, and postgres point in time recoveries... none are related

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Listening to Wu-Tang Clan

Monday, February 23, 2009

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There's a band I haven't seen in a while, JFA (Jody Foster's Army)

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Wasted Youth sounds like a bunch of whiny techno-80's dweebs

Thursday, February 19, 2009

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Ahhh, hot tea, Bach Organ Music and a Samba manual. Can it get any better than this?

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busy day, caught 11 people replying to a phishing scam

Saturday, February 14, 2009

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I remember when 1 GB of memory was a lot, not it can barely get the job done

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The one thing I love about Solaris Zones: build and rebuild in an instant.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

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4 zones + 1 sparc cpu = 1997 era compliling

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Medication that makes you tired + Somafm.com + rainy day = naptime in office

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

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I want to teach the world to sing / in perfect harmony

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I think I like having a slower computer just so I can see the compiles last longer

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The sad thing about open source is having to wait for the downloads

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arrggggg... forgot the important programs and libraries ... thank goodness for sunfreeware.com

Monday, February 2, 2009

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cpio + PATA + 10GB = nap time

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zoneadm -z test03 clone test01

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zoneadm -z test03 uninstall