I hate computers.

All of them. Even this one. They all suck so much.

So last night, we were doing a planned move in our server room.. great idea eh? Well as it turns out, no.. after following all instructions to the letter, letting it idle for about 30 mins, and moving a RAID device, it now no-longer wants to talk to either of the devices it was attached to.. the main student server and the departmental server.. did I mention semester starts on monday? We're waiting to hear back from the supplier who we have a support contract with.

In other words.. OH FUCK.

I like this - not so much.

Yay.. fix0red

Ok, so we left the evil RAID device to it's own devices last night and it magically fixed itself. This is a good thing, but still very worrying at the same time. Oh well :) The mail sever also didn't power back on, but that was a dodgy power supply, and we had about 6 spare, so we just swapped it in, and back it went ;)

So I only had to go in to do the currie hall stuff, which is mostly finished. Just need to document and tidy up and get a media converter exchanged for one that works :P Stupid Allied Telesyn thingy. They should have bought a few of the Cisco 2950C 24's, they have built in fibre ports.. but then again, all fibre optic gear seems to suck bad, so if that broke, it would take out the entire switch, which would be bad.

But Tom seems to want to take the excuse and pay me a weekend call out cause I changed the power supply to sort of acknowledge our angst and trying to get it working last night.. weekend call out pays a minimum 3 hours at double time and a half ;) Eeexcellent.

o/~ "I don't like.. spiders and snakes.. " o/~

I think I got bitten by a spider last night :P Wasn't anything posionous I assume, since there was no pain, only an itch and it's 24 hours later and I'm not dead, but it's still annoying.

Spider bites are interesting to look at.. especially if they're not on you. But anyway.. this one has a raised centre, with a red patch around it that wasn't a regular edge like a mosquito bite, but a very jagged, capillary shaped rednesses in the area..

Cool!

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Watching something on History Channel about the excavation of a WW1 trench in paschendale belgium.. and then they all get freaken when they find intact Phosgene (CX)canisters. Funny that. The Belgian army bomb squad have a 30 year backlog of chemical weapons from WW1 to destroy.. in 2003.. A related note, the CDC has removed all its pages on chemical weapons because it is being "revised" ,, mm kay.

The moral of the story kids, is that chemical weapons are bad and they will bite you in the ass for years to come, and that in war, the first casualty is truth.