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Oy what a day..
Oct. 7th, 2003 11:11 pmSo last night, I goes to bed early so I can get a reasonable amount of sleep and hence still be awake this time tonight typing.. my body however has other issues, and at 5AM, I hear the birds and I know resisting the call of the day is futile. Get up, have breakfast, get to work by 8:30AM. In for a minute and a student comes in to get me to fix a paper jam.. fair enough, we'ld rather they didn't do it. I get back, read my email.. Oh.. dearie me. Some stuff's not working. The evil UPS of doom has died again, so I yank everything off that and plug it into the new one.. yay! No more needing to use the evil UPS. Then we just needed to get the.. oh.. 3 production servers and two testing ones back online, and make sure the nice but scary Sun E220R has remounted the external SCSI drives that were off.
But wait.. there's still beeping.. *peers at evil IDE raid* no, not that today.. *peers at less evil but still evil SCSI RAID..* oh crap. One of the disks is off. This is far from cool. Plug in serial console to admin backup server.. change to that screen.. 'Missing NTKERNEL.EXE".. that's not cool either, but not critical, it is a backup afterall.. plug into other NT box.. run Hyperterminal.. oh.. goodie. *TWO* of the disks have failed. Thankfully we have two hot-spares.. well normally, just then we had none. Called up vendor, who thanks to us paying several thousand per year to him, was able to walk us thru getting them back online. Part of this however involves removing the drive caddy.. we have two keys, neither works.. I try it in the other RAID and they both work.. except when I turned the key in the OTHER RAID, it started beeping, and even when I turned it back, it didn't stop. w00t. But I know from previous experiance that a reboot fixes that... I'll do that later ;) And so that gets mostly fixed and I wanders over to UCS to perv on 2.5TB of SCSI storage in some very nice dell rackmounts. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Simon notices mail thruput is slow, so has a look at the system, gives it a reboot.. and then the power supply of our DNS server goes *pop*, black smoke comes out and it is no more. Luckily Simon got to fix that one, but Tom came over to UCS and grabbed me. I helped with my mad-ATX-PSU-changing skillZ, so that didn't take long.
Settled back in, close off job with vendor, installed the last remaining wireless access point (in G01 for the disturbing number of EE students who read this ;p) then went out for lunch with Betsy for about 90 minutes, back to work for a bit more, played about 20 minutes of MOHAA:Spearhead with Bruce and others on Dodgybrothers (first time in several months!) and then headed home. Got home, made dinner, had dinner, then off to Weird Al!
Weird Al is absolutely amazing. So worth it :) I had awesome seats in the lower gallery, so I was really close. He played 28 songs, but some of them were just shorter versions of the full ones on albums, but the full ones were REALLY cool.. I've seen filmclips for a lot of them, and seeing them live was even better. Especially All about the Pentiums! Strobe lights, shiney suits, dark glasses, everything! In between songs where he was getting into costume, he had "Al-TV", which was a bunch of celebrities being interviewed, but with their responses being edited around a different set of questions, as asked by weird al. All were incredibly funny, but especially the one with Eminem..
Weird Al: "What do you think about people censoring music?"
Eminem: "I can't stress enough how much I care about the freedom of speech and expression by artists"
WA: "So what about when another artist wants to make a video of your song?"
Heh! Ok, way too easily amused, but whatever ;) Skulked out a back entrance, got a orange weird-al tshirt, which had arrived during the concert.. they made announcements at the beginning apologising for them not being there. Went to the nearest hotel and got a taxi home. All in all, a VERY fun concert. Weird Al rocks :D I'll type up a list later.. I made notes about the songs, but I'll need to work out the names of some of them first, and it's 11:40PM and I'm tired now ;)
Night!
But wait.. there's still beeping.. *peers at evil IDE raid* no, not that today.. *peers at less evil but still evil SCSI RAID..* oh crap. One of the disks is off. This is far from cool. Plug in serial console to admin backup server.. change to that screen.. 'Missing NTKERNEL.EXE".. that's not cool either, but not critical, it is a backup afterall.. plug into other NT box.. run Hyperterminal.. oh.. goodie. *TWO* of the disks have failed. Thankfully we have two hot-spares.. well normally, just then we had none. Called up vendor, who thanks to us paying several thousand per year to him, was able to walk us thru getting them back online. Part of this however involves removing the drive caddy.. we have two keys, neither works.. I try it in the other RAID and they both work.. except when I turned the key in the OTHER RAID, it started beeping, and even when I turned it back, it didn't stop. w00t. But I know from previous experiance that a reboot fixes that... I'll do that later ;) And so that gets mostly fixed and I wanders over to UCS to perv on 2.5TB of SCSI storage in some very nice dell rackmounts. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Simon notices mail thruput is slow, so has a look at the system, gives it a reboot.. and then the power supply of our DNS server goes *pop*, black smoke comes out and it is no more. Luckily Simon got to fix that one, but Tom came over to UCS and grabbed me. I helped with my mad-ATX-PSU-changing skillZ, so that didn't take long.
Settled back in, close off job with vendor, installed the last remaining wireless access point (in G01 for the disturbing number of EE students who read this ;p) then went out for lunch with Betsy for about 90 minutes, back to work for a bit more, played about 20 minutes of MOHAA:Spearhead with Bruce and others on Dodgybrothers (first time in several months!) and then headed home. Got home, made dinner, had dinner, then off to Weird Al!
Weird Al is absolutely amazing. So worth it :) I had awesome seats in the lower gallery, so I was really close. He played 28 songs, but some of them were just shorter versions of the full ones on albums, but the full ones were REALLY cool.. I've seen filmclips for a lot of them, and seeing them live was even better. Especially All about the Pentiums! Strobe lights, shiney suits, dark glasses, everything! In between songs where he was getting into costume, he had "Al-TV", which was a bunch of celebrities being interviewed, but with their responses being edited around a different set of questions, as asked by weird al. All were incredibly funny, but especially the one with Eminem..
Weird Al: "What do you think about people censoring music?"
Eminem: "I can't stress enough how much I care about the freedom of speech and expression by artists"
WA: "So what about when another artist wants to make a video of your song?"
Heh! Ok, way too easily amused, but whatever ;) Skulked out a back entrance, got a orange weird-al tshirt, which had arrived during the concert.. they made announcements at the beginning apologising for them not being there. Went to the nearest hotel and got a taxi home. All in all, a VERY fun concert. Weird Al rocks :D I'll type up a list later.. I made notes about the songs, but I'll need to work out the names of some of them first, and it's 11:40PM and I'm tired now ;)
Night!
