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Tonight is a Freaking computer nightmare
started my day at 9am, onsite to trouble shoot a box we sold a customer (oh, i work for a computer company).
So the OS is Hosed, needs a reload (solaris 10 X86). Unfortunately this box doesnt have a CD/DVD slot, so i cant slap one inthere. needs to be Net boot/install. Hey, let me use my lap top as the install server, Nope, custom load of the OS craps up teh boot directory. its now 3pm, i tell the customer, i will build a system and be back tomorrow. 4pm, arrive at office, start os load and then Install server config, 2 more hours. think i typo'd and cant get it to work, 2 more hours. Its 8pm and I need to start the reload from scratch. get some food, come back 9pm, load is done but system is acting odd. gets worse. then smoke and sparks. fortunately i have one more server. JOY I get to startover again. 10 pm let the install run , and go to my laptop. It starts to freak out. What is going on tonight.. Did a butterfly fart in china twice? Are we getting a solar flare bouncing off the moon? Its 11pm now, and i am going to check the system for progress. before i have to wait another hour.
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Wow, really sucks. Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed. I hesitate to say this, but hey, in can only get better from here, right?
Good luck. All of this will make the weekend that much sweeter.
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1:15am Got_R_Done
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Have you ever felt suffocated while watching the Oxygen Channel? People with excuses fail. As soon as I OK my actions with an excuse, I cease bettering myself. 88 Carrera |
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07-05-2007, 09:27 PM
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My thoughts exactly, always have a backup (DR) plan.
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This is why I no longer do support. The mere mention of these things gives me anxiety anymore. 14 years of it and if I see a BOSD on my work laptop I just shut it down and drop it off. You can get really, really , burned out on this stuff. Now I just try and design better systems that let the SA's get more sleep at night.
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We have started clustering everything under the sun to give ourselves some breathing space when boxes take a dump.
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