ahh, toasty laptop… hmm, soda…. *drink* cold fingers! brr, brr, brr… ah, toasty laptop

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

Wild! I hadn’t heard about this… but apparently 18 months back, Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, lost the ability to speak (in most circumstances) due to some funky brain thingee called Spasmodic Dysphonia… There isn’t any known case of a person recovering from this, but it has happened and Scott can talk again… here’s his blog entry on the subject….

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/10/good_news_day.html

When you start the day by kill -9’ing the multiple sessions your manager has left open across multiple (database) servers for the last several days… yeah, that’s good stuff.

I just received an email with the subject “Scheduled Maintenance Notification”… the message describes how I can enlarge my p”enis up to 10cm.

I wasn’t aware that there was maintenance scheduled for this particular device. I wonder who the admin responsible is.

Sitting on my floor, reading people’s horror stories of misused rm -rf’s, as I delete more data than I can count in a reasonable amount of time… (the command to show how much data is in this qtree just seems to hang… I haven’t had the patience to wait for an answer)…

I have stopped and restarted this command half a dozen times to make sure I’m deleting what I want to delete… Its been running for 12 hours now… Its going to take a while.

My first linux system, roto-router, was an IBM PS/2; a 486 that I upgraded to have a math coprocessor, 32MB of RAM, and a 1G hard disk. The system has been kicking around and still boots, but its only a matter of time before the 13 year old hardware gives up the ghost…

So, thanks to virtualization and some common unix tools…

Roto-Router is running in Parallels on my intel mac.

I did recompile the kernel to get the ethernet interface detected (old card was an isa ne2000, parallels uses a realtek 8029), removed an append line from lilo.conf, and I set eth0 to dhcp. Otherwise, its untouched.

We found the coolest thing on one of our servers today… legacy.txt, which describes the history of the application… From the first admin through buyouts and new admins…

Having come into this environment 7+ years after its creation, reading these names is lile… reading about relatives. These people have sat here and plunked away at these very servers… I bet if I check, I’ll see remnants of old accounts… home directories that were kept around… initials that I’ll now recognize…

If I turn over an application, I’ll have to leave something like this behind…

I need to immerse myself in light and techno, and bounce all night.

Where’s the B&W Ball when you need it?

If I’m listing countries I’ve been to, do I need to have been old enough to remember them? There’s a photo of me there, but I don’t remember much of that trip… Maybe I just need to head up to canada and touch the other side of the border to keep it honest.

[Edit: And how long would I have to be in the country for it to count? I was in Tahiti for like an hour while the plane refuled…]