So, I spent about two hours today at work doing damage control. It started raining in my office.
Not _my_ office, but _the_ office.
While I’m up on the 3rd and 4th floors trying to determine what pipe blew up, I get a frantic call. The water is spreading on our floor.
Our PBX (phone system), amongst […]
I work for a Marine Insurance Underwriting company. I don’t really feel like going into what our role is, but just know we deal with insurance for boats.
Part of the Patriot Act states that when a policy is being created or is up for renewal, we must check the insured’s name against the OFAC (Office […]
I have one of my users’ computers in my office, as it seemed to completely bork yesterday. Nothing like the Three R’s of Microsoft (Reboot, Reformat, Reinstall), right?
Anyways, her tower is currently in my office, down the hall from hers. I’m running 47 critical/serious patches right now, and doing a general reinstall. Let me re-iterate […]
I just looked at my paycheck stub today - was smaller than usual. Odd.
Glancing over it, I realized that it’s been over a year here of full-time employment, and my 401(k) kicked in.
I decided to go with $250/check ($6,000/year) in a more aggressive fund/plan with a partial match by my company. Hooray for free(ish) money.
I’ll […]
I know, the lyrics apparently are “kiss” instead of “catch”, but I think my word exchange is better. And I had to edit from “my dreams, they gotta” to the current title because it wouldn’t fit on one line and started to break things. Weaksauce.
Anyways, it’s no mystery that I don’t usually sleep well and […]
Welcome back, Exxon! Glorious vendor of EZ-Serve hotdogs (yes, I know that it’s not an EZ-Serve, but eh.). It has been too long, old friend.
So I headed in, sporting the belt-buckle my Texas co-workers presented to me during our office X-mas party. Big Texas, brah. It’s bronze, but looks more golden in this photo.
After […]
This title is used as a sample from Deltron 3030’s track, Virus (video). I don’t usually cite the refences for my titles, but I felt this was extra appropriate.
We (as people in general, but sysadmins specifically) try to prepare for disasters. In the even that one does occur, hopefully we take something from our experiences […]
Okay, last post today, but this one really is serious.
Hopefully by now, you have heard about this very bad WMF Vulnerability.
It’s _really_ bad. I’m not going to go into details, don’t worry.
Anyways, who knows when this will get patched by Microsoft, so the good guys at the SANS Internet Storm Center have gone ahead and […]
I’m still here at work.
I would like to take this moment to praise Spiralcom Communications for two reasons:
1) WinTAR-SCSI - A beautiful piece of software that makes it stupid easy to restore GNU tars from a tape on a Win32 box.
2) Their tech support. I apparently misplaced my serial number. Figuring it would be a […]
So, in the process of adding a new ~72GB SCSI Drive to my main server here at work, the PERC 4/Di Controller decided to re-initialize my existing array.
What does this mean?
1) All work done today is gone.
2) My evening is gone, as I’ll be sitting here in my office working all night, re-installing Gentoo, […]