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The Outernationalists - Doreen Thobekile / Hambanam |
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Three days of server work, and I'm friggin tired. I have now, I think, earned the right to say the following:
FUCKING SOLARIS!!
For the uninitiated, Solaris is Sun Microsystems' version of Unix. It's a powerful operating system, don't get me wrong, but there's a shit-ton of stuff about it that is arcane, strange, and just downright frustrating.
There's a few (FEW) other things, however, that are so fucking beautifully nice that it almost begins to make up for all the other shit. Almost, but not quite.
In my particular case, I was trying to take advantage of such a wonderful feature, but by virtue of having missed one command in the procedure I ended up spending about three hours beating my head against a wall. I had a co-worker's help, and given his wizard-class hacking/sysadmin skills, his presence made things less harrowing. Still, that meant that I had the primary mail server for our department offline for three fucking hours. Fortnately, it was the three hours between 2030 and 2330, so it's not like we were holding up a bunch of people.
Still, once I got things working, it was fucking cake. Solaris is now the ONLY operating system I know of that you can take a system that's running fine and set up mirroring of the root filesystem using software RAID (requiring virtual disks and pseudo devices) on the machine while it's running in production! To bring the mirroring into service, you just reboot the machine and it all JUST WORKS. When you follow the procudure and don't miss shit, that's all there is to it. It's amazing. If you didn't have the system's filesystems spread across multiple partitions you could set up redundancy for the system's root filesystem in about 6 or 7 very short commands. Incredible.
On an unrelated note, I'm cleaning the house. She gets back in about 15 hours or so. I think I'll have put a significant dent in this disaster of a house by then. It'll feel damn good, too.
I miss her so much. She's gonna have to peel me off when I meet her at the airport. I just want to hold her and never let go. Sleeping alone has sucked, and I can't wait to curl up with her once more.
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