work vent
Fuck people who don't follow request processes and ignore my on pto status on slack to ask me about projects I have never heard about that they need done asap but if they had followed our order process I'd of know about weeks ago
So my comp day for racking up 12 hours of OT during my oncall week including a 3am colo trip has turned to storm dragoness confusedly looking up shit and trying to figure out how to fit more installs at a location with no remote hands or lift in my week.
US Poli/Capitalism
I'm not sure how I feel about this..because RMS is pretty out there... but fuck if this doesn't resonate with me a lot.
http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/richard-stallman-rms-on-privacy-data-and-free-software.html
Earth is fucked and I want to a dragon...
Just hear me out....
Look... we could go hunting for some other Goldilocks planet to seed and terraform... but there is one nearby. VENUS!
Put up a big ass network of solar collectors in orbit, start cooling it down. Crash some big comets into it for more water and 02... start terraforming!
Gravity is a pleasant .9G, thicker atmo and higher 02 content means flying is much easier!
Maybe a little terrain sculpting to add some more cool mountains..
Bleh... I want to work from home and be lazy today... but there are 3 boxes of shit on my desk that need to be packaged and shipped...so I have to show up long enough to do that... but then how to bail without seeming like a jerk...
I do have an audit for one of our datacenters on my project list... I guess I could get that started an use it as an excuse to leave the office... /Sam doing to much planning when she should just take a pto day.
Grraaaaah!
just kinda... wtf... was someone setting up another box with the same kvm and realized they were on the wrong port.. fucked mine up and then went on to do thier thing?
Grraaaaah!
I've been bashing my head against this stupid networking problem all day.. only to discover someone went and fucked up the ipmi config at somepoint after I set it up last week..
Cause you know... completely changing the vlan, IP and setting the fucking router IP to 0.0.0.0 would uh explain "ttl expired when I ping it."
To bad I can't tell who did it...
SAP
It's taken me a while to learn enough to feel confident in holding this opinion, but:
SAP is REAL FUCKEN BAD.
Base SAP is kind of like buying an empty server rack with no doors, and you have to buy every component that you stick in that server rack-- but even after you buy the component, you have to build it by hand with custom built components to make it all work
So it has all the disadvantages of a ground-up custom solution and none of the advantages, and it costs MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
I couldn't resist sharing the image more directly.
It me! (not my commish, just my aesthetic) :-D
(via birdsite, hat tips to Ko for finding it)
https://twitter.com/catteboots/status/984128965685186560?s=21
invite request
@crom Actually not sure what the correct procedure here is, I have a friend caught in the witches.town fallout that has been trying to contact you for an invite to awoo.space but at present it seems nothing from witches.town is getting out.
gender dysphoria survey!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Gender-Dysphoria
"During the survey, you will be asked to think about your experiences of gender dysphoria and provide examples of these feelings. You will also be presented with traditional measures of gender dysphoria and asked how well they capture, or fail to capture, your experiences. We hope to use this information to improve existing measures and the current understanding of dysphoria."
M. Paz Galupo, Ph.D.
Lex Pulice-Farrow, M.A.
Towson University
Somehow this ate half my day... and I still managed to get everything I planned done and more... 1 hour of work left :(
I want to set this person fire... or like zap them to pile of ash and then have a tornado scatter those or something...
They are confused... have DC recheck cabling.. sorted out one they apparently knocked loose? wtf..
finally switch has no default route?!?! (that should never happen... someone fucked up big when the switch was deployed months ago)
Fixes all but on NIC... we are pulling out our hair to figure out why it doesn't work... fucking guy building the boxes had not yet configured the NIC.. but didn't tell anyone this...
Get all the info together... and try not scream at the person this is for because he failed to inform my team that both nics needed cabling for these systems. Which is why is an issue..
Open a ticket to get them cabled because this site is on the otherside of the country... finish my install... get home.. cabling done.. do switch config all good..
NOPE NOW CAN'T ACCESS VIA SSH.... wtf... nothing changed...
check everything... consult with senior networking person (it's now 10pm for them)
So tired.... today has been nightmarishly stressful.
While doing a P1 install someone asked me about getting another one at another site done today (I said yes because it wouldn't take too long and I expected my current install to only take about 2 hours which was true)
After racking annoying 1U boxes and cabling them... I get hit up for omg emergency customer impacting issue.. drop everything work on it.
I'm like 15 minutes from finishing this install at this point...
Grrrrr
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Pronous: She/They/Them-THEONESWHOARE!!!!!