You Must be This Insane to Ride this Ride
Oct. 23rd, 2008 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisMy rollercoaster of a day has begun.
Bad: I've just wasted 90 minutes trying to get a wretched Sun Microsystems 6800 to boot correctly so I can upgrade it to Solaris 10. I knew I had to correct the network interface alias in the boot prom but I didn't know the boot prom has a bug such that the "network-boot-arguments" parameter must be cleared or the machine will fail on booting. Bloody figures.
Good: At least the machine is booting correctly now and I can get on with the upgrade.
Good: My boss sent me a note saying that I've been awarded a small one-time performance bonus. At the moment, I have no idea when it will arrive in my paycheck, how much it will be or why it was awarded. Some particularly happy customer? some special project? lifetime achievement? not going postal? Your guess is as good as mine currently.
Bad: I'm still the on-call UNIX primary point-of-contact.
Good: This is my last day as such and it has been rather light this week, all things considered.
Bad: It could still all go straight to hell before the day is out.
Good: Tomorrow is payday.
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cuyahogarvr just wrote to say that my car's windshield has been replaced. I just need to avoid stressing it at all in the next 24 hours to let the sealant do its thing.
Bad: I've just wasted 90 minutes trying to get a wretched Sun Microsystems 6800 to boot correctly so I can upgrade it to Solaris 10. I knew I had to correct the network interface alias in the boot prom but I didn't know the boot prom has a bug such that the "network-boot-arguments" parameter must be cleared or the machine will fail on booting. Bloody figures.
Good: At least the machine is booting correctly now and I can get on with the upgrade.
Good: My boss sent me a note saying that I've been awarded a small one-time performance bonus. At the moment, I have no idea when it will arrive in my paycheck, how much it will be or why it was awarded. Some particularly happy customer? some special project? lifetime achievement? not going postal? Your guess is as good as mine currently.
Bad: I'm still the on-call UNIX primary point-of-contact.
Good: This is my last day as such and it has been rather light this week, all things considered.
Bad: It could still all go straight to hell before the day is out.
Good: Tomorrow is payday.
Good:
cuyahogarvr just wrote to say that my car's windshield has been replaced. I just need to avoid stressing it at all in the next 24 hours to let the sealant do its thing.
