I am having a good day
Sep. 23rd, 2005 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisIt's not yet 10 AM but I'm already having a rather good day. That's not to say there aren't plenty of opportunities for it to go straight to hell, but I'm given to thinking that days which start well usually stay that way.
This morning, I noticed gasoline prices haven't skyrocketed yet out of fear of Hurricane Rita and its aftermath. I was expecting that to happen overnight but it seems I still have a window of opportunity to top up the tank in my Civic.
As I type this, I'm applying patches to five servers running Solaris 8. I have 311 servers I care for regularly and with the patching of these five, I'm now at the half-way mark of this particular project.
I'm actually typing this on a new laptop, a Dell D610. My old office laptop (a Dell C610) was a good soldier but upper management required C610 models be lent to a number of contractors working on a short term project, thus requiring me to upgrade. Double the RAM & hard drive space, extra USB ports, a writable DVD player, a better keyboard & screen and a much faster CPU... woe is me! :-)
I've just finished entering a series of work orders to convert a series of Solaris 8 machines from NIS to LDAP. It's been an ongoing project for years; our developers have been dragging their feet on updating their code but they've finally run out of excuses and upper management is putting weight behind this so I'm finally getting some traction. While our production environments won't be completed until into 2006 and some legacy systems will never be converted, I should have the bulk of my non-production machines and half of production completed before Christmas. I have a strong suspicion this particular project will be a line item in my performance evaluation for 2005.
In an interesting (mis)interpretation of Sarbanes-Oxley, my employer insists that the folks who write work orders are not allowed to execute those same work orders. Thus, every time I make major headway in my projects, the rest of my Unix team groans: my progress means additional work for them from which I'm barred from assisting. Ah, well... it was willed where that which is willed must be.
I'm giving serious consideration to having a large chocolate sundae for lunch.
This morning, I noticed gasoline prices haven't skyrocketed yet out of fear of Hurricane Rita and its aftermath. I was expecting that to happen overnight but it seems I still have a window of opportunity to top up the tank in my Civic.
As I type this, I'm applying patches to five servers running Solaris 8. I have 311 servers I care for regularly and with the patching of these five, I'm now at the half-way mark of this particular project.
I'm actually typing this on a new laptop, a Dell D610. My old office laptop (a Dell C610) was a good soldier but upper management required C610 models be lent to a number of contractors working on a short term project, thus requiring me to upgrade. Double the RAM & hard drive space, extra USB ports, a writable DVD player, a better keyboard & screen and a much faster CPU... woe is me! :-)
I've just finished entering a series of work orders to convert a series of Solaris 8 machines from NIS to LDAP. It's been an ongoing project for years; our developers have been dragging their feet on updating their code but they've finally run out of excuses and upper management is putting weight behind this so I'm finally getting some traction. While our production environments won't be completed until into 2006 and some legacy systems will never be converted, I should have the bulk of my non-production machines and half of production completed before Christmas. I have a strong suspicion this particular project will be a line item in my performance evaluation for 2005.
In an interesting (mis)interpretation of Sarbanes-Oxley, my employer insists that the folks who write work orders are not allowed to execute those same work orders. Thus, every time I make major headway in my projects, the rest of my Unix team groans: my progress means additional work for them from which I'm barred from assisting. Ah, well... it was willed where that which is willed must be.
I'm giving serious consideration to having a large chocolate sundae for lunch.
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