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November 10, 2002
crap...
Forgot to mention this but about a year ago, my previous boss went on a trip to Germany and entrusted an Oracle upgrade on a test server to me. Well, as simple as this whole task was going to be, somehow through miscommunication, "Ed lost the cds". Yep that's right, I don't ever remember recieving them but somehow I lost them. I don't know if it was a bad week for her but someway, somehow no one ever talked to me about it until a week after she got back and that was to "write me up". I was shocked as hell and refute everything, not to mention the ridiculousness of no one ever asking me my side of the story. Well she's gone, got a promotion, is working at corporate and my current boss who got her desk... Well he found 2 Oracle 8.1.5 Solaris cds either in the back of a desk drawer or behind the desk itself. Life's not all bad I suppose.
Today was filled with a lot of, well... crap.
I got called at 6:45am by some sysadmins doing maintenance letting me know a developer couldn't get her app running after they rebooted the box. Of course they did not check to see if apache was running. Ran a start script and boom, everything is fine. Oh and a cluster patch couldn't be applied because of lack of space in /var on the same box.
I have been woken up 3 mornings in a row by someone at work between 6-7am, even on the weekend. Very, very, very annoying.
This afternoon a nice lightning storm screwed something up somewhere causing a cable outtage which was quite mysterious. The modem had a link but I couldn't pass any traffic nor could I reboot and get dhcp to do anything. Of course the tech support lady said my network card was "fried". Of course me being so intelligent can't fathom it being "fried" because I didn't lose power. Of course I was too frustrated to deal with it so I swapped network cards.
While I'm complaining about technology related stuff, getting print sharing working through Samba is idiotic. I gave up after trying to get the native drivers to install and not being successful. Dragging a cable just became more enticing.
I'm drained. Have too much to do. Tomorrow could be hell at work considering all the crap that happened over the weekend.
Posted by beamz at November 10, 2002 10:25 PM
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Gosh, I remember how worked up you got that day because you got written up.
Its good to be able to look back and see that life went on, and I think finding the cds later IS rather humourous. Maybe you're new boss can post in your file...'cd's found in former bosses' desk!'
hee.
Posted by: Edmond Spidre at November 11, 2002 12:19 PM