Heart attacks. Since they were of the "meat and potatoes" generations, plus a smoker and drinker (Dad did quit before I was aware that he smoked and Mom quit several years later), it's probably more of a bad diet sort of thing. While I'm not perfect, my diet is a bit better. We'll see eventually :)

[John]

Read my journal entry.

[John]

Don't drink (didn't voluntarily take a drink until 10 years ago at 47 and only have tried different drinks a couple of times a year since then), never smoked or done drugs, I do eat more junk food than I should, exercise regularly (3 times a week on the weights, bicycling most of the year). Divorced twice.

Both sides of my family smoked (Dad, Mom, Dad's Dad, Mom's Dad) although both Dad and Mom quit when I was young. Both sides drank and as I understand Dad's Dad was quite the drinker and a bit abusive.

On the other side, our family history shows a tendency of smaller in diameter veins so more susceptible to blood issues like blockages/heart attacks.

So yea, like I said. Advances plus I do better than my parents and grandparents so longer can happen. I'll post up in 10 years and see where I am then :)

[John]

Dad died when he was in his mid 50's. Grandad died when he was in his mid 50's. I'm in my mid 50's. Considering the advances and that I do exercise more and eat a bit better, I might last a bit longer than either of them. But not much longer.

So live life to its fullest and enjoy it while you can.

[John]

It's all linked to your account. Even Anonymous posts are linked to your account, post anonymously and you'll see if you have moderator points. You can mod other posts in the thread but not the one you posted "anonymously".

[John]

Now I'm curious. How do you make a job more attractive to women? I can think of a few things of course like sexist comments (I haven't heard a blonde joke in 10 years but there are a few opposite of sausage fest type comments; old girl's network for instance). But what job conditions make a job attractive to a woman?

[John]

*raises hand*

Sorry. Don't drink coffee either. I was raised a bit as a Mormon (family converted about the time I expect you'd start drinking tea, coffee, alcohol; around 14) and never got the taste as a "growing up" experience. The few times I've tried alcohol over the past 10 years, I find it still tastes like medicine and don't get the appeal. "Can you taste the woodiness?" No, really it just burns and tastes like I'm trying to cure a cold.

[John]

I have to agree. I deleted my linkedin account a year ago (a few months after folks started recommending me when they had no idea what my skill set was) due to the amount of spam, both email and by phone. Spam has gradually dropped to about one a week on average and no more phone calls.

[John]

You're assuming the custom application startup script on a linux system does the same thing on an HP-UX system which is where I have the issue. If exit code 5 on an HP-UX system means reboot the system and the system reboots over and over again, I would (and do) expect there to be some way of stopping it other than going into the management console, halting the reboot loop, and loading up the kernel in single user mode. That seems pretty broken. If the running of the application/service is so critical, it should simply not run or if it's critical to a followup application, there should be a message or signal to that script that tells it to not start up or just look for the service to be actually running before starting.

[John]

Dev created a startup script for their application and used an error code which upon exiting forced the HP-UX system to reboot. Which it did, over and over again. That's what happens when Dev uses Fedora to develop software on that is subsequently used on HP-UX (in this case). Still waiting on Dev to correct this.

[John]

Honestly as someone who's responsible for RHEL/CentOS, Solaris, HP-UX, and some oddballs, I'd be quite happy with running OpenBSD on my servers in place or even addition to RHEL. However, like Debian based systems, if the vendors we use only support Red Hat (and the other servers we have), we are pretty much stuck. Until HP and Symantec say we can use it, it's pretty much out as an option to our devs.

(Which doesn't mean they don't try to slip one in now and then, which annoys the heck out of them when we refuse the project as the environment isn't supported.)

[John]

You can ask that, but you won't get a sensible answer. What will happen instead is that they pick some other part of your post, only respond to that, and call you a misogynist, racist, or some other name.

That's odd because that is what happens when I bring up a different viewpoint. All of a sudden I'm being dogpiled because I said 'dogpiled' and 'wtf did you mean about _that_!'. It's frustrating enough that I step away from the thread and forum.

[John]

I don't have to kill the cow to get the milk.

[John]

It's a configuration option when you newfs a file system. Man newfs or mkfs.

[John]

The problem is the monitoring group is reluctant to make "custom" changes due to the size of the environment. OS and hardware level alerts are a pretty minor part of the overall monitoring environment in terms of the number of configuration changes required. With mirroring and system/geographic redundancy, we can wait until the morning status reports to identify systems before they get to critical.

[John]