Kurt Gray's Journal: My desk and head are a mess

Remember to put the new TPS cover sheet on that report, m'kay?

This week we had to setup a bunch of new servers for Slashdot/Banjo, most of it anyway. The web servers are all new (5, 2251's dual 1 Ghz right out of the box), the DB server is not as new (still a 3350 with 4GB RAM, new kernel and a new BIOS image thanks to Karl and Yazz) we'll replace it with a 4450 as soon as Karl gets Debian installed on it. Kind of tricky to boot/install Debian without the DAC RAID driver in the boot kernel. Karl will figure it out.

It's 12:00 AM Friday night, I'm still at the office, had time for a McDonalds late-lunch at 6:30PM. Got Slashdot's ad banners updated on Banjo NFS server... let me check that actually... yeah that works. Trained Brian and CaptTofu on Arrowpoint config so they can adjust and check Slashdot's load balancing without needing our netops to do it for them. I trust Slashdot will stay up for the night so I'm going to bed.

This is why I do stone carving in my free time, it's so analog, so hands-on, so not having anything at all to do with computers. It's fun *and* productive. Just need a place to plug in my 3 HP air compressor, it draws 14 AMPS, blew a 20A fuse at my apartment last night. The outlet for my eleectric stove is rated for at least 3500Watts... hmmm...