利益追求的‘动物模型’
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今天早上, 敦敦突然冒出一句, “妈妈，如今的中国社会太商业化了, 人们把很多东西看成交易，生死都可以是一个‘Deal’，分分钟‘交易正在进行’”。对孩子的深刻感受，我还没太反应过来。
邻居家的小女孩从澳洲回来, 迫不及待地赶来找敦敦一起玩猫, 也不知是从哪个小家伙脑袋里冒出来的馊主意, 他俩用猫饼干在地板上摆了一个u型路线, 在利益的诱惑下, 小猫乐肥顺着饼干路线毫无怨言地一路舔过来. 看着两个孩子不太‘猫’道的捉弄手法. 我突然觉得这是一个设计近乎完美的 ‘利益追求’ 动物实验. 饼干就是商业社会发展的原动力‘利益’, 我们每个人都是小猫‘乐肥’.
2:30pm - There isn't much going on today to even log.
- I started @ home this morning by noticing Sitescope sent warnings about all of the servers on texoma.� At first I thought they probably just reported because the network�hiccupped or somesuch, but I was wrong.� All of the machines on Texoma were powered down, that means all of dev portal app was down.
- VC on Fairbanks was up, texoma still connected so I ssh out to see if it rebooted but it reported up 6 days. (since power failure)� message logs show disk errors.� I started powering the VMs back up in order, but they all shut off again every time the disk errors came by in the log.
- SMS to Slick: �'Houston, we've had a problem."
- Talked with Slick about it and we got in and looked around but all we could see were the disk errors.� I powered the VMs up again and this time they continued to run.� I took a few minutes to set a boot order for the VM's in case this happens again, talked to Country Boy and asked him to re-start the applications.
-- Discussed LDAP with Hooper a couple of times, we decided to move the cut over to Monday due to concers he has with TLS.� Late in the day he got it working and confirmed that we can do a cutover on Monday as long as we can bounce the servers once.
- Not much going on today.� The day before a long weekend, everyone bails around 2 or 3pm.�
I love my job.
7:30 - Doing the morning routine early today, drinking coffee and playing with our poor little confused cat Hiro.
- Hooper sent mail requesting the RHEL3 install media.� Replied with the RHN account to login and download the current media, and told him where the 3/6 media was in the office.
- Leaving home at 8 for the trek into the office by 9 for the meeting with Slick, Margie, et al. and the testing of Mage on the new switch.� Mage has 3 san luns assigned and will be a better test subject than Page was yesterday.� The primary function of the test is to see if the luns get out of order on reboot.
- I'm supposed to stop at AZE at 3:30 to see Sofya and the resident doctor.� I sincerely doubt I'll make it out of the office by 2:30, so...well.� whatever.� It's not as if it can be fixed at this point anyway.
- Pull a list together of all SMB mounts in the Portal and see how many are authenticating out of Redmond.� Correlate current and past mount issues to authentication master and see if there is a pattern.�
- Discuss the upgrade cycle from RHEL3 to 4 or 5 with Mr. T. today.� This will have to tie in with the openldap versions among other things.�
- Do calculations for the backup plan if LDAP rollout on r3/9 won't work.� Disk space requirements and time constraints to do the work.� ICD is pushing hard on Hoops.
12:55 - The mage test went okay this morning.� Successfully moved over to the new luns without issue, the data migration is running fine and we see no appreciable slowdown on the hosts.� DMP is working as advertised.
Chops buttonholed me regarding DMP on lavender.� While we see the multipath running (18 & 19) from lavender back to the dmx3, vxvm isn't reporting a multi path being up.� I talked this over with Mac and we decided to do an impromptu test of the situation by yanking the primary cable from lavender to see if it would failover.� It didn't.� We bounced the server with -r and it still didn't see it.� Mac and I are going to let Chops continue to work the issue since he discovered it, any resolution should be his kudos.� He'll find it, that kid is nothing if not tenacious.
Talked with Mr. T. regarding the upgrade (or the inability thereof) for our portal RHEL3 machines to 4.� We're going to wait for Becky to get back from medical leave to discuss.
2:00 - working on the SMB issues on the killian LM servers.� Started out on D.� Pointed them to Athens but it wouldn't join the domain complaining that there were no logon servers to service the request.� I specified the server and it worked:
net -d ads join -S -U
put in my password and the join completed.
Cycle winbind and smb but I can only browse to the websphere share.� I deleted the trans share since we're not using the transfer system here.�
The truly fucking bizarre part is that the [varlog] share wouldn't work as read-only.� It simply refused to share/browse and gave the error "incorrect function". Making it read/write worked. � When I changed the name to [varlogs] plural, it worked.� When I changed the name to [Varlog], singular with a capital V, it failed.� Leaving it as [varlog] failed.� Changing it to [varloga] worked.� I decided to set the share to read-only and set the name to [varlogs] and let it go.� I'm going to go work on the other killian lm server share and see if its just as fucko.
-- Need to ask Grandpa Simpson wtf is up with ns1.nonprod.� He built it as RHEL4/3 but on /dev/sdb instead of sda.� WTF did you do that for?� Does this have physical drives?� I don't think its booting from SAN.� WHY IN THE FUCK DID YOU SET NAMED LOGGING TO VERBOSE AND THEN ONLY GIVE IT A 1GB PARTITION FOR /VAR?� Jackhole.
Format the sda and put an LVM in there to expand /var.� please.� pretty please.� with sugar on top.
4:36 - last update for the day.� Moved over to killianS, the other box was killianD.� Copied the smb.conf from killianS to killianD, edited the krb5.conf file, took the extraneous entries out of hosts (STOP IT BECKY!), verified resolv.conf was pointing at fosters first, then letting fosters roll to external DNS as needed.� I set this file to share varlog as [varlog] and not [varlogs].
This time it worked as [varlog], but I ended up having to net join twice.� I also took out the password server entry in that file since authentication is set to ADS and not server.� You don't need the password server entry in that case.�
I also changed the NETBIOS name from KILLIAN-LM to KILLIAN-LMS.� This makes me wonder if the label [varlog] has to be unique if there is more than one server with the same NETBIOS name.� Seems like that would make sense.� I don't know how many servers we have with SMB mounts and are named killian.� (This is one of the drawbacks to LM, since LM allows for identical hostnames when that's normally strictly verboten)
-- Next week, edit killianS NETBIOS name and see if it'll let me share [varlog] without the 's'.
-- Fixed the login lag on Juno.� Shut down winbind and smb, there's no reason for them to be running there, I don't know wtf Grandpa Simpson was doing in the first place.
-- Don't forget to tell Chops about the NS1.nonprod plan next week.� He wants to know how I fixed Juno too, but maybe I'll let him stew till Monday.� lol.
-- Stopped at AZL to see the doctor.� She gave me a kit to work with.� Thrilling.� Have monday appt with Sofya.� I don't know why I'm doing this again.� 7PM, and only for 30 minutes.
- Scored 4 tix to the Mercury game on Tuesday night.� Auriel is going with me, I don't know who else to ask.� Perhaps my neighbor Donna would want to come along with Heather.
okay everyone! Today I left my day in the lords hands and it ended up turning out super calm and not hectic at all whatsoever. there were some aggravating moments i had but, I got through them. Today afterwork Im going over to Michaels to pick some brushes for my eyeshadows! Icant wait I been wanting to buy new brushes foever. Anywho My 21st birthday just passed last friday, June 27th and it was the best day. all that day my boyfriend made sure that i was treated like a princess! and when night fell, It was time to party with friends and family. My boyfriend got me a party bus and it was fully loaded with flat screen tv's, nine hunderd watt system and the seating in the party bus was incredible. It was like a huge Limo! I would start the night all over if i could! Im so glad that my friends were able to come out and celebrate my 21st with me! Everyone on the bus had a fantastic time. The day after, everyone called us and made sure we had fun becasue they had a blast! Now im glad i can say I partied extra hard on my 21st as for some people that cannot. : ( The only thing that sucked that night was that my Best friend couldnt make it, only because she isn't� 21 yet. I cant wait til her birthday, we are gonna party like its 1999! Ha ha ha LOL. But anwhosers, Today's day was pretty mellow, and as for tonight its Jorge's turn to make dinner! he he, i think he's making shrimp and rice. I love my Boyfriends cooking! He's my own little personal chef and i love it!!! This weekend is 4th of July and hopefully all turns out well! I think we are going to my boyfriends mom's house. Then hopefully, (since the 4th lands on a friday) we can go and have drinks with our friends. All of my close friends live in my hometown and My boyfriends mom lives in my hometown! so I will mos def have to reunite with them this weekend. I miss them like crazy. Living in the city aint no joke! But it does make me appreciate hell of a lot more then where i used to live! COWTOWN!!!! Tracy! ha ha ha Tomorrow I have to come in earlier but that means i get to leave early Yay!!! and tomorrow is the beginning of my weekend! Cant Wait . . . until next time Journalee's . . . . Jenee!
Haha, I love the quote that's up today--the one about telephones. Take that, Boston Post!
Everything's normal up here. I am taking livesaving courses in the morning instead of swim team like usual. It's pretty fun; I like it. It's for the rest of this week and all of next week, then it's back to swim team.
This entry is going to be relatively (actually, VERY)�short, because I have to go cook supper for my brothers. We have a swim meet tonight and my parents are going to a concert.
Music suggestion of the day (there have been a lot of those recently, don't you think?): The Scientist, by Coldplay. I love it. I'm going to use it if my parents try to make me go into sciences after I graduate from my school. There's a line that fits exactly into how I feel. See if you can guess--it's slightly obvious.
~Annabel
PS: I'm reading Wuthering Heights right now. I've only just started, but does anyone else find Heathcliff kind of evil?
10:20pm:
Oh christ what a day.� I started out 30 minutes late.� That's no big deal really, except I missed a txt message from Slick saying, "Mapquest says there's a big fire by work.� Should I be worried?"� I never did find out if he was joking about that, but man I was getting nervous as I got closer & closer to the office late.
Finally I texted him back saying, "I'm not afraid of a little smoke.� But I'm running 30 late." he replys, "Me Too".� Which is a real funny between the two of us because we're always joking about how we never get into the office before 9am.� On the occasions that we bump into one another on the way in, we inevitably crack up laughing about our tardiness and the fact that nobody cares.
Once at the office I ran upstairs looking for Slick at his cube, but he wasn't there so I went across the street to the P3 building which is about 1/4 mile away in the 9:30am burning-fucking-desert-heat of 109 degrees already.� I had to go to the Security office to get a temp badge because I forgot mine and strolled around the entire half-circle of the campus building down to the stairway that leads up to Margie's desk where I ran into Slick in the hallway...just arriving.� We take one look at each other and crack up laughing.� He says, "I was just texting you to tell you where I was."� I say, "I love this fucking job." and we giggle like a couple of kids all the way in to Margie's office.
Margie isn't there.� There's a guy from XYZ there who's assiting Margie (read: doing the work for Margie), in the task of migrating over from one SAN switch to the other.� Slick and I decide to go downstairs for coffee.
Keep in mind that I had just rushed upstairs from the parking garage, ran into my desk, back out of the building, across the street 1/4 mile in the desert, into security, obtained the badge, ran another 1/5 mi around the building, up the stairs, to her desk, back down the stairs and into the cafeteria in under 10 minutes.� My metabolism was running high already on the 2 cups of high-caffiene coffee I drank on an empty stomach.� Now I'm dumping more hot coffee into my system.� I started getting icky and sweaty.� I said, "I'm running like a speed freak." to Slick, and he looks at me and says, "Yea, somebody might think something's up."
So I decided to slow down on the coffee, and went to the ladies room to wipe the dripping sweat from my brow.�
We got the operation under weigh, had it done and the meeting over in less than an hour.� Which blew both of us away, it went way too fast.� Frankenstein Hair said he has an instruction sheet for the process and wouldn't let Slick or I stop to read it and write anything down, so fuck if I know if its any good.� We're doing another test tomorrrow.
== I need to make a note about the fix for samba on zeppelin.�
-- Stop pointing samba mounts to redmond washington for authentication, move them to athens georgia instead.� Make the changes for winbind in the nsswitch.conf file if they aren't already.� all three of them matter.� then alter both the krb5 file and the smb file, recycle them and it should work.�
-- Fix the damn samba mounts on the killian LM servers for Opie.
-- see about the openldap 2.2.13 package on RHEL3/9 instead of the 2.0.27 package� Talk to Tammy about it if you have to.
-- Lunch with the CIO went well I think.� I told Joey that I was doing a lot more work than I should be, but that I love my job and wouldn't work anyplace else.� I love what I do, the people I work with, and the environment and freedoms I'm given as an employee.� And that is 100% true.� I do bitch about my job in my journal here, and I make snyde comments and jokes about people, but I really do like my job.� For all its silliness and faults.� And I think the old Salty Dogs who run the place are a bunch of nice men and women who really, genuinely care about their employees.� They show it in the way they treat us, the benefits and freedoms they give us, and the honest loyalty that they build with the people who work for them.� And I must say I think I'm lucky , and proud to work at an American Company in the United States, with fewer than 2000 employees.�
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