Welcome to whenever you are...

When were you again?

indigowombat posted an interesting experiment, and krsfm expanded it a bit.

Drop your birthday into Wikipedia, sans year, and look at what comes out:

July 2
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

July 2 is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 182 days remaining.

It is the middle day of a non-leap year, because there are 182 days before and 182 days after. It falls on the same day of the week as New Years Day (of non-leap years).
( More things of interest (to me anyway) lie behind the cut... )

So that was the day, now lets look at the year:

1970
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). 1970 is the Unix epoch time.

( The year of my birth was not a good one. The Beatles broke up, Hendrix and Joplin died, and the Kent State shootings occured. That was the good news compared to a lot of the rest... )

And of course, dead fucking center, was little ole me. I was even born just about the middle of the day.

Welcome to whenever you are...

When were you again?

indigowombat posted an interesting experiment, and krsfm expanded it a bit.

Drop your birthday into Wikipedia, sans year, and look at what comes out:

July 2
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

July 2 is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 182 days remaining.

It is the middle day of a non-leap year, because there are 182 days before and 182 days after. It falls on the same day of the week as New Years Day (of non-leap years).
( More things of interest (to me anyway) lie behind the cut... )

So that was the day, now lets look at the year:

1970
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). 1970 is the Unix epoch time.

( The year of my birth was not a good one. The Beatles broke up, Hendrix and Joplin died, and the Kent State shootings occured. That was the good news compared to a lot of the rest... )

And of course, dead fucking center, was little ole me. I was even born just about the middle of the day.

Welcome to whenever you are...

When were you again?

indigowombat posted an interesting experiment, and krsfm expanded it a bit.

Drop your birthday into Wikipedia, sans year, and look at what comes out:

July 2
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

July 2 is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 182 days remaining.

It is the middle day of a non-leap year, because there are 182 days before and 182 days after. It falls on the same day of the week as New Years Day (of non-leap years).
( More things of interest (to me anyway) lie behind the cut... )

So that was the day, now lets look at the year:

1970
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). 1970 is the Unix epoch time.

( The year of my birth was not a good one. The Beatles broke up, Hendrix and Joplin died, and the Kent State shootings occured. That was the good news compared to a lot of the rest... )

And of course, dead fucking center, was little ole me. I was even born just about the middle of the day.

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I want to go home, but damnit, I have a shiny new toy in a box next to my desk.

It's a box with 2TB storage on 14 high speed (15k RPM) FC disks, yeilding 1.2TB of usable RAID5 filesystem, and it has a nice NetApp logo on the front.

Before I can play with it, I need to put it in one of the racks and do some configuration, and I really don't feel like trying to manhandle 30k worth of hardware into a rack all by myself. I also don't have new batteries for the APC Matrix 5000 that it's going to be plugged in to, and the current cells for that particular unit are five years old now and won't take a charge anymore. Which reminds me that I need a rack mount shelving unit from APC for that one, since it's also currently taking up floor space in my office. Oh, and the Veritas module to back it up.

Oh well, time to go spend some more of Raytheon's money.

(no subject)

I want to go home, but damnit, I have a shiny new toy in a box next to my desk.

It's a box with 2TB storage on 14 high speed (15k RPM) FC disks, yeilding 1.2TB of usable RAID5 filesystem, and it has a nice NetApp logo on the front.

Before I can play with it, I need to put it in one of the racks and do some configuration, and I really don't feel like trying to manhandle 30k worth of hardware into a rack all by myself. I also don't have new batteries for the APC Matrix 5000 that it's going to be plugged in to, and the current cells for that particular unit are five years old now and won't take a charge anymore. Which reminds me that I need a rack mount shelving unit from APC for that one, since it's also currently taking up floor space in my office. Oh, and the Veritas module to back it up.

Oh well, time to go spend some more of Raytheon's money.

(no subject)

I want to go home, but damnit, I have a shiny new toy in a box next to my desk.

It's a box with 2TB storage on 14 high speed (15k RPM) FC disks, yeilding 1.2TB of usable RAID5 filesystem, and it has a nice NetApp logo on the front.

Before I can play with it, I need to put it in one of the racks and do some configuration, and I really don't feel like trying to manhandle 30k worth of hardware into a rack all by myself. I also don't have new batteries for the APC Matrix 5000 that it's going to be plugged in to, and the current cells for that particular unit are five years old now and won't take a charge anymore. Which reminds me that I need a rack mount shelving unit from APC for that one, since it's also currently taking up floor space in my office. Oh, and the Veritas module to back it up.

Oh well, time to go spend some more of Raytheon's money.

Since I seem to be in a posting sort of mood this morning...

I compiled the latest version of Samba yesterday afternoon to save myself being bored to death while listening in on a telecon. Prior to doing so, I went and reinstalled CUPS, then forced a complete reinstall of the standard SysV and Impressario print subsystems over top of it, which means I have working printing, and Samba can now lock files again.

It still spews this crap continuously:

Apr 7 11:17:45 3D:dragon smbd[775649]: [2006/04/07 11:17:45, 0] printing/print_cups.c:(84)
Apr 7 11:17:45 3D:dragon smbd[775649]: Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost - Connection refused
Apr 7 11:17:45 3D:dragon smbd[775649]: [2006/04/07 11:17:45, 0] printing/print_cups.c:(84)
Apr 7 11:17:45 3D:dragon smbd[775649]: Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost - Connection refused

to syslog, but at least it's no longer spewing oplock errors.

It still pisses me off that despite explicitly telling samba to not use CUPS, it insists on trying anyway.

The new version still won't auth via AD properly, and falls back to RPC. But hey, the answer to all those samba issues is sitting on the floor of my office.

Since I seem to be in a posting sort of mood this morning...

I compiled the latest version of Samba yesterday afternoon to save myself being bored to death while listening in on a telecon. Prior to doing so, I went and reinstalled CUPS, then forced a complete reinstall of the standard SysV and Impressario print subsystems over top of it, which means I have working printing, and Samba can now lock files again.

It still spews this crap continuously:

Apr 7 11:17:45 3D:dragon smbd[775649]: [2006/04/07 11:17:45, 0] printing/print_cups.c:(84)
Apr 7 11:17:45 3D:dragon smbd[775649]: Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost - Connection refused
Apr 7 11:17:45 3D:dragon smbd[775649]: [2006/04/07 11:17:45, 0] printing/print_cups.c:(84)
Apr 7 11:17:45 3D:dragon smbd[775649]: Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost - Connection refused

to syslog, but at least it's no longer spewing oplock errors.

It still pisses me off that despite explicitly telling samba to not use CUPS, it insists on trying anyway.

The new version still won't auth via AD properly, and falls back to RPC. But hey, the answer to all those samba issues is sitting on the floor of my office.

Since I seem to be in a posting sort of mood this morning...

I compiled the latest version of Samba yesterday afternoon to save myself being bored to death while listening in on a telecon. Prior to doing so, I went and reinstalled CUPS, then forced a complete reinstall of the standard SysV and Impressario print subsystems over top of it, which means I have working printing, and Samba can now lock files again.

It still spews this crap continuously:

Apr 7 11:17:45 3D:dragon smbd[775649]: [2006/04/07 11:17:45, 0] printing/print_cups.c:(84)
Apr 7 11:17:45 3D:dragon smbd[775649]: Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost - Connection refused
Apr 7 11:17:45 3D:dragon smbd[775649]: [2006/04/07 11:17:45, 0] printing/print_cups.c:(84)
Apr 7 11:17:45 3D:dragon smbd[775649]: Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost - Connection refused

to syslog, but at least it's no longer spewing oplock errors.

It still pisses me off that despite explicitly telling samba to not use CUPS, it insists on trying anyway.

The new version still won't auth via AD properly, and falls back to RPC. But hey, the answer to all those samba issues is sitting on the floor of my office.