Unhurriedly

While not the entirety of my day, this shows the excitement of an average day…

Ironically, the next day (today) I got a haircut, beard and all.

I’m always surprised at the reaction I get from clients when I come in and “save the day.” Even people who I feel have stronger skills in their niche will ask for me by name and drop praise on me when I finish. As much as I enjoy the confidence, I’m usually made uncomfortable by it.

My latest was at a client who only calls us for the really strange problems. He is very savvy and setup most of his systems by himself. The Macs live in an AD environment leveraging ADmit Mac and NetBoot for reimaging. He has just started adding in Intel Mac Pros into the mix and needed to create new netboot images for those machines. Strangely, the Intel Mac Pros would hang on the freshly created image. The boot pinwheel would just spin forever.

One of my clients had been having ongoing issues with their Xserve G5. Test after test, fix after fix and not only couldn’t I seem to get it permanently fixed, I couldn’t seem to find the root of the problem.

I just released some posts that have been sitting in the queue for quite some time. *clears throat* They were not as polished as I had intended them to be, but enough was enough. There will always be something else to write about.

Meanwhile, we have been very busy here at Stamm Business Technologies. Most notably, I just made the new StammWIKI live. It is very bare right now, but I’m hoping that we’ll be able to fill it up quickly.

I’m hoping that as I push the wiki, I can push a resurgence of blog posting as well.

Here’s to new wikies! *clink*

I’ll admit, I checked on it more than once throughout the day.

glenn@stammdebian:~$ uptime
16:49:06 up 318 days, 4:27, load average: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00

We made it through. I don’t know how long the power was off, or if it was even off at all. We may have to go through this all over again next week if they didn’t finish.

Just another 47 days of worry…

Linux 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown

The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Last login: Wed Feb 17 13:06:58 2006 from [obscured]
glenn@stammdebian:~$ uptime
14:49:53 up 317 days, 2:28, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.00

In just a few short month my precious little trooper of a Debian box will have been up, without a reboot, for a year.

Unfortunatly, in the infinte wisdom of those that be, our buildings power will be upgraded on Sunday.

This could easily be a much longer post as I describe my turmoil and the jeers of my fellow co-workers. I had gone so far as to consider renting a gas powered generator and babysitting the damn thing. Time and money have made this an overzealos plan.

Dave is going to power down the Stamm servers, like any other sane person would do and I am going to try to ride out the storm on the then nearly zero load UPS.

We’ll all find out on Monday whether or not it made it over the weekend.

317 days…

Well, this is one of the several Stamm tech blogs. This one is me, Glenn. Some of them are private some of them are public. These are places for us, as members of Stamm Business Technologies, to keep notes, musings and to share some of our knowledge. Each of us has our own skill-sets and our own perspectives.

Maybe this will catch on, maybe it won’t. Who knows…

As a note, each of these blogs, while being hosted by Stamm Business Technologies and produced by employees of Stamm Business Technologies, the views expressed within are net expressly the views of Stamm Business Technologies.

EDIT: This is an import (along with a handful of other posts) from a failed effort to get a company blog site up and running.