And On This Farm He Had A Blog

Dear computer techs.

When you pull a hard drive from a computer, plug it into a Windows box and have it come up with an icon that says, "Empty Drive", do NOT tell the customer the drive is empty. Please look at the partition tables and verify the SMART status.

I'm so over of giving customers the "This is like someone telling you the record they borrowed no longer has grooves" (Mainly because a lot of people now have never SEEN a record). I'm also over calling you guys afterwards and ferreting information.

Thank You
Makers and maintainers of Linux software.

After being stuck in RHEL7 w/MATE desktop for 23 hours, I have to say I like it.

Really learned the biggest advantage git has over subversion.

Dead server housed a code repo I used for internal and private development. Fortunately, it was current on several machines

git clone --bare currentworkstationcopy

Done.

cvs or subversion would be a total loss in terms of history.

Okay. New server is about 98 percent functional. The few remaining tidbits are only for our internal use and, thus, are the lowest priority.

Almost 7:00AM.

I seriously need a nap.

…of course, it is no big deal that the mirrored drives got fried as a lot of the code and such was specific to RHEL5 era servers and no longer works on modern Linux. I also,no longer have any hardware even capable of running RHEL5.

No matter. I held my nose and ported everything to modern, systemd-based systems. RHEL7 server is humming right along.

Got home from work at 11:00pm. A crucial, outward facing server blew up. I've never seen a power supply take out a motherboard and all of the drives in a raid array.

Had to reconfigure services and such from scratch.

Still working on it remotely.

@matigo I'm pretty sure there are many.

@matigo Seems like both ZIP and floppy-based tape drives existed to do just that.

// @streakmachine

@matigo In Linux, even today, I still have a root terminal open and enter sync; sync before ejecting. Got burned several times back when Linux wasn't so graceful.

// @streakmachine

@larand Every simplification they made to Word since Word 98 made it more incomprehensible to me.

// @tewha