And On This Farm He Had A Blog

Status: 120 miles of back and forth driving from home yesterday and restoring a backup so a company in Louisiana could operate off my server.

Theirs developed a bad sector smack in the middle of their database. They were RAID mirrored but one of the drives went bad so they yanked it and never got around to replacing it….alrighty then.

Transferred data today from my server to a new one their tech built. Tech and manager are no-where to be found so I am on the phone with their managers and employees talking them through getting up and running. No, it isn't my job but most of the things I get saddled with aren't.

All the while, I'm diagnosing a database issue via text messages with a company in Indiana.

I need a drink.

Sometimes, it's easier to just implement a superfluous feature instead of spending seventeen years telling people, "We don't have that superfluous feature".

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In two days, I will receive what feels like my thousandth office chair.

It's a "Big and Tall" meant for people 6' tall and over. It had an irate review from a 5'4" woman who obviously did not read the description. Apparently her legs dangled at it's lowest height setting. It is supposedly rated for 400 pounds.

Dollars to doughnuts, it will be a wreck in under one year.

@kdfrawg Was sad to see Microsoft walk away from Flight Simulator. It had been around for so many years. Be amazing to see where it would have been with modern hardware. Flight Simulator X is still pretty impressive but it's going on eleven years old.

// @streakmachine

@streakmachine The final OS update I put on my 1st gen mini was the straw that broke it's back. Only thing it is used for now is an alternate remote for the Roku/AppleTV/iTunes. Otherwise, I think I'd wipe it and see if it helped.

// @kdfrawg

@kdfrawg I recall the last time I looked at stuff for Flight Simulator X, it was almost impossible to lay hands on. Particularly the custom radio panels and throttle quadrants.

Expensive hobby, too. You can have many thousands of dollars invested in that stuff.

// @streakmachine

@streakmachine All of those things sound more appealing to me than software development.

@streakmachine The new release, Horizons, isn't available for Mac and I don't think they will support it going forward. It's just too graphically intensive for the Intel HD stuff Apple puts in their machines now.

EDIT: You can play it on XBox One so there's a cheaper alternative than decking ourt a gaming PC, at least.

@streakmachine I don't even want to think of the time I wasted in the original, 1984 version.

All I can really do in this one is exploration as I can land on a planet and switch to doing actual work. I take off again when I need a breather or have long builds going.

My destination will probably take months in real time to reach at this rate and that's fine. :)

I find it relaxing.

Oh..Not dead.

Office has been hectic and my home-time has been spent with a vim session on RHEL 6 on display #1, Microsoft Code on display #2 and this on display #3

Porting old code to modern Linux, working on a new release and departing on a 65,000 light year journey (plus doing things like mow the yard, fix the screen on the porch, etc) have left little time for chit chat :)