And On This Farm He Had A Blog

@c Funny how a misbehaving server has morphed into an episode of Murder She Wrote.

// @matigo

@matigo There's always a downside to promotions. I had a lot more fun when I wasn't in charge of anything,

@matigo That looks like a Steve Jobs keynote joke. Good job!

Status: At home instead of office. Doing dry runs of the raid stuff on a VM to make sure everything works as planned. Also doing dry runs on RHEL 7 as the methods differ somewhat.

The last time I did this was a while ago, remotely over ssh, on a RHEL 5 server. Talk about nerve wracking.

@matigo Comments are sometimes your best friends

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[root@prnsrv ~]# smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep PowerOnHours
  9 PowerOnHours          0x0032   002   002   000    Oldage   Always       -       86476
[root@prnsrv ]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5.11 (Final)

The small Shuttle PC sharing an old dot matrix printer in our office is on the other end of the spectrum. 9.87 years of spinning. Zero SMART errors so far. Kind of want to see it pass the 100,000 hour club. Only two more years and change.

@matigo It did seem that way during that era. Things moved so danged quickly until Intel released the Core Duo. AMD sort of fell by the wayside after that.

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[root@autobuild ~]# smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep PowerOnHours
  9 PowerOnHours          0x0032   098   098   000    Old_age   Always       -       13967

Wow. That hard drive is in pristine shape for it's age. Only a year and a half of total powered on time.

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[root@rhel6-vm ~]# ssh 192.168.1.30
The authenticity of host '192.168.1.30 (192.168.1.30)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 7a:da:5c:a4:15:70:c8:6a:0a:9c:8b:29:85:88:6f:c3.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added '192.168.1.30' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
root@192.168.1.30's password:
Last login: Wed Jan  1 00:01:59 2003
 autobuild.internal.lan - Booted into PCDS Linux 
bootinto -1 for Red Hat 9 Interactive
bootinto -2 for Fedora Core 3 Interactive
bootinto -3 for CentOS Intereactive
bootinto -4 for PCDS autobuild
bootinto -5 for Red Hat 9 autobuild
bootinto -6 for Fedora Core 3 autobuild
bootinto -7 for CentOS autobuild


[root@autobuild ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id   : AuthenticAMD
cpu family  : 6
model       : 10
model name    : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+
stepping   : 0
cpu MHz        : 2158.549

Note that the last login date is the BIOS date since the CMOS battery is dead. I am not a time traveller. :)

So, on the drive home, I look in my rear view mirror. State Patrol car closing fast. I look at the speedometer so I know the answer to, "Do you know how fast you were going?"

90 mph. On Highway 11. A 55mph zone. Oops.

When the road had a shoulder again, I was resigned to visiting it. We got to the shoulder. No lights but riding right on my bumper. I figure he's going pull me over at the right of way where railroad workers park and do a whole lot of nothing. Nope. Just keeps riding my bumper. No lights.

We get all the way to Calhoun.

I figure that he's going to pull me over at the lot across from the paper mill. Nope. He turns on his left blinker, zooms past me and into the Hardees drive thru.

I guess the hamburger and fries were more important than the massive fine. I know for a fact that I am enjoying it more than he is.