Work

We just received the long awaited shipment of sixteen 300GB FC-HDD’s (2Gbps with 10000rpm) for our SAN (a pretty old DS4500/FaStT 900). But there’s still the software option missing we ordered within the same breath. So I called our trustworthy IBM distributor (hah!) and asked the guy responsible for sales, what the ETA on this software option is (if someone is interested its VolumeCopy/FlashCopy). He told me, that we’ll receive a letter with the license key about 4 weeks after commission !!!!!! ...

OK, so after yesterdays battle with SLES and rpm, I decided to simply upgrade rpm (again rpmbuild -bb rpm.spec as in from source). I had to tune (hah, remove stuff that isn’t working on this ancient gcc-3.3.3 ie. -fstack-protector) a bit to get it working, wasted 20 minutes worth of CPU time and ~30 of my time. I finally gave up. I couldn’t persuade neither rpm, nor git to compile on the damn SLES/Dell. ...

Now is again such a time in live, where you have the motivation or wish to just fade away. I’m just listening to Fort Minor - Where’d you go and thinking about the stuff Mike Shinoda is singing … I want you to know it’s a little fucked up, That I’m stuck here waitin’, no longer debatin’, Tired of sittin’ and hatin’ and makin’ these excuses, For while you’re not around, and feeling so useless, It seems one thing has been true all along, You don’t really know what you got ’til it’s gone. ...

Once again, I’m compelled to play (other call it administering 😛) with our TYPO3 cluster (which is sadly running SLES). One thing I just learned about SLES (for the ones curious, its Novell’s SuSE Linux Enterprise Server and yes, it suffers the same pain as SuSE/openSuSE). They split one single config file (at least the apache2 one) into 9 (or more) different files. Another thing is, for what the hell does a simple LAMP need a full blown Xorg w/ KDE installed ? ...

Today they finally let me fiddle around on an AIX 5.3 system. Well AIX ain’t bad, but misses (by default installation) some features and comfort. The first thing I noticed, they only! install telnet and don’t even give an option to install sshd .. That sucks, especially if you’re supposed to log in via the internet (yay! an telnet open to the internet 😯) So I googled a bit around and found out, that we should have some Bonus CD’s (from IBM of course) featuring openssl/openssh, looked into the cubicle behind the rack and look what I’ve found … Go, go … 😛 ...

Well, so I finally got around to fix some pending bugs .. vzquota and vzctl is finally bumped ( #122532), new baselayout-vserver is in the tree (fixing some issues with rebooting a vps) and I’m finally working on getting dietlibc updated. So let’s see what the day reveals 😄

Today was again horrible. The boss started to drive me nuts on 8.30 and it even got worser and worser …. Sometimes I start thinking how it would be, if I had decided not to move with my parents into the outback (yeah, we’ve also outback in Germany, it’s called East Germany 😛)