Busy busy
Posted By matt on September 16, 2003
The domain migration is done. We moved 3 Windows machines to 2 Debian GNU/Linux servers. They're beefy. Dual Athlon MP's of high spec (2600? 2800? something like that), ICP Vortex SATA raid controller, 4 120GB drives in a RAID-5 array. Gigabit ethernet. And there are 2 of them. They're beefy. Cheap too. Like $3,000 for each. The Tape drives we're buying to back them up cost as much as the servers. In theory, with a RAID array, you should never need backups, but we're not that foolish. Took awhile though. Worked Saturday, and ended up having to leave a dinner party on Sunday to go help some more. It went pretty smoothly, overall. Most of the issues were resolved Monday, today there's only one problem with our database software, and that's because it's old and doesn't understand long file names.
In other news, there was a really good article on Windows -> Linux migration here . Basically says what most veteran Unix people know: don't have a windows goober try and do Linux. Windows is crippled, yet they accept this as typical. So, they apply the same crippled logic to Unix make it run like crap. Now, in theory, the converse is true, but I've not found that to be the case. Sure, Unix people do things to Windows to make it more Unixy, but that's stuff like installing better shells and command line tools, scripting things, installing perl, etc. These are not really different setups, just different management tools. In general, Unix admins make better Windows admins than Windows admins do.
In still more news, women can no longer hold men hostage . Plus, it looks like it may end up being more effective than the female pill. How many men have been tricked into child support/marriage/etc. by women who go off the pill to try and trap them. Well, no more, ladies! I expect this to be just as liberating to men as the female pill was in the 60's. Where do I sign up?
(public safety announcement – When you're hitting it with random women, still wrap it up, not doing so is stupid. This is more that you're in a relationship on the way down the drain and she's trying to trap you into staying with a baby, and all you want is a little goodbye sex.)
In theory, we're making up Shadowrun characters, except I'm a munchkin and am basically done.
So, I guess it's time for a cigar.
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