I went to Meadowlark Botanical Gardens to kill the afternoon, and take some pictures. Mostly this was to try out my new lens, a Nikkor 10.5mm Fisheye. Definitely a lot of fun to use, although it takes some time getting accustomed to a 180ยบ field of vision. Very easy to forget and leave your hand (or foot) in the frame.
Also trying out Picasa web albums from Google. Haven’t decided if I want to start using it exclusively, and/or move my current photos over to it.
seriously, is my hair just getting curlier as i get older? is this normal?
i got a haircut yesterday, and my hair is just wicked curly right now. i do not recall it being this bad when i was younger. maybe more wavy, at that point. now? its like dr. cox from scrubs (somewhere around season 4 or 5…if you watch the show with any regularity, you know what i’m talking about).
at this rate, its going to be like later-episodes mike brady by the time i’m forty.
and why do all of my similes involve television characters?
Roadie: Oh, boy. There goes Peter Frampton’s big finale. He’s gonna be pissed off.
Peter Frampton: You’re damn right I’m gonna be pissed off! I bought that pig at Pink Floyd’s yard sale!
I today I learned how it feels to do an rm -rf / on my system.
This happened and work, and luckily, it was my computer, and not one of the servers. And I wasn’t running as root.
But still.
Somehow…and believe, I’d love to know about that how…but somehow, my root folder (/) go into my Trash folder. (I’m using Gnome, BTW, so hence why I even have a Trash folder.) And I decided to empty my trash before shutting down the machine (today is the day we move back into our permanent offices).
Which suddenly caused a lot more items to go flying by than I would have suspected. After cancelling the process, I realize that my Desktop is now clear of anything useful, such as my files and links. And my shortcuts are gone. And then I find that quite a lot of my dot-files are gone.
*sigh*
So now I’m trying to recover from all of that. Luckily, few (if any) binaries were affected. So its more a matter of getting things set up the way I had them before. Sadly, I’ve lost my archived e-mails for last year. And the bulk of the work I had done on our password changing mechanism.
But hey, at least I’ve got my window again, so no more going crazy without natural light.
Got a message from tech support saying that one of our proxies was running low on disk space. Usually this is a problem that sorts itself out on its own, but I decided to check it out, anyways.
Log in to the machine and check out the directory that holds all of the files that are being virus scanned on the way to the end-user, and find a large (1.8GB) ISO file. “Ah, that would be it”. Looking through the file, I see a bunch of stuff about Microsoft. So, someone is downloading a Windows DVD image. Nothing wrong with that (assuming it was from a legal source). Since it was almost two hours old, I cleared out the disk space, solving the tech support issue.
And then I noticed something else of interest. A file with a .php extension. And it was just over 200MB. Looked through the file, and realized it was a Windows Media file.
“Very, very interesting”, says I.
I watch the file for a bit, and once I’m sure its done downloading, I copy it over to a temp drive. Then I tell my coworker about it, and we proceed to copy it to each of our machines: his a Windows box, mine Linux.
For whatever reason, it doesn’t come up on his. But I send the file to VLC and start playback:
“Oh yeah…its porn.”
Bad porn, but porn none-the-less.
Sometimes, I really do enjoy my job.
February is International Mustache Month.
Be sure to follow the rules if you’re going to participate.
Background: Co-worker #2 is my team lead, and his wife is into swordplay-type stuff. Co-worker #1 is our boss.
Co-worker #1: So are we going to see a picture of your wife beating things up with a mace now?
Co-worker #2: Yeah, eventually.
Co-worker #1: It just seems odd to spend so much time learning about swords. Is she just a naturally violent person?
Co-worker #2: Not really. More of a protection thing.
Co-worker #1: Protection from what? Muggers?
Co-worker #2: You never know who is lurking in the dark when you’re walking around.
Me: Also, zombies.
Co-worker #1: What’s wrong with guns?
Me: Guns are loud. And attract more zombies.
Co-worker #1: Hunh.
Me: You obviously do not spend enough time thinking about zombie defense.
Damn, I need to stop with these all-nighters. I now pray for the sweet, sweet release of death sleep. Only 4.5 more hours to go.
“There is the theory of the moebius, a twist in the fabric of space, where time becomes a loop.”
Just found one of our DNS boxes (running Solaris 9/Sparc) doing this:
bash-2.05$ date Thu Nov 8 17:24:25 EST 2007 bash-2.05$ date Thu Nov 8 17:24:26 EST 2007 bash-2.05$ date Thu Nov 8 17:24:27 EST 2007 bash-2.05$ date Thu Nov 8 17:24:27 EST 2007 bash-2.05$ date Thu Nov 8 17:24:25 EST 2007 bash-2.05$ date Thu Nov 8 17:24:25 EST 2007 bash-2.05$ date Thu Nov 8 17:24:26 EST 2007 bash-2.05$ date Thu Nov 8 17:24:27 EST 2007 bash-2.05$ date Thu Nov 8 17:24:27 EST 2007 bash-2.05$
That’s just me hitting ‘date’ repeatedly. Its the results which are rather strange.
Guess its time for a reboot, and hope that the machine comes back.
Update:
Reboot was successful. Pulled a copy of syslog off the machine before doing so, just in case Really Bad Things ™ were about to happen. Found the following interesting bits right before the time loop began:
Dec 30 19:00:00 xyz named[3721]: [ID 873579 daemon.crit] timer.c:447: fatal error: Dec 30 19:00:00 xyz named[3721]: [ID 873579 daemon.crit] RUNTIME_CHECK(isc_time_now((&now)) == 0) failed Dec 30 19:00:00 xyz named[3721]: [ID 873579 daemon.crit] exiting (due to fatal error in library)
Note the odd timestamp. The epoch, maybe, corrected for GMT-5?
Don’t really know what is going on, and Google was, surprisingly, no help with the error message.