BS: What a way to spend a holiday...

Subject: BS: What a way to spend a holiday...
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 01 May 11 - 09:57 AM

Working! Well, not in the strictest sense. I was in work on Friday and am currently waiting for an engineer to phone me saying he has updated the firmware on my host servers. Once that has done I need to restart the hosts and the 40-odd virtual machines and hope they all come up OK for tomorrow :-(

On the plus side, I can do it all from my sunny front bedroom and I have all of next week off :-)

Just bored at the moment!

MP

Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday...
From: Richie Black (misused acct, bad email)
Date: 01 May 11 - 10:21 AM

Spending day with family. Brother home from Italy haven't seen him in a while, so looking forward to it.

Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday...
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 01 May 11 - 10:53 AM

Shoot - Engineer just texted to say a piece of kit just ain't playing and he will be at least another hour! Hope it doesn't mean the kit is dead or next weeks holiday may be affected:-(

MP

Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday...
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 01 May 11 - 12:39 PM

Ah well, bit of a waste realy. The firmware took an age to load because of a hardware problem. That was fixed and the firmware was, eventualy, upgraded. The newly patched VM hosts started up fine but then the VMs wouldn't :-( I restored the hosts to their pre-patched state and the VMs (apart from one) came up OK. Buggered if I am going to start patching again now and run into the situation where we have not got the servers up by start of business tomorow! Yes - we do work back holidays.

One good thing - The holiday can start now:-) Well, after I have mailed the team. Hello, bottle of Spanish Rose, here I come...

MP

Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday...
From: gnu
Date: 01 May 11 - 12:47 PM

Firmware... is that like steel-toed boots and a hardhat?

Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday...
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 01 May 11 - 02:01 PM

That's the stuff, Gnu. You have to upgrade it or your hard ones turn floppy...

:D

MP

Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday...
From: gnu
Date: 01 May 11 - 02:11 PM

I assume one would not want any floppy dics in their BVDs.

Of course, I am not really up on mod terminology. It was only a wild stab in the dirk.

Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday...
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 01 May 11 - 03:02 PM

Good gnuess though gnu - Pretty spot on apart from it is DVBs, not BVDs. And the last thing I want to do is poke some bits to see if they byte...

MP

Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday...
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 01 May 11 - 06:08 PM

Is computer speak derived from Sanskrit ? Unlike Gnu, I will admit I have no idea what is discussed here.

Quiet weekend here. Snow mostly melted. Will eat fried chicken from the oven of our nearby supermarket. I made biscuits, mixing masa (corn flour) with flour. Crunchy rather than soft, dense but taste good.
We have a 5-pound bag of masa, mostly used for making tortillas, but our supermarket tortillas and wraps are good and making them is hard work unless one has the machine.

Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday...
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 01 May 11 - 06:22 PM

Oh, c'moffit Q! We KNOW that you know everything. Saw it on Startrek TNG...

MP

Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday...
From: gnu
Date: 01 May 11 - 06:26 PM

Q... my point exacttly. I haven't a clue as to the dialect. Dunno VMs from VPs.

Snow and chicken and biscuits I know... firmware, farmware fromwherever...??? All I know is that my security software is working on acconta my puder is still working when I turn it on... errr, boot it up?

Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday...
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 May 11 - 06:59 PM

Firmware?? Tell me more!

Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday...
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 02 May 11 - 12:02 PM

It's somewhere between hardware and software, Kat. Nothing to get excited about I'm afraid :-)

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Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday...
From: Bill D
Date: 02 May 11 - 01:09 PM

It's a bit vague and difficult to 'grab onto' ..kinda like 'firmament'...

"The apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected"