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01 May 11 - 09:57 AM (#3145768) Subject: BS: What a way to spend a holiday... From: Dave the Gnome 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 |
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01 May 11 - 10:21 AM (#3145777) Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday... From: Richie Black (misused acct, bad email) Spending day with family. Brother home from Italy haven't seen him in a while, so looking forward to it. |
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01 May 11 - 10:53 AM (#3145794) Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday... From: Dave the Gnome 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 |
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01 May 11 - 12:39 PM (#3145846) Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday... From: Dave the Gnome 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 |
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01 May 11 - 12:47 PM (#3145851) Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday... From: gnu Firmware... is that like steel-toed boots and a hardhat? |
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01 May 11 - 02:01 PM (#3145905) Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday... From: Dave the Gnome That's the stuff, Gnu. You have to upgrade it or your hard ones turn floppy... :D MP |
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01 May 11 - 02:11 PM (#3145910) Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday... From: gnu 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. |
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01 May 11 - 03:02 PM (#3145941) Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday... From: Dave the Gnome 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 |
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01 May 11 - 06:08 PM (#3146042) Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday... From: Q (Frank Staplin) 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. |
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01 May 11 - 06:22 PM (#3146049) Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday... From: Dave the Gnome Oh, c'moffit Q! We KNOW that you know everything. Saw it on Startrek TNG... MP |
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01 May 11 - 06:26 PM (#3146054) Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday... From: gnu 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? |
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01 May 11 - 06:59 PM (#3146070) Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday... From: katlaughing Firmware?? Tell me more! |
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02 May 11 - 12:02 PM (#3146489) Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday... From: Dave the Gnome It's somewhere between hardware and software, Kat. Nothing to get excited about I'm afraid :-) MP |
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02 May 11 - 01:09 PM (#3146540) Subject: RE: BS: What a way to spend a holiday... From: Bill D 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" |