Ugh!
I am both physically and mentally drained. I have been completely exhausted so far this week. I am really enjoying my class, but my brain iz fried. I get to a certain point where I can’t take in anymore information, I never was good at school.
Month: August 2000
We went to Sting (big candy raver event) tonight. It was all right, not really my scene though. I feel like I am an old man when I go to any of these thingz anymore. I dig the music, but not enough to deal with the huge crowd of underage people. It was free though (aside from the $15 parking), so it was worth it. Thanks to Jason & his girlfriend Jessica. Off to bed I go.
I am so ready to go home. It will be so nice to not hafta come into the office for a week and a half. Too bad its not vacation though. Plus I hafta decide which loan offer to accept.
Another day, another dollar. I stayed up too late last night watching American History X. That movie kicked ass. If you havent seen it already, it’s about a nazi skinhead (Edward Norton) who after killing two people ends up in jail. When he gets released, his perspective on things has changed completely.. etc. I dont wanna give away the story, but it was very cool. Check it out if you havent already.
Got both hard drivez reformatted and partitioned in the web server. I don’t know that you will notice anything client-side, it was done mainly to re-allocate disk space from old partitions to give more to the ones that were starting to hurt. I also setup a caching nameserver last night. Now I just need to take the time to model our firewall, since the server is built and ready to go. Time to go get some food.
Nothin like hitting up hard times cafe for chili & beer. It always makes the rest of the day so much easier. I just realized this afternoon, that after tomorrow, I wont be back in my office for a whole 11 days! Now granted, I’m still working from home on Friday, and on call through Saturday, but I don’t hafta come out to bumfuck maryland everyday. Plus, I’m really looking forward to my cisco class next week.
Oh btw…
For those of you that are regualr visitors to either half-asleep.com or stvlive.com, I apologize for downtime over the past two days. I have been making some adjustments to the www server, to make things run more efficiently. I will be bringing the server down again tonight for a while, to do some backups, and repartition the second drive.
Ugh!
My body is feeling the pressure of the lack of sleep, and excess stress. I felt like my heart was going to explode when I was coming into work.
For some reason, my damn NT Domain login at work keeps getting locked. It’s pissing me off. Of course IS has no idea what the problem is, so I juzt keep calling them to unlock it. I disconnected all of my network shares and rebooted, hopefully that will have done the trick. But hey,.. this is microshaft, nothing surprises me.
w00!!
Just found out we were approved for a mortgage through Bank of America!!! Now I am just waiting to hear back from a couple more places, and I am sure that if BofA approved us, we wont have a problem elsewhere, so I can afford to shop for the best rate now.
Okay, you ever do something and forget to do one simple thing, and it completely hozez the whole thing? I do, I do! Last night I was repartitioning some space on the www server. This should be a relatively simple task since I was completely wiping out a 5g partition, then creating new partitions on it to move existing ones to.
So I unmount the partition, use fdisk, wipe out the existing partition, and create 3 new ones. Then rebooted (this would be where I fucked up). I forgot to format the partitions, so when linux is booting up, fsck starts spewing out the errors. Now had I realized right away what I had forgotten, this would have been easily recoverable. But I did not.
I look in fdisk, and see that there are a bunch of errors on the partitions, one of which was (what I though) an old partition that should have been removed. So I hit “d” fdisk says pick a partition (1-10) I hit “5” then “w” to save the table, then exit out of fdisk. It is now that I realize that I had forgotten to format before, so I format my 3 new partitions, and reboot.
Linux starts booting, and fsck gives me another error about a partition that should have been “swap”. I go into fstab and realize that something got fucked up some how, and hda7 and hda8 some how switched. I fixed this and rebooted.
Linux boots fine this time. I log in, and type in an alias that I use, and get an error. I immediately knew what happened. /home was gone! somehow, the partitions had all gotten switched around, and /home ended up getting formatted. DOH!
Luckily, unless my users were doing so without my knowledge, there was nothing terribly important on this partition. I lost a lot of misc. stuff that I kept in my home dir, but nothing I can’t live without. Thank god /www /usr & /var are all on another disk.
Oh well, shit happens! This is how I learn all the stuff I know. Make a dreadful mistake, don’t ever do it again.