Category: General

Fucking Verizon…

Posted on by DizkoDan

Once again Verison has managed to fuck with my life. I am trying to get DSL installed (again), so I can finally get rid of the T1. The process was going pretty smoothly up until covad showed up to light me up. I ordered the DSL on 8/11. Had Verizon setup to install the loop on 8/19. Verizon shows up, finds that I have no free incoming pair for the new circuit. So we lay a temporary line from my NID to the pedistal behind my house. He does his loop test, and all is (supposedly) well. Covad gets scheduled to come out today 8/25 to do the final install. The guy gets here this morning, we figure out how we’re gonna wire this shit in, and get everything set. We test the internal connections we made, and all is good. Go out to the NID, and tap in. Come in, tone the line: NO LOOP! The tests show all kinds of irregularity from the NID to the CO. Showing on one side that im about 9k ft from the CO, and the other that im 13k ft. The error rate is sky high. Obviously there’s a problem on the loop. So this guy calls it in, so they can open a ticket with Verizon. He configures my router so everything will be ready to go whenever Verizon fixes their shit, and leaves.

So I decide to log into the router and do some tinkering. Well, this assmonkey changed the password, and didn’t tell me. So I do some searching on google, and figure out how to bypass the login, get in and change my password. The first thing I see, is that this jackass set my line speed incorrectly. Yes please, give me half the speed I’m paying for JACKASS! So I changed that shit, and now I wait. Could be a day, could be a week. Who knows with Verizon. On top of all this, I get a call from Verizon’s burried line crew stating that miss utility would be out here by friday, and that it would be another week or two after that before they would be out to burry the fuckin line! This being already a week after the temp line was laid.

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Posted on by DizkoDan

Is the night over yet? We have been so busy tonight, that I’ve hardly had a moment to think. I got left with about 25 servers tonight. My team is awesome, so we have knocked out most of them, but I’m sure we’ll still be busy till the moment we leave. Fucking 1st shift here is a waste of space. They don’t get shit done, end up turning over all their servers to 2nd shift, who then get slammed since the majority of new servers pop in the late afternoon. Since they end up with all of 1st shift’s mess on top of their own bullshit, we end up with half of their servers. So it’s a vicious circle. If I leave anything for 1st shift, there’s a pretty good chance that it will still be here for 2nd shift. Hopefully things will get better in a couple weeks when we are making some “adjustments” to the shifts. However, I get screwed twice out of the deal, cuz I lose my best employee, and gain the worst of everyone in this organization. My only hope is that he either quits because he wont want to work for me, or he continues being a fuckup on my shift, so I can promptly boot his ass the fuck out of here.

Okay, nuff bitching. I have more work to do.

been awhile eh?

Posted on by DizkoDan

So I’ve been kind of in a daze for the past couple months. Working nights makes you lose all concept of time. I have always liked working nights, but it’s one of those things that you never really get used to. I never know what day it is, not that I really care though. Things have been going pretty well. The job has been great. Rackspace kicks much ass!

Took my RHCE exam yesterday, got the results this morning, and I passed! It was actually harder than I expected, and walked out yesterday not sure if I passed. The sad thing is, the 2 things I knew would give me problems did. If I wasn’t such a lazy turd, I probably could have worked on them a bit more before the exam, and would have completely aced it.

Other than that, a lot of the same old, same old.

How you doin?

Another one bites the dust…

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It would appear that I have toasted yet another hard drive. And again, it is on my main machine. I am in the process of trying to salvage the data from the old drive, but I fear that a lot of data got corrupted by fsck when it couldn’t read the blocks. With any luck, it will be okay. I just fucking rebuilt this machine less than two monmths ago!

beers, steers, & queers….

Posted on by DizkoDan

I have arrived in this shit hole that they call San Antonio, TX. It really hasn’t changed much in the 25 years since I left. My hotel is directly across the street from our Data Center, and next store to our administrative offices, so that’s pretty cool. We got in at around 3pm, and decided to go out to get an early dinner. After that, we wandered on the riverwalk for a little while before coming back to the hotel and hitting the hot tub. Changed clothes, and went down to the bar for a couple cocktails, and caught a little of the UMD/UVA game. Gotta get up pretty damn early tomorrow, but it’s all good. I think they’re gonna take us out to the alamo at lunch.

Posted on by DizkoDan

Today I started my new job at RackSpace. They are opening a new data center here, and I am a operations tech. Basically, I build machines, and fix em when they take a shit. Since the DC is not up yet, we are basically building the entire infrastructure (well at least enough to go live on the 1st). On Sunday, I’ll be traveling to San Antonio, TX. to do some training for a week at HQ. It’s pretty cool so far. I’m really excited for a new opportunity. The company is great, and I’ve admired them for quite some time. I dealt with a few people at RackSpace while I was still working with Plesk, and they were always cool. Making a halfway decent salary again doesn’t hurt either 😉

Day Two…

Posted on by DizkoDan

So far so good today. Last night I had a little what are known as “sympathy pains” in my bottom row of teeth. It wasn’t really bad, but enough to notice over all the drugs. I am beyond happy with the way things are going so far. Hopefully it will remain this way. Still havent eaten anything that I hafta chew, only because I don’t want any food getting into the sockets. I would kill for a veggieburger and friez from red robin though 🙂

Posted on by DizkoDan

So I was just able to eat some cream of wheat. My stomach then reminded me that it was the first food I put in it in nearly 24 hours. So I had a carton of yogurt too. So far so good. I can feel my chin again, which means that the novacain is almost completely worn off now. I feel little pain so far. so that makes me happy.

The procedure went extremely well. I was nervous az figgity fizzuck. They hooked me up to the monitors, and my heartbeat was skyrocketed. The Dr was like, your more than just a little nervous huh? I was like ummm,.. I’m terrified. So he put some oxygen on me, and got me calm enough to gimmie an IV. It was excellent. I barely noticed it goin in, and I was out cold within seconds of it. Next thing I knew, it was about an hour later and I was in a recovery room with Steph. I couldn’t talk for shit because I was so numb, and I had gauze in my mouth. I tried to write some shit, but that didn’t go so well either cuz I was pretty well toasted still. I came home and took a handful of pillz. Took me a few triez cuz my mouth was completely numb, so most of the water just poured down my face. I was left with a rapidly disolving percocet on my tongue for about 5 triez. After that I was able to sit up at my computer for a few to check my mail, then watched some tevee for a while. I came back down to my computer for a few, and started reading some shit the Dr gave me. Reading the fine print must have been too much for my toasted brain, cuz I got extremely dizzy, lightheaded, and started sweating. I raced upstairs, beat the dog outta my spot on the bed and laid down for a nap. I napped on and off for a few hours, getting up to change gauze in between. I’m feeling okay right now. Hopefully the night wont be awful.

Thanks for your kind words both here and in Steph’s journal. I realy appreciate it.

Posted on by DizkoDan

It is done. I am fucked up, and I intend to remain so for a couple days.Though my mouth is hella numb and im having a hard time takin my pain killerz.