Monthly Archives: February 2007

I guess that answers that question.

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

Yesterday, I asked the musical question “Just how fucked am I?”. I woke up to the answer this morning – sometime around 3:30am my domU stopped working. Good bye web sites, good bye mailing lists, good bye picture gallery, good … Continue reading →

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Just how fucked am I?

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

Unpacking linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (from …/linux-image-2.6.18-4-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-11_i386.deb) … Done. My colo box consists of xen.xcski.com, the dom0 which controls the others, and then xen1, xen2 and xen3 which are the domUs. Because it was way easier to do it this way, the dom0 … Continue reading →

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Hours of boredom punctuated by minutes of terror?

Posted on February 25, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

I’ve heard commercial flying described as hours of boredom punctuated by minutes of sheer terror. Private flying, on the other hand, especially in winter, sometimes seems like hours and hours of work on the ground punctuated by a few blissful … Continue reading →

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Gates and Jobs

Posted on February 21, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

“Hello, I’m a Mac” “And I’m a PC” “Eh? What’s that? I’m a mainframe, you young whippersnapper.” “And next time you try to make that joke, I’ll smack you across the mouth”

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Another fun day

Posted on February 18, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

My colo facility contacted me on Wednesday to say that this weekend they’d be moving my machine to a new rack, and also that they’d gotten a new IP range and I had to switch over to the new range … Continue reading →

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