Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place.
I don’t think my employer keeps the heat on during the weekend. And because of that, I’m sitting here at my desk with my winter coat on, but my fingers are stiff from cold. It’s not just annoying, it’s destroying my productivity.
I think I’m going to go home and work there and hope and pray that the office will be warmer tomorrow. But there’s no guarantee. The last time it was this cold in the office it didn’t get comfortable until it had warmed up considerably outside.
…the appeal of J-Pop bands like Shonen Knife? Looked at objectively, it appears they sing the most cloying and inane pop lyrics known to man, and combine it with that English as a second language vibe and accents. Oh, and they’ve not very good playing thier instruments either. So what’s the appeal?
And I should point out, I’m not asking why other people listen to it, I’m asking why I keep finding myself compelled to listen to it?
I think I need a 4 hour Pogues marathon to get my edge back.
In the middle of a media-fueled hyped up scare about people pointing lasers at the cockpits of planes and the danger to the pilots and the flights, NORAD announced a new security system WHICH INVOLVES SHINING LASERS AT THE COCKPITS OF PLANES!
Furrfu.
After today’s “State of the Project” meeting, I was looking for a sentence to describe it, and I settled on “It looks like things are progressing in a clusterfuckian direction”.
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Email in my inbox this morning:
The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
Device: /dev/hda, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
For details see host’s SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages).
You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation.
No additional email messages about this problem will be sent.
Looked in /var/log/messages, and I find:
Jan 11 04:10:19 allhats kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekCompl
ete Error }
Jan 11 04:10:19 allhats kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=105859162, sector=105859101
Jan 11 04:10:19 allhats kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jan 11 04:10:19 allhats kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 105859101
Jan 11 04:10:22 allhats kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jan 11 04:10:22 allhats kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=105859162, sector=105859109
Jan 11 04:10:22 allhats kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Ok, 4:10 am was about when yum was installing new software, or maybe it was when the nightly backup was running, but I guess something was hitting a part of the disk that hasn’t been hit in a while.
I’ve started running the nightly backup every 2 hours. When I get home tonight I’m going to have to try the WDC diagnostics, and fsck to see if that will fix it. If it doesn’t, I’ve got a 180Gb drive on the shelf. That’s the one that didn’t get along well with Fedora Core 3. It passed the WDC diagnostics, so it was probably just an artifact of the way it was partitioned, so hopefully partitioning it and formatting it will fix whatever ailed it.
This could be a very long night.