Ok, the sky is actually clearing up a bit, and there are lots of blue patches. But on the other hand, it’s cold out, and I’m tired, and I’ve decided today is not the day to go flying for the first time since November.
Quick update in point form
- Knees : stabby
- Database code: not working 100%, but good enough to let QA start hammering it
- Due date: today
- Overtime: ending today
- Airplane: booked
- Weather: doubtful
- Other plans for weekend: massive amounts of sleep and TV watching
- Mood: cautiously optimistic
Oops
I’m coming down to the wire of this database re-architecture task. I’ve been working 60 hours a week for 8 weeks now on this thing, and it’s due this Friday. Unfortunately, I have come to the stunning realization that there is a gaping problem in my design.
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Some thoughts on overtime
I’ve been thinking a lot about working overtime, mostly because I’ve been doing a lot of it. I haven’t taken a day off since the day after Christmas, as I struggle to meet an impossible deadline.
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inittab, telinit, and Ubuntu
Sorry about this, but I’m going to use a blog post as my personal note pad once again.
Every time my colo box reboots, I need to restart some stuff that automatically restarts on my home box, mostly ssh tunnels. In the old days, I’d use “kill -1 1” or “telinit -q” depending on how traditional I was feeling. That tells init(1) to re-read /etc/inittab and kill any of its daemons that isn’t in the file any more and start anything that’s in the file that isn’t running.
But Ubuntu has replaced the old inittab with files in /etc/event.d. And now, you restart those with a much simpler (but much harder for me to remember when I need to) “sudo start ssh_tunnel”. One of these days I’ll remember that.