31.07.2004
Saturday night in an IBM world
So what am I doing? I’m sitting at my desk waiting to be given the go-ahead (once Oracle have shutdown their environements) to poweroff 28 blades and 14 x440’s. What an amazingly fun way to spend a Saturday evening. Looking ahead for the remainder of tonight (it is currently 21:00 AEST), I have tasks going through until 03:30, then assorted teleconferences until 05:00. Oh well….
In other news however, life is good. We finally purchased a nice stainless steel bbq today which will turn up next Wednesday - looking forward to that. The home LAN continues to grow with a nice Antec Sonata case added to the collection. This is for my “play box” - ie blow away, remaster things, etc.
I’m having a lot of fun both at home and work learning more and more about Perl. My bash scripting is getting better as well although I still prefer perl for most things. My latest little script attempts to parse the output of SMdevices under Linux - ie comparing pre and post output for when SAN re-organisation/re-numbering happens. This is unfortunately quite common and the output can be extremely painful to lookat when you have 26+ drive letters to look at in the wee small hours of the morning (and multiple servers to do it on).
My current setup at home is a bit mixed - I have 2 debian boxes (gateway and laptop - 1 sarge, 1 sid) and 2 FC2 boxes (although one of those is the play box). My work laptop now runs FC1 (work build) but I’m intending to move it to Debian following myrddin’s lead.
Now, time to stop writing this and get busy (and try not to fall asleep).
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I am now in the very happy situation of working in a very busy linux team managing rather a lot of interesting servers.