RETIRED The Vviles world of LLAMANIA Thread

I root for the Jets!!!

Better hide that before Mal sees it.

Is she a Pats fan?

Worse......a grammar nazi. Now hide! She's watching us right now.....

Also, I hate getting called at 5:30AM for a problem with a server that I don't even have access to or any responsibility to maintain

I my vw seat Warmers

Fun, fun. I spent all day at a studio that I'd originally set up a couple of years back trying to get their systems and network back into a (mostly) functional state. They've got a bunch of editing and rendering systems there, including four dual-1366 xeon systems and another with four sockets of multicore opteron goodness, but they've been acting up lately, mainly crashing or slowing down horribly whenever someone was working on a complex model or multiple layers.

Turned out that the hard drives (other than the boot drive) were gone along with most of the memory, and the video cards had been replaced with low-end video cards from two or three generations earlier. Guess that's why CUDA stopped working. Hmmmm....

Everything had been configured to depend on a fileserver which was also set up as the firewall and DHCP server (and a few other things). I found the fileserver I'd built (Asus WS board with hardware SAS RAID controllers and eight data drives in modules with dedicated cooling fans)...and it had been completely gutted. The machine that everything depended on turned out to be located on top of a tall and not especially stable shelving unit in a cleaning closet with cleaning supplies stacked around and on it--and no keyboard or monitor.

And it was a vintage 2007 Sempron system with a pci NIC and a couple of IDE hard drives stacked on top of each other with no ventilation at all. And it was flaky (big shock).

Nope, nobody there knew the password and the bios had been password-protected too, so I couldn't change the boot settings so it would boot up automatically. (I didn't want to clear the CMOS lest it mess up however the drives were configured. I didn't take the time to figure out whether they were RAIDed or otherwise.)

Got things working for the moment. Got them working on making backups of everything before I do any more messing with it.



I'm warming my seat the old fashioned way--with squats. Not as fancy, but you'd be surprised how much heat you can generate down there that way. Bit more heavy breathing this way, though.

But it's more fun than a crashing server.

Rooting = gaining superuser privs.

Jailbreak = being able to install apps outside of the ecosystem as well as superuser privs. Jailbreaking is not solely an iOS function (You "jailbreak" the PS3, for instance).

Subtle differences.

I didn't know that about the PS3.

And now I learned something.

Do you have a PS3?

Child: Mommy, where do babies come from?
Mom: When a man and woman love each other very much, he puts his penis in her vagina, and a baby is made.
Child: But mommy, the other night when I saw you, Daddy's penis was in your mouth, not your vagina.
Mom: Oh honey, that's where jewelry comes from!