Wildly Inappropriate Bathroom Music Selections, August 2008 Edition
Thanks, WJJZ, for Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" at 11:15 in the A.M. Nothing spices up a trip to the loo like that song, eh wot?
Bravo, Sun. Bra. VO.
As you'll note, there was very little blog output 'round these parts two days ago (read: I didn't post a single durn thing). This was entirely due to a very, very long 16 hour day which featured a large-scale LAN outage. The root cause was a bit of a heat problem we had about [...]
Just Call Me MacGyver: Systems Administrator
I'm working a bit late today as I had to schedule some downtime for a critical piece of hardware that needed to be powered down, lightly disassembled, have a part replaced and then powered back up. As I unscrewed the part to be replaced, I thought to myself "Boy, it'd sure stink if I [...]
Solaris Admins, You WantNeed PCA
No, I'm not talking about the Presbyterian Church in America, I'm talking about Patch Check Advanced.
PCA is the Solaris analog to Fedora's YUM[1], Debian's APT[2], or even FreeBSD's Ports[3]. It basically allows you to completely skirt Sun's bloated, kludgy GUI-based software update checker and list, download and even install all pending patches available [...]
I'm Picking Up Extremely High Levels Of "Enterprise" Humor In This Sector, Captain.
From the Mac OS X section of Sun/EMC/Legato's HTML manual for their Networker Enterprise Backup System (EBS) version 7.3.2:
Ref. cack vs. the intended "backup" for full humorous effect.
Those who have used vainly attempted to use EMC's EBS offering on the Mac (particularly Intel Macs) will find this highly amusing, I suspect.
The Art Of Wor[k]: Like Sun Tzu For The Cubicle Dweller (First In A Series)
1. Only fools visit the vending machines on the day of customer meetings. The wise man waits for his quarry to appear in the kitchenette, slightly stale.
