larry
>I feel your pain. I had a bad week.
>
>One of our major support personnel was on vacation. So I know something
>will always go wrong.
>
>Monday, much to my surprise was uneventful.
>
>Tuesday, it takes me almost twice as long to get to work because of lots
>of snow. About 4pm our corporate web site starts to have problems.
>After looking around it appears that so much traffic is hitting the site
>that the AS/400 connections are not going away fast enough and end up
>gobling up all TCP ports. Eventually, it consumes so many ports that
>the site goes down because it cannot reach our SQL DB that drives the
>server. I am able to get it "refreshed" by stopping IIS and disable the
>NIC, reenable the NIC and then IIS. However, the site was down for
>about 45 minutes. UGH!
>
>Wednesday, about 11:30am the web site starts to have problems, again.
>However, I am not notified until about 1pm. The SQL connections going
>to SQL DB are stumbling over each other. What the hell?!?!? They are
>continuously locking each other. Try to disable IIS & NIC and reenable
>the NIC and IIS. That works for about 5 minutes and then the site goes
>back into a locking frenzy. So I start killing Web site SPIDs left and
>right. After about 10 minutes the site seems ok. But about 30 minutes
>later the site goes into a frenzy again. G*D [EMAIL PROTECTED] IT! I kill SPIDs
>again. Then the manager of IS for my location comes to my desk to write
>a PC email to a client that uses our site to enter hundreds of orders a
>day. They are very sensitive about this. It is fine for about 1 hour
>and then goes into a frenzy again. I kill more SPIDs for about 15
>minutes and watch it closely for about 10 minutes. The site is finally
>"stable".
>
>Thursday, I am so parinoid about the site that I frequently review the
>error logs and locking on the SQL DB. About lunch time find out there
>is a major issue with the order entry system that is quickly put under
>control. I have so many projects piled on me and help desk that I try
>to focus and get a couple taken care of. Tomorrow, our IS department
>has a chili cook-off. I start browning the ground beef in the crock-pot
>overnight and preping at night.
>
>Friday, I get up early to finish putting everything together and let it
>start to working together. I unplug the crock-pot and put it in the
>front-passanger floor of my car. I get going to work. On my way there
>I get a phone call on my mobile phone that the company I work for (not
>the client that I have been at for 1 yr and 9 mo) is about to go under.
>They are living month to month. I am pretty much the only consultant
>that has a steady 40+ hour bill week. I am on a major express in
>Chicago that is packed with temperature about 0 degrees. Yes, zero. I
>am crossing an overpass and the Expedition in front of me stops. I have
>plenty of room to stop. That is if there was no black ice. So my car
>slides at about 30 MPH into the back of the SUV. My hood crumples, the
>front license plate is implanted into the radiator, and my air bag goes
>off. About that time I get hit from behind by a Dodge Ram. During all
>of this chili goes all over the front passenger side of my car, mobile
>phone goes flying, crock pot lands on my mobile phone, crock pot breaks,
>chili goes inside my phone, I smell like chili, and I take a day off.
>Funny thing is that his (Ram) front bumper looks worse then my back
>bumper. My car is a Hyundai Sonata 2000. This happened in the middle
>lane as cars pass by on both sides. Let me tell you, I now know why
>people complain about the dust given off by air bags. I was practically
>choking. In my daze I rolled down the windows to let the dust get out.
>I don't make it to work that day, I instead go to a brunch with my wife
>who is currently suffering from a mild migrane. I start to get really
>achy and feel bad, so we go to the ER to have me checked out. After 3
>hours and 9 x-rays they tell me that nothing is wrong, but my muscles
>will ache for a few days.
>
>Saturday, I wake up and feel more achy then the day before, but
>all-in-all I feel more emotionally stable. So I wait to hear whether or
>not my car is totaled and if my insurance will go up. I am not looking
>forward to exploring the car shopping market, again.
>
>Did I mention that I will have to replace both car seats, my mobile
>phone, and crock-pot? I will have to see what my insurance says this
>week. I would like to get this resolved quickly.
>
>Hopefully, all of you had a better week and weekend then we did.
>
>Kevin
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeffry Houser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 9:10 AM
>To: CF-Community
>Subject: Bad Weekend..
>
>
>Friday night was a gig. It was a small place so we only brought one PA
>speaker. Which we then found out didn't work. We ended up using our
>monitor as the PA speaker, which was not nice. I'm not looking forward
>to
>having to replace the PA speakers. Equipment troubles always put me in
>a
>sour mood.
>
> While unpacking the van, I slipped on ice in my driveway and fell flat
>on
>my back. I have a few bruises and every part of me aches, but otherwise
>I
>appear okay.
>
> Saturday night my computer starts acting up and won't load. I have no
>
>restore disk, and Win2000 won't recover itself. After much struggling,
>I
>re-install Windows. I tried to use windows update, but it breaks while
>installing the latest service pack. The computer won't boot again.
>This
>time I'm able to recover the OS. I again manually downloading the
>updater
>for service pack 4. It crashes and Windows no longer boots (Again).
>
> I restore the OS again I decide its time to upgrade to XP (I have the
>MS
>Action Pack sitting in a box next to my desk, why not use the
>software?). The upgrade seems to have went pretty well. My data drive
>seems unharmed. The applications are still here, but nothing will load,
>I
>assume because the registry was wiped out during the OS re-install.
>
> I'm in the process of reinstalling all the apps. It appears that K9
>(my
>spam catcher) lost all my "settings" so I'm stuck to marking emails
>again
>(which is a pain until it "learns"). Navigator won't load for reasons I
>
>don't understand yet. I click the link and see an "pointer hourglass"
>for
>a second and then nothing. I really loved tabbed browsing, so I'll miss
>
>it.
>
> I also discovered that I lost my Navigator bookmark file somewhere
>along
>the line of installing / uninstalling. That is my major upset of the
>moment.
>
> On the bright side, when I fell on the ice, I did not crack my head
>open
>( between my car and the house there is barely enough room to stand
>sideways; its amazing I didn't hit either the car or house on the way
>down). Also XP seems to have these cool Internet games. I'm enjoying
>playing Reversi (AKA Othello) and Checkers.
>
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