On 06/06/2010 11:19 AM, Geoff Galitz wrote:
> I'm compiling a collection of stories from the systems administrator
> trenches.
have you considered a wiki for this ? rather than clogging up the lists.
People could just post their stories there and you get readily editable
content straight out.
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>Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 12:19:30 +0200
>From: "Geoff Galitz"
>Subject: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories
>
>I'm compiling a collection of stories from the systems administrator
>trenches.
>
>Thanks!
>
>-Geoff
>
>
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 03:06:18PM -0700, MHR wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Digimer wrote:
> >
> > Under the category of "learn from the mistake of others..."
> >
> > About eight years ago, I was working on a program with tight deadlines.
> > I'd worked through the night, only catching
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Digimer wrote:
>
> Under the category of "learn from the mistake of others..."
>
> About eight years ago, I was working on a program with tight deadlines.
> I'd worked through the night, only catching an hour or two of sleep in
> the office.
>
> The next morning, o
I think Whit you have raised some deeper questions maybe about
probability, sod's law, the uncertanty principle, karma, etc
etc...Maybe a venn diagram covering luck and preparedness is in order,
who knows, we/I am digressing
I would like to point out that at home I'm pretty sure I'm jinxed; my
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 08:22:22PM +0100, James Bensley wrote:
> redundancy, connectivity etc...) only to have something fail the next
> day (so it really paid off!) and then nothing has broken since?...Just
> goes to show you never know!
>
> Also recently upgraded my personal Ubuntu server to a
All nighters are bad news, mistakes are easily made at these times as
we have all learnt the hard way ;)
*cough* erased the backups and spent the night re-backing up data so
nothing actually got done *cough*
I do remember spending a few days putting together some systems check
for my self and my
On 10-06-06 06:19 AM, Geoff Galitz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm compiling a collection of stories from the systems administrator
> trenches. They can be short or long, funny or about a particularly
> challenging problem or period, or even something that appeared very
> technically challenging and ended
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WM977mANl8
>
There's also this one on the the impotence of proofreading:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OonDPGwAyfQ&feature=related
(No, that was NOT a typo.)
mhr
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On Sun, 6 Jun 2010, Geoff Galitz wrote:
> > What will be the intended audience? How much technical detail can
> > be mentioned? Does one assume that the readers know what is grub,
> > initrd, xen, amavisd etc?
> >
> The intended audience is anyone in the Systems Administration or
> Systems Enginee
>
> What will be the intended audience? How much technical detail can be
> mentioned? Does one assume that the readers know what is grub, initrd,
> xen, amavisd etc?
>
> - Jussi
>
The intended audience is anyone in the Systems Administration or Systems
Engineering field at any technical level.
On 6.6.2010 13.19, Geoff Galitz wrote:
> I'm compiling a collection of stories from the systems administrator
> trenches. They can be short or long, funny or about a particularly
> challenging problem or period, or even something that appeared very
> technically challenging and ended up being some
Hello,
I'm compiling a collection of stories from the systems administrator
trenches. They can be short or long, funny or about a particularly
challenging problem or period, or even something that appeared very
technically challenging and ended up being something very simple. Stories
which ar
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