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[siztenboots]

sofar this morning we have had the london fire brigade playing Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire with their campaign fire engine , and now students in the car park playing Kings Of Leon - Sex on Fire

The outcome from the weekend inferno and our disaster recovery yesterday was it took us 3 hours to get the server room down to a manageable temperature , as everything was heatsoaked and you could not touch anything metal in there. We are a VMware outfit and had most of our production servers available about 30 minutes after we first powered the kit back on.


/edit students taking the piss now , Bangles - Eternal Flame

/edit 2, Prodigy - Firestarter

/edit 3 , seems I blamed our students for the noise, but its the FBU outside

 

/edit 4 , now playing bagpipes music , *really very loud* , 'amazing grace' . that should annoy the councilors
 

[Claws]

People who wear Hi-vis when driving was going to be my gripe for today, but a guy has just driven past wearing Hi-vis AND a hard hat! Safety Sam, we see you

[Bargi]

thanks to the builders, over the weekend that turned off the aircon in my datacentre, this morning it was 55°C , and unsurprisingly all the HP servers are off. No idea how much damage has been done sofar , as until I can get the temperature back down , they won't power up.

Good thing the environmental monitoring alerted you... oh

[KurtVerbose]

Car ads that have a video that is just a video of the pictures in the ad. Why do they bother doing this - it adds absolutely no value at all - in fact, it's just annoying?

[siztenboots]

apt-get / grub has buggered up the boot config on a server at a remote site. I can get access to it with HP iLO , but the server has no network as its needs the qlogic firmware for the 10gbe nic , when we built the server we would have used the onboard 1gb nic to do all the updates and pull down the firmware .deb files

[Goosenka]

apt-get / grub has buggered up the boot config on a server at a remote site. I can get access to it with HP iLO , but the server has no network as its needs the qlogic firmware for the 10gbe nic , when we built the server we would have used the onboard 1gb nic to do all the updates and pull down the firmware .deb files

Novell is the way ahead

[siztenboots]

apt-get / grub has buggered up the boot config on a server at a remote site. I can get access to it with HP iLO , but the server has no network as its needs the qlogic firmware for the 10gbe nic , when we built the server we would have used the onboard 1gb nic to do all the updates and pull down the firmware .deb files

Novell is the way ahead

We have loads of that shit too , I almost hate SuSe as much as Ubuntu.

[techieboy]

RHEL/CentOS FTW.

[siztenboots]

so if you put "nc523sf ubuntu" into google , you only get one result

[siztenboots]

ah bollox , the firmware problems with qla2xxx are for the HBA card, so a bloody waste of time

[siztenboots]

the kernel module driver for qlcnic in ubuntu 12.04.1 is broken , kernel 3.2.0-29 , so that was a complete waste of a morning

[Mangham54]

Knowing the general topic that is being discussed, but 'not having a foggiest' about the specific details. Last 7posts being examples.

[Claws]

Knowing the general topic that is being discussed, but 'not having a foggiest' about the specific details. Last 7posts being examples.

I was going to write the same thing earlier!

[RabnaKS]

F'in bad planning for lorry drivers & never anybody else available on shift to pick them up & they're 1 1/2 hrs from base & you should have an hour before you finish; but you end up being International rescue!

[Claws]

The lorry drivers don't plan their routes, it's the dodgy traffic managers that send them only "this far |<-------------->| " on a map

[RabnaKS]

[color=rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;]F'in bad planning for lorry drivers & never anybody else available on shift to pick them up & they're 1 1/2 hrs from base & you should have an hour before you finish; but you end up being International rescue![/color]

The lorry drivers don't plan their routes, it's the dodgy traffic managers that send them only "this far |<-------------->| " on a map

Sorry, that's what I meant to say. Talking to the driver coming back & I now know why it happens so often. Apparently our trucks must be able to travel consistently at 70mph & when they arrive at destination they get tipped as soon as they hit the bays.  LOL

Planning by someone that struggles to drive a car & only travels from home/work/home.

[Claws]

Yeah, get there as fast as you can, but don't use a lot of fuel please

[RabnaKS]

Yeah, get there as fast as you can, but don't use a lot of fuel please

12-13mph, marvelous!

[-Dab-of-Oppo-]

Sucking through to an air bubble in a hard boiled sweet and then cutting your tongue on the newly exposed sharp edge.

[VXR]

Sucking through to an air bubble in a hard boiled sweet and then cutting your tongue on the newly exposed sharp edge.

I feel your pain.....done it plenty of times...with h&s and do gooders in this day and age it won't belong before they come with a sharp object warning :-)