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Monthly Archives: July 2007

Bottlecaps!

Thursday, July 26, 2007

The last three 20 oz bottles of LiveWire I’ve obtained have had the “Free 20oz bottle with purchase of Pepsi or Dew” caps, thus granting me three free bottles now. This rocks!

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Fedora: huh?

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Why is it that after I accidentally remove system-config-users from my FC 6 box, when I go to reinstall it, it wants to install wireless-tools?
For those not in the know: to install the user management tool, I have to install wireless networking configuration tools.
Whumba?

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Super Suckage Double Feature!

Monday, July 16, 2007

OK, I have two three Special Someones tonight to discuss.
The first is Supermicro, because there’s the least to rant about. Namely, when I wrote my last post, it did not take very long at all for someone from an IP address that resolved to Supermicro to respond to my post; less than an hour. [...]

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Supermicro, you suck!

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

So, continuing the saga of the new storage cluster node, my boss figured out the problem with the MegaCli program. Both the syntax in the manual was wrong, and certain characters in the proper syntax needed to be quoted, otherwise the shell would try and do something with them.
Now, the next problem is our [...]

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LSI, you suck!

Sunday, July 8, 2007

So at work we’re testing out building a new departmental storage cluster. Our needs, especially with regards to Manabe, our cluster, are still network I/O and CPU-bound, so it doesn’t need to be particularly fast, but we would like a single storage namespace, and we want it big. So, withe the combined research [...]

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Poor car

Saturday, July 7, 2007

So, my Tempo died the other night, taking Krystal to dinner at Pasha’s in Champaign. The restaurant is on Windsor and Duncan, so while it was off in the boonies compared to the rest of the urban area, it still counted as “in town” to get my car towed back to my place. [...]

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