Veritas: Bah. It's 10:30 PM, and I'm still at work reconstructing a &#@*ing Veritas volume. It's my own damn fault, but the fat- finger that caused it was the result of trying to keep track of three people's jobs today. Bah. Here's a tip: don't reboot from one terminal while you're extending a volume on another. :-P Here's hoping the backups are good...
The worst part of it is that I don't think I care. I wouldn't have even been messing around with adding yet more drives to an already-slow software RAID set if management were willing to spend a few dollars on some badly-needed (and properly implemented) network storage. It's hard to care when your best arguments are met with "You're absolutely right, we do need that. But find a way to hack it together some other way." It wouldn't bother me if they just didn't understand the projects being proposed, but they do. Bah.
Christmas: Was there a class I missed out on in grade school that failed to prepare me for the efficient and thoughtful acquisition of gifts for significant others during holiday seasons?
Old stuff: Picked up an SS2 today, along with an assortment of other outdated hardware. I'm torn between loading it up with Solaris 8 (if it'll even load, which I doubt; I'll probably end up running 2.6 or 7, some recent Linux revision, or a *BSD variant. And, now that I have a SCSI CD-ROM, I can go about reloading my Indigo properly...
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