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Looking For Quacks In The Pavement

Day: May 19, 2003

  • You can’t win. You can’t break even. You can’t quit the game.

    This morning the last of the hard drives arrived. Yippee! I gleefully unwrapped them, placed them into the Proliant DL380 chassis and tapped the Power button.

    Let me state that the Proliant DL380 rackmount server is one of the noisiest chassis I’ve ever heard. It sounds like there’s a small aircraft experiencing engine trouble in my office.

    After a couple of false starts (in other words, I tried to do things my way instead of the right way) I ran the SmartStart ™ CD-ROM and told the machine I wanted to install Netware 5.x.

    But, you see, when the BIOS options says “Netware 5.x/6.0,” what it really means is “Netware 5.1/6.0,” and my copy of Netware 5.0 is system-non-grata.

    Then I tried the so-called “manual” method, just booting from the Netware CD and letting things fly. Alas, it wasn’t meant to be.

    That’s right, folks. It is impossible for Netware 5.0’s installer to recognize the array controller of a HP/Compaq Proliant DL380 G3. (Does Apple know that they’re using the “Gx” nomenclature, by the way?)

    As things now stand, I’m sitting at my desk waiting for a quote from CDW on the cost of Netware 5.1 plus upgrade licenses for 150 connections. If the price tag doesn’t a) cause heart failures along Officer’s Row and/or b) get me fired, it’ll still be a couple of days before I can start on this project.

    Again.

    The best-case scenario, right now, is that I’m going to lose my Memorial Day weekend for this stupid project. I don’t want to think about the worst-case scenarios.

  • The enneagram thing. Sure, why not?

    Conscious self
    Overall self

    Take Free Enneagram Test


    The results page goes on to add,

    Your mean type is a better predictor of how you generally act whereas your main type reflects how you prefer to act. By analogy, if you were a bus with nine different possible drivers, your main type is the most frequently used driver (which suggests you prefer that behavior/driver) but your mean type represents the sum influence of all nine drivers. Another way to look at it is that your mean type reflects where you are overall in the evolutionary race and your main type reflects the direction you are most often choosing to move in (if it’s higher than your mean type you are moving forward, otherwise you are moving backward or nowhere). Most Enneagram books and tests focus on main type and use an additional “variant” classification to account for the influence of the other eight behavior types (drivers). Based on your test results your variant is Sexual. So when reading other Enneagram books or websites refer to the Type 6w7, Sexual variant descriptions.

    Derive what amusement from all of this that you can, friends.

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