Last night I rearranged a few things in the main server rack, and here’s the result:
Yes, that’s our new server. Two 18-gig drives, mirrored, live in the rightmost slots. Three 72-gig drives arranged RAID-5-style in the other occupied slots give us a roughly 130-gig storage array.
And the thing’s still the loudest machine in the room. Wow.
I’ve put in 13-hour days the last two days, with at least two more to go. Wish me luck.
Found via Starjewel:
The following charts maps shoes sizes in different units used around the world (inches, centimeters, American, British, Japanese, and European shoes sizes) to the lengths of men’s units (in inches and centimeters).
Would this be a good time to mention I’m a 9-1/2 wide? Maybe not, as the page goes on to say,
As for shoe widths, there isn’t enough information about shoe widths to create the corresponding mapping to penis widths.
Ah well. Anyway, without further ado, here you go…
Shoe/Penis Size Conversions
A longtime denizen of animemusicvideos.org, the guy known as MCWagner likes to do movie reviews. Often they’re of semi-obscure horror flicks, but recently he took on X2 and the new Matrix flick. His capsule review reads,
I liked the film, but it wasnít nearly as well crafted as the first, and they kept all the parts I disliked while getting rid of some of those I liked. Watch it for the fights, bring a book to occupy time during the philosophizing, and get ready to cover juniorís eyes during the sex.
But that’s not the funny part, the part that inspired me to log into my website at 12:30 in the freakin’ Ay Em. That would be this bit, describing what should have happened during one philosophical stop-down:
… and then lectures them for fifteen minutes on causality while causing a woman at another table to remote-orgasm in wireframe (THATíLL keep the audience awake). Through the whole speech, our three heroes just sit there, emotions concealed behind opaque shades, entirely motionless. I was half expecting Keanu to lean over to Morpheus:
N: Psssst. Whatís going on?
M: I have no idea.
N: Is there gonna be a test on this?
M: I hope not. I was only watching when he lit off that girl.
N: Yeah, she was hot, wasnít she?
M: I bet I could get Niobe back with a piece of that cake.
Ahh, priceless. Oddly enough, now I actually want to see this movie… so I can mentally insert that bit of dialog at the appropriate moment.
What? C’mon, people. You knew I was a very silly person, didn’t you? Hmm?
I won’t bore you with the gory details (for a change). Suffice to say that the machine henceforth known as Tenchi is alive and accepting file transfers.
Yes, I named it Tenchi. (Sorry, Ben, but the Holy Grail Naming Scheme is now almost fully defunct.)
And now for a few late nights spent copying files and attempting to ensure that when I make the big switcheroo we won’t face immediate disaster. Wish me luck. Better yet, bring me snack food. Or just help keep me awake.
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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.
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.
