This past weekend, we had an unplanned system event which ultimately caused downtime. Prior to the system crash, there was at least two hours of advance notice that “something bad” was happening. Despite that time given, root cause was not determined then, and is very probable it will never be fully revealed. That’s too bad, [...]
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Analysis Paralysis
May 18
The following should be construed as a rant, and is not to be taken (too) seriously … well, … We had an interesting “event” the other day, whereas a core display routine was changed and, under certain provider schedules, would get caught in a non-terminating loop. After a few dozen of these processes got created [...]
I spent about 20-hours these past 2-weeks consolidating services here at RAH-CoCo’s from two old servers (dual PIII and P4 XEON) to a single server using an AMD Opteron. Those services include: DNS serving for two primary domains: hurst-ri.us and rah-cocos.com Email using sendmail for those domains, with MailScanner, ClamAV, and SpamAssassin Web sites using [...]
At work, there is a discussion going on about how to implement a work-from-home policy. The merits revealed to me at a staff meeting was that it can provide for improved quality of life and can be useful for staff morale and retention. I have to use the MBTA rail to commute from Providence to [...]
