Monday started slowly. I cycled in and not much happened in the morning. By the afternoon I had inherited a couple of tickets which I started work on after lunch.
Immediately after lunch we had the weekly staff meeting, then I got cracking on some tickets…One system wasn’t turned on, so I turned it on (very taxing) and I started to look at Liam’s ticket about remaining SAN switched. Read the rest of this entry »
After a wonderful weekend with Faye, Monday started off with getting up early for a call with the APAC guys (Singapore and Australia), we were talking about new development life cycles – something that bores me at the best of times, and today was no exception. We do need to re-evaluate the way we fix bugs and release new versions of our lab tools though.
The rest of Monday was fairly quiet, with a second meeting in the afternoon. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m just updating packages on my OpenSolaris installation, and I glanced at the screen only to find a package called “SUNWlibsexy” sitting bang in the middle of the update screen. After a quick Google, I found this:
Name: SUNWlibsexy
License: Other
Group: System/Libraries
Version: 0.1.11
Summary: libsexy is a collection of GTK+ widgets that extend the functionality of such standard widget.
From here: clicky
Just one more thing in computer science which is…Interesting…
So this week I’ve been on my 15k/25k maintenance course. It’s was very boring. It was basically the serengeti training all over again.
It’s basically a big box with up to 18 systems boards in. Each system board has up to 4 CPUs and 32 sticks of RAM. These system boards can be joined together to create ‘domains’, these domains can run instances of Solaris, so you effectively get one system spread over several boards…You can even add and remove system boards while a domain is running!
It’s a remarkable piece of kit…But it was pretty boring to learn…
I have redesigned my webshite, mostly because I got bored and didn’t like the old design…
You can still find it at: users.aber.a.uk/bil6
It has been tested using a number of browsers; each work OK, Opera and Safari for iPhone both have slight issues with the CSS…
So, two months on and we have moved from knowing nothing, to knowing a bit more about what we’re doing.
Monday started with panic, one of our SunRay servers had been upgraded, and now things didn’t work…Though we think it was an ITOPs issue, as we didn’t fix it…The server is question has been upgraded to a later version of Navada.
The afternoon was littered with tickets and went very quickly. Read the rest of this entry »
