I think I did one constructive thing all weekend, I changed the oil in my car. It sounds better for it too, but the drive home involved to many Sunday drivers to see if the engine works better. However, the black sludge that came out can’t have been good for it!
I finally got a good nights sleep on Friday night, turning off the dodgy webserver meant no alarms – bliss! Sadly crond did what crond does and restarted all the servers overnight, so come Saturday night I’d been blissfully asleep for an hour when the bloomin’ phone goes off. Arse. Its looking like it has to be something specific to this one server and not a dodgy incoming request, since the session persistence on the load balancers means its a low chance the same server would get the dodgy traffic again after the http deamons were down. Arse, time to go MD5summing all the libraries. Joy, rapture etc etc.
I still need to tidy up my flat some more, its better but not good. Oh, and I realised that the Playstation 2 might be a fine games console but it sucks as a DVD player. Watching 24 (series 1) the picture would go brighter and darker in random waves, which was a little annoying. Time to invest in a proper DVD player, but do I buy a basic ‘does-the-job’ one or a ‘new-toy!-new-toy!’ one? The Kiss DP-500 looks funky and connects to my LAN too. Perhaps a little OTT really since all I need is a multi region player that will play VCD and DivX too. I shall hunt about – yell if you have any recommendations.
Right, off to bed. Hopefully without being called out in the wee hours. Thankfully my Windows admin is back in the office this week, so I can go back to being a UNIX techie for another two weeks (after which I go back to the usual techie manager schitt). I’m sure there is something I must make sure I do tomorrow, but I’ve forgotten what. Arse. Night night.
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