These early mornings are going to be the death of me
I think this is the earliest ‘morning’ yet at work thus far — which is to say that I made it in the office by about 4:20 AM to start work on a rolling set of software updates on our various RADIUS clusters. Of course the wonderful remote management modules in the particular brand of servers we happen to use here are total crap and randomly decide to pack it in and stop working. Of course since they are purported to be ‘LOM’ or whatever they don’t power off when you power cycle the server so nothing short of yanking the two PSU modules out of the arse of the server for a minute will bring them back from la-la land.
Wonderful.
So I’m sitting around on my thumb waiting for someone to drive out to a remote office to yank the PSUs out of a server that the vendor swears up and down can be managed remotely. Oh to live in that perfect world of vendor-created illusion and wonderment. Other than that hiccup the work itself went smoothly and I finished up with about half an hour to spare in my allotted time.
The consolation prize is that I get to go home at noon, which is never a bad thing.
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