Brains... I mean Hi

[scimon.livejournal.com]

It's always the days when you got stupidly drunk the night before that the server decides to die isn't it? I mean the HDD could have filled up last weekend when I didn't have a shitty hangover but noooo it has to wait until this morning. And it decides to corrupt the /tmp directory at the some time. Joy.

So I'm randomly surfing the net while fsck is running (Mmmm 56GB of crap....) and I spotted a link to this group and thought ah yes I must join. So Hi. I'm Simon and I managed to blag the job title 'Head of IT' by the simple expedient of being the entire IT department. How's your day going?

I need more coffee.

Comments

[mogaribue.livejournal.com]

Use Cacti and SNMP to monitor disk space.

Ugh. So hungover. Why am I awake at 7:30am.

[scimon.livejournal.com]

I shall look into that tomorrow when the brain starts working again. The system is back up and running and I'm going to head home to watch Heroes in a bit.

Thanks for the tip.

[japester.livejournal.com]

No. Use munin. It's much much easier to configure.
cacti is good if you have many servers but a PITA for just a few servers.
and stay away from nagios. It's a serious PITA.

[canray.livejournal.com]

*Hands Coffee and Headache Tablets* Welcome to the group!

May God have mercy on your Immortal Soul, you job certainly won't.

[scimon.livejournal.com]

Heh. I've been in game a few years now.
My next plan is to get a minion, who I can give all the 'fun' jobs too. :)

[canray.livejournal.com]

It writes the code or it gets the hose!

[scimon.livejournal.com]

Heh. Snigger.

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

You can have one of mine. They're all fucking morons though.

[scimon.livejournal.com]

Oooo you don't want to let morons fuck. They just make more.

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

*shudder*

[jecook]

You win!

::hands you 10 gold coins::

Re: Warning, incoming game (humor).

[mashiroikaze.livejournal.com]

Hey - Thugs are decent! Summoning gang wars? Sending them after a target only to detonate them? Well, I guess you can do that with any minion, really...

Wish I could send my real-life minions out on suicide missions to take out idiotic enemies for me... *sigh* Then I'd have fewer last-minute requests for server space for classes 15 minutes before the start of said class.

Re: Warning, incoming game (humor).

[scimon.livejournal.com]

Well I'd like Genetically Engineered Ninja Cat Girls but I don't tihnk I've got the budget.

Re: Warning, incoming game (humor).

[canray.livejournal.com]

Last I checked, long-skirted Schoolgirl Outfits classified as "Dress Code".

And I have yet to see a dress code that demanded undergarments!

...

Wait, no, sorry, I have.

One job I worked (Call Centre) at had a guy that argued against the Dress Code and came to work in a Kilt in the traditional style.

Now, it's an "Office" full of immature High School Students who are there strictly for the job. What do *YOU* think happened to ensure that "Undergarments will be worn *AT ALL TIMES* while at work" was written into the rules.

Just. Like. That.

Re: Warning, incoming game (humor).

[jecook]

The two of you just made my morning SO much better... seeing as I'm coming off a weekend and starting the rest of the Month in HELL. (Cat sitting two weeks, helping friends shoot a short film, painful dental work, and training the last week of the month.)

Re: Warning, incoming game (humor).

[canray.livejournal.com]

Catgirls wearing skirts (And *NOT* wearing underwear) makes everything better!

And something tells me I'm going straight to hell for some reason. :-S

Re: Warning, incoming game (humor).

[wherdafux-d-cat.livejournal.com]

It's not like we (okay, at least some of us) won't be right there with you. Oh wait, maybe that's what makes it hell......... ;)

Re: Warning, incoming game (humor).

[canray.livejournal.com]

Hell is other people.

Tech Support people know that better than anyone save Soldiers.

Re: Warning, incoming game (humor).

[wherdafux-d-cat.livejournal.com]

Even as anti-social as I can be, for myself it's more a case of Hell is stupid (or not-thinking) people, speaking as both a techie and as the spouse of a career soldier. It's those numbnuts that make life harder than it has to be for the rest of us -- relatively smart folks generally know when to gtfo and come back later (if at all) with non-real-emergency stuff. Or at least they learn after the first slavering growl or two as opposed to those who never learn at all...

Re: Warning, incoming game (humor).

[canray.livejournal.com]

Guess I'm just getting cynical in my old age.

And I'm not even that old yet. :-S

Re: Warning, incoming game (humor).

[japester.livejournal.com]

Our dress code requires underwear too.
Think ...

Random call centre guy.
short shorts
lounging on a couch.
sproing!

to which everyone went, "Argh! Mine eyes! They be bleeding!"

Thankfully, many many years before my time started here, but the story goes on.

I just wish for a dress code that'd let me wear skirts or kilts to work.
::sigh::