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From: PHB Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 12:10 PM To: PHB Staff Cc: PHB Subject: please acknowledge and respond Team This job requires you to be reachable (EVEN IF NOT ON CALL) 24 x7. Naturally you take vacation and go away but you need to notify someone. I have tried 2 employees and an manager today with no response. This is a condition of employment. - we are running a SERVICE!!! Please acknowledge and commit to informing your Teams. Thanks PHB

Once the lawsuits have settled, I think I am going to write a book about working the worst outage in recent Internet history. An outage that is a real game changer. Microsoft. Danger. Sidekick. October 2009.

* use of jargon * slowmotion + mood music * gate dial / wormhole opened * jive talk / wise cracking wacky ethnic person and/or alien and that's just the cold open! * any member of the original SG1 team on-screen, double for Jack * "the hammond" * beaming anyone up (double if to the hammond) * radar (radio guy) * space sex

It pisses me off to no end that this shit is not search-able on sun.com: SUNW.SPARC-Enterprise # Sun M5000, M6000, M8000, M9000, etc SUNW.Ultra-80 # Sun Enterprise 420R, V420R(?) SUNW.Sun-Fire-T5220 # early model T5220 SUNW.Sun-Fire-T5120 # early model T5120/T5220 SUNW.SPARC-Enterprise-T5220 # late model T5220 SUNW.Sun-Fire-T1000 # early model T1000 SUNW.SPARC-Enterprise-T1000 # late model T1000 SUNW.Sun-Fire-T200 # AC200, DC200, Netra T200 SUNW.Sun-Fire-V125 # Netra V125R

As I type, I am acting out the most stereotypical (and stereotypically lazy) Unix/network admin behavior in my very own home: My Macbook in the living room is on the Internet via my Airport (yes, I love Apple), I have a terminal open to my other Macbook (the one that my job bought for me for work), which is sitting on top of a machine racked up in a 4-post 19" rack in my bedroom, which in turn is connected to a HP Procurve switch and a 4u, 16-bay, 2 3ware raided FreeBSD machine whose only purpose for the time being is to jumpstart a 1u Rackable PC that is destined to become my new home firewall. Let me repeat.. inet -> airport -> personal mac, work mac ( -> raid box ) And just to gild the lily, I'm running the copy of data from my laptop onto my server in screen. I'm such a nerd.

Much hash has been made lately of the "death of so-called Conservatism". Anyone who believes such nonsense is as deluded as Karl Rove when he speaks of the "permanent Republican majority." I blurted this short missive out in response to an article on Salon.com (whose track record for delusion is worthy of note): College Republicans and the Millenial Generation I have faith that a new generation of right-wingers [are] waiting in the wings. After all, feel-good "Positive Self Image" schooling has profoundly damaged a generation of children, producing selfish, narcissistic little sociopaths whose lack of critical thinking skills combined with their inflated egos are primed to gravitate to the self-affirming message of modern "conservatism". We live in a nation that tolerates the shallow platitudes of charlatans like "doctor" Phil McGraw, and suffers the theatrics of smug, self-serving Ayn Rand freaks and fringe idiologues like Rush...

2008, good riddance. I have been the deadly (and blog unproductive) combination of sick and busy at work. But, I am still alive. Oh, oh. So alive.