Day: 10 June 2005

Data Center Move Completed

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Jayson and I finished up our data center move this morning. We have allot of free space that Bob will use up right away. It is also as neat as we are going to get it. We had some interesting moments configuring up the network. We were putting in Gigabit uplinks between all the switches and ran into some problems. The ports were configured weird by Keith. Jayson didn’t understand half the crap that was setup, and neither did i. We cleaned it up and we were good to go.

We also had a problem with one of our servers Promise IDE disk array. this is like the 3rd time we have had trouble with this array, and the incalculable time we have had trouble with these IDE arrays. We spent hours trying to make it work, but it does not seem to have worked. Danny and our DBA staff was working on some alternatives I suggested today while Jay and I got some sleep.

As it stands now that server is still causing problems. Contingency plans are already in the works to replace it:(

The Hard Part

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I thought working nights all week would be the hard part. Who was I kidding? The hard part is now getting back on a normal sleep schedule. I was surprisingly easy to get into a night schedule. Granted being able to sleep from 9AM to 5PM requires some dose of medication. Be it alcohol, Tylenol PM, Nyquil or something stronger. But you do sleep!

I got home today at like 7AM. By the time I unwound a bit it was 8AM, and I called Kai to go over some stuff. I figured hey, he starts work at 8. By the time I was ready for bed it was 9AM. I woke up at like 4:45PM and it felt like 30 minutes had passed. I slept that well. Now of course it is 11PM and I am not tired. I am going to force myself to sleep by the latest 12:30AM.

While being awake and having extra energy I have kept myself busy. I decided I didn’t like how I reorganized my desk, so I reorganized again. I am happy with the new layout, but I am thinking I want to plug an external hard drive into my Powerbook so I can have my iTunes collection on it. I am using the powerbook as my primary machine now a days (and loving it), so I need my tunes with me. The problem is the entire collection takes up half of the hard drive.

I did some cable cleanup behind my desk while I was reorganizing. Man it gets messy and dirty back there. Being the clean freak that I am, I had to do my best to fix things. The cables are still a mess (but better than before) but it is clean.