The US presidential candidate Barack Obama is currently on tour through Europe, speaking in Berlin right now as I type this. It's been top news here in Germany for at least a week now. One could get the impression that Senator Obama is running for president in Germany. Or at least, that he already is a president.
Last weekend, we had the second pawpet show rehearsal for the new show. Very productive, though some important props are still missing. We had one unexpected interruption due to flooding. The rehearsal room is a garage in the basement of a warehouse. And if it rains too hard, the pump of the drain cannot cope anymore, and...
That's what the customer said last Friday. The Linux driver for the Intel e1000 card doesn't work on their hardware. No syslog messages, though. And it's urgent! Their setup should go live in a week! O-kay. Personally, I didn't think it was the driver. Sounds more like a hardware issue. Does the switch show hardware link? What, they have an Ethernet bonding configuration in a high availability setup? Turn that off first. So they told us that they had turned off HA and Ethernet bonding, but still it doesn't work. But what do they mean by "does not work"? They told us that the switch wasn't accessible, in a different location or so. How about getting some cheap Longshine switch and try it, just to see if there is Ethernet link beat.
I don't understand much about SQL, but even I know it's not supposed to be done like this...
CREATE TABLE prg_knowledge (
creating_date timestamp with time zone,
created_from text,
changing_date timestamp with time zone,
changed_from text,
user_right text,
group_right text,
sid text,
tid text,
order_crit text,
timestampfield01 timestamp with time zone,
timestampfield02 timestamp with time zone,
intfield01 integer,
intfield02 integer,
intfield03 integer,
intfield04 integer,
intfield05 integer,
intfield06 integer,
field01 text,
field02 text,
field03 text,
field04 text,
field05 text,
field06 text,
field07 text,
field08 text,
field09 text,
field10 text
);
I drove to the data center yesterday. The machine didn't even shutdown. All fans running, memory okay...Okay, no hardware issue after all. In fact, it was a broken maintenance script which was supposed to set up the chroot environment for postfix. Instead, it copied everything to the root directory and changed the permission of /tmp to 755 and ownership to user "postfix". Thus, a couple of processes just crashed. At least the machine continued to process incoming e-mail. Well, almost exclusively.
my new car is not a public restroom.
I got my new car today. A brand new Škoda Octavia Combi¹ Team Edition.
Yup. Wednesday.