five thousand shades of blue
Friday, March 15, 2002
To expound on the previous entry a bit, the server that hosts the café's website bit the dust big time. The kernel, the hard drive, whatever the problem is, seemed to be unfixable after a reboot, even after trying to reinstall the operating system software. So it was down to Plan B -- make the backup server work -- which took infinitely longer than it should have because somehow, the ethernet cables got crossed and the one that should have been pointing to the net was pointing to the internal network, and vice versa. After being plagued with a seemingly unreachable gateway for 4-5 hours, I finally had the brilliant thought to switch the cables. Hell, I'd've performed ancient Druidic rites at that point. As of 10:30 last night, when this outstanding idea came to me, I had spent the past 22.5 hours out of a possible 30 here in the café alternately beating my head (along with Andra) trying to get our new server talking to the net as well as the network, or being bored out of my skull behind the counter because it's at
UO and downtown has been somehwat reminiscent of a ghost town. I half expected to see tumbleweeds roll by.
When I got up this after sleeping approximately six and a half hours, I fell back completely on instinct, abandoned my usual routine and headed straight for the coffee pot.
Thank Goodness it's Friday.
is
this just not enough…?
