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reddragdivaBugger me, that's a good price. That's the model up from the one I lost. And this price is even better. Has anyone here ever dealt with either of these companies?
For my first day at work, I think I actually frightened my boss by showing up in the nice suit and tie. Tomorrow will be normal clothes.
The morning was spent on an overview of the systems and the afternoon on setting up NetApp snapshots of the new Oracle server for backup. Let's start at the deep end, shall we? By the way: if you don't want to get back rcmd: netapp1: short read when you try to rsh to the NetApp*, it helps if hosts on the NetApp has the IP for the Oracle server that matches the interface said Oracle server is connected to it by. Ahem.
I enjoyed today the way I enjoyed my first few months at Ericsson (before the company started haemorrhaging red ink and cutting limbs off to survive): doing actual systems administration and building things that work. I never actually did enjoy my time at the recently-past job in this way, as every step of it was fucked up by the politics of working face to face with a stroppy customer who didn't know what they wanted. In a suit and tie.
It was also nice not spending my first three days having to read LiveJournal to pass the torturous minutes. Tomorrow we visit the colo!
Oh, and work will be paying my DSL bill. And giving me ... a laptop.
* rsh is quite sufficiently secure for these purposes if the one entry in hosts.equiv is the one server that's allowed to talk to it, with the two directly connected on their own subnet consisting of the Ethernet cable between them.
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Date: 2004-10-11 12:54 pm (UTC)Besides, it's always good to keep the managers on their toes....
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Date: 2004-10-11 12:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-11 12:58 pm (UTC)It's also far too nice a suit to take to a smoky rock'n'roll dive, I'm afraid. I'll need to strike it lucky in the charity shops for a proper Melbourne-style Rock'n'Roll Suit.
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Date: 2004-10-11 01:03 pm (UTC)Oh, I think I've found just the place to get your leather jacket relined, btw! I'll ask for a possible quote tomorrow. :-)
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Date: 2004-10-11 01:18 pm (UTC)Just don't start doing this work thing in a grey flannel suit and a Mr. Men tie. I worked with this one guy who really only had the one suit and tie, but not because he hated wearing them so much as that I think it hadn't occurred to him to change. He didn't appear to sleep in the thing so much as respawn every morning. Also, Mr. Men tie. No irony.
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Date: 2004-10-11 01:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-11 01:36 pm (UTC)I love netapps, they're just so nice. They never [well very rarely, never did it to me] screw you up, even when they die.
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Date: 2004-10-11 03:57 pm (UTC)One that you might NOTICE when you leave it behind?
:-p
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Date: 2004-10-11 04:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-11 04:04 pm (UTC)Excuse me, I just need to remove my camera,so I can take a photo.
Zzzzp. P'toing. Snap.
Aaaah, here we are. Anyone got a hankie?
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Date: 2004-10-11 04:12 pm (UTC)The hankie was to wipe off whatever might be.... clinging.
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Date: 2004-10-11 04:32 pm (UTC):-)
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Date: 2004-10-11 04:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-10-11 11:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-15 08:27 am (UTC)DSL paid, I'm impressed.