back to past or let me back to support

Not, really, that was the most fascinating time, full of fun, friendship in this company and it's pity that I fully realized this only after years I quitted. I miss all my friends I had when working there.
I see people leaving, I see new faces of people I'll never know, I sincerely happy when I can talk to people I'd been working with, now I even happy to talk to our customers :) I like going upstairs, looking and chatting to the people I worked in support with, joking, smiling, laughing, remembering :) Or do I just need to change something?
Yeah, you know, this is a feeling-in-one-moment. I'm a person who cant work with people anymore, but sometimes I need people around to be happy :) That's why right now I'm preparing training for supporters about linux kernel :-) I used to read trainings when working in support, and this is the only thing i can do now for them and make me remember the past times :). The only thing I feel I need to change now, is that I used just to talk, now I'm going to make audience talk to me, make suggestions, discuss topics. Will try to make fun for me and for them :)

mood: People, where are you?! :)
music: Doro Pecsh "In Freiheit Stribt Mein Herz"

Just thinking...

Looking on this, I see fields of superblock structures...
Am I getting crazy...? o_O


00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
*
00010000 de 11 de 11 81 9d f2 d2 4c 53 49 20 20 20 20 20 |........LSI |
00010010 10 00 00 55 00 00 00 00 37 27 7c 30 37 27 90 54 |...U....7'|07'.T|
00010020 30 31 2e 30 30 2e 30 30 00 00 00 a7 37 29 b4 bf |01.00.00....7)..|
00010030 00 00 01 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................|
00010040 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................|
*
00010060 00 00 00 00 08 8b 19 e5 00 00 00 00 08 8a 79 f5 |..............y.|
00010070 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................|
00010080 00 0f 00 0f 00 08 00 02 00 10 ff ff ff ff ff ff |................|
00010090 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................|
*
000100c0 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 02 |................|
000100d0 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 12 |................|
000100e0 00 00 00 18 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 19 00 00 00 08 |................|
000100f0 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 |................|
00010100 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................|
*
00010200


mood: "I want this device!" :)
music: "Angra"

Stupid mistakes

Hello, my far friend :)
Do you remember, we talked of funny mistakes, like when adding firewall rules, we forget to add own IP, to be able to access the system, like running 'reboot' command in the wrong terminal window?
So today, I've made the funniest the most stupid mistake I've ever done :)
I was adding some functionality to our program, that besides other things should remove certain directories. The names of these directories were partly hardcoded into array (like /etc/, /usr/lib/ ...), the last part of the directory name should be added later in code (forming names like /etc/OurCompamyName,/usr/lib/OurCompanyName and like ). Very easy task. The code was written, the program compiled, checked -- everything is working as expected, no problem. Then, I've made small changes in the program logic, recompiled and run it once again. The program run and looked like it was finished ok. Then I mentioned that the system behaves in rather strange way - it doesnt accept new connections via ssh, some commands do not work and complain for libraries... Can you imagine my wonder, when I discovered that /etc/, /usr/lib and some other directories no longer exist! :)))
I've simply forgotten to add the lines of code that add the last and the most important part to the directory names, that should be recursively deleted, so instead of removing /etc/OutCompanyName, the software removed /etc/ ...
Tomorrow, I'll have to reinstall the OS ...
For my luck it was the test system :)

mood: lol
music: Manticora

Как немного, порой, человеку для счастья надо :)


# /bin/hexdump -C -s 117220760k /dev/sda > /tmp/sda.txt
# cat /tmp/sda.txt

1bf2966000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
*
1bf2975e00 4a 4d 01 00 5e 8c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |JM..^...........|
1bf2975e10 20 dc 4e 4a 00 00 00 00 f9 0d 00 00 00 00 00 00 | .NJ............|
1bf2975e20 4a 52 41 49 44 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 |JRAID |
1bf2975e30 01 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
1bf2975e40 20 dc 4e 4a a0 47 6f 27 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | .NJ.Go'........|
1bf2975e50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
*
1bf2976000


music: Cinderella "Nobody's fool"
mood: Happy

My new device. Part2.

It was a quick game, but anyway, it was an interesting game.
I mean, today I've fixed HP server. It's funny, I'd to change just one line and it started to work more than 3 times faster :)
It's a kind of magic, when you have to spend hours to find the reason of a abnormal behavior, but fix takes just minutes :)
Such a nice feeling...
But... what makes me upset, now I have to return the device, but I liked it so much already:) Oh, If I could leave it :) I'd already have a good collection of a different hardware :) /* dreaming */ lol

My new device

I'm fond of computers, not really, I love them :-)
If you want to make me happy like a child, give me a new computer that runs Linux or that have problems with running Linux :)
Today looked like a usual work day without you (oh, if you ever know how much I miss you, how much I want to see you besides me), I was doing my regular tasks, until one of the managers brought me this:



this is HP Proliant DL360G5 - nice and noisy device which should bring me a lot of fun for the next few days :)