Daily Archives: April 13, 2008

Mission Accomplished

April 13, 2008 – 8:05 pm

A couple of posts back, I mentioned that I was making a trip down to my shabby cubicle, to handle some anomalies with Solaris jumpstarts, wherein root passwords were coming out blank.
I solved the problem, almost trivially, by telling the jumpstart software to set the root passwords, which in my last Friday’s end-of-long-week denseness, [...]

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The Mainframer’s Shindig

April 13, 2008 – 7:42 pm

One of the guys in the mainframe group where I work is leaving for greener pastures, after 20 years at this job. As is customary and proper on such occasions, there will be a llittle get-together for the guy. The get-together is announced via an e-mail with a To: list the size of the [...]

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Happy Birthday, Tatiana!

April 13, 2008 – 7:09 pm

Our youngest granddaughter turns 7 today. We just called to impress her with our melodious pipes as we sing “Happy Birthday”, but she and her dad are on an emergency run to Toys ‘r Us. We’ll try back later.
She’s a special little gal: the baby, the last grandchild, born on Good Friday. [...]

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Al Bundy Vacation, Day #2

April 13, 2008 – 11:39 am

Today finds me heading southward to my shabby cubicle, to fix up some Solaris jumpstarts. We’re switching to flash archives for provisioning our Solaris boxen, and for some reason, root passwords are coming up unset. Not a Good Thing. I knew this was happening before I left on Friday; it was late, and [...]

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