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Summer coming to a close
Aug. 29th, 2003 08:51 pmThis week was finals week for the summer quarter. I'm used to taking my life a quarter at a time, so even when I'm not taking class, the schedule makes its mark.
Spent a fair chunk of the week working on a project I spawned - to figure out how to keep an eye on the syslogs of thirty to sixty unix servers. It's impossible to expect that any group of people can read several emails for each system, so we're working on some kind of logical report system. looks like fun, but it's a big challenge.
Particularly a challenge, in fact, because I did say thirty to sixty systems; in fact, Dell has won the contract to provide the hardware for the Mail/Calendar/whatever system which we're going to be moving to in order to get away from Openmail, a HP product which isn't going to be supported anymore (because it's crap). We have no idea if these dinky boxes will be able to hold up to the strain of running this application, but we're going to try it anyway. We're equivalently uncertain who's going to manage the influx of 26 new server class, RedHat Linux boxes running Oracle 9ias and some other stuff. Going to be right wild around here starting around the beginning of Fall (of course).
Saw Equilibrium earlier this week. I've been meaning to see it for a while, and finally just buckled down and grabbed it. Was intending it to go in the background of me working on Evil Cuisine, but got sucked into the pretty right quick. Go get this film. Watch it. Really well executed gun-fu action flick.
I'm contemplating going out tomorrow to acquire Things To Put Things In and On - another set of bookshelves and some more boxes for stuff, as well as storage boxes, and maybe a couple of tables to get rid of old storage boxes. I've roughly hit the point where the bachelor furniture-style is wearing on me; If I'm going to live here, I may as well _live_ here; to some extent, it's making up for the fact that I used to view everything as so transient that I'd ignore the needs of the present, waiting for the future.
'The future is no place to place your better days.' -- Dave Matthews, Cry Freedom
I live, I learn. I keep swearing I'll read the Tao Te Ching; I have been doing so for the past couple of months, but it's been a matter of reading a couple of sections and meditating on them as I can. A lot of the Taoist philosophy is doing by not-doing, and it makes a hell of a lot of sense, but is hard to put into real practice.
Long weekend this weekend; I'm staying in town because I haven't had as much time in town as I'd like recently; the lack of the idle weekend makes me feel like I haven't stopped moving in too long, which isn't true, but the illusion (delusion?) stands.
Spent a fair chunk of the week working on a project I spawned - to figure out how to keep an eye on the syslogs of thirty to sixty unix servers. It's impossible to expect that any group of people can read several emails for each system, so we're working on some kind of logical report system. looks like fun, but it's a big challenge.
Particularly a challenge, in fact, because I did say thirty to sixty systems; in fact, Dell has won the contract to provide the hardware for the Mail/Calendar/whatever system which we're going to be moving to in order to get away from Openmail, a HP product which isn't going to be supported anymore (because it's crap). We have no idea if these dinky boxes will be able to hold up to the strain of running this application, but we're going to try it anyway. We're equivalently uncertain who's going to manage the influx of 26 new server class, RedHat Linux boxes running Oracle 9ias and some other stuff. Going to be right wild around here starting around the beginning of Fall (of course).
Saw Equilibrium earlier this week. I've been meaning to see it for a while, and finally just buckled down and grabbed it. Was intending it to go in the background of me working on Evil Cuisine, but got sucked into the pretty right quick. Go get this film. Watch it. Really well executed gun-fu action flick.
I'm contemplating going out tomorrow to acquire Things To Put Things In and On - another set of bookshelves and some more boxes for stuff, as well as storage boxes, and maybe a couple of tables to get rid of old storage boxes. I've roughly hit the point where the bachelor furniture-style is wearing on me; If I'm going to live here, I may as well _live_ here; to some extent, it's making up for the fact that I used to view everything as so transient that I'd ignore the needs of the present, waiting for the future.
'The future is no place to place your better days.' -- Dave Matthews, Cry Freedom
I live, I learn. I keep swearing I'll read the Tao Te Ching; I have been doing so for the past couple of months, but it's been a matter of reading a couple of sections and meditating on them as I can. A lot of the Taoist philosophy is doing by not-doing, and it makes a hell of a lot of sense, but is hard to put into real practice.
Long weekend this weekend; I'm staying in town because I haven't had as much time in town as I'd like recently; the lack of the idle weekend makes me feel like I haven't stopped moving in too long, which isn't true, but the illusion (delusion?) stands.
