Archive for December, 2004
Six Degrees of Separation
Posted by david | Filed under Family, Fun
I now have two examples proving the Six Degrees of Separation theory is correct.
WARNING: Bad grammar ahead.
- A person who works for my Dad is married to a woman who works for a company that is a MKS customer … and the womans supervisor is an ex-MKS employee, who used to be be a co-worker of mine.
- A few weeks ago another co-worker of mine asked if my Dad’s name was Sheldon, and was he the controller for such and such company. I confirmed that it was his name, and he does work for that company. Turns out her husband is a contractor for the company my dad works for.
It is truly a small world.
Heaven is in Downers Grove…
Posted by david | Filed under General
… at least according to my brother Mitch 
He went over to Fry’s the other day for the very first time. Suffice it to say, he was impressed.
This was a bad weekend
Posted by david | Filed under Linux, midrange.com
This weekend was supposed to be a nice quiet, calm, time… I had planned to spend it getting some files organized in the two filing cabinets I purchased from MKS (getting rid of old stuff in anticipation of our move to new digs).
Friday was the company holiday party … it’s always been enjoyable … even if I don’t like dancing (Ginny ends up dragging me onto the dance floor a few times). This time, unfortunately, Ginny’s dinner didn’t agree with her… so we headed home early.
Once home, I made sure Ginny was comfortable … and went downstairs to dink around with the computers.
I then made my fatal error.
I decided to upgrade the main linux system to Fedora Core 3. I figured it would be fairly straight forward to upgrade from Redhat 8 to FC3.
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New Server
Posted by david | Filed under Computers, Linux, midrange.com
I got a new server … it’s a Dell PowerEdge 420SC … I’ve named it Gondor.
I originally tried to install Fedora Core 3 on it via NFS mount, booting from a compact flash disk, but it didn’t take. Not sure why.
So I burned the CD’s and installed from there. Worked like a champ.
I think I screwed up the Dell diagnostic partition though … or the master boot record. I’ll have to play around with that.
I’m going to slowly migrate stuff over to the new server … it’s not going to be an easy pick-up and drop-off like it was with the last server migration.