I hate bad weekends.


Started off on Thursday evening, when someone jacked my amex card, and charged $2300 in an evening. I got a call from the from their monitoring department saying that I had exceeded my set daily limit... I got then to put a hold on that card, and so that was dealt with.


Friday, I needed to build some servers to fill up my newly leased colo rackspace. Got up early, and went to frys and bought everything I needed at the time to build servers. I built 12 servers from about 9.00AM to about 3.00PM. I made about 3-4 trips to frys in this time to get more parts, and pieces I need to finish the servers. I loaded up my friends truck with all the servers, power strips, switches, and cables I need to get the new rack up and running. At about 4.30PM, I get a message from one of my monitoring system saying that my routing server is down, and that all traffic is down. My friend and I detour to the broken data center and get an idea of what is broken. We pull the routing server, and take it to frys, and get the motherboard and CPU replaced with a new set. We make the trip back to the data center, and rebuild the system, and its not working... Back to Frys, and grab a new power supply. Head back to the data center, replace the power supply, and get the computer back up and runnning. Throw it back into the rack, and start to hook it up when I have an oh crap moment. Theres only one network port on the server.... Drive back to Frys, and grab another ethernet card, and head back to install the ethernet card. Get about an hour into it, and another friend calls... There are people waiting outside my house to party. At this point, I am extremely frustrated with the way things are going. I get the card installed in the server, boot it up, and find that its only a 10/100 card, not gigabit. I decide to hell with it, its working, I can deal with it later.

I head back home, and open up the house for people to go in, and then head back out to the other data center....


(more horrendous weekend story to come... i have to do some work)

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-Justin

91 560 SEC AMG - other dogs dd
01 Honda S2000 - dogs dd
07 MB ML320 CDI - dd
16 Lexus IS250 - wifes dd

it's automatic.