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[rmd]

My friends are wicked talented! Saw a bunch of boston circus guild folks and emperor norton's stationary marching band at club oberon. Much awesomeness. It's particularly great to see the huge improvements folks I've worked with have made since "mischief in the machine". Frackin amazing.

I earned some kind of nerd merit badge in stupid bullheadedness this morning. I woke up to do some scheduled off-hours work. Checked my personal email from my desktop machine at home as I went out to snag my work laptop. In the time it took me to take the laptop back into the bedroom and boot it up, my internet connectivity went away. I spent a few minute power cycling and dis/re-connecting the cable connection on the modem. No luck. So I proceeded to use an ssh app on my iphone (touch term) to ssh to the bastion host at work, connect to the correct internal machine, use lynx to navigate thru my ticketing system to get to the details on the commands I needed to run, and then connected to a firewall and made the appropriate changes, with about 5 minutes to spare until the end of my maintenance window.

I am reminded of the time back in the early 1990's when I was sitting around in my bedroom with a soldering iron fixing a vt100 so I could dial back up and connect to NEU's network and finish whatever project I was working on for school.

also, WOOOOHOOO! THE TRAILER FOR PORTAL 2 is out.

Comments

[flabosib.livejournal.com]

I didn't understand most of what you wrote in the paragraph that began "I earned some kind...." but I'm not surprised. You are awesome and talented and can think of stuff like that when my head would be whining, "But I haven't had any caffeine yet!"

Rock on little sister, you is way cool!

[irilyth]

Huh, do you have Internet from RCN at home? We do, and our connection went down at somewhere between 06:00 - 06:15, and didn't come back until a bit after 08:00 as I recall.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

yep. the helpdesk folks say it was ticket NOC-244957, and it was an unplanned outage.

[sksouth.livejournal.com]

Wow!! Last necessary use of lynx observed in the wild in.... how many decades?

[rmd.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love lynx as a diagnostic tool. I use it a fair bit to check "my app can't get to this https thing from this server" where all i can do is ssh to the server.