The stinking on-call pager weighs only 3 ounces or so. Why do I feel 100 pounds lighter when I get shed of it?
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I’ll be at work then, handing off the stinking on-call pager to the next sad sack sysadmin professional in the barrel rotation.
I think our work group is overstaffed by a huge margin; the silver lining is that there are more candidates for the stinking on-call pager, which limits my exposure.
That’s a Good ThingTM.
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My first full week back at work in the crypt of faded dreams begins tomorrow. And, as fate would have it, it’s my week with the stinking on-call pager.
I’m richly blessed.
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One more time before my emeritus years, I’d dearly love to work with a small group (3-5) of sysadmins who work hard, play hard, and just get stuff done by helping each other out.
This is contrasted to bloated staffs, each member of which gets tasks assigned from a sort of job jar, without [...]
A new tab now adorns the top of the tbbs-land website: Resume. In this day and age, one must be perpetually for hire.
So it’s fitting to post one’s own resume on one’s own blog.
I’m one decent and eager geek. If you know/are someone looking for a good hand, I’m ready to [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Glad the week is over. I’m doubly glad they canceled the maintenance stuff I was scheduled to do tomorrow night at 11PM. Add to that it’s Easter weekend, and more basketball games than I can shake a stick at.
It doesn’t get much better than that.
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December 10, 2007 – 8:46 pm
Any Monday when you can hand off the stinking on-call pager is a good Monday. My Monday was like that.
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December 10, 2007 – 8:42 pm
I worked like a trooper today, generalizing a several-year-old script which creates metadevices and metadevice mirrors for Solaris Volume Manager. It’s not rocket science, every admin has one, and it was time to make mine more generally useful. To that end, I rearranged my previous script, and abstracted out a set of shell [...]
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