January 19, 2003

The breaks

Tonight (in the last 30 minutes) I have:

· Gotten our new XP system to talk to the router and learned about routers and Windows networking.
· Repaired a corrupted ext2 filesystem on my laptop and learned about how fsck, etc. work.
· Figured out why I couldn't import my blogger entries and fixed my template.

In the last few days at work I have:

· Lost a lot of code right before I needed it, requiring somebody to go get it on a backup from another office.
· Witnessed a database crash that lost two weeks of work.
· Witnessed a bug that actually caused embedded software to destroy hardware.

Them's the breaks.

January 19, 2003 01:07 AM