It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
February 13, 2007
February is usually the month in which we get the most snow. I think this winter it’s been the only month. It’s looking pretty festive outside right now.
Boy. I can’t wait until they start Daylight Saving Time well before the first day of spring!
I’m bitter about this whole “Spring Forward” thing. Moreso this year than any other year in the past. Mostly because it’s already dark when I leave for work in the morning, but at least the sun’s come up by the time I get to work. After we “spring forward” an hour it’ll just be dark.
I’ve always hated it, anyhow. What I’d really like is an extra hour of dark at night because otherwise I’m standing on a bus stop with no shade in the burning sunlight. And it freaks me out when the sun’s still not completely set at 9pm.
Oh, right. Snow. Sure is snowing out there. Yep.
5 Responses to “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas”
Think you’re bitter? Some jackass signs a piece of paper, and now there’s hundreds of systems that require patching to accomodate it. And, one of my vendors is pulling a “There’s no patch, but you can upgrade”, which turns a no-downtime patch process into a lets-take-three-dozen-servers-down UpgradeFest so that we can be compliant with their support matrix. LOLlercopters!
By RobAtSGH on Feb 13, 2007
That was actually my second thought about the whole thing. Well, my real second thought was “Oh thank god I’m no longer in software testing”.
By DataAngel on Feb 13, 2007
At this point, I’m not sure which is worse - being the poor grunt who’s got to do driver loads on 37 systems servicing nearly a dozen clients with their own maintenance windows, or being the idiot who has to pound certain storage vendors into submission because of it. What can one do to convince a company that “because there’s something newer” is not a good reason to discontinue support of an existing stable platform after only 12 months.
If I had sent the first draft of the email intended for these lunkheads, every bit of copper wire it traversed would have been transformed to verdigris just from the sheer vitriol contained therein. Fortunately, Laphroaig is my friend… my dear, dear friend. It’s a shame they’d frown heavily upon keeping a bottle or two stashed behind my workstation’s flat-panel.
By RobAtSGH on Feb 13, 2007
The whole computer system upgrade problem (it affects us here too, big time) is one that the manufacturers brought on themselves. One of the things we’ve been doing here is using a time server for most of our equipment. What do you do when the time server is the hardest one to upgrade? Everything else bases off that unit. UGH, it’s a WPA project in the computer age.
By daffyd on Feb 14, 2007
Sun’s charging us $400 per Solaris 7 server. While I have 30 Solaris 9 servers (already patched), 5 Solaris 10 servers, I also have 20 Solaris 7 servers (don’t ask, got users & developers who won’t upgrade). So Sun is making a tidy profit off a Congressional whim.
I’m surprised there hasn’t been more publicity off this. DST2007a looks to be costing us about as much as Y2K did. I found the patch for my Cingular 8125, but not for Vicky’s Cingular Treo 650 (not that I looked. :P)
So many outdated DST rules… :(
By Ken on Feb 23, 2007