October 2008 Archives

Passed my second Solaris admin exam yesterday, so I'm apparently now a Sun Certified System Administrator.
Managed to completely cock up the Zones section of the exam, but the power of my raw genius/luck shone through and I scraped a pass anyway.

If, on the off chance, you're going to do this exam, be warned: the exam contents don't quite match up with the course content. You'll need to know how to set up a Jumpstart server, which isn't covered in the courses any more. Looking at the boss's old course materials, it looks like the Jumpstart bit got replaced by an in-depth ZFS bit.

Can someone tell me why junkies have to talk SO LOUD ON TRAINS? Seriously, skag head, your skeletor girlfriend is sitting two feet away - a whisper would suffice.
But no. I'm aurally assaulted by your lament about the demeanor of the poor bastard that hands out the methadone at Windmillhill Street chemist. Even the this-one-goes-to-11 full-volume disco-garage-house sound of Ricardo Torres that's blasting through my Sennheisers can't drown you out.
And how come junkies always have girl/boyfriends to shout at anyway? The shooting galleries of Motherwell are clearly the place to hook up. I must be missing out.

No, really, I think I might actually be missing out.

Anyway, while I'm in a ranting mood...
Hardware manufacturers: please do not distribute drivers as a tar file dumped straight onto a floppy disk. Windows can't read the things 'cause there's no filesystem, and I haven't seen a Unix box with a floppy drive since the Ultra1.
I do not enjoy spending an hour re-building and installing Linux onto an old desktop machine just to retrieve a tar file from a floppy. Especially when the tar file contains ONE 3kB TEXT FILE.

Can you feel the RAAAAAAAAAGE?