October 2009 Archives

Mandy

| | Comments (0)

Hey, Mandelson, could you perhaps fuck off please? Thanks.

While we're at it...
"...speaking at the government's C&binet conference..."
C&binet? Candbinet? What's a candbinet? Jesus. These idiots couldn't even come up with a name that makes sense, never mind some reasonable policies.

Hat-tip to an Anonymous Coward at Slashdot who simply posted: "Lord Fondlebum of Boy".

Ultimate Pizza

| | Comments (0)

Get yo' ass to dominos.co.uk, and construct yo' ass one of these:
- Regular base
- Pizza sauce
- Domino's Herbs
- Green Peppers
- Olives
- Roquito Sweet Chilli Peppers
- Tandoori Chicken
- Jalapeno Peppers
- Onions
- Pepperoni

Do it. Do it now. OM NOM NOM NOM.

And don't forget to tip your delivery guy.

Toof

| | Comments (1)

I had a tooth removed recently. Contrary to received wisdom*, the whole procedure was completely painless and largely unremarkable.

Things of note:
1) When your dentist goes "Hmmm." during a procedure, and invites one of his colleagues to join the ongoing mouth-party, this is not, I am told, cause for alarm. Contrary to the prevailing advice, I chose to become entirely (albeit very quietly) alarmed.
2) Your Dental Specialist may hide the various implements of healing behind his or her back until just before they are to be used. These implements may or may not include:
Large syringes
Well-worn pliars
Blood-filled suction tubes
I'm not entirely certain that this behaviour is normal, however. The furtive yet swift nature in which my dentists work leads me to believe that I've stumbled on a clique of ninja health professionals. I'm expecting a re-enactment of the Shimabara rebellion at the next check-up.
3) Rinsing the resulting casm in your jaw with salt-water according to instruction is entirely ineffective; expect to poke about in there with a toothpick to retrieve horrifying globs of matter, lest your breath become the subject of future Germanic fairy tales.

That's my experience anyway. Your milage may, as ever, vary.

While we're on the subject, check this out. Awesome.

* - Yeah, I'm fucking hilarious.

CC+02

| | Comments (0)

PROTIP:
Credit cards are self-extinguishing.

I don't know what they're made of, but they won't burn without continuous provocation. Sinister.

Emulex HBAs

| | Comments (0)

Let's say you've just added an Emulex FC HBA or two to your Solaris box. Let's also say that you booted the machine before you hooked up the fibre, zoned the switch and presented some storage.

Having trouble? Can't see your storage? Does your 'cfgadm -al' output look like this:

c11     fc-fabric    connected    unconfigured   unknown

Yeah, me too. Turns out the Emulex cards are a bit shy. You can poke them into life with the following:

luxadm -e forcelip /dev/cfg/c11

Change the c11 to whatever the device ID is for your card.

Tread carefully fellow admins - don't do this on an HBA that's already handling mounted storage - it resets all the ports on the loop, so you might lose sight of your storage for a second or two.

Never had to do any of this with QLogic cards...

About this Archive

This page is an archive of entries from October 2009 listed from newest to oldest.

September 2009 is the previous archive.

November 2009 is the next archive.

Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.