Archive from my TWiki

List of disasters : to give you a hang of what to expect on this blog!

• 24 Jul 2004
  Spilled milk on the breakfast table, also on mobile, at home.
  Got wet in the rain.
  
  
• 25 Jul 2004
  Spilled coffee on self in pantry.
  
  
• 27 Jul 2004
  Spilled Real mixed fruit juice on cell-phone. (My cell-phone is taking a real beating these days. )
  
  
  
• 3 Aug 2004
  Broke Chair. Simply by sitting on it.
  
  
• 22 Aug 2004
  Spilled Soft Drink on Bill in Kabab Corner, while trying to be good and move the table
  
  
• 25 Aug 2004 & 26 Aug 2004
  Who says Linux is a secure OS? I feel that someone is running a malicious script on my system, and periodically deletes exactly the stuff that I'm working on!!!! Webmin slimily upgrades itself to version 1.150-5 from 1.150-1 (Which by the way is THE latest release on www.webmin.com) and deletes all its own files. All this happens without even a warning to the user, and is discovered only when I go to the directory to look at the files. All the linux gurus(read Mrinal and Sridhar) can suggest, is upgrade to SuSE Linux 9.1 Could someone please enlighten me on how this is different from Windows?
  
  
• 30 Aug 2004
  Decided to take the plunge and upgrade my system to SuSE 9.1 overnight. After setting up my stuff in a way that I would better like, I decide to go in and resync my sandbox. For some reason, it failed, and I decided that I would be better off dropping the sandbox, and creating a new one. As soon as the sandbox is dropped and all items deleted, I realized that I made a big mistake. The sandbox I just dropped had approximately 15(fifteen) files checked out, and that basically consisted of all of my weeks work, which I hadn't checked in, so as not to break the build. So much for source control acting as backup for code. Thankfully I found a way to recover deleted files from reiserfs by using rebuild-tree, and salvaged all my work.
  
  
• 3 Sep 2004
  Had recommended Inchara for dinner last night, after meeting with Joe (Liemandt), inspite of resistance from Mrinal. Found that the others didn't like the place, and Bill actually got stomach trouble because of the food that he had there. Mid-day, he left for a visit to the hospital and didn't come back for the day. I mean, he wasn't even there the week-end.... All because of me... One disaster that I possibly couldn't forgive myself for. More importantly, I don't think that Bill is ever going to forgive me. Even more importantly, I don't think that my recommendation would ever be taken seriously again.
  
  
• 4 Sep 2004
  One disaster which was not my fault at all. I just arrived at office around afternoon. I find Anshu & Unni panicky over something. Apparently, all our files had been dropped out from Source Integrity. No idea how it happened or who did it, although some suspected Unni, because he had dropped the sandbox. Somehow, we were able to recover it from the latest copies of the sources present with Unni. I'm beginning to get disillusioned in source control.
  
  
• 4 Sep 2004
  Talking with Praveen & Sridhar, we realize that we will not be able to use CUPS under SaMBa? after all. It seems that the SaMBa? server has to hold Windows printer drivers for the client, and has to pass the print request directly to the printer, because it will be in raw format, rendering CUPS redundant. In less geek terms, this basically means that all my work over the past three weeks was meaningless, and that we should have waited for the printer API to proceed after all.
  
  
• 6 Sep 2004
  Dinner at Casa Picola. A glass broke. Again, it wasn't my fault, it was the waiters. My instinctive standard disclaimer humoured everyone, but the waiter, who sheepishly admitted to his fault. Everyone was laughing for quiet some time.
  
  
• 6 Sep 2004
  After the printers debacle, I moved on to VPN. After reading up on VPN for a while, I decided to set up a small VPN server of my own. So I got a fresh NT tarball from Sridhar, and installed PPTP on that. Guess what Windows greets me with!!! The Blue Screen of Death, what else!!
  
  
• 8 Sep 2004
  Bike keys fell off the bike, when coming to office from home. Wasted around half an hour looking for them, and finally had to give bike in service station to get entire lock set replaced. The fact that the keyring also contained the helmet-lock keys and my office drawer keys is only a minor detail....