Population 485 – Michael Perry

Started reading this last night, and it immediately took my back to my hometown. Michael has returned to his hometown and becomes a volunteer fireman. It’s a book that I wish I had an afternoon to lose myself in.

Edit: I really like this line.

“Working-class prejudice never quite shakes the idea of art as frivolity, and frivolity has pink-palms.”

Coming from a small town, this was always something rolling around in my head while I was studying music. How useless it would seem at times.  I still have similar feelings about IT, questioning if I should be doing something that may have a more positive impact.

September 11, 2007 | Filed Under Books | Leave a Comment 

being beat by nfs

Been fighting a long series of problems with a Rocks cluster. It’s come down to a serial device that locked up every single node, and now a NFS issue that appears to be not allowing nodes to boot.

It’s been awhile since I’ve dealt with NFS, but it seems odd that commenting out an entry in /etc/exports will allow the nodes to boot perfectly fine. If the entry is left uncommented, the node will completely lock up on startup.

There’s now a gigantic list of work to do, and no end in sight. Every time I clean out my inbox, and get items added to my todo list, there’s another half-dozen items needing attention. I’m learning a bit, but it’s all surface type of information. There’s no time to dig into anything. I started making some progress on my network monitor app, but that had to be put aside. I need to make the time to get back to that soon.

September 11, 2007 | Filed Under work | Leave a Comment