The Lone Sysadmin

Picked up from William Gibson’s blog.

Once again my lunch time has yielded something amusing, at least to me. I swear, I’m not looking for this stuff, it just finds me.

I wonder what they set $CMP to…

Have a great weekend everybody!

Some Australian guys build a Trojan Horse and ride around Sydney with it… (via oldnewthing)

Today has been hectic. We’ve got two guys on vacation and we’re discovering all the little things they left undone. Plus, I have a wicked headache. Ugh. So it’s a little slow around the blog today.

To make up for it here’s an, um, interesting license plate I saw on the way back from lunch:

Happy Thursday, y’all!

Last night, after celebrating my softball team’s win (we now have a career record of 2-23-2), it was discovered that many people hadn’t seen the video about the way the Oregon State Highway Division dealt with a dead whale back in November, 1970. If you haven’t, well, here’s a two-and-a-half minute treat.

Over the last couple of days one of our monitoring systems has been noting a growing number of defunct/zombie processes on one of our servers. It happens from time to time and is an application problem, so I sent the following to the guys that maintain the app:

VOID has been slowly creating more zombie processes over the last two days. Was 17 yesterday, now is 27.

Their reply:

That’s because you have to kill the VOID before it spawns any more. If you waste your time on the zombies you’ll run out of mana and health before you get to the VOID, unless of course you’re willing to use a potion.

Ah, yes, should have known that. Now I need to find a cleric to res me…