SysAdmin Day

Yes folks. Today is System Administrators Appreciation day. This day always occurs on the last friday of the month of July. Quite the exciting one, this day is.

I remember, because I found a calendar that Val made for me before she left on the mission, that had this day written on it. Then today, when checking the channel and slashdot it was already announced to the world.

So what am I doing for SysAdmin day? Not much. Probably mow my lawn or do some more weeding.

Sure wish someone would get us a cake or something :)


Power Issues

I went over to our little datacenter about 6:30pm Sunday evening to check the A/C unit, whose breaker got kicked again. Arrived to find the generator running, still. Appears the regular utility Power was not feeding our building, and the gauge on the Propane tank read at about 10%. It had been this way since Friday evening. OUCH

So, I got ahold of the national Amerigas folks and they dispatched the guy at $90/hr to fill us up. The guy actually wondered if I wanted to wait until tomorrow morning. Umm..no. He ended up being a customer of ours and said he was able to get on all weekend.. Despite our power being out :)



I also got the Power company on-call guys to come and replace the fuse that got shot on the transformer. Now I know what to look for when the transformer fuse goes out.



So now we’re back up on regular Power and the propane tank is full at 100%. We probably had about 4-5 hours left on the tank.. Maybe more, who knows.



It must have been a site for those on-call guys to see me in my Sunday best, worrying about power/propane.

Xterra’s are fun

Aaron and I ended up taking a day off from the toils of the office and decided to upgrade our BrianHead and Minersville Cisco 2500 series routers.

On the way to BrianHead we stopped by a few GeoCaches along the I-15 route.

Unfortunately for me, I had not dressed for the occasion. I had awoke to a sunny, warm St. George spring day. As such, I had worn a T-Shirt, Shorts, and sandals. However, upon leaving the warmth of St. George, and upon reaching the windy city, Cedar City, I knew I was in trouble..
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Viruses and CPU Heatsinks

So, I’m here at the InfoWest Datacenter in the cold with my laptop. I decided to try out Ecto a neato little Blog posting application for MacOSX and now Windows. It connects right up to my favorite blogger to post my blog.

Anyway, I just had to get some information on our new InfoWest Cache CPU. Appears we need to make sure the stepping and SL number are correct for a second 2.8GHz Xeon that should be coming soon…..
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