I finally got sane and installed NetBSD on the U5 the other day. Ploped OpenLDAP on it for authentication for the network. Hack away at slapd.conf for a [long] while and tried to start slapd. No go. Works fine with the sample conf file, so I’m guessing it’s me. That was a few days ago. Today, I toyed around with the idea of using Kerberos instead (or a combination of the two (that is if I get LDAP working)). Just need Samba and this will start to look like AD (err, I am on the other machine) (this will be the first and last time I will use that word from that corporation).
Monthly Archive for August, 2004
So, in continuing with the Operations training, I have to complete several work-alongs, where I show the new guys, in a one-on-one fashion, how to do stuff. I think my first one is Friday (maybe), then there is one on Saturday and next week. Ehh, three hours of showing them what to do. Hope it goes well.
Seniority doesn’t get you everywhere. I’m the most senior student at operations and I got screwed out of hours. I have six hours, where previously I’ve gotten over 30. Some of the new guys get double what I’m getting. Err, I’ll refrain from bad mouthing my manager.
Is the apocalypes coming soon? Some drunkard started talking to me at the bus stop yesterday while I was waiting for the evening bus to New Brunswick. He went on about how he was suppose to go to some bar up route 27 and was waiting forever for the bus. Somewhere along the line he explained to me how his wife called the cops on him for some reason and blah blah blah. Uhh, yeah, quite enjoyable. Finally got to New Brunswick, where some religious militant girls started boring me to death with there talk about God. There were lots of awkward pauses and I pretty much knew they weren’t prepared for the crusades. Bitches almost made me miss the campus bus trying to give me information about their cause and other items I don’t care for. So when I finally got out of work the next morning, some other religous zealots started flyering Albany Street with some ‘Hell’ pamphlets. I looked like I was doing something important, so they left me alone. Damn shame since I had stuff ready for them.
I really don’t understand these people. No one is going to convert to your cause if you bother and harass them. In the slim chance they do convert, it’s because they are already in the doorway and you just kick them through.
So Sunday was the big Operations training thing. Nothing much to mention, just that I was nervous for the first half an hour then I sort of calmed down after that, and it was more fun than other training things I’ve seen from RUCS. Shit went by so fast.
Got the Quad Ethernet SBus card today. Err, bent pin on the SBus connector and I can’t bend it back. I emailed the guy asking if it was tested beforehand and whether I can get a replacement.
Just as a last note, I am very displeased with what they are doing to the DSV lab.
So I got the two SCSI disk I ordered from eBay today. Popped one of those suckers in the SS5. Uhh, WTF! More media errors. Crap it’s probably the SCSI bus dying (I knew I should have said something better than ’shit’ when I dropped that SBUS cover on the inside of the external SCSI connector). Err, I couldn’t even install OpenBSD on it. I think it’s another trip to Surplus to look for something else that can be turned into a router.
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