IBM
Posted on Monday, 14th August, 2006 in Life
We just received the long awaited shipment of sixteen 300GB FC-HDD’s (2Gbps with 10000rpm) for our SAN (a pretty old DS4500/FaStT 900).
But there’s still the software option missing we ordered within the same breath. So I called our trustworthy IBM distributor (hah!) and asked the guy responsible for sales, what the ETA on this software option is (if someone is interested its VolumeCopy/FlashCopy).
He told me, that we’ll receive a letter with the license key about 4 weeks after commission !!!!!!
I nearly fell from my chair when he told me that.
I still can’t believe it, that sending a license key printed upon a simple page is taking 4 weeks 
Luca had a nice comment about that:
(09:58) < @lu_zero> IBM is big (09:58) < @lu_zero> so idiots could find their niche (10:00) < @lu_zero> phreak`` it got hand assembled using an hex editor (10:00) < @lu_zero> from the paper computed result obviously
The somehow different vacation photo
Posted on Thursday, 10th August, 2006 in Life
Heh, while driving to work I had an idea …
Speed trap
That would make a niiiiice vacation photo 
(well not so nice if you get the bill …)
SLES-9.2 (continued)
Posted on Wednesday, 9th August, 2006 in Life
OK, so after yesterdays battle with SLES and rpm, I decided to simply upgrade rpm (again rpmbuild -bb rpm.spec as in from source).
I had to tune (hah, remove stuff that isn’t working on this ancient gcc-3.3.3 ie. -fstack-protector) a bit to get it working, wasted 20 minutes worth of CPU time and ~30 of my time. I finally gave up. I couldn’t persuade neither rpm, nor git to compile on the damn SLES/Dell.
While the above was running, I did some compile-testing on Tim’s behalf (he back ported the e1000-driver updates from 2.6.18 to our 2.6.17 branch), seems to work so far.
On a more personal note, I’d like to stab all people neglecting their promises!