\t\t\t\ttoday, whilst wasting yet another day in impudent laziness, i discovered that my mighty RAID had lost a disk. it was the newest disk, and it is now labelled as DEAD in the management console. i thought DEAD in all upper case was kind of amusing, though the reality of the RAID being on a precipice of complete failure was not funny, nor was staring at the problem for 3 hours very meaningful or productive. Fucking waste of day. boo hoo. now the Volume is resyncing, or maybe it’s restriping, i don’t remember, but i’ll check in on it later. What a bore. I was, however, starting to question my redundant redundancies and their potential wastes of effort when this happened, and I basically had no disaster to face if the RAID totally died. It would be no fun but nowadays it would be mostly recoverable… i think. who the fuck knows.<\/p>\n
it was sort of unnerving to find the error message, and the paragraph of text which attempted to explain the situation. the paragraph of text read like something written by a 4th-grader who spoke little English.<\/p>\n
(that should be a version of English. You’ve got Olde English, Middle English, and Little English. haha.)<\/p>\n
technical documentation is a hazardous place for the lesser-skilled writers… though great technical writers are not always what would be called great writers in other genres. i think part of the reason so many software developers are loath to share their code is because their comments and english-language portions of the code are not exactly flattering, or even grammatically soluble. the comments hidden in software sometimes go beyond explanatory matter and offer opinion and tongue-lashings aimed at rival software companies and operating systems. it’s a macho thing. the ecosystem of anger and malcontentedness lurking in the unreadably-compiled software might surprise the lowest rungs on the software totem pole: the end users.<\/p>\n
…..<\/p>\n
all anyone wants to talk about is the heat. the window in my living room was hot to the touch. when UPS arrived today with a second shipment of the monster amazon order of yore i opened the boxes and found that all the items therein were HOT to the touch. this was true yesterday, too, when the a55 camera arrived i was only slightly concerned that it felt like i had just taken it out of an oven. it seems to work well, though i haven’t gotten the GPS to kick in, and haven’t tried the video. i was painfully annoyed to find that i have to blow another $50-60 on batteries for this camera. every single Sony device i get demands a unique suite of accessories, batteries, and peripherals. it must pain that company to produce cameras which accept a range of lenses that fit across all their models. i am sure they would rather produce 50 cameras which each require a custom set of lenses, lenses which fit only each and every camera.<\/p>\n
today’s UPS bounty included more books, some white t-shirts, and a replacement light bulb for the reading light that i never use. i might use it tonight, though. it is one of those new-fangled ugly-light lights that will allegedly save the planet, and which i got 3 or 4 years ago. i can’t complain about the longevity of the bulb, though the quality of the light as it ricochets off the pages of a book is sometimes acrid to the eye.<\/p>\n
i have noticed (with strange nondescript curlyshaped mental rejoinders) that these curlyshaped light bulbs look conspicuous and the cheaper brand-x versions of those bulbs have a quality of light that looks like something from an up-all-month Guantanamo torture chamber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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