nomad @nomad@hackers.town

Time to #introduce myself here at h-town.

I'm a #sysadmin with more decades in service than I care to think about. I'm a Unix guy who deals with Linux when I have to.

I am heavily into musical theatre ( #musicaltheater ) but don't act/perform. I mostly do lighting - most recently as Master SpotOp for Seattle Musical Theatre.

I love to cook, mostly baked goods and meat proteins.

I'm gay, single, and live in Seattle.

I generally won't accept follow requests from blank profiles.

Any other questions? Just ask.

Left my laptop in my office when I went in to change backup tapes this morning. I need to decide if I want to drive back in after 21:00 this evening (when parking is free) or wait until after noon on Saturday (same reason) to get it.

I need something special to look forward to. Day after day of nothing but day after day is really getting ... bland? boring? depressing? Not really sure what word to use here.

I spent part of my lunch time today making hardboiled eggs. Now I'm trying to decide if I turn them into tea eggs or deviled egg salad for sandwiches.

I think I'll decide that once I've shelled them. The nice looking ones (should there be any) will become tea eggs, the rest will be deviled.

When I was but a young #sysadmin my boss told me a story of a brilliant kernel hacker (of the good kind) who left a 'gift' behind when he moved on to a new gig. I presume this story wasn't true but it sounds so good I wish it were.

Our protagonist hid a bit of code somewhere in the system that would occasionally print a message on a random (active) terminal saying "I want a cookie." If the person using that terminal typed "cookie" the message would stop and all would be well again for a while.

The users referred to it as the cookie monster for obvious reasons.

However, if they didn't type cookie the messages would get more and more insistent, saying things like "I want a cookie NOW!"

Eventually, if it didn't get its cookie, it would crash the system.

They couldn't find the code so they just left standing instructions with all users, if the system asked for a cookie, give it a cookie.

TIL

: || nomad@castle ~ [52] ; ls -l /dev/stdout
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Jul 27 17:21 /dev/stdout@ -> fd/1
: || nomad@castle ~ [53] ; ls -l /dev/stdin
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Jul 27 17:21 /dev/stdin@ -> fd/0
: || nomad@castle ~ [54] ; ls -l /dev/stderr
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Jul 27 17:21 /dev/stderr@ -> fd/2

Power and network are back. That was a long work day.

So much for my evenings entertainment plans. Power outage in the area both at my home and at my work. I will very likely have to drive in and bring computers back up when it is restored.

Anyone here using #podman ? Please DM if so.

#sysadmin

If you answer the question "What's one plus one" with "two" then that means you are non-binary.

Don't hate yourself.

@Canageek this might be of interest to you.

'How the world’s biggest general science society is tackling racism
“As we held up a mirror to ourselves, we realized that we’re not as diverse as we should be.”'

https://www.theverge.com/21337391/aaas-science-society-journal-systemic-racism-data

Practice your 3 Ws:

Wear Your Mask.
Wash Your Hands.
Watch Your Distance.

Just remember, #sysadmin types - users never ask for backups but they certainly expect restores.