Dead as a...
Dodo is now officially dead. She was being a pain in the butt all Saturday, and all Sunday. Staying up for 2 or 3 hours, but not long enough to actually unpack the tar file that is the archive of her /user partition. However this morning about 10 minutes after a reboot she switched herself off, and their was a distinct burning smell! RIP dodo, although I do hope your system disk is in a good enough state to recover some stuff from it.
On Sunday I did order a replacement, not only to replace dodo, but to replace hatter and tweedledum as well. I've also got tweedledee, gryphon and caterpillar (the iMac) up there, but they are all switched off, and really ought to be taken to the tip, with the possible exception of caterpillar, because iMac's are cute. The idea is to avoid too much hassle of merging machines by going for a vmware solution, so box was ordered with VMware ESXi.
Got a phone call when walking home from work, turns out that if you order VMware you need to order enhanced support as well. I reluctantly gave in on that one, after having a good moan about it, I did however have to get the guy to send the email asking for my confirmation of this to my kth.se email address because the mail server was dodo and she is dead! Got a phone call back a bit later asking why I hadn't replied yet, so I told him I was like walking home! Replied back and then got another phone call, the bank had rejected the new credit card request. Phoned bank, it had been locked out for security purposes, so had to confirm various purchases etc, serves me right for making a very big purchase immediately after coming back from a foreign trip, especially when they had to increase the size of the computer purchase due to that silly extra support!
I decided I ought to have some sort of temporary mail system, so I've fiddled around on hatter a bit. Hatter now uses a fixed address (used to DHCP off dodo), also pretends to be dodo, and forwards any email to my home email address to my gmail account. I'm still missing my network drives, which includes all my photos, music, MS-Money files, and email archive, plus my mysql server, DNS server, imap server, custom DHCP server, music server, VPN server, unix home directory and several other things I've probably forgotten I had!
New box is currently scheduled to arrive on the 2nd October, then I've got to learn how to use VMware, and since I've paid for that extra support (which includes next day on site) I might bloody well use it out of principle! Of course the hardest thing about getting a new box is thinking of a good name.
On Sunday I did order a replacement, not only to replace dodo, but to replace hatter and tweedledum as well. I've also got tweedledee, gryphon and caterpillar (the iMac) up there, but they are all switched off, and really ought to be taken to the tip, with the possible exception of caterpillar, because iMac's are cute. The idea is to avoid too much hassle of merging machines by going for a vmware solution, so box was ordered with VMware ESXi.
Got a phone call when walking home from work, turns out that if you order VMware you need to order enhanced support as well. I reluctantly gave in on that one, after having a good moan about it, I did however have to get the guy to send the email asking for my confirmation of this to my kth.se email address because the mail server was dodo and she is dead! Got a phone call back a bit later asking why I hadn't replied yet, so I told him I was like walking home! Replied back and then got another phone call, the bank had rejected the new credit card request. Phoned bank, it had been locked out for security purposes, so had to confirm various purchases etc, serves me right for making a very big purchase immediately after coming back from a foreign trip, especially when they had to increase the size of the computer purchase due to that silly extra support!
I decided I ought to have some sort of temporary mail system, so I've fiddled around on hatter a bit. Hatter now uses a fixed address (used to DHCP off dodo), also pretends to be dodo, and forwards any email to my home email address to my gmail account. I'm still missing my network drives, which includes all my photos, music, MS-Money files, and email archive, plus my mysql server, DNS server, imap server, custom DHCP server, music server, VPN server, unix home directory and several other things I've probably forgotten I had!
New box is currently scheduled to arrive on the 2nd October, then I've got to learn how to use VMware, and since I've paid for that extra support (which includes next day on site) I might bloody well use it out of principle! Of course the hardest thing about getting a new box is thinking of a good name.