Life
Vacation for two weeks in July was approved,
with nary a word of discussion; whee, back to Canada! Picked
up a set of wood-carved chinese letters for above the bed,
which I need to concoct some mechanism for hanging now (the
bedroom has a distinct oriental theme to it, just like each
room in the apartment has taken on a specific flavor). Still
in need of a good headboard or an entire bedframe (I found a
headboard I like, but it's a little pricey), and some
knick-knacks for the bathroom. Co-habitating with a female
of the species helps with one's interest in a comfortable
living space. :-)
Priorities
I've been "re-prioritized" again at work. The
end result, I'm beginning to see, is an inability for me to
complete anything, since I don't work on any
particular project long enough to figure out where it was
left previously.
Personal resolution: stop complaining about
work, and solve the problem already. I've learned all I can
where I'm at right now, and now it's just draining me. Time
to move on.
Solaris and large IDE disks
It appears that I will never get these
60GB disks working properly in the Ultra 10s under Solaris
2.6. Since the project specifically requires that version of
Solaris, I'm going to have to put in an order for a bunch of
32GB or less disks and stripe them (IDE and RAID are such a
bad idea together, I can't even begin to describe it) or
pick up a few Symbios SCSI controllers and some 18GB or 36GB
SCSI disks. The problem, if anyone is interested, is that
Solaris versions up to and including Solaris 8 can support
IDE disks up to 32GB (although 2.5.1 and 2.6 require patching
to successfully see anything bigger than 8GB, and this
contradicts the FAQ
entry on the subject), but to get past that 32GB
barrier, you need to move to SCSI or Solaris 8 10/00
(according to this
article). Further to that, I found an article
which suggests that 8.1 (or whatever it's called) will have
this fixed as well.