geekroom

I had to reboot the blogs server to install a security patch tonight, and of course nothing went smoothly.  The stupid IBM server refused to boot without a keyboard, and we don’t have a keyboard attached (why the heck make a server default to not booting without a keyboard?!?!).  After driving in to the server room and telling it that I really did want it to reboot, I still had to reboot the machine twice to install all of the windows updates.  Ten years later, why are we still having to do the reboot dance on windows machines?  Once is bad enough for a production server, but twice, with one of them taking about 10 minutes to do the actual update on a reasonably quick machine?  Suboptimal.

The world seems to be happy now, no data was lost, Harvard is blogging again, and I’m the proud owner of two more white hairs.