Boring Contract...

[administrator]

Truly! Mine are in my shed, which is a shed to die for.

There's a T2000 in there as well along with an IBM pSeries and HMC.

Luckily all with iloms/fsp so can power on/off remotely.

All that just to stash your pr0n?

[psychocandy]

Had a contract like this once. Took them weeks to get laptop/login sorted - no-one could be arsed it seemed.

Even afterwards there was little work to do. We used to do support from 7am on a rota basis - I even volunteered to do my turn of 7am more often because, at least then you had stuff to do (checking overnight runs etc). And I left early then.

Does do your chunk in after a bit mind....

[BrilloPad]

All that just to stash your pr0n?

Is that where you keep yours?

[bobspud]

Truly! Mine are in my shed, which is a shed to die for.

There's a T2000 in there as well along with an IBM pSeries and HMC.

Luckily all with iloms/fsp so can power on/off remotely.

Hope the shed is built well! I am willing to bet if you powered that lot on at once it would either blow the doors off the shed or implode the windows depending on which way you have the servers pointing I used to have a shed specced up with kit (5 E4500's + A5000 SAN arrays)

but I had to knock it on the head because someone kept blowing out the power in the area and it seemed to coincide with my system patching and reboots

Solaris contracts seem to be few and few between these days hey ho...

[d000hg]

Suity? Suity is that you???

I would have kicked up a fuss by the 3rd day minimum if they insisted on me using their equipment. After a week I'd have had some scrote against the wall.

A month!!! You're having a giraffe mate. I'd have fecked off somewhere more professional by now.

In reality, your clients often wish after a month that they hadn't given you a login.

[Paddy]

I've just won 32gb of Sun ram on eBay tho, so not all boring!

Whatever...

[Old Hack]

I start a new contract on the 14th, and the new laptop was delivered by courier this afternoon. Quite impressed.

As for a month billing and not doing any work; you want to leave why? Could you perhaps do some training? I had a gig like this once, and spent the first month looking at <my field> using C# and python.

[stek]

I start a new contract on the 14th, and the new laptop was delivered by courier this afternoon. Quite impressed.

As for a month billing and not doing any work; you want to leave why? Could you perhaps do some training? I had a gig like this once, and spent the first month looking at <my field> using C# and python.

Just bored, only docs to read and iphone to play with - I do have a spare desktop and a Windows logon, which goes against what I said a bit but I'm here to do Unix, and ain't got one of those (waiting for IBM) or a laptop (waiting for IBM).

However, I have managed to log on to some dev boxes as the application user, snooped around sudo and realised anyone can su root NOPASSWD - I do sound like Suity, don't I? Oracle passwords are in file on the box so I can SqlPlus at will, only dev like I say. No going there tho, just in case...

Having said all that it's a good place to work expectations seem low (good job!) so although sitting around all day with very little to do is harder than building a HAMCP cluster, I'll stick it out for while, it can't continue....! Can it?

I think that's the crux, doing nowt is worse than working your bollocks off!

[stek]

Hope the shed is built well! I am willing to bet if you powered that lot on at once it would either blow the doors off the shed or implode the windows depending on which way you have the servers pointing I used to have a shed specced up with kit (5 E4500's + A5000 SAN arrays)

but I had to knock it on the head because someone kept blowing out the power in the area and it seemed to coincide with my system patching and reboots

Solaris contracts seem to be few and few between these days hey ho...

It's a cracker! A good 12 foot square, lined internally, pitched roof and little loft mezz, alarmed, double locks and with strip lighting and it;s own fusebox and shiit! My brother said he could easily live in it, but he still lives in Bolton so that's no guide really.

Had no power issues, even home plugs work.

Re: Solaris true but I'm AIX mainly now - seems loads of that. I use this for ESX (trying OVM now) and SGD (aka Tarantella) for remote access on site to defeat the firewall rules blocking owt but web traffic...

T2000 has LDOMS on it, Oracle 11.1 control domain with 1.2 LDOMS package forced on since T2's are a bit dear ATM. pSeries is dual VIO with 10 lpars, three in HA cluster. There's a bottom of the range HMC to manage it and the QNAP TS412 for files and some iSCSI. Oh, and a 48 port Gbit switch.

This thread is now about interesting stuff!

[stek]

But TBF, I was that bored today I was even engaging agents in conversation...