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[azekeil]

For those of you who might or might not know I've started work in ntl: in Winnersh. So far so good. As expected, I've been thrown into the deep end again. Instead of wanting the work done in two months they now want it done in two weeks. No real surprises there. I'm reasonably confident I can get something together in 2 weeks, but it won't be a proper job by any means.

What's confusing me is I met the team yesterday; they all seem youngish and fairly enthusiastic without being too in your face. Today, I came in at 9am. Now it's 10am and still not one of the 3 people I met yesterday is in. I knew one of them wasn't coming in until the afternoon but this is rediculous. I'm also waiting for FTP access to the box; hacking code is going to be a nightmare if I don't have that.

The commute in is not too bad, although there is quite a bit of slow moving traffic. On good weather days I think I might ride in on the bike.

Trying to sort out a fileserver in time for the BadgerLAN this coming weekend; stuartl is very kindly working on that as he has no work of his own to do at the moment. The Linux solution, EVMS, seems to lack the precise piece of functionality I want. There is a Linux version of Veritas Volume Manager but I have only been able to get hold of an older Win2k version so far. Tonight's experiment will be to install that and see if it does what I want.

I'm enjoying the change but last night went far too quickly with the washing, shopping and take-away.

Right, I'd better prepare for this meeting this afternoon I suppose. I'd better have another look around for my team too.

Comments

[hythloday.livejournal.com]

Just in case I can help, what bit of functionality does EVMS lack?

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

The ability to expand RAID5 arrays by adding extra disks. It seems to have the ability to concatenate two RAID5 arrays, but then you have excess disk space wasted by parity, and have to upgrade with at least 3 disks at a time.

I'll call stuartl and get him to look at this thread in case you guys can come up with an answer :)

Oh, thanks, btw :) Wanna come to the LAN?

[jebuscrust.livejournal.com]

Timescales cut from two months to two weeks? And I thought it was only my place that did that! *chuckles*

[stuartl.livejournal.com]

I'm on IRCNet as StuartL plus I have a whole bunch of contact info in my profile.

:)

[hythloday.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately it doesn't look like that is possible using EVMS, although there are tools to let you do it offline - I'd suspect you want to do it online, though?

Where is BadgerLAN?

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

It's in Bristol. But if you can get to Reading (or even preferrably Thatcham) on Friday evening (as early as possible) I can give you a lift there and back again on Sunday afternoon/evening (to Thatcham/Reading again).

I'm not concerned with doing it online, but from what I've read it does sound risky. The whole point of going for RAID5 is I can't afford a backup solution that will reliably back up ~1TB of data.

[7rin.livejournal.com]

Roll on the Good Weather. :)

[serena-lesley.livejournal.com]

Where are all these geeks going to sleep? Has anyone worked out numbers?

You could of course sleep here.. I also have extra beds etc. That way I might get to see you.

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Sleep? We're going to sleep??

Um, I haven't a clue. I'll talk to you later :) *kiss*

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

You've totally lost me ;@)

BTW What is this BodgerLAN you speak of?

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. See my previous entry; I wish I had time to type more.

[cryx]

you should come and vist, as winnersh isn't huuugly far away from sunny egham..

At the back of my mind...

[lazrus-armagedn.livejournal.com]

...are the words <>Winnersh Triangle

Sounds alarmingly reminiscent of Bermuda Triangle

I reckon you should be careful...could be that people/things disappear into it...maybe trains/cars/etc. disappear and are never seen again... ... ... or maybe it's figurative and jobs/lives are lost into it...leaving you a shadow of yourself until one day you wake up grey and your life is over without any intervening time appearing to have passed...


Brrrrr...

Re:

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

Good to hear that they're getting their money's worth from you. Now you know how a galley-slave feels ;@)

Will more lashes make you work faster?

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Yay! I will do, but next week. This week is very very busy :/

Re: At the back of my mind...

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Yes. Although currently I'm hoping to apply it to some of the spare kit that's kicking around here *grin*.

[oscuridad.livejournal.com]

aww cool! you're going to save NTL from itself :) Pass along to the higer-ups that their phone msg system could do with an update *smirk*

Sounds like you're doing really well though, congrats on the job :) Hope your team shows up....

[hythloday.livejournal.com]

Much as I might like to, I don't really have the money (or flashy computer) this month. Definitely in future, though :-)

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

No worries; I thought that might be the case. I'll let you know of the next one :)

[dylan.livejournal.com]

If you've got time to power lunch then give me a call sometime