Less than 10, out of hundreds potential, are here at work today, but of course, the guy with an office directly across the hall from me is one of those 10, so I can’t just leave my door open and really crank up the tunes.
Oh well.
At least I finally got ChromeDriver to work, when everything is local. Still can’t figure out what’s wrong with my remote system. One day at a time.
I must be missing something obvious. AIX has a keyword, mkhomeatlogin, it seems pretty straightforward, and there’s nothing in the docs about having to do anything special to enable it, and yet when I try to turn it on, it fails:
chsec -f /etc/security/login.cfg -s usw -a mkhomeatlogin=true
3004-692 Error changing “mkhomeatlogin” to “true” : Attribute is invalid.
And the PAM alternative isn’t available either,
user:alert syslog: open_module: stat(/usr/lib/security/pam_mkuserhome) failed: No such file or directory
What’s more confusing, there doesn’t seem to be any widespread confusion over these keywords, or indeed Any difficulty that has resulted in the above error message within the context of merely activating the feature, which leads me to suspect I’m missing something obvious. I hate that feeling. But I’d rather feel foolish, and informed, that continue with the frustration.
Yesterday, looking through my budget, I’m seeing a very tight future without some sort of income boost, or cost cutting measures.
Today, my team lead announces she is moving out of state and will be a remote employee, giving up some of her current responsibilities. I of course am filled with the likely naive hope that whomever ends up with said responsibilities will end up with a commensurate bump in income, and said someone will be me. I guess I should figure out what kind of baked goods the managers in charge of deciding what happens next, likes. =)
I’d been kinda worried earlier today, comparing my 4 lines of addition to the document about to be reviewed this afternoon, to other people’s much larger contributions to their equivalent documents. Was wondering what I was missing, that I just couldn’t find more to say. Then I looked at the whole-project design diagram again, and realized the piece I’m working on is proportionally smaller to those other documents I was using for reference, so really I’m in better shape than I thought.
I’d like to think the holiday-fog will soon be lifting from my brain, and the how-far-have-I-yet-to-go-blues will be memory soon enough after.
Today is going to be a bad day at our office, for anyone on a diet. We’ve already had bagels and fruit for breakfast, plus the VP wandering around the office with a little red cart full of donuts, and there’s still lunch and the 3pm party yet to go.
I’m glad I did an extra set of crunches this morning. Not enough to make a difference, really, but still a feel-good-exercise =p
Yesterday’s training session was annoyingly light on the new material, and consisted more of step-by-step DIY demo’ing than actual discovery. Today’s session is like diving head first into a concrete filled pool. The exercises are vague suggestions that often directly contradict something said earlier.
I would have preferred something in the middle for both. I learn best by watching the first time, and then extrapolating from there, assisted by documentation. Oh well.
I click when I walk.
I wear cheap steel toes, and the heel of the sole wears down such that gravel gets into the honeycombing, but then can’t get out again, and it rattles around when I walk.
This morning, I was thinking about how I might miss the sound when I get around to replacing these shoes. Then just now, as I was walking back to my desk, one of my cow-orkers asked me why I make noise when I walk.
Much like the t-shirts, it would seem I’ve gathered another expected affectation.
Upgrading 30+ different kinds of UNIX boxes’ STAF installations is a pain in the but under the best of circumstances. It’s made all the more annoying be a recent development where their “InstallAnywhere” installer will randomly fail with:
Stack Trace:
java.util.zip.ZipError: jzentry == 0,
…
This Application has Unexpectedly Quit: Invocation of this Java Application has caused an InvocationTargetException. This application will now exit. (LAX)
Out of the 4 times it’s happened so far today, 3 times I was able to get past the error by just trying the install again, after removing any leftover /tmp/install.dir entries. I might have been able to do that with the 1st failure as well, but I tried a different build package first that time.
UPDATE: Oh great, a new error on zlinux,
./STAF345-setup-zlinux-32.bin
Preparing to install…
Extracting the JRE from the installer archive…
Unpacking the JRE…
Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive…
Configuring the installer for this system’s environment…
strings: ‘/lib/libc.so.6′: No such file
Launching installer…
./STAF345-setup-zlinux-32.bin: line 2472: /tmp/install.dir.2598/Linux/resource/jre/jre/bin/java: No such file or directory
./STAF345-setup-zlinux-32.bin: line 2472: exec: /tmp/install.dir.2598/Linux/resource/jre/jre/bin/java: cannot execute: Bad address
# ls -l /tmp/install.dir.2598/Linux/resource/jre/jre/bin/java
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1003 513 58042 Dec 14 2009 /tmp/install.dir.2598/Linux/resource/jre/jre/bin/java
We have a push to production today for the project I work on. My go-live task is to verify the support website is updated correctly, so I’ve been waiting all day for the message that the process is done. The message comes, so I begin my task, and find that the person who sent the message didn’t bother to make sure they’d actually finished the task successfully. EVERY page is a 404, so she didn’t even make a single attempt to verify her work.
GRAR.
We use a kanban board at work. Somewhen between friday and monday, someone put a card up in my section, as a highest-priority-customer-affecting-issue, “Get Coffee”, with a number that doesn’t appear in our bug tracking system. No one in our department admits to putting it up there, and I don’t drink actual coffee at all, haven’t for years. I did use to go with my morning breakfast buddy to the nearest Starbucks so he could drink his water down coffee (aka Americano), and I used to be able to get a half-decent hot chocolate, until they dropped the Signature line. Maybe someone from Starbucks corporate broke into the office over the weekend to encourage me to start going again?
I don’t recall doing anything stunningly sleepy last week that would provide a cognitive neighborhood in which to place such a card, as a joke, so I’m really at a loss as to why it’s there.
UPDATE: d’oh, I dunno how I spaced on Friday being april fools, or that 040111 parses into 04-01-11, not 040-111. I have marked the issue as blocked due to Starbucks no longer carrying the Signature hot chocolate.