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This may be a more well-known reference than I earlier thought.

I grew up watching Happy-Days.  The show was great until the episode where Fonzi jumped the shark-tank.  After that it pretty much went down-hill quickly.

Hence the term “Jumped the shark” or “Jumping the shark” has come to mean any single event that marks the point where something degenerates into crap.

My VMWare NFS server jumped the shark this weekend.  It was hilarious.  I had a beautifully quiet afternoon on Friday, from about 14:30 on my blackberry was quiet.  Turns out that the NFS server that I use for storage experienced an unexplained (and apparently barely logged) kernel panic and rebooted.

In the process, the 6 adapters, in what I can only guess was a techno-square-dance, all switched places and lost their bonding configuration.

All went south, right in the middle of one of my busiest travel weeks as far as work goes.  So my wife, god bless her, earned her stripes this weekend as I walked her through ‘ifconfig eth0 10.1.1.10′ and ‘ping 10.1.1.254′ etc.  trying to figure out what happened.

Still don’t know.  But with everything down (including this site) my first priority was to get it all back online, troubleshoot later.  (When my desktop goes down I know why, I have an inquisitive 3 year old with a fetish for power-buttons), but the server power buttons are protected by a key – for that very purpose.

So I ordered a bunch of 146G drives for the hosts, and I’m going to move criticial apps back to internal storage until I figure out what in the hell happened and how to fix it.  It might give me an opportunity to eval. some new FC Target toys I’ve been thinking about.

Who knows.  No more shark-jumping though. 

Beware – I’m upgrading the site this week.  Don’t know exactly when but I plan on getting off this old version of WordPress (among other things) and moving from a RedHat 4 based system to a CentOS 5 based system.  So far testing has worked well, the upgrade is pretty tedious considering that I have about a dozen or so sites to move over.

My only concern is those readers and contributors who are getting their info via RSS, I have no idea how you will be affected.  Please be patient and I’ll try to work the bugs out as they come.

Jesse

 

the state of mind when the mind over-rides the body’s basic desire to choke the living crap out of someone who desparately needs it.

Anyway, enough about my day.

Some of you may have noticed the site going up and down lately.

if you’d like, you can blame the nice folks at Comcast Communications, whose “business” DSL is not quite ready for prime time.

After my fourth call to them in a week this morning, a nice sounding young man GUARANTEED ME that the problem with my router was fixed and that I wouldn’t be having any more problems.

LOL – have you ever heard of someone in technical support making that kind of guarantee?

Nope – neither have I.