cyberhobo

Author: cyberhobo

  • Creepy Illusion

    This one is especially good at making you doubt your senses.

  • buffer_jdirty (bh)

    Assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() at commit.c:535: “buffer_jdirty (bh)” Came in to find this message on our trusty dual-processor database server this morning. It’s on RedHat’s errata page, the first fix for 7.3, a problem with the Symmetric Multiprocessor Kernel. The annoying thing is that the kernel with just that fix is no longer available, they…

  • Operation Failed

    Outlook is saying this to me this morning when I hit the Send button. Almost funny in it’s uselessness.

  • Great Falls Basin

    On a whim, Ann and I took off late Saturday night for Great Falls Basin, where we slept under an amazing sky and woke up early to get a climb in. This route is one of my favorites, Frosted Flakes (5.9). It requires some uncertain smearing, a little edging, and has an easy dihedral at…

  • 31 years old

    After making Ann put together a shrimp fajita and marguerita dinner that could be prepared and served in the mountains, I ended up choosing to have it in the back yard. I swung in the hammock, sipped my drink, and read Don Quixote while she cooked me the tastiest meal to come out of my…

  • Williamson Rock

    I made my first trip to Williamson Rock in the San Gabriel mountains north of LA on Friday with Roy Boswell. It’s a pretty nice crag – I took the picture from the parking area across the valley. There are climbers on the first route we did, Being There (5.7), just left of the big…

  • NFS task x can’t get request slot

    This one reared it’s ugly head yesterday, and has plagued me for some time. I have a farm of 9 computers that all use a single disk via a Network File System (NFS). During heavier use and testing I would start getting these errors from one of them, and then they would all go belly…

  • inconsequential errors

    I see that there will have to be some criteria for my error collection so it doesn’t get clogged up with little, inconsequential errors. For instance, I got two in a row yesterday: % IDL –feed-ir IDL: Command not found % idl –feed-ir error: need file name for –feed-ir The first was caused by the…

  • incorrect data check

    pg_restore: [cusom archiver] unable to uncompress data: incorrect data check Once again my attempt to back up a huge database failed after 20 hours or so. This message is specific, but meaningless to me. I have to guess. Probably the archive file is not correct. Could be a bad disk, a bug in the archiver,…

  • Movie: The Laramie Project

    The murder of Matthew Shepard in my hometown in 1998, even though I was in Chicago at the time, is a bleak spot in my memory. Even if it makes me bristle a bit to see good actors poorly portraying Laramie citizens, the movie brings back some of the beauty along with the ugly sude…