Undeath, productivity, and hardware

Planescape: Torment - Great game. The graphics are dated, but the story is still quite good. It's very atmospheric. In Planescape, there is a faction of people known as the Dustmen. Their core belief revolves around true death being something to strive for... more of an enlightenment than an oblivion. Thus, the bodies left behind are simply discarded vessels to them. They raise zombies to do menial labor within their mortuary in Sigil.

I feel kinda like that right now.

This morning started out like many workdays. Now, I knew full well training on the new circulation system was to be done sometime soon. When I heard it was scheduled for tomorrow, though... well, that was a surprise. So I find I have to prepare four new workstations for use by the end of the day. Also, we have to find four monitors we can scrounge up, plus getting network access to one of the few rooms in the building with no cables. That was daunting enough, but it gets worse.

While I was working on that, my co-tech decided to streamline the network configuration by using the new switch as the backbone for all the others. It didn't seem necessary to me, but it didn't seem a bad idea either. Somehow in dis/re-connecting our old Novell file server, however, he jostled one of the drive connected to it at just the wrong time... or something. Next thing we know, we're having problems connecting. So, he restarts the server... only it doesn't boot up. One of the two external drives has taking this opportunity to die. Two... mirrored... drives. "Mirrored." I'd like to go back in time and whack whoever set them up with a nice, heavy dictionary. Sure, much of the data was mirrored, but the OS files existed only on the primary drive... which was the one that died, of course.

We had to call in a couple Novell specialists in the end to get things fixed. Even at that, most of our system was incapacitated for... nine or ten hours. Things are working now with the single drive (to be properly mirrored perhaps this weekend), and I'm home after some thirteen and a half hours straight of work.

Ugh. x.x

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