All Windows and No Play Makes hictio a Dull Boy

It has been a month already... Unbelievable... 

So far (and things haven't even really begun yet) I've learned a lot, but one thing remains unchanged... I hate Windows, what a fucking piece of shit OS it is.

The Rat Race

Yeah... A Friday afternoon around here...
The glorious Optiflex along the lappie that my employer gave me.

A New Hopefully Hope

About to start a new job (on Monday), so, my employer sent me this laptop.
An all aluminum HP Elitebook, pretty nice, only fuckshit is that the keyboard is "in Spanish".
Fuck this shit.

(Per (Really) Ardua) Ad Astra

Last night it was another movie night... Had to reboot (kernel reboot) a couple of servers during the night, so I had to make time until the wee hours.

Ad Astra:
Damn it was bad, long and boring.
Not much to add, a total disappointment, I was really expecting a lot more out of this one.

Happy to say, the reboots went well.

Movies During The Weekend

Only one movie last weekend... It was a rather atypical one, not only because of the freak weather, but also because I had really early start and had sort of a truncated Sunday.

Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid:Man!! I loved this one, many times it was like I was watching it for the first time -for the GF it was indeed her first time watching this classic modern western-.
It aged wonderfully, IMHO.

Busy is Busy Busy

All work and no fun make hictio a dull boy.
All work and no fun make hictio a dull boy.
All work and no fun make hictio a dull boy.
All work and no fun make hictio a dull boy.
Lotsa work these last couples of days, no time for anything including my beloved Oesediez.

Problems with MySQL after an unattended-upgrades

Wake up this Labor Day to a couple of emails from the Monit on remote a server, reporting a problem with the MySQL process.
Checking the emails from that server, this is what the unattended-upgrades email reported:

Checking if update is needed.
Checking server version.
Error: Server version (5.7.25-0ubuntu0.16.04.2) does not match with the version of
the server (5.7.26) with which this program was built/distributed. You can
use --skip-version-check to skip this check.
mysql_upgrade failed with exit status 3
dpkg: error processing package mysql-server-5.7 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script\
 returned error exit status 1

Got onto the server, and this is what the MySQL error log (/var/log/mysql/error.log) reported:

2019-05-01T06:25:42.111425Z 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1 error: 11
2019-05-01T06:25:42.111470Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld\
 process using the same InnoDB data or log files.

So, this usually means that there are more than one MySQL server running.
First thing first, stop MySQL, and then, kill any other MySQL process by hand.
Then, run apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade, this finished the MySQL update A Ok.
Then started the MySQL server, and everything was kosher.

Dropbox Vs Encrypted EXT4: Dropbox Wins...

Yes, well, in the end. I've chosen to remain with Dropbox...
What can I say, the practicality of what it offers is pretty much addictive, I have a ton of HDD with them, thanks to recs, so... I have to put that available space to work, right?
So, I'm in the process of switching the encrypted $HOMEs of the lappies to regular ones, since all of them are installed on encrypted LVM to begin with, I guess there is not a big security risk.
The whole thing is not as hard as I thought it would be, but, a bit of a PITA nonetheless.

The Way of The Rsync

A day full of Rsync is a good day.
Backup review and testing day... Yeah... One of those days.

Slowly and one server at a time, the way to go thru this.

No Internet, No Life

Spotty or directly no internet at home since yesterday afternoon.
My guess, the same thing that happened in 2011.
Will see, come Monday the Internet Company will drop by to check things out.

Saturday Night Pasta

Yeah, that's right Saturday.
A stupid business meeting on Monday and on top of that a general strike the same day.
So, that sort of forced us to change our rules, that before last night were sort of set on stone.
Mighty raviolis and usual with the glorious stew made by the GF.

To Boldly Finish It

Well, I finally finished... It took me quite a while, yeah... I admit it, but what a hell, this is a hell of a year.
It turned out to be a really interesting book, and entertaining too.

Getting Shit Ready

Little time to post, my holidays are on, officially since last Friday afternoon.
Getting the last touches and the last chores ready for another vacation with the GF and the family together... Last year the thing went more than Ok.

Leaving Meltdown and Spectre Behind?

Updating to the T the W530.
Happy so say, that after installing the whole thing and rebooting, the beast, er.. The lappie works A Ok... In these days of Meltdown and Spectre this is no small potatoes.

Busy Busy Means Busy

Once again, another one of those weeks...

Wonder Chabon (2)

Boy, it took me a while, 3 months to be precise, but I finished it.
Definitively, I have way too much work and zero free time lately.

Busy Busy Means Busy

At last, this damn week is over!
No time for shit nor shinola, not to mention posting crap here on Oesediez...

Spotiless

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Stream Again...

Busy Busy Means Busy

Ahh, you know...
Once again another one of those mighty weeks..

Sans Internet

You see the Cable LED on? Me neither.
Shit started to go downfall yesterday morning, but I went to the GF's  house, but things got worse by today (back at home because of work), so I'll have to wait till Wednesday for someone from The Internet Company to come here and take a look...
I bet my ass this is the same problem I had (Damn! Six years ago!!) and they'll have to drop a replacement cable from the roof... Guess I'm gonna be w/o decent internet for a while...
Right now tethering my web access thru the glorious Moto G4 Plus.
Tried adding and removing the attenuator, but shit is still the same....