So, let's see...
Monday morning one of the servers at work failed, and a few hours of scrambling about (virtually) ensued in order to get everything back up and in good working order. Now I'm trying to get the dead server back online (I moved everything it was doing to another server temporarily), and more bullet-proof than before. After talking with a former co-worker about my recovery plans, I realized I really do think small in some regards. My "big" plans to fix everything are going to run about (*gasp*) $200, whereas he was immediately looking at the situation and wanting to replace machines and upgrade operating systems, and spend probably $6000 or more.
Really, that shouldn't seem like so much money to me... I just have a perhaps perverse pride in keeping things going as long as possible, and as cheaply as possible, and I tend to resist change unless I see compelling reasons to embrace it. These days, that seems to be a dinosaur-like trait, and we all know what became of them.
The funny thing is I don't resist learning at all, or spending my own money for that. I'm teaching myself Java right now, and I've picked up HMTL and CSS and Perl and PHP in varying quantities over this last year, and really enjoyed it. If I added up what I've spent on books, it might well rival what I've spent on gas this year- but that was my money, not my employer's.
I hate waste, I hate not making the most of things, I hate getting rid of anything that still has life and the will to work. But I have to wonder if this dooms me to obsolescence, myself...
But more on this, another time.
Monday morning one of the servers at work failed, and a few hours of scrambling about (virtually) ensued in order to get everything back up and in good working order. Now I'm trying to get the dead server back online (I moved everything it was doing to another server temporarily), and more bullet-proof than before. After talking with a former co-worker about my recovery plans, I realized I really do think small in some regards. My "big" plans to fix everything are going to run about (*gasp*) $200, whereas he was immediately looking at the situation and wanting to replace machines and upgrade operating systems, and spend probably $6000 or more.
Really, that shouldn't seem like so much money to me... I just have a perhaps perverse pride in keeping things going as long as possible, and as cheaply as possible, and I tend to resist change unless I see compelling reasons to embrace it. These days, that seems to be a dinosaur-like trait, and we all know what became of them.
The funny thing is I don't resist learning at all, or spending my own money for that. I'm teaching myself Java right now, and I've picked up HMTL and CSS and Perl and PHP in varying quantities over this last year, and really enjoyed it. If I added up what I've spent on books, it might well rival what I've spent on gas this year- but that was my money, not my employer's.
I hate waste, I hate not making the most of things, I hate getting rid of anything that still has life and the will to work. But I have to wonder if this dooms me to obsolescence, myself...
But more on this, another time.
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velvet_petal:
Happy Sunday to you Grayness!
greaser:
I guess I'll go the way of the dinosaurs with you, then. I like to keep things around as long as possible too. After all, I'm the guy who drives a twenty-five year old car with over 200,000 miles on the odometer 