The Boston Diaries

The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”

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Tuesday, Debtember 09, 2008

It's the Radio Shack Auto Parts Store!

Bunny and I were in Indiantown for her Mom's birthday. While there, we headed off to the local Radio Shack to buy a blank CD to test the CD writer in her Mom's computer.

It was not your typical Radio Shack, unless I missed the memo and they've merged with an auto parts store recently. It was very odd, seeing overpriced audio cables next to overpriced jumper cables.


Waiting … waiting … waiting

“Are you on the way back to Boca Raton?” asked Smirk.

“Not yet. Why?”

“Well, can you stop by The Data Center on the way home? There's a box there that needs rebooting.”

“Okay,” I said and hung up.

So that's how I found myself standing in The Data Center at 11:45pm waiting for a recalcitrant box to finish running fsck. It may be a fast box, but the drives are either ridiculously huge, ludicrously slow, or both.

Sigh.

And there's only so much web browsing one can do at the command line.

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