Wasted a whole day today trying to install SLES (That’s Suse Linux, Enterprise Server) on an IBM Blade Center. Bah. The install kept stopping at various points. First I went to safe mode, them I set all the filesystems to ext3 (instead of ReiserFS), then finally I tried a text only, minimal install. Still crapped out before installing the bootloader. Thank goodness I was only trying to get ready for a customer install rather than actually doing one. That would have been embarrassing.
In between that, I wasted my day debugging dumb XML / SOAP junk. Turns out that Taverna (a web services client) wants to “help” me by turning every instance of the word “true” into a boolean TRUE value. Thanks. Please stop helping me. Managed to at least fix a couple of bugs in my code while figuring out what was going on.
The day was saved from total uselessness by a very pleasant dinner with capital_l and technolope. Thank God someone (a) cool (b) that I know; finally moved to Boston. Now we can start to build a happy geek social circle around here. Phase two will be the integration of that geeky social circle with the existing MIT and Harvard crowds. I know those people are out there, I just don’t know how to get to know them.
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