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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The day was saved from total uselessness by a very pleasant dinner with capital_l<\/a> and technolope<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}