Re: Boy, did I have fun or what?...

Nuno Souto wrote:

> Another Dirk the Daring story. I'm getting too old for this...
>
> Installing AIX Patchset 8.1.7.4 at a client.
>
> Get in there and look for the patch CD.
> No CD, only an image downloaded from Metaclick into a Windoze PC.
>
> Good, FTP the darn thing into AIX. Unzip it.
>
> Hang on a tick! *unzip* it? There is NO unzip in AIX!!!
>
> Back to Metaclick. RTFM.
>
> AH! "click here for unzip utilities".
>
> Thanks Mr Oracle: put it in a format no one can read, then make us
> download the decoder separately. As if Unix didn't have a
> compress/uncompress native utility! Anyways...
>
> Loaded the unzip thing in AIX and ran it. Worked.
>
> Look for "runInstaller". Nowhere to be seen.
>
> !@$%^ &^@!&#!!! idiots that installed the thing in the first place last
> month didn't leave the installer in the system! OK, get the original CD.
>
> (you know what I'm going to say next, don't you? Yup...)
>
> No one knows where CD is.
>
> Chase one up, pronto. Got it. Load it.
> Start the runInstaller.
>
> No DISPLAY. Error in locating X-server, yadda yadda.
>
> Dirk the Daring:
> "Mr Client, can I sit at a workstation with X-server installed so that I
> can run the installer?"
>
> Mr Client:
> "WTF is X-server and why are you downloading porn?"
>
> Dirk the Daring:
> <sigh> 1-2-3-4-5-6-7.....
>
> .
> <...coffee pause, wonder if I should take up smoking again...>
> .
>
> <spark of brilliance>
> Get on the net, go to google.
> Find an eval copy of x-server for Windows.
>
> Download the darn thing. Install it.
> Can't, gotta be administrator. Win2K. Site admin nowhere to be found.
>
> Crank up my lappy, hook it up to the net, ftp the stuff from the other
> PC.
>
> Install the freakin stuff and turn the ignition key.
>
> telnet
> ./runInstaller
> 30 minutes later, patch installed.
>
> Take off for lunch, 5:00 pm.
>
> Now, what was that stupidly ludicrous argument?
> The one about how the Java installer is so much easier to use than the
> old scripted one?
>
> !! #@## %^^&&!!!!!!!!!! thank you, Larry!
> --
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam

Pays the same as real work. ;-)

Daniel Morgan Received on Thu Aug 29 2002 - 12:53:54 CDT