I laughed.

Okay, cool, I can do that! Done several of these!
Check out new board from spares cage

Go out to server location. Power it down. Remove it from rack. Chuck onto anti-static cart.
Pull out old systemboard, insert the new.
Return to rack, power up: green for half-second, amber for two seconds, green for half-second, repeat

Hrm.
Check out new board from spares cage
Replace first ‘replacement’ board with new.
Place server in rack: VOILA, online.

Set all required settings, Remote Management and what-not. Boot to Windows. Ping out and make sure everything worked okay.

Left server and returned to office. Remote Desktop into server, still works.
Finish ticket diary with ‘Completion’ notice…suddenly notice that RDC connection failed, unable to re-establish or ping.
GRR

Run out to colo: oh, hey, logged in via cached domain credentials. DIE DIE DIE.

Retrieve third motherboard. Re-set all settings again. Remarkably, this one works. At least I had another day to get the work done..

Damn you HP, be better at ‘refurbishing’ your systemboards before sending them back out to spare pools! …Or maybe can’t blame them for primarily replying on Foxconn parts. And Micron.

Nah. Cleansing flame.

Seriously, how do you solve a problem like Maria…err, Facebook (odd time to have Sound of Music on the mind…).

I like ’social rules,’ they help keep me in check. And here’s why I don’t like Facebook: you’re ’supposed’ to only friend people you actually know (which I take to mean IRL). I have only very few exceptions on my otherwise small Facebook account. I like the people that I have friended there, but I already knew them, didn’t I?
For me, Facebook is _incredibly_ inflexible.

Twitter, however: Twitter’s paradigm is “watch whom interests you;” while this may include friends you already know, Twitter is much more open to ‘friend vagrancy’ than Facebook (somewhat minus private accounts, but those seem more the exception than rule).

This makes me think that Twitter has much more ‘linking’ power than Facebook. Sure you can generate some interesting chains of friends in Facebook, but I’d just rather go watch those friends than have some wall in the form of ‘How do you know this person?’

However, Twitter: I need a better, no-nonsense way to have longer posts. I’m honestly pushing hard on the boundaries of 160 character SMS at times, how do you think I feel about 140 characters? You cramp my style more than…’liberate’ it? Using multiple tweets for a thought feels like a very strong faux pas.

Honestly, though? Twitter wins the fight over my mind. I’ll continue using Facebook occasionally, but Twitter is what will keep me ensnared; sorry Facebook.

Huh. Well, I don’t have a debit card through CVB. In fact, I’ve had an account with them for less than a week, and that’s a loan!
I went ahead and called the 800 number given, since, well, they already have my phone number. The number resolves to a ‘CDC Federal Credit Union’..that was the second tip-off to this whole thing.

In any case, I went to go check Cashmere’s website, with the front page reporting a series of phishing attempts, of course. So, I called up the local branch, and they were really kind of confused that I might want to provide them with information of what my message entailed. Oh well, here’s a blog post instead! Also, a complaint to the FTC, though I doubt they will be able to do much.

Real Life Idiotic ‘Zero-Tolerance’ events (sourced from Digg, but not all that hard to believe)