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Today we had a problem at work where, after adding two 400G drives and a SATA controller to a server and adding the two drives to the root logical volume, the system would not boot. It would kernel panic because LVM could not find the drives. Turns out the SATA controller driver wasn’t being loaded [...]

I’ve been meaning to create blog of work accomplishments and have never quite gotten around to it, so I’m just going to start dropping them here. Here’s a round up of things that I have accomplished so far:

cleanupsmbd.pl: Wrote a workaround script to kill off smbd processes before they start to bring a server to [...]

Just the other day I work I noticed a saying surrounding an American flag posted on someone’s cubicle wall, facing the ever-common "Freedom Isn’t Free" decal on my manager’s office window…
"If it isn’t free, It isn’t freedom."
But what does it mean? No, seriously. It doesn’t make sense. A Google search of the above statement returns [...]