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             Oh my … the white elephant just stepped into the room
                                        
I swear the gremlins are out to get our servers.

Since I last talked about “Project White Elephant” [1], P had taken on the
project and set up the pair of redunant servers that live somewhere in the
Great Plain States (aka (also known as) “fly-over country”). Ever since, I
haven't had to deal with it, and from what I understand, it's been running
quite smoothly over the past year, year and a half.

Until this week.

Wouldn't you know it, the backup machine, which has a RAID (Redundant Array
of Inexpensive Disks) system, blew up. RAID system got totally borked, so it
had to be rebuilt and reinstalled.

Normally, this wouldn't be a problem.

But see, if P wasn't on vacation in another hemisphere of the globe for the
past month (and he won't be back until the middle of this month), it probably
wouldn't have blown up.

So now Smirk phoned me and said “Fix this.”

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Not only does it involve control panels (hssssssssssssss) but MySQL
replication, automatic fail over, blah blah yada yada … 

Hsssssssssssssssssss.

As if the past few weeks haven't been horrible enough.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2005/02/11.1

Email author at sean@conman.org