complich8’s journal

OK. So I was thinking about this fairly randomly…
When you’re a ninja, your life is hard. If you get injured, even a little, it’s probably fatal. You’re running on a mission, and take a kunai to the shinbone, you’re done for.
If you’re a pirate, and you’re running on a raid, pillaging some [...]

Yeah, so that last post? You know, the one about how I really didn’t need another drive dying on me right now?
Apparently the drive either wasn’t listening, or overheard and decided to shit and die out of spite. My guess is the former, because despite the “SMART” acronym, I don’t really think the [...]

*sigh*
Subject says it all. /dev/hda (the newer system drive, recycled old 120 gigger) is throwing occasional seek errors, and just incited a reboot of the server. /dev/hdh (recently retired) is throwing smart errors.
I’m goign to … err … move away from using those drives for anything important now

So I’m doing the usual stuff, updating systems at work… and ran into some unusual results…
Basically, gentoo just marked gcc 4.1.1 and glibc 2.4-r3 stable, and on three of my systems (all webserver-setups), I got compile failures (see behind the cut for the spammy failure message).
Well, it turns out, gcc 3.4.6 can’t compile gcc 4.x [...]

For those familiar with pcre-type syntax, you already knew what that meant :).
For those that don’t, it means the term “blog” is probably sort of inaccurate for what I actually do here, so … you know, I figured I’d change it to be a bit more semantically accurate.
’cause you know me and semantics.