Thursdays Are Evil
TheDestroyer
Tooobah Join Date: 2003-07-12 Member: 18123Members, Constellation
Tooobah Join Date: 2003-07-12 Member: 18123Members, Constellation
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<div class="IPBDescription">You're pain is felt, Arthur Dent</div> This was posted on my site by my friend, Kenkera (Doom on the NS scene). The original post is found <a href='http://simon.evilsquid.net/node/79' target='_blank'>here.</a>
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->You are probably wondering why I hate tuesdays so much. If your reading this on the day its posted, you might be prone to look out your window and question how could such a day deserve so much unfiltered hate, well I shall tell you.
It all began on a wendsday, as most stories like this do. Everything on wednsday went fine, got up, went to school, had lunch with your graceful host, the usual. Wendsday night rolls around and still I am having a more or less good time. The clock hits 11pm, and with thursday fast approaching I decide to watch a movie, "After the Sunset" to be precise. (A good movie if you like thief movies) So I finish the movie, which I really enjoyed.
Its now Thursday, 2am. I go back to my computer and decide it would be a good idea to check out one of my favorite comics (www.penny-arcade.com/)
and what do I fine, none other than a small message implying that I should check the name and try again, because it could not be found. Fine, this has happened before and not unexpected. So I use the "stumble" button conveinty located on my firefox browers to take me to far off and exciting internet places, but lo, again the error appears. Still, the internet is a wide place and its very possilbe that the site I was trying to go to no longer existed. So now I travel to my province in utopia, and once again, the message taunts me with its condescending arrogance that only an error message has. Impossible I say, quickly I go to goole, and again, denied. This simply cannot be!
This next part will get a bit technical, and if you get scared by words like "server", "PPP" , "fsck" and "Snorting Gahr" then perhaps this next secion is not for you, and you should skip it.
So now that I know there is a problem, I begin to debug. First I send out an aim message, since everyone is alseep I go for the ones with away messages, and I get a responce...intriguing, my internet appears to only be half-**** working. So I pull up my server, and do a quick ping to google.com, which resolves...hrm...the plot thickens. So it APPEARS that my server is running fine, so I just go ahead and reboot my computer. A few moments later when im back online I now have no internet at all, server is still connected. So I bring online another computer that I have lying around, same problems. So it looks like the problem is somehow with my server. I restart most of the scripts that deal with the internet, but to no avail. So, reboot time. When it comes time to mount hdc, my kernel reports it having errors...sigh. Since hdc has most of my movies on it, I start copying, but the server locks up. Reboot, attempt to recover again, lockup with harddisk errors spaming the screen. Now with my computer rebooted again I unmount both of my storage drives, hdg and hdc. First I check the bigger one, hdg. I get a few errors, nothing serious, easily fixed. But here comes the Cuop de Grace of this whole thing.
I run a fsck -y on the hdc drive. The check gets to about 30% no worries. 50% rolls around and BOOM, errors. Pages upon pages of orphaned nodes, inodes, bad blocks, missing blocks etc... They keep on pilling up until fsck bails out, informing me im going to have to run it again as there were too many errors.
It is now 3:30am, I ran fsck 3 times to fix MOST of the problems, but there are still some on the disk. What there is now none of is my data, gone..all of it. Nothing catastrophic to lose mind you, there was the eniter first 2 seasons of Dead like me, alot of good movies, and some misc files that I had taken great pains to accumulate and are now all lost. Or at least it seems that way, I might be able to recover, only time will tell.
It is now 4:15am, and so far my thursday has gone from bad to worse. The likely hood of me simply taking the rest of the day off is very likely to happen.
I hate thursdays, I loathe them, I seethe with anger and brim with disgust at thier very mention in a casual conversation. No good can come of thursdays.
And time marches on, and I grow weary. I will fix this, but not tonight, maybe not at all thursday. Having trouble staying awake now, so theres not much more I can do with this.
Damn you thursday...you won this round!
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But, yea. That is a lot of hate. I wonder...was it just a coincidence?
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->You are probably wondering why I hate tuesdays so much. If your reading this on the day its posted, you might be prone to look out your window and question how could such a day deserve so much unfiltered hate, well I shall tell you.
It all began on a wendsday, as most stories like this do. Everything on wednsday went fine, got up, went to school, had lunch with your graceful host, the usual. Wendsday night rolls around and still I am having a more or less good time. The clock hits 11pm, and with thursday fast approaching I decide to watch a movie, "After the Sunset" to be precise. (A good movie if you like thief movies) So I finish the movie, which I really enjoyed.
Its now Thursday, 2am. I go back to my computer and decide it would be a good idea to check out one of my favorite comics (www.penny-arcade.com/)
and what do I fine, none other than a small message implying that I should check the name and try again, because it could not be found. Fine, this has happened before and not unexpected. So I use the "stumble" button conveinty located on my firefox browers to take me to far off and exciting internet places, but lo, again the error appears. Still, the internet is a wide place and its very possilbe that the site I was trying to go to no longer existed. So now I travel to my province in utopia, and once again, the message taunts me with its condescending arrogance that only an error message has. Impossible I say, quickly I go to goole, and again, denied. This simply cannot be!
This next part will get a bit technical, and if you get scared by words like "server", "PPP" , "fsck" and "Snorting Gahr" then perhaps this next secion is not for you, and you should skip it.
So now that I know there is a problem, I begin to debug. First I send out an aim message, since everyone is alseep I go for the ones with away messages, and I get a responce...intriguing, my internet appears to only be half-**** working. So I pull up my server, and do a quick ping to google.com, which resolves...hrm...the plot thickens. So it APPEARS that my server is running fine, so I just go ahead and reboot my computer. A few moments later when im back online I now have no internet at all, server is still connected. So I bring online another computer that I have lying around, same problems. So it looks like the problem is somehow with my server. I restart most of the scripts that deal with the internet, but to no avail. So, reboot time. When it comes time to mount hdc, my kernel reports it having errors...sigh. Since hdc has most of my movies on it, I start copying, but the server locks up. Reboot, attempt to recover again, lockup with harddisk errors spaming the screen. Now with my computer rebooted again I unmount both of my storage drives, hdg and hdc. First I check the bigger one, hdg. I get a few errors, nothing serious, easily fixed. But here comes the Cuop de Grace of this whole thing.
I run a fsck -y on the hdc drive. The check gets to about 30% no worries. 50% rolls around and BOOM, errors. Pages upon pages of orphaned nodes, inodes, bad blocks, missing blocks etc... They keep on pilling up until fsck bails out, informing me im going to have to run it again as there were too many errors.
It is now 3:30am, I ran fsck 3 times to fix MOST of the problems, but there are still some on the disk. What there is now none of is my data, gone..all of it. Nothing catastrophic to lose mind you, there was the eniter first 2 seasons of Dead like me, alot of good movies, and some misc files that I had taken great pains to accumulate and are now all lost. Or at least it seems that way, I might be able to recover, only time will tell.
It is now 4:15am, and so far my thursday has gone from bad to worse. The likely hood of me simply taking the rest of the day off is very likely to happen.
I hate thursdays, I loathe them, I seethe with anger and brim with disgust at thier very mention in a casual conversation. No good can come of thursdays.
And time marches on, and I grow weary. I will fix this, but not tonight, maybe not at all thursday. Having trouble staying awake now, so theres not much more I can do with this.
Damn you thursday...you won this round!
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But, yea. That is a lot of hate. I wonder...was it just a coincidence?
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I'm curious as to what filesystem he was using though.
Yea, Thursday is actually my favorite day of the week.
My download max speed is now supposedly 6MB. My comp won't ever manage that, but I have seen some huge download numbers recently, and I'm losing my ****ing mind trying to comprehend my good fortune.
On top of that the area sales rep is giving me some cutbacks on cost for a certain period of time.
...
<span style='font-size:7pt;line-height:100%'><i>Ooooooh I'm singin' in the rain,
Just singin' in the rain,
What a glorious feeling,
I'm happy again!
I'm laughing at clouds
So dark up above,
The sun's in my heart and I'm ready for love!
Let the stormy clouds chase
Everyone from the place,
Come on with your rain,
I've got a smile on my face!
I'll walk down the lane
With a happy refrain,
Just singin', singin' in the rain!
Why am I smiling and why do I sing?
Why does December seem sunny as Spring?
Why do I get up each morning to start
Happy and head-up with joy in my heart?
Why is each new task a trifle to do?
Because I am living a life full of you!
Hey, I'm singin' in the rain,
Just singin' in the rain,
What a glorious feeling,
I'm happy again!
I'm laughing at clouds
So dark up above,
The sun's in my heart and I'm ready for love!
Let the stormy clouds chase
Everyone from the place,
Come on with your rain,
I've got a smile on my face!
I'll walk down the lane
With a happy refrain,
Just singin', singin' in the rain!</i></span>
It's "your", not "you're" <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I like Thursdays, anyway. They're the day before Friday which is the day before the weekend. I also don't have anything at uni, and Stargate is on.
Except.. not about computer problems.
Though, now that I think of it, I should probably do another. I've had a couple significantly bad thursdays since
It's "your", not "you're" <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Like I tell my friends and students, I'm a music major, not an english major.
Well, Friday has caused him to fix everything.
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"It could be thursday. I never could get the hang of thursdays."
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You stole my post, ****.
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qft
I have 1 class on Thursday, and it's a java programing class <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> I'm barley passing it due to the number of times I have not gone to it on Thursdays <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I'm going to assume that most of you are not in fact slackers, but more or less people who actually get good grades, but give this a whirl anyways.
Slacker thursday actually invites you to wear pajamas, bring your blanket, cuddle with your teddy bear, hold a mug of coffee and enjoy the newspaper.. but at school! It's an option not to do any work, and instead sleep or read a paper.. but its so much more fun when you and 14 of your friends are doing it in class!
Girlfriend wants go out? Let her hear the answering machine?
Gotta mow the lawn? Wait until Monday.
VCR Blinking 12:00 ? Take a sledge hammer to it.
Your choice.