Author Archives: John Northrup

Make It So

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I was beside myself last night to discover that Netflix had added all seven seasons of StarTrek: The Next Generation to on-demand streaming.  This television series is one of the only series that I have ever watched from beginning to end – seven years of committed TV watching.

The paradox of this is that I can, from time to time, be found staying up until 1:00 am to catch the syndicated broadcast of TNG on the local CBS affiliate.  So imagine my glee when I thought that I could get all of my TNG watching in BEFORE the witching hour.  Now imagine my forehead hitting moment realizing that I’d just stayed up until 2:00 am watching on-demand TNG.

Nights When I Am Sane

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Well it’s cold on this mountain when winter comes on
the dew in the meadow is sprinkled along
this road down to Nashville like crystal and stone.
It’s a place where a man sells his soul for a song.

God knows I loved her too much I can see,
much more than she could have ever loved me
if I was the last man in east Tennessee.

Well at times I feel I need the rain at times I need the sun.
Pleasure is the threat of pain when it is undone.
My moments of insanity are never like a jail
I only know I am not free the nights when I am sane.

So do not be concerned my love if you see me cry
for the laughter does not choose to free the happiness inside
just as there may seem to be a smile that’s out of place
it only means there is a pain that hurts to much to face.

Well it’s cold on this mountain when winter comes on
the dew in the meadow is sprinkled along
this road down to Nashville is like crystal and stone.

I’m just one man, sometime I wish I was three.
I could take a forty-four pistol to me
put one in my brain just for her memory
one more for my heart and I would be free.

Beating My Head Against a Wall…

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9:30 PM…. Trying to install Oracle’s (formally Sun’s) Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.  Server install went OK – but the DSCC agent install so that I can manage the damned thing is in the toilet.  The default instance isn’t found, can’t be created, can’t be deleted, can’t be started… and I cannot create a NEW instance name (it magically says that whatever instance I want to create ((cacaoadm create-instance oracleblows…. Instance name already exists: [oracleblows] ))  ARGGG!!!!

9:37 PM… Maybe Bat Out of Hell isn’t the best album to be working to… but it just feels appropriate at this point.

9:44 PM… Maybe I screwed the pooch – never be afraid to admit that it was you that fucked it up.  Deleting dsee7 install and starting from scratch to see if I bungled something.

9:55 PM… Breakthrough! Cacao was never meant to run on a Debian box.  The startup and init scripts have extreme hard dependencies on a RedHat init.d structure as well as the RPM package manager.  Let’s see if we can do this without Cacao.

10:20 PM… DSEE Installed and configured.  Only to find out that DSEE in fact has ZERO of the Virtual Directory Server components in it any more.  This has been broken out to a separate product of it’s own name. Harumph…

11:06 PM… Oracle Virtual Directory Server installation “In Progress”… after I figured out how to make the X server on my Gentoo box accept a remote connection from the headless Debian server I’m trying to install this on.

12:11 AM… Oracle Virtual Directory Server installed and seeing a remote Active Directory LDAP structure!