Archive for July, 2008

Job advert fail

You would hope that recruiter’s could spell a bit better :-)

Definitely need those communication skills and attention to detail.

Friday, July 25th, 2008 Funny No Comments

Centos 5.2 + Udev + XEN

So my first Centos 5.1 to Centos 5.2 upgrade on a VPS didn’t go so well.

After “yum update” and a reboot, we see:

[/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /] fsck.ext3 -a /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate
superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193

Followed by:

Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):

How not very nice!
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 Hosting 1 Comment

Looking for you….

Spam Email FAIL

It’s important that you get it right…  Gah! No more spam.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 Rantings 1 Comment