I had a great day until I got a call from Maisie and she was really sobbing and telling me she wants to be with me so bad, it breaks my heart hearing her cry so much and made me smile when she told me she will get her passport and fly here tomorrow! Like she can do that. Then when I got to office I got this news from two of my Filipino team mates that they intend to leave the company as soon as possible :( made me confused if I should leave too or not.  I really don’t want to leave yet but if people are leaving how I can stay happy here? Maybe I’ll consider just going back to Manila.

Anyway, ever since I felt so low after talking to Maisie on phone, Bert Thompson Unix Zurich Admin crack the hell out of me, oh well he never fails to make me laugh.  You know what people say that Unix Admins are mostly condescending?  Bert just refuted that!

I was just watching at their conversation in the channel.

Bert: ping sectools … my securid auth is failing for some reason.
Sectool Guy: Hi Bert
Bert: hi Mark, voila…
Sectool Guy: What are you
Bert: umm… a human?
Bert: this is on dcweb.zur
Sectool Guy: I was gonna ask what are you getting
——– Issue got fixed without knowing the real cause ——–
Bert: as usual, i will attribute this to gremlins…. or leprechauns.
Sectool Guy: hey!…I’m Irish leprechauns only do good things…lol
Bert: ok, thrown cold water on that theory then.  8^)
Sectool Guy: if u catch him I get the gold…
Bert: ok. deal… i get the cool green hat though.
Sectool Guy: all yours. I’ll buy my own

and I just couldn’t help it I pinged Bert

Me: 4:14 AM        Bert        umm… a human?  <– lmao
Him: 8^)
Him: it’s was the only sensible answer.  8^)
Me: I was kinda expecting you would say something funny hahaha
Him: i try my best to entertain  8^)
Me: Bert        as usual, i will attribute this to gremlins…. or leprechauns.  — hahaha
Him: 8^)
Him: don’t underestimate gremlins.  8^)
Him: fact:  they cause 83% of compiler errors
Me: hahahaha
Him: and 105% of all RAC cluster failures.

I couldn’t really seem to think of a good domain name but I was thinking of something with Unix since I married it. It was supposed to be unixlust.com but I didn’t feel the name and I wanted something catchy but not too cheeky and not girlish so I ended up with unixbitch.com

This domain name was supposed to be a site where I learn my Unix learning but it just turned out to be my personal blog since I cannot manage too many blogs unlike before.

There’s no special meaning, but it definitely refers to me… I’m in love with it and I think I loved Unix more than my ex… so I better get someone who’s in love with Unix as well then maybe it will work… but nowadays I feel like losing interest already, I don’t know why, I’m thinking of getting back to networking, but I don’t want to be part of network team which the condescending Unix admins always mock.  I can always do both anyway.

fresh from bed, didn’t wash my face and no toothbrush yet

Camwhoring!! Oh well I haven’t used the cam for like ages so when I woke up I saw it on top of the dresser so I decided to take a photo of me right away, now tell me I’m pretty when I just woke up and everything is swollen, lips, nose, eyes, cheeks!

I feel extraordinary happy today, I booked the flights for Maisie and me and I feel so excited to see her again.  I miss her so much.  Now I have to plan the itinerary of her trip and have myself ready for the psychiatrist exam, I wonder what the doctor will ask me.

I haven’t been to gym for like 4 months already and when I look at the mirror I can see that I’ve gained what I’ve lost again so I guess I need to get back to gym and stop procrastinating.

A friend told me that he remembered I had this site and went to see what’s new and he was surprised when he saw my posts are so not related to Unix, he thought this site was all about my Unix learning, well that’s why I put in About that it’s rare that I’ve put Unix stuffs here, it was the plan, oh well it’s not that I haven’t learned much in my first year with UBS, I just find it so fundamental which I don’t find worth posting, and the domain name, well when I was thinking of having one, it was Unix that came first it to my mind since it’s a big part of me.

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This is my Team, well it’s only half of the team… I belong don’t I?

He is the closest friend I have here in Singapore so far, he is really sweet, he cooks for me and he really cooks well, he is my team mate and in just a short span of time we became really good friends.  We even actually think that there’s already a hearsay that we are together, hahaha knowing that he is married and I’m recently separated. I actually would prefer that and I really don’t mind, I would rather be linked to him than any other guys, it’s actually doing me good so those creepy guys would stop smiling and staring at me.  He hates it, I love it hahahaha

We never had a dull moment when we are together, we always talk, on person, on phone, and even in chat during work.  We talk almost about everything, from personal life, love life, sex life, work life, other people lives hahahaha.  We usually call each other during our way to office and ask where we are and how still far are we in office, and during our conversation earlier this morning I told him my torrent download now is super fine as I was having trouble with my download speed a few days back and I downloaded Fedora 12 and CentOS 5.4 with less than an hour, then he suggested RHEL 5, I want to but it’s too hard to find seeders for that, then he let me borrowed his redhat account :D and I’m downloading it now :D

He is really a funny guy who screams like a girl :D but he’s the best

Learn how to cook. I hate the food here, it’s either too spicy or too oily, even the rice is sometimes too oily, Why the hell did I just learned how to cook pasta?!

Revamp this site template. I actually have a lot of time to do this but… yes, as usual, I’m lazy, all I do after work is watch, I have finished 1st season of Vampire Diaries, 3rd season of Gossip Girl(all episodes that was aired), 5th Season of Grey’s Anatomy and now I’m on the 6th season of Grey’s Anatomy, O’Malley died?? Seriously??!! :)

Finish reading “Dear John” before it come out to Cinemas.

Update my playlists. I haven’t updated it for almost a year now, I only add new songs every once in a while but it is really a mess and I really need to work on it as my ear is also getting tired of the songs I listened to everyday. I have an 80GB iPod, and my songs were like just 4GB and the rests are all files, hahahaha, I made it my personal external HD also ;) I usually use all the space for movies, now I only have 4 old movies because again, I’m lazy to convert movies.

Downgrade my laptop from Vista to XP. Yes I am still an XP fan, I hate Vista and Windows 7, well as they said, when you are techinal and you are into Unix, you care much less about graphics ;)

But this weekend, I need to do the laundry and clean my room.

who | grep -i brunette | talk

cd ~; wine; talk; touch;

unzip; touch; strip; gasp;

finger; gasp; mount; fsck;

more; yes; gasp; umount;

make clean; sleep

There are a lot of information on the web but the link above was my favorite and I find it very well written.

Here are some of the interesting part, at least for me :)

The first version of UNIX was written in assembly language on a PDP-11/20. It included the file system, fork, roff, and ed. It was used as a text-processing tool for the preparation of patents.

In the early 1980s, Joy left Berkeley with a master’s degree in electrical engineering, and became cofounder of Sun Microsystems (Sun stands for Stanford University Network). Sun’s implementation of BSD was called SunOS.

SunOS was first released in 1983. — we have the same age :D

1993 Sun announced that SunOS, release 4.1.4, would be its last release of an operating system based on BSD. Sun saw the writing on the wall and moved to System V, release 4, which they named Solaris.

As more hardware vendors, such as Sun, began to enter the picture, a proliferation of UNIX versions emerged. Although these hardware vendors had to purchase the source code from AT&T and port UNIX to their hardware platforms, AT&T’s policy toward licensing the UNIX brand name allowed nearly any hardware vendor willing to pay for a license to pick up UNIX. Because UNIX was a trademark, hardware vendors had to give their operating systems a unique name. Here are a few of the more popular versions of UNIX that have survived over the years:

• SCO UNIX. SCO Open Desktop and SCO Open Server from the Santa Cruz Operation for the Intel platform. Based on System V.
• SunOS. Sun’s early operating system and the best-known BSD operating system.
• Solaris. Sun’s SRV4 implementation, also referred to as SunOS 5.x.
• HP-UX. Hewlett-Packard’s version of UNIX. HP-UX 9.x was System V, release 3, and HP-UX11i is based on the System V, release 4 OS.
• Digital UNIX. Digital Equipment’s version of OSF/1.
• IRIX. The Silicon Graphics version of UNIX. Early versions were BSD-based; version 6 was System V, release 4.
• AIX. IBM’s System V-based UNIX.
• Linux. A free UNIX operating system for the INTEL platform; it was quickly gaining a hold in the UNIX community. Versions of Linux became available on Sun, HP, and IBM systems.

Our work are mostly on filesystem so I need to start there.

What is a filesystem and what is a mount point? Most people are confused with these two so I will explain here based on how I understand it.

A filesystem is basically the repository for all your files and as RedHat said that a filesystem is a disk drive by itself provides a place to store data, and nothing more.

To be able to access any filesystem you need mount it to make is available to the system. In order to do these you need a device file representing the desired disk and partition and a directory under which the mounted filesytem will be made available and that directory is known as the mount point.

When a filesystem is mounted, that filesystem is made available as a set of subdirectories under the specified mount point.

for example on a system we have a directory named unix and the full path would be /unix and assume that there is a filesystem to be mounted to that directory. If that filesystem had a file in it called sample.txt and you mount the filesystem to /unix, in that case,  you can access the file with the below full file specification.

/unix/sample.txt

If in you change the mount point of the filesystem to /linux the full file specification would be

/linux/sample.txt

To see what is mounted you can view /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts on Linux and /etc/mnttab on HP-UX, you can also use df command and bdf command for HP-UX.

While /etc/fstab is used to control what systems are mounted when the system boots, as well as to supply default values for other file systems that may be mounted manually from time to time.

This is it for now, we’ll continue on LVM

How do you really pronounce it? I usually have students come to me for help with their ASUS EEE PC which has Linux installed as it’s OS and they would pronounce Linux as “Line-uks” and I still meet people who pronounce it like that and for me it sounds awkward, as since college I know that it is pronounced as it is “leenooks”.

So how do you pronounce it? I did a research cause I also want to know how to pronounce it the “right” way, well it is pronounced as “leenooks” and this is according to Linus Tovarlds himself.

“but Linux is always Linux…”