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Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 ([personal profile] azurelunatic) wrote2012-04-10 11:55 pm
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[personal profile] pauamma 2012-04-11 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
One of my friends told me Nick Fury was once white.
Pretty sure he was, in the early comics. Not sure whether that was retconned out later.
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[personal profile] wibbble 2012-04-12 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
He's only black in the 'Ultimate' AU series, where they'd modelled him after Samuel Jackson long before the current movie continuity.

Here's the real mind-fuck: Nick Fury had his own movie in 1998. He was played by David Hasselhoff. Srsly.
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[personal profile] pauamma 2012-04-12 09:29 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I lost interest when Marvel started using AUs regularly to explain away poor plotting and inconsistent storylines. I never watched any of the movies.
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[personal profile] wibbble 2012-04-12 09:40 am (UTC)(link)
The nice thing with the movies is that they ARE in a single consistent universe, which is pretty for a set of movies with different characters, writers, and directors.

I think they've done five so far, with between four and nine more to make, depending on what contracts various people say they've signed.

It helps that they're all pretty good, too.
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[personal profile] wibbble 2012-04-12 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
*pretty rare

Too early for coherent typing. (And yet! I am fiddling about as root on a production box!)
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2012-04-12 09:52 am (UTC)(link)
That's terrifying. Hope your backups are in order.
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[personal profile] wibbble 2012-04-12 09:55 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks to the miracle of configuration management, we don't actually make changes on the server any more.

I could rm -rf half the system, and as long as I don't screw with chef, next time it runs it'll fix it all for me. :o)

(I was only on there to Gather Information, and will now fix the perceived problem by writing chef recipes. Chef is awesome.)
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[personal profile] pauamma 2012-04-12 10:04 am (UTC)(link)
Ob4Yorkshiremen: uphill both ways, in the snow.
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[personal profile] wibbble 2012-04-12 10:07 am (UTC)(link)
18 months ago I was managing a couple of hundred servers, spread across customer locations in groups of 1-3, with practically no documentation, let alone automation.

We'd sometimes get customers calling us to say they'd 'found a daxtra box' and we'd have to audit it to find out WTF it was.

That kind of work was actually fun, but this DevOps lark is way less stressful.
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[personal profile] wibbble 2012-04-12 11:55 am (UTC)(link)
Ahaha.

Oh, the things I've done to production databases.
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[personal profile] wibbble 2012-04-12 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
At this job we sold appliances, hence the hundreds of machines installed in the client's offices. The application was built around a state-machine workflow, documents would come in in state 0, go through the black-box parser and come out in state 3, then go through the workflow and so on.

Admin tools were meh, so we spent a lot of time in the mysql console, manually changing the CS_STATUS field or whatever.

This one time I forgot the 'WHERE' clause when setting CS_STATUS to 0. On a client with several million processed records.

The fix for this - I mashed control-c on the mysql client, became root, and stopped the black-box parser and then mysql. Thank fuck mysql was slow processing the query - it'd done about three months worth of their documents starting from record 0, which was years in the past so I could just quietly reset them all to a dead-end 'processed and discarded' status.

Unfortunately when the senior developer did something similar to another large customer a few months later, he wasn't so quick to stop it and we ended up having to restore from a DB backup. Thankfully that was one of the few customers WITH a DB backup...

Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end - but thankfully we were wrong.
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