crash

man, what a stressful few days.

my dayjob has been harsh - as a Unix admin, i've been dealing with loads of weird problematic systems lately, but then to top it off, when i got home last night, the system which runs my email and webserver had crashed. The website is for my record label, and with that down, wow, it just feels like the record label has stopped, and my whole life is on hold.

Its weird how ingrained the internet is to things now, the internet has helped independent music so much, in terms of communicating with people, letting them hear stuff, just disseminating information and sound, but more than just augmenting the traditional structure, there are whole online structures built to replace traditional norms - netlabels, message boards, mailing lists, podcasts, digital singles..
it goes on.

i'm just stressed tho, waiting on the site coming back online. In case you're technie - its a Sun Ultra-5 running OpenBSD, and its stuck trying to boot from the net, instead of disk, and even tho we had a console attached via another machine, i was having trouble sending a break to it, as the tip/cu break sequence "~#" is also interpreted by ssh as a command sequence, to list connections. Anyhoo, while trying to send a break to the crashed machine, i actually send it to the bastion host i was logged into, and so now, both machines are sitting at at an ok prompt, and we're waiting for someone to get a chance to go in and physically get to the console.
Argh.