am working with a team that are doing a SAP implementation. its some big complicated bit of software that i don't know anything about. yesterday they asked me to apply a service pack to one of their servers and it failed with the error message 'catastrophic failure'. i thought that was quite a funny error message that you don't see from other vendors. usually its just a blue screen of random numbers or just something that says something like ERROR:837490, which you then have to look up on google and in forums and you end up finding out that its fucked.
it turned out it was actually catastrophic because it completely broke everything and the application completely stopped working.
luckily i was working in a virtual machine and was able to roll back to a snapshot i had taken and everything is fine now.
other companies should start making error messages like that as well i think. 'you are screwed!' or 'not going home this evening because you have to reinstall this shit again' or 'hope you like the song nightshift by the commodores son, because you are going to be doing it'. i can still remember once at a previous job when i went to the datacenter and saw a guy turn up with his laptop and cables and a pillow. you are know you are screwed when you have to take a pillow.
anyways work is going ok. the weather is awesome this week. hot hot hot and then a bit hotter.
today i have mostly been listening to the script - talk you down. they played it at my gym last night. can't find the video anywhere so its one of those lyrics things they post on youtube. soz.
look after yourself flower.
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