Lightning in the Dark
Jul. 25th, 2005 08:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danalwynA lot of weird stuff happens around here. Including lightning. Since you almost never get lightning in California (or at least in certain parts) it's worth watching. But, given the fact that I'm around a lot of stuff that potentially goes boom, I'm not sure it's a good thing.
Anyway, for you computer people, here's how my day went:
In the beginning in the Kingdom of Linux there was much sunlight and cool breezes and kids playing on swings and stores selling nostalgia from the day of the original Nintendo, and all was good with the world. And so did those who were unversed in the great secrets of Linux emerge into the sunlight of the Kingdom of Linux and play blissfully on its shores, unaware of the great seeping evil that was approaching.
For beneath the pleasant veneer, evils were awakening. One day, a young Linux acolyte, danAlwyn, found in his magnificent garden a strange creature known as a process that was devouring all that it could find. It mattered not whether the rewards it sought were assigned to the might province of the System, or whether they had been claimed by other such processes. This monster simply devoured them, stubbornly refusing to die when its time passed on.
So the young acolyte took report back to his master, who was a great and powerful cleric, well versed in the forbidden mysteries of Linux. And forsooth did his master ponder this mysterious creature, and then he spake in a great voice and said that this abomination must not stand. And thus did he go forth to slay the creature, bearing in his hand the great power of kill.
But the maddened process shrugged off that mighty blow as if it were nothing, and continued to devour the goods of the fountain of System. So the mighty cleric gathered up his strength and summoned that weapon of the Gods, the dreaded kill -9.
But even the fury of kill -9 could not destroy such a monster. It scoffed at the pitiful attempts of the clerics of Linux. So the clerics became determined that such a creature should never escape and threaten the rest of the Cluster, so they determined to destroy that idyll land upon which the creature grazed. And there was much weeping and gnashing of teeth, for there were many good processes that grazed upon the land who had been chased off, and whose work would now be lost forever. And so did the great ones summon fire from the sky and cast the spell of reboot upon the machine.
For reboot is from the forge of the Gods themselves, and no mortal process may survive it. But this process was beyond mortal, and it laughed at the Gods, at the powers of Linux, and even at the mighty kernel itself. And once again was reboot cast upon it, but there was no change in the monster's demeanor. And in desperation the manual was read and even reboot -f was sent against the monster, but it was reflected by the power of the creature.
And henceforth they had to summon onto this plane one of the great Gods known as Administrators, that they might end this creature's life by entering the sacred room of computers and pressing the button on the front of the case. And thus it will be done.
This is the second time in a week. Stupid Linux 2.4 kernel...
Anyway, for you computer people, here's how my day went:
In the beginning in the Kingdom of Linux there was much sunlight and cool breezes and kids playing on swings and stores selling nostalgia from the day of the original Nintendo, and all was good with the world. And so did those who were unversed in the great secrets of Linux emerge into the sunlight of the Kingdom of Linux and play blissfully on its shores, unaware of the great seeping evil that was approaching.
For beneath the pleasant veneer, evils were awakening. One day, a young Linux acolyte, danAlwyn, found in his magnificent garden a strange creature known as a process that was devouring all that it could find. It mattered not whether the rewards it sought were assigned to the might province of the System, or whether they had been claimed by other such processes. This monster simply devoured them, stubbornly refusing to die when its time passed on.
So the young acolyte took report back to his master, who was a great and powerful cleric, well versed in the forbidden mysteries of Linux. And forsooth did his master ponder this mysterious creature, and then he spake in a great voice and said that this abomination must not stand. And thus did he go forth to slay the creature, bearing in his hand the great power of kill.
But the maddened process shrugged off that mighty blow as if it were nothing, and continued to devour the goods of the fountain of System. So the mighty cleric gathered up his strength and summoned that weapon of the Gods, the dreaded kill -9.
But even the fury of kill -9 could not destroy such a monster. It scoffed at the pitiful attempts of the clerics of Linux. So the clerics became determined that such a creature should never escape and threaten the rest of the Cluster, so they determined to destroy that idyll land upon which the creature grazed. And there was much weeping and gnashing of teeth, for there were many good processes that grazed upon the land who had been chased off, and whose work would now be lost forever. And so did the great ones summon fire from the sky and cast the spell of reboot upon the machine.
For reboot is from the forge of the Gods themselves, and no mortal process may survive it. But this process was beyond mortal, and it laughed at the Gods, at the powers of Linux, and even at the mighty kernel itself. And once again was reboot cast upon it, but there was no change in the monster's demeanor. And in desperation the manual was read and even reboot -f was sent against the monster, but it was reflected by the power of the creature.
And henceforth they had to summon onto this plane one of the great Gods known as Administrators, that they might end this creature's life by entering the sacred room of computers and pressing the button on the front of the case. And thus it will be done.
This is the second time in a week. Stupid Linux 2.4 kernel...