Two posts in a single day after months on hiatus? Has the world come to an end? 'IKAI!

Sorry about not keeping up appearances, I'll try to keep the techno babble to a minimum as most of you don't read it any ways. So I've made a discovery, I've been stuck maintaining the world's "most likely to mess up Jim's life" network here at Tupou. I didn't realize when I signed up for this job that that's what the network's name was, but after a few sleepless nights, the servers spoke to me and told me it they were going to fight me tooth and nail and ruin my social life. They also said resistance was futile the they started spinning their monitors in a 360 degree rotations and puking electricity. I am convinced, the servers upstairs are the spawn of the devil.

So if you read my dissertation on how much our sever spams and how its finally settled down and stopped sending out junk mail, then you'll appreciate the latest installment of "who reads this shit anyway." So I get our firewall installed and running beautifully. I turned everything off all of the stuff that we were running that we didn't need, and, most importantly I finally got the server to stop sending spam! Here's a kick ass picture from my homey and predecessor saniko that summarizes the emotion and the love that I felt. I stopped those bastards cold! .

So spammers are dead or at least they can't polinate their vile manseed using our servers and limited bandwidth, so things are looking good. We'll we were having some other problems where the students had been able to install video games and instant messengers and a whole bunch of other stuff that they should have been able to do. Well it turns out that the main harddrive that stored all of the server information on it as well as all of the student and staff files was bad. It crashed a few weeks ago like a plane full of 50's rockstars in a snowy december. So, for about 6 days and 2 all nighters for me and my IT cohort Mark, we essentially built a new server and learned a lot about exorcism.

"By the power of Jesus Christ we compel you... Give us the tape drive data... By the power of Jesus Christ we compel you..." Holy water was spilling all over the place, floppy disks and tape drives were spinning around the room like evil clowns that hide under your bed. It was pretty scary, but when it was all said and done, Mark salvaged almost all of the data from the destroyed hard drive and backup tapes and put it on the new server that we assembled and we got all of the lab computers ghosted correctly and working all right. It was a long, long time in the lab and not worth what i'm getting paid here. Suddenly, the American fascination with "planning" takes on a whole new concept for me and I understand it. Planning is next to Godliness so far as I'm concerned. Hell, I can't remember a time where I did so much friggin work for nothing. I've made a pact with myself after last week. When I get back to the U.S., I am never going to work as a systems administrator ever again. I think I have a budding career in computer exorcisms though, maybe I can get a show on the discovery channel or tlc. "Queer exorcism for a straight Sysadmin" or something. I'm a budding superstar.

So what else is new... Hmmm... here's a quick one. I was coming back from the fishers of bill last thursday and I got bit in the leg by a dog. I wasn't sure how to feel about it, except I know that it sucked.

Oh yeah, tikklady took off last tuesday. She was here for about 6 months and is heading back home with the rest of the bikini team. I never did get her an old milwaukee. Anyways, she's outta here off doing here own thing. Hands down this has been the fastest 7 months of my life. Absolutely incredible.

***************** Rugby Intermission *****************

So I stopped writing a couple of hours ago to go to the Tonga vs. Fiji rugby game. Tonga lost by a point, it was 27 to 26, but the game was great. I must admit that the more exposure I get to rugby, the more I like it. Its a hard hitting, fast-paced, huge-dudes-crashing-into-each-other extravaganza. Definitely of the highest caliber. I love the fact that for a mere $2.50 U.S. I can get seats on the 50 yard line too. (Its first come, first serve, but hey... no one yells at the palangis when your inching your way to the best seats in the house...) Its also hard to watch rugby and not compare it to American Football. I like American Football more, but that's because I've so much more exposure to it. For you American's reading at home, I highly suggest it. Rugby is definitely worth checking out. Hot times and good stuff...

Oh yeah, big ups to the Probasco's (RPCV Tonga G47 mo uife 'a Tonga). They were kind enough to bring me Kool-Aid© and herbal tea all the way from the states! WhazzzzzuuuuuppP! I'm sitting here right now and typing this with a big giant old Kool-Aid© smile and digging it. Its like a fashion statement here in Tonga and makes my students jealous. Malo Aupito!

More to follow a bit later on. Right now, I'm fiamohea aupito.

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• eh... it's fiemohea... not fiamohea... you fiepoto too much... faka sesele palangi boy...
  # posted by Tevita Hafoka : 10/19/2005 10:04 AM