Brand new 2008

I can recall I was wishing for a new job for 2008. God’s great. Thus, this coming 2008 will sport a brand new job, brand new office, brand new location, and definitely brand new challenges.

I’ll be relocating to Jakarta next year. Yes, finally I’m about to move to the city once I despised so much for its inhumanity and roughness. Though my wife pretty much has been living there for about 4 years(?), I never been able to fully accept Jakarta.

You: “Ya iyalah, lah wong istrimu yang hidup di sana dan bukan kamu.”
Me: “Loh, kalau orang yang kamu sayangi tinggal di suatu tempat, mau tak mau kamu juga harus mampu menerima tempat itu kan?”

The smokes, loud yelling, harsh faces, mind-yer-own-business attitudes are so much 180 degree contrast to what I’ve been dealing with in Yogyakarta. These would be a great challenge to my social skill ;) . Maybe it’s my (finally) perfect (no-get-away) chance to roughen my weak-and-chickenish soul :D .

Jakarta has been associated with hard and sweaty life. My (only) hope to go on would be my lovely wife, people to look up to (F/OSS hackers), and my dreams. Hopefully I’ll be strong enough to withstand the incoming storm.

Meanwhile, I think I’ll keep my mood in good shape with more web 2.0 in the horizon. I’ll make sure I’ll hack more fun stuff next year! Yay!

PS:
Yes, my sentences are like Mexican jumping bean. No biggie, I’ll sort out my mind later :p

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kernel panic, missing /data

Monday is here allrite. Things are cool except one thing. I got a frozen box after lunch. Restarting the box lead me to kernel panic cannot found /dev/root. Oh, crap. Rebooting the machine a few times didn’t solve the problem.

Okay, looking at the error, it seem I have a problem with my / directory. Okay, it seem that I have to manually fsck my / manually. How? This is a SATA, and I can’t found any adapter to attach to. A quick solution was suggested from a fellow from Customer Support Technician: a live cd.

Okay, I can boot with a Kubuntu 6.10. fsck on /dev/sda10. Stucked in the middle with freezing keyboard. Reset button to the rescue. And then retrying fsck. Oh, crap. Holy Batman, I have a darn long fsck log. And most lines gave funny feeling into my stomach. Things are going to be messy.

And it does. After a long fsck, I mounted the device and voila! ls command only return “lost+found”. Shimatta~. There’s nothing much left but some sql data files, some .so and some useless files. My ‘/data’ is now completely gone. ‘/data’ is my universal trunk. I have lots of files mindlessly thrown there. I can’t even remember the details :D .

Fortunately, /home was separated. Documents are also safe. I symlink-ed it to my LVM volume, which is phisically located on other disk. Yatta~! Hopefully nothing important are lost.

Well, I’ll consider this a bless of not having to think and filter my /data of which I have to clean up/back up anyway. Hahahaha.

Okay, I’ll need to move some source to my laptop to continue my week. See ya :)

Light my candle

There are times in life where reality does not turn out to be what we’ve been expected. For those times, let’s light the candle and keep our fighting spirit and hope alive…

And for the other occassion, let’s BLOW THE FUCKING CANDLE UP AND FUCKING REPLACE IT WITH A BING BANG OF FIREWORK!! WOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!

Dear Lord, I thank You for every sweetness I had and every lesson I’ve learnt. Keep ‘em coming, keep me strong.