First off, let me just say…
I am so glad to not have infrastructure responsibilities!!
Now on to the topic of this blog post. I’ve been thinking more than blogging of late because of a few discussions with some old friends. Last night I met up with a person I had not seen for 4 years and it was very good and almost catharctic. Its like a release of sorts. Thanks Todd for meeitng up at GBs and just talking. It was a good thing.
One of the things we talked about was change and how we all dealt with it. I worked with Todd during the post-Linuxcare days and we had these interesting little projects we did together. Printing, Samba, NFS, mail. We also had a rather spaced out infrastructure then and it took a bit to get used to where things were with it. But we did everything on Debian Linux then so things were basically okay. Printing on Linux always seems to have a problem or two even using some nice web-based configuration tool. Sometimes, pages just refuse to exit the damned printer. Its like the printer says,
I know you want the stuff you sent to me; but guess what… You cannot have it today. All your bases and your printing are mine.
Well, when that happens, I get mad, get irritated and it occurs to me that things like printing, mounting removable media, using USB devices just has to work with Linux. If those things cannot work, we are trapped and the new users will go back to their other OS’es where things like that just work. Forget the downloads of SP2, hot fixes, security vulernabilities. Its more of a functional question and quest. People just don’t want to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to figure if its a permissions issue. Its just the printer playing hardball dammit!
Anyways, after this amazing discussion last night, I left feeling so good about work, play, things I am doing these days. A few of the people I don’t really care to see again. There were those that are just liars and cheats in the end that got what they deserved. Others will be found out at some later point. But when you can go back and reclaim the events, talk them over, and leave feeling so much better then when you started, it kind of validates the things that happened then and how strong a bond friendship is. True friendship can travel the years and survive the times away. Friendship that’s bogus will not. It will be found out much like that other person that cannot really tell the truth… ever…
So, reach back and forwards and you’ll find the times that were good. The Miller times so to speak where life seemed fuller and perhaps it was more simple and you could build things that lasted. The Gods of time and space cannot touch those things I believe now.
More investigation is warranted though.
