fucking problem

- “Would you fuck me every day”?
- “Nope”.
- “Why not”?
- “Because i want more than once in a day”..
..that’s because i understood only once a day…from that every day crap..
- “Ooohh, of course it’s more than once a day…”
But guess what?…that was just cheap chat, because it’s gonna be more than just a day without sex…That’s kind of full of bullshit.
Good part is …it’s gonna be a drinking night )

OS change…again

So, my eeepc has a new OS installed starting today. It’s a brand new ubuntu 9.10, the same OS that i have installed at work, on my desktop. Hopefully, by the end of today i’ll remove all the crap that i don’t need, and install all the goodies i need to make it work like a charm.

…

So, a lot of shit happening in the last few weeks.

First of all, bank is moving. IT department in a building, the rest of the headquarters in another building. Still, don’t have everything i need for them to be almost invisible, and not know that most of the shit changed. Like,  there will be a routing protocol, every branch will connect directly to a datacenter, and not directly to us, like they do it today…for example…in case of primary connection failure, they’ll connect to the datacenter through the headquarters like they do now…and so on. A lot of shit to move, a lot of shit to negotiate contracts, to move services, equipments, and I’m just tired of this whole crap.

I moved back to wordpress, cause of a failed export of the whole database where my blog was hosted. The export was fine, imported almost all databases to another server, but…the shitty export didn’t export the posts table right, so i couldn’t import it to this new server, …lost some posts…but nevermind all this shit, i got back to wordpress, and I’ll be here for awhile.

Moved back to my parents, still can’t find a parking place when i get home …usually around 9pm… Anyway, fucking life goes on…

moved the fuck back

After having some problems with exporting my post table from the database…everything got fucked ..big time. So, i decided i’ll let wordpress.com handle my blog for awhile..

moved away

..to a hosted wordpress on a server i administer. The new link is http://pvradu.blogsite.org .

Shiretoko

No, i didn’t visit Japan lately, it’s just the codename for the latest Firefox 3.5. I just downloaded the latest version from them 3.5.2. Indeed, runs faster than Firefox 3.0.x. And as they said, it supports some multimedia open formats natively. Anyway, i just like it that it’s faster. Great job indeed!

muie lor!!

Postul asta va fi cu dedicatie…si in limba romana. Muia nu e clar unde sa ajunga. Sigur tre’ sa ajunga la ROSAL, si fix in gatul lu’ Prigoana. Cea dea doua, ar trebui sa ajunga ori la Liviu Negoita, ori la prof. dr. Sorin Oprescu, depinde care din ei a semnat contractul cu jepcarii de la ROSAL. Cum s-a ajuns la atata muie de dat? Simplu, de la o ridicare de masina. Si de fapt, nu ridicarea de masina a produs atata chef de muie, ci preturile pentru a recupera masina. Calculele sunt asa:

- cost ridicare/depozitare masina + chiria pe 1 zi = 550 RON

- pret chirie / zi = 150 RON

- amenda politie = 240 RON (120 RON daca se plateste in 48 ore)

Pai cine sloboz a scos scorurile astea? Minim-minim, daca ai de unde scoate banii astia, te costa tot 670 RON. Daca nu ai de unde ii scoate, te costa si mai mult. Acum vreo 2 saptamani, prietena mea a fost la un interviu, si i s-au oferit 700 RON salariu, prietena cu facultate si master terminate. Pai daca ar fi avut un prieten cu aceeasi bani, si eventual un copil, si eventual o coaja de Dacie din 1975, ce faceau? Ii mai dadeau bani lu’ Prigoana?..sau abandonau masina in parcul lor auto? Asta avand in vedere ca masina este inca proprietatea mea. Prigoana poa’ s-o suga, si tot n-are ce sa-i faca. Dar ce se intampla daca a doua zi fac act de vanzare-cumparare cu cineva, cineva-ul poate sa dea in judecata ROSALul pentru ca ii detine ilegal masina abia cumparata? Oricum, nu sunt sigur de variantele legale, treaba e ca sunt scorurile prea mari. Ori Prigoana le-a supt-o lu’ Negoita si Oprescu pana si-a luat contractul, dupa care si-a pus preturile dupa cum a vrut muschii lui, ori Negoita sau Oprescu au conturile din Tenerife marite cu vreo 2 zerouri, si Prigoana are mana libera? Ma gandesc asa, taximetristii nu au voie sa-si puna ce pret vor muschii lor / km din cauza ca nu le permite legea, pentru ca legea, s-a gandit in sinea ei, ca ar trebui sa existe o limita pentru acel serviciu – de a fi transportat un km. Nu se sesizeaza nimeni de preturile lu’ ROSAL? ..Ah..si mai ma gandeam asa…sunt 2 soti, au 800 RON fiecare, si un copil. Imi dau foarte bine seama ca cu 1600 d-abia iti platesti intretinere, datorii, eventual dai si de mancare la copil. Cu ce sloboz platesti aia 550 RON? ..asta daca poti face rost de bani azi, ..daca nu..550 RON + X * 150RON, X fiind numarul de zile pana poti face rost de bani. Frate, nici camatarii nu au dobanzi d-astea. Normal mi s-ar fi parut ca statul din aia 120 RON, pe care oricum ii ia degeaba, sa dea o suma si celor care ridica masinile – in cazul “erai curva, eram peste, imparteam banii frateste”, raman fiecare cu 60 RON / masina, asta in cazul in care omul ar plati amenda in 48 ore. Daca nu, ar ramane fiecare cu 120 RON. Suma care sigur ar acoperi motorina consumata pentru tractare, si un ban cinstit in buzunaru’ ROSALului. Eh nu, jepcarii nu se satura cu atat, jepcarii iti iau bani cat nu face, pentru un cacat de serviciu care nu merita nici a 10-a parte din bani.

Anyway, ma duc la ROSALu’ pulii mele. Ma pune o pizda sa semnez ca mi-am primit masina. Ii zic ca daca masina n-am vazut-o parcata in fata biroului inainte sa intru, n-am cum sa semnez asa ceva. Nu vazusem masina, nu vazusem starea ei, ..cica trebuia sa semnez. Platesc 550 RON, si ma duc dupa masina, cu chitanta in mana si fara procesul verbal al pulii mele, pentru ca oricum era nesemnat. Ajung in platforma aia numita probabil parc auto, gasesc masina, cam in starea originala. Erau 2 cumetri ..gen ..badigarzii pulii, le arat chitanta si le zic ca vreau masina. Pai nu se poate, fara procesul verbal. Incerc sa-i explic cretinului ca pe procesul verbal scrie ca eu mi-am primit masina, si cum nu mi-am primit-o, n-am semnat. Ma intorc din nou la pizda, semnez ala, si finally imi iau masina. Ah..si langa pizda aia era un porc, sa-i semnez lu’ ala ca recunosc nush ce…i-am dat jet si am plecat.

Deci, cine trebuie sesizat pentru hotelul de lux in care imi sta masina?.. + taxele de ridicare ale firmelor ? (am inteles ca ar fi diferite firme pe diferite sectoare ale Bucurestiului) Asta se cheama clar japca, si parerea mea e ca ar trebui pedepsita cumva. Oricum am zis ca-mi iau un cutit foarte ascutit si cu lama foarte groasa, si ma apuc sa tai cauciucuri ale masinilor pe care scrie ROSAL, ca deh..numele prostilor e scris pe toate gardurile. Si-mi aduc aminte ca am vazut masini de angajati pe care scria firma pulii. Cum eu nu mi-am gasit masina dimineata cand trebuia sa plec la munca, un cumatru angajat ROSAL n-o sa ajunga la munca intr-o dimineata pentru ca n-o sa poata sa mearga in 3 roti – o sa ma asigur ca-i tai 2 cauciucuri, rezerva sa fie degeaba. Macar sa stiu ca pe aia s-au dus banii mei.

linux more expensive than vista..

How come this happened??

bullshit weekend..

We decided to go to the seaside. Friday night. So after having a short night sleep, we woke up at 12 am, prepared things, and left around 1am to the destination – Costinesti. Got there at 4 am, had a pizza and a Tuborg Strong, and went to the beach, watched the sunrise, i even took a bath at 5am, and it was time to find a place to stay. Unfortunately, any of those motherfuckers who had a place to rent, didn’t want to rent us a room for 1 night. So we had to change the destination to someplace where they rent rooms for 1 night. So we moved to Jupiter (not the planet, ..this is not a SF movie), and we found a hotel that rented us a room exactly for 1 night. So we left for the beach, had something to eat, had a beer…came back to the room, because i had something to work, and she was tired and had a short afternoon nap. And she woke up, we went to the beach again, and her phone rang. Unfortunately, her apartment was sank in water. And she decided we should go help her mom with the cleaning. And we left, although we had the room rented till next day. We got home to her place, and…everything was already cleaned. So, we came home for nothing…And sunday morning, after waking up, we decided it’s best for us to move, so we moved everything from my parents house almost whole afternoon. Bullshit weekend indeed…

how smart Safari can be..

I was just browsing my blog, and tried the spell checking feature of Safari by typing some bullshit in the comment textboxes. And, when i suddenly closed the window from the x mark, Safari asked me if i really wanna close the window and loose all data, or something like that. I tried the same thing with Firefox, it didn’t ask me shit..

boyfriend requirements

Nice and simple:
175-185cm height, 65-75kg weight and really expensive car.

Doesn’t matter his face, if he had the money to buy that car, if he’s smart, dick size, …anything, just those 3 filters he has to pass to fuck her. And, one boyfriend is not enough, why not 2 or more?!

no alcohol..

So, from today…hopefully till the end of this year i won’t put any alcohol in my mouth, and still, my liver will survive all this. All this comes from yesterday, when after an unknown number of tequila shots, this morning i had troubles remembering what the fuck happened from the moment we left the restaurant, and till the moment we got back home. Actually, some things happened at home that i don’t remember either. Anyway, i hate being told what i did without me remembering all that shit. So, enough! I’ll have a 1 beer limit.

my first post from a bar..

With my Asus EEEPC 1008HA that i can take everywhere.. Including here… But this is not the reason for me to take a laptop from home while having a beer. I have something to do…and involves internet and computer..Seriously.

the elephant disappeared..

It just fucking disappeared… This is from a Jeff Dunham show, where deaf people were brought to a ventriloquist show. But nevermind that.. Last autumn, i finally finished CCNA2 and began CCNA3. I even took a final exam of CCNA3, but unfortunately, i didn’t pass. Anyway, both CCNA2 & CCNA3 were made at a local Cisco Academy called Media IT. So, today, after hearing that i finally graduated that fucking university, i was interested in continuing my Cisco studies. Unfortunately, Media IT academy just fucking disappeared. Tried to e-mail them, call them, instant message them, ..i even called a website that had a Media IT banner, just to see if they know anything about them. Unfortunately, they didn’t answer my phone. So, i have to take another CCNA3 exam, and eventually, pass this shit, and get my CCNA2 diploma. Now how the hell am i supposed to do that??..

last fucking exam..

Few minutes ago i just found out that i passed my last exam from the university i was going for the past…a lot of years. Anyway, now i’m just happy i finished with all the crap, and i’m happy that i won’t have to tell everybody that i have to go to school from work..so, no negotiations at job interviews…

So, almost graduated, but you can call me an engineer. I fucking deserve it..

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pidgin and other multi-messeger yahoo connection problem

Pidgin stopped connecting to yahoo few days ago. I googled a lot about this. And i found the solution for this shit:

replace standard scs.msg.yahoo.com with cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com

Replacing hostname by IP will still not work, as described in a post on yahoo answers. After replacing standard hostname for connection with the other one, just uncheck-recheck the yahoo account and it will work.

how incredibly stupid yahoo can be

So, I’m a linux admnistrator. Which means, i administer linux servers. Ok. So i administer a linux mail server. Being a mail server means is sends/receives emails. But it has a problem : it can’t send email to yahoo accounts. Why?..because yahoo thought it received too much emails from this server, and now it’s rejecting everything. Ok, so how do i solve that? There’s a bulk form what-the-fuck-ever on their website. I tried to fill everything technical, but there were a lot of questions i don’t know the answer – what kind of email you send, how long you’ll delete a person after unsubscribing – and shit like that. Of course, if you don’t fill EVERTHING, you can’t contact them. Fuckers!! Ok, i tried another attempt using a yahoo account. So, i logged into a yahoo account and find a contact us and send feedback menu on that new crappy slowly interface. IE8 didn’t worked. They even said i have a resolution problem. Ok ..yahoo didn’t say the same thing about firefox, but didn’t work either. If i clicked any of those 2 menu items, nothing happened. So the fuckers don’t want to be disturbed. Am i right? Now i have to find a way to explain to all users that use that mail server that they can send emails to any of yahoo contacts, …because of yahoo. Damn!!

first blog from my lil beauty

It’s about my new toy. It’s a Asus EEE PC 1008HA, upgraded to 2GB of memory. It’s light, works fast, well..not as fast as a core 2 duo processor, but enough for my need for mobility, which only includes putty, 3g connection, terminal services, music and movies, maybe e-mail. That’s all i need it for, and it does them in a very fashionable way. I wanted to test the battery, but after 2 hours, i had 50% left of it. So i guess it’s around 3-4 hours lifetime with no charge, which is excellent.

Details about this product can be found here.

tough decision…

Choosing BETWEEN wether to learn something, and earn some good money by doing that something, and have your own money and not ask mommy nor your boyfriend for money every now and then, AND just suck some rich guy’s cock, and suck it good till you get his money, what will someone choose?

Maybe she has to do both before deciding..

problems in paradise

Not for me actually, but it involves me. So, this girl i used to like a long time ago…almost 3 years ago..and after…hate..a lot, because what she did to me. She lives in Spain. She has this cute lil daughter. And, she lives with her dauther’s father. But out of nowhere, she dreams of being with me. Why is that?.. i don’t know. Mainly because when she had this chance she blew it away by doing things she says she’s sorry about. Ok…so, let’s meet. But no, we cannot, because in Spain, if you want to leave country with your son, you cannot without the other parent’s consent. And, of course, she can’t say to him something like, ..”i’m going back to romania!!..and i might not get back here..Umm…can you sign those papers??”. Ok…Well, lying to him is an option. And trust me, she knows how to do this too well. Unfortunately, this time she can’t do it. But she continues dreaming…Ohh..and i almost forgot, she suffered a lot being appart of me, and she’s still suffering. I told you she’s good in lying. Or not. I don’t know what to think.

I just told her that she should come here and go to a coffee, juice or something…maybe even stay togheter for few days..2-3 ..after that, she’ll think about what she wants to do, and i’m gonna think about what i’m going to do. Ohh…and we just created OUR blog. It’s fun..mainly because it will not disappear…in 10 years i’ll enter  the page and laugh my ass out, because i won’t believe my eyes.

So, she says she’d better not come here. And not because of me, and not because of the father of her daughter, ..just because of my friends. “what will they say when they see me again??”.. Who the fuck cares? I never cared what people said about me and whoever is with me. And i never will…

gmail anti-spam sucks!

That’s right. And it started to suck badly. I never had problems with spam with GMail so far. But, as from 2-3 weeks ago, i have at least 3 spam messages / day in my inbox. The e-mails come from another account set up in GMail using POP and all that crap. But, as google say on some lil movie i saw on youtube, they scan everything they get – this probably means including those other accounts you have set up in gmail interface. I just thought they’ll have some bayes filtering, you know, that cost effective filtering that compares the e-mails to the ones you put in in a bayes folder (let’s say spam folder in gmail) and it’s making a decision based on some cost matrix wether the messages is spam or not, and it learns what spam is based on what it finds in spam folder. I put a lot of spam messages in spam folder in gmail. But nothing happened. I still get the crap spam messages in inbox.

At least they shouldn’t praise so much their spam filter, ..at least, not now.

online business

So, i’m just searching online for something to do ..online, with minimum investment, that can bring some extra income. All i found is some websites selling some book that “teaches” you how to do it. I realize that’s their plan of making money – the book, but i want some ideas. Actually, is not necessary to be online, it can be offline, as long as it can give you the extra money i need. I also found out about PayPerPost, or PPP, which is a website that intermediates money between bloggers and companies that need advertising. Long story short, you get money while posting an advertisement – $5-$10, so it’s crap. I’m not that smart to come up with something like milliondollarhomepage, so i need something else. Some months ago i was thinking of a project based jobs website, and take a fee from everyone that registers – something symbolic, like 1-2 euros. But i’ll need too many users to make 1000E, and i want that monthly. Some friend of mine suggested a clothes website. That’s because women enjoy shopping, online or offline, and if we sell woman clothes, it should be great. Unfortunately, there’s way more things to do than just the website. I’m still thinking..maybe after finishing with my exams, i’ll get the free time i need to think…

105% complete

This is the completion percent of file copying through total commander…

smoker without a lighter..

That’s me…got to work today, had 2 full cigarette packs…but no lighter. After searching every closet in the IT department, i called someone who came after 1 hour with 3 lighters…maybe next time I’ll have one in my pocket and won’t be in the same situation like today…

I just discovered bullshit happens on mobile.de. Everything started from this website: http://home.mobile.de/FILCOMEX . They sell cars at half price and if you try to email them you get an auto reply with something like this:

Hello,
The vehicle is in good condition, has no technical damage at all, no scratches or dents, no hidden defects.
I have worked in Germany for the last year and I’ve purchased the car there.The car have German documents and will come with full service history. My company wanted me back home, so currently I’m in England (UK). I’ve brought the car home with me and it’s now located in England.
I’m trying to sell it at this price because I don’t use it anymore (the steering wheel is on left side and it’ very difficult for me to drive it), it’s a pity to keep such a car and not to use it.
I tried to sell the car in UK, but nobody wants to buy a left side steering wheel car.
My car is already at the "http://tb-transport.co.uk/" at their local representant.(i paid this company to take care about transaction).
We can have a deal if you are really interested to buy it.
The price is correct and it’s not negotiable and it also includes the transport.
Please write me back to discuss only if you are interested because I am tired of people that ask questions and are not interested at all.
Regards

I’m sorry, but I’m having troubles trying to believe this bullshit. Company in Brussels, guy from UK, German papers, UK shipping company. And on every picture they say to contact a Gmail account. Automatic reply comes from a msn account.

Just like i had problems believing the last girl i fucked. It’s official, we broke up yesterday. Nothing to loose actually. If, by mistake we had more than we already had, it would be a mess each time i feel like she was lying. I’m not worrying anymore. She’s past tense. And another good thing is that i never liked relationships at work, so it’s a good thing it’s over. I had 1000 reasons to end, 1-2 reasons to continue. Balance said it’s over. And this time I’ll do anything to refuse pussy…including not seeing her.

Anyway, i still have 3 more exams to pass till graduation. I’ll start those in 1 week, so now i have to concentrate on important things now…

IPsec + l2tp on ubuntu

The requirements were to find a way to make secure VPN tunnel with the workplace, and dial-up VPN being not so secured, we opted for IPsec with L2TP, the built-in VPN client in Windows distributions – including my newly Windows Mobile 6.1, which i actually tested and works great with the VPN.

Basically, we’ll start with a fresh clean installation of Ubuntu Server, in my case, the lastest one 9.04. You start to apt-get everything you need:

apt-get update

apt-get install openswan xl2tpd

PPP is already installed so you won’t have any problems with it. This scenario will be a “road warrior”, because we want to be able to connect from every kind of internet connection to the company’s network – including home internet, 3G modem connected to the laptop, GPRS connection on the mobile phone, ..whatever.

Ok, so you’ll need to configure some files first. Let’s start with ipsec:

ipsec.conf

conn L2TP-PSK-NAT
rightsubnet=vhost:%priv
also=L2TP-PSK-noNAT

conn L2TP-PSK-noNAT
authby=secret
pfs=no
auto=add
keyingtries=3
rekey=no
left=99.99.99.99                  #your external IP address for the clients to enter in their VPN wizzard
leftnexthop=99.99.99.1    #your gateway
leftprotoport=17/1701
right=%any
rightprotoport=17/0

This is the default ipsec.conf configuration file that is installed together with openswan. Next, you’ll have to configure a secret for IPsec, and you’ll do that by configuring /etc/ipsec.secrets file:

99.99.99.99 %any : PSK “yourfavouritepresharedkey”

That should be all for IPsec to work. You just have to put it on startup with:

update-rc.d ipsec defaults

Ok, next, you’ll have to configure xl2tp to work. For that, there is a file called /etc/xl2tpd/xl2tpd.conf that needs to be edited:

[global]                                                                ; Global parameters:
ipsec saref = yes
listen-addr = 99.99.99.99
port = 1701                                                     ; * Bind to port 1701
auth file = /etc/ppp/chap-secrets       ; * Where our challenge secrets are
rand source = dev                     ; Source for entropy for random
[lns default]                                                   ; Our fallthrough LNS definition
exclusive = no                                          ; * Only permit one tunnel per host
ip range = 88.88.88.50-88.88.88.150     ; * Allocate from this IP range
local ip = 88.88.88.1                           ; * Our local IP to use
length bit = yes                                                ; * Use length bit in payload?
refuse pap = yes                                                ; * Refuse PAP authentication
refuse chap = yes                                               ; * Refuse CHAP authentication
require authentication = yes                    ; * Require peer to authenticate
name = vpn-srv                                        ; * Report this as our hostname
ppp debug = yes                                         ; * Turn on PPP debugging
pppoptfile = /etc/ppp/options.l2tpd                     ; * ppp options file

I guess this is almost self explanatory, ..but if you need some help on this, just put a comment. 2 files to go. First is the pppoptfile – /etc/ppp/options.l2tpd

/etc/ppp/options.l2tpd

asyncmap 0
auth
crtscts
lock
hide-password
modem
name l2tpd
proxyarp
lcp-echo-interval 30
lcp-echo-failure 4
noipx

After configuring ppp to work with xl2tp, there is one more step for things to work – authentication. You accomplish that by editing the auth file /etc/ppp/chap-secrets

/etc/ppp/chap-secrets

user1      l2tpd     user1password    88.88.88.5

#specify an IP from the range or out of it; whenever user1 is logging in, it will get the same IP

user2      l2tpd     user2password *

# user2 will always get an IP from the range specified in the range from xl2tpd.conf file.

That’s about it. When I’ll feel like doing print screens, I’ll show you how you add your VPN connection in a Windows XP, but i guess you can already find that out with google search.

[update]: i tried the configuration i posted on my blog, but vista client behind NAT didn’t work at all. There are 2 things you should do:

1. registry modification on windows xp/vista:

for windows xp:
in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\IPsec create a DWORDcalled AssumeUDPEncapsulationContextOnSendRule and assign the hex value of “2″. This should allow both client and server behind NAT.

for windows vista:

in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PolicyAgent create a 32-bit DWORD called AssumeUDPEncapsulationContextOnSendRule and assign the same value of “2″ for the same reasons.

2. you should define private networks in ipsec.conf by adding this into ipsec.conf in config setup section:

virtual_private=%v4:10.0.0.0/8,%v4:192.168.0.0/16,%v4:172.16.0.0/12

It should work after all this.

[update2]: here is the latest configuration that worked, with computers behind NAT or not, with Vista or XP..works with all combinations – of course, with the registry key inserted where it has to be.

conn ROADW-NAT
rightsubnet=vhost:%priv
authby=secret
pfs=no
rekey=no
keyingtries=3
left=80.80.80.80
leftnexthop=80.80.80.1
leftprotoport=17/1701
right=%any
rightprotoport=17/%any
dpddelay=15
dpdtimeout=60
dpdaction=clear
type=transport
auto=add

conn ROADW
authby=secret
pfs=no
rekey=no
keyingtries=3
left=80.80.80.80
leftnexthop=80.80.80.1
leftprotoport=17/1701
right=%any
rightprotoport=17/%any
dpddelay=15
dpdtimeout=60
dpdaction=clear
type=transport
auto=add

and of course, insert this line in ipsec.conf:

virtual_private=%v4:10.0.0.0/8,%v4:192.168.0.0/16,%v4:172.16.0.0/12

This should work in every type of road warrior. Have fun!! The rest of the configuration files are exactly the ones from above..

more details..

Basically, i was just around just for her to fuck someone till she waited some other dude to end up his relationship with some other girl. After he was done with that girl, called this girl i was with, ..ended up together. I’m not buying this either. But I don’t want anymore lies from her…

the end..

It’s going to be very soon, sooner than expected. Mostly because i don’t know what happened, and mostly because I hate being lied to. In both cases, it’s enough for me to end this. But first, I wanna know what happened, and then see how I can end all this crap..

[update]: the end!! – she was lying, i was lying…not a very good start..

hot vs cold cloning

It’s not about human cloning, ok?

It’s about VMware cloning. VMware, which is the new project i have to finish in few months – virtualizing almost every server we have. So, there are 2 ways to clone a physical machine:

- cold cloning – you boot the machine into a VMware converter ISO, operating system is off, no activity on the hard drive, and you get to clone everything just the way it was just before you shut down the machine. Configured IP address on the VMware converter that boots up has to have access to the VCenter or ESX machine in order for things to work.

- hot cloning – the physical machine is booted into the operating system it currently has. You start VMware converter on another machine. This machine has to have access to both physical machine that you want to virtualize and the VCenter / ESX machines, and they have to be visible to each other too. Bad part about this method is that the machine is not turned off, i mean, the operating system is not turned off, then hard drive might change during cloning, and data loss occurs.

Unfortunately, cold cloning is not working for me at all. It gives all kinds of errors. Yesterday i tried cold cloning again…made some changes and tried again..and so on, till i finally decided to close all services on the server and then do a hot cloning. I looked the error on VMware KB and they said it’s something related to network problems – something like the NICs are not configured with automatic negociation, ..or something like that. I made sure every NIC from ESX or the physical machine i wanted to virtualize were both auto-negociating speed and duplex and tried again. But i had the same problem. After closing every service on the machine, so no hard drive changes during cloning, and my computer at work coordinating the conversion from the VMware converter standalone, everything work great. Started everything at around 10pm. At 6:30 am i had almost 400GB of virtual machines (2 of them) converted from physical to virtual. All i had to do was changing IP addresses for the new VMware adapter on the host, and installing VMware tools. That was all. BTW, physical machines were Windows 2000.

Anyway, after a good night sleep, when i woke up in the morning at 7am, both machines were converted. No errors, too.

crazyness..

So let’s say ..a boy meets a girl. Boy likes girl, girl likes boy. Boy fucks girl, girl fucks boy. Boy goes to work, girl goes to work…and…silence.

[update]: how cute…she “accidentally” forgot the phone at home… I always hated the “believe what you wish” thing. I guess people say that only when they’re tired of lying..