07/11/2005 Archived Entry: "Complicated"

I'm helping one of our gents from $GIGANTIC_STORAGE_COMPANY with replicating a set of test data from our site to a remote site, as part of our effort for complete replication and off-site backup, and we're stuck. Our domain is actually a multi-domain Active Directory forest, with seven separate domains, and we need to join a virtual CIFS server to the domain where our replication target lives. Getting this done is proving to be an exercise in bureaucratic acrobatics. I've been shunted to like twenty different people on the phone, and I'm currently waiting on the twenty-first guys to call me back.

We're never going back to the moon. We're never going back there because of shit like this. Instead of building a CEV or a rocket or whatever, we'll still be deciding which forms we need to fill out. I just thought you'd all like to know that, so when you're sitting there watching CNN broadcasting three Chinese guys jumping around up there planting the red flag all over the place, you'll know that our own aerospace industry is working really hard with Adobe Acrobat to create just the right forms to talk about getting us back up there and Beat Those Reds(TM).

Also, it is raining everywhere in town, except at my house, which is where I need it to rain so that my grass does not resemble brown dead sticks.

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