Mordor anniversary

Just another month to go .... Yeehaa ! I will be completing one year in my current company.

Had to scrape through the last few months , twas horrible .

Now I can update my resume and post it all over the place  !! One year is a reasonable looking time in anyone's CV.

Getting a new job isn't a big deal for someone with 6 yrs of experience , but finding the right one is a dark art.

Cookie

Ah ,the naughty one . There has been no peace in this house since she has arrived . But I like it this way .

Either , one of us is running after her to wrest socks out of the hellish jaws , or we are busy trying to keep her away from gnawing something/someone else.

A vampirish smile with sweet looking eyes which are waiting for right time and right body part to pounce at. Package also features a deep growling sound with a dolby woofer enabled bass booster.

Loves plastic and suspicious looking items like fur toys, sprite bottles and electrical wires.
WTF, BOFH excuse #97 may be true after all !!! (Small animal kamikaze attack on computer power supplies)

ESXi 3.5 "bare-metal" inside a VMware Workstation VM

This is pretty neat . I can run these "thin bare metal" hypervisor ESXi free versions from within VMware workstation 6.0 . I followed the steps provided on xtravirt.com for regular ESX 3.5 and applied it for the hypervisor.
All you have to do , is to create a new "Other Linux 64bit" VM and then close VMware and add the following in the VMX file :

monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = TRUE
monitor_control.vt32 = TRUE
monitor_control.enable_svm = TRUE (add this only if you use an AMD processor )

Then download the freeware hypervisor iso file (ESXi 3.5 U2) off the VMware website and install it.
I could setup the management network and connect VI client to access the ESXi box.
We can even setup VMotion by using a VCenter VM and 2 ESXi boxes , with shared storage provided by a filer appliance like openfiler.
This is going to be my next step , I'm off to buy more RAM to run all of these , would be difficult to squeeze all the above VMs in 2gigs.

In other news

Night shift ends in 3 days, will be back to regular day schedule for at least a year.

Was my birthday on 28th July , one more candle added.
My sister sent one of the best birthday wishes I have read so far

"If I could gift you something in my life,
I would give you the ability to see yourself through my eyes.
Only then you would realize how special you are to us :)"

Lamentations 3:37

"Who is he that saith and it cometh to pass when the Lord commandeth it is not"
-- Lamentations 3:37


Ah there it comes.

Here comes the bipolar swing again, a big one , goes to the sad pole this time.
This must be how bordering the edge of lunacy feels like.

A small family feud does the tip-over this time.
Retreating into my shell of misery , I start the self-sustaining manic-depressive cycle.
Looking at the world through narrow jaundiced eyes, fail to find any joy anywhere.

Of course , I do have family and friends trying to coax me out of it.
But asking a depressed person to come out of depression is like asking a diabetic to start producing insulin.

I do not have any reason to be really depressed, I am afflicted by the commonest of problems.

Hey , who doesn't have trouble brewing in their work-life ?
And does everyone get a US visa on first try ?
And who doesn't have family fights once in a while ?
And who doesn't have to juggle with finances ?

The issue , I think , is the fact that all of the above happened right around the same time.

I now take solace in the hope that it will swing to the other side soon and I will be back to my normal happy self again .