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(warning some ‘mild’ technical content)

I flew up to Brisbane to install some new servers in my companies office.

Following is a summary of the weekend… bolded are the things which went wrong

Last thing Wednesday..

• Find out that it’s a Public Holiday in Brisbane on the Monday.

Thursday….

• Plane departed 5 minutes late.
• Landed and decided to catch the train instead of a cab… beats the traffice, except I got off at the wrong stop and had to walk about 1 kilometer to the office. I got the stops confused because in the past I stayed at a hotel literally above the station.
• Got to the office and unpacked and ‘racked’ all the hardware.
• Find out a package which had programs on it for me to install on the Friday was sent Off Peak instead of Priority. Later in the day a second package was sent from Melboure
• Found out some network cards which we had originally ordered and were due to sent back couldn’t be found.
• Some of the documentation which I had was different from the way the hardware had been detected so I the documentation had to be updated.
• Installed the main software/OS fine.
• Headed to the hotel and slept.

Friday…

• Got in the office and configured the Disk Array which we are using (ended up taking 3-4 hours to initiate which was lucky as when it finished I was ready to configure the disks.
• Configured the OS/software on the servers. In the process found out that we were almost out of ‘IP Addresses’ for the migration…. this would come back later to cause problems.
• (Technical content) Created a new Domain controller.
• At 6pm (when I had planned on starting the migration), found out that staff in the office work back Friday nights until 7:30pm.
• Decided to finish up at 6 and go for a walk as there was a festival/markets over at Southbank (late night shopping is Friday night in Brisbane city).
• Had a nice walk and took a nice photo (below and is also in the gallery)… this was taken with my wifes camera and was NOT on a tripod..

Saturday…

• Got to the office about 10:30-11… got ready for the rest of the day.
• (Technical content)Had a few problems with DNS when trying to migrate a couple of servers.
• Copied all the files across and had a relatively successful day.

Sunday…

• Had a time frame for our Database server to be down (which also affected part of our website).
• Everything ran smoothly.
• Waited for someone from the office to come in so I could de-rack the servers. Did this with a slight pain in my back.
• After I had done all the ‘danger’ work… where I wanted someone to be there just in case. I continued on packing the servers up and organising the server room. In the process I manged to step on a dangling lead which was the power supply to the office alarm. After a few calls I was able to find out what I had to connect up (as there were 3 leads on one cable and 4 leads on the other… one turned out to be the earth which I didn’t connect.
• Got back to the hotel, found out there was a $10 charge to change Qantas Bookings on fully flexible fares.
• Called and organised a 5:40am wake up call for the next day.

Monday…

• 3:40am…. I get a wake up call from the hotel. I find out later that the person on the reception desk at the hotel couldn’t read the writing of the previous person on duty so called me 2 hours early!!!
• I got back to sleep and wake up by my alarm.
• Got up with a worse pain in my back, showered and headed downstairs, pay for the accommodation and they organise a cab (it arrived in about 2 minutes).
• Got to the airport and had time to sit down and have a coffee. Caught the flight back with no problems.

I will put up a few photos from that trip later.

Here is the take off from Sydney Airport, Aircraft: 767, Runway: 34R (no sound)

Landing at Brisbane Airport, Aircraft 767 (no sound)

Will put a fly past of Sydney and the take off/landing from the homewards bound trip later.