Another day filled with life!

For two days now, I am trying to manoeuvre my way around HP UX. I am in a training to learn HPUX and my trainer , I am proud to say is an extremely smart lady. ( PS: I admire smart women ). Today my dream of seeing a server getting ripped open came true. A super hot Sun midrange E series box. Me and my torrid affair with Unix!

Ok, so for the few pointers, HP-UX seems to be more stable than Solaris. My wild assumption is , when the design of the OS was being considered, HP did listen to the inputs from Unix administrators who have been tortured beyond repair by server crashes, the same Unix admins who suffer from claustrophobia inside the walls of maintenance mode in the server.

Jokes apart, recovery seems easier, take for an example, the notorious root password issue for which in Solaris one needs to go to single user mode and spend some x hours to resolve it. In HP-UX ,single user mode takes you directly to hash prompt. And yes, the utilities and commands to figure out the WWN's and storage side of it look fairly easy in the first glimpse. The newgrp command in HPUX which I possible assume can be misused by certain users have been deactivated in the OS.

Yet to figure out, if my admiration for HPUX is just an infatuation or is familiarity going to breed contempt ? Time is the answer to it.

The class , I have to admit was fantastic, thanks to Miss. Dee, our trainer. My mind did wander here and there amidst those trainings. Random reading of few blogs and email checking was a background process running in the class. Of course, Neej's sweet attempt to evoke a little bit of romance in me by sending smses was instantaneously obliged by reply sms's. I am never this fast when I am at work.

I also spoke to my two good heartened Punj friends of mine, lucky and Preetham. Lucky is in Punjab enjoying his days with no work right now and Preetham has invited me tomorrow home to eat some yummy Parathas.

Today, April 6th, Wishes to my two buddies Buddy kutti and Saud , who is celebrating their bdays today!!! God bless you , guys!