I now have two examples proving the Six Degrees of Separation theory is correct.

WARNING: Bad grammar ahead.

1. A person who works for my Dad is married to a woman who works for a company that is a MKS customer … and the womans supervisor is an ex-MKS employee, who used to be be a co-worker of mine.
2. A few weeks ago another co-worker of mine asked if my Dad’s name was Sheldon, and was he the controller for such and such company. I confirmed that it was his name, and he does work for that company. Turns out her husband is a contractor for the company my dad works for.

It is truly a small world.

… at least according to my brother Mitch

He went over to Fry’s the other day for the very first time. Suffice it to say, he was impressed.

This weekend was supposed to be a nice quiet, calm, time… I had planned to spend it getting some files organized in the two filing cabinets I purchased from MKS (getting rid of old stuff in anticipation of our move to new digs).

Friday was the company holiday party … it’s always been enjoyable … even if I don’t like dancing (Ginny ends up dragging me onto the dance floor a few times). This time, unfortunately, Ginny’s dinner didn’t agree with her… so we headed home early.

Once home, I made sure Ginny was comfortable … and went downstairs to dink around with the computers.

I then made my fatal error.

I decided to upgrade the main linux system to Fedora Core 3. I figured it would be fairly straight forward to upgrade from Redhat 8 to FC3.
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I got a new server … it’s a Dell PowerEdge 420SC … I’ve named it Gondor.

I originally tried to install Fedora Core 3 on it via NFS mount, booting from a compact flash disk, but it didn’t take. Not sure why.

So I burned the CD’s and installed from there. Worked like a champ.

I think I screwed up the Dell diagnostic partition though … or the master boot record. I’ll have to play around with that.

I’m going to slowly migrate stuff over to the new server … it’s not going to be an easy pick-up and drop-off like it was with the last server migration.