I had a problem today with one of my servers, the bulletin board software that runs on it started sending me errors, and it turns out that the partition ran out of space. Turns out the strange partition manager (some kind of logical volume manager) had a bunch of unallocated space, I just didn’t know about it. It turns out that when I wrangled the space up, created a new device for the partition manager and got it formatted, things started working out. I moved some files on the offending partition to the new one, created some symbolic links, fixed the fstab entry, then ran some diagnostics on the SQL tables and fixed several errors. Now everything’s peachy.
The other day I had a technical nightmare (a dream, not IRL). I had a very important file to print out, but it could only be read by a special EEPROM only found in arcade stand-up Pac Man games. I had to go to Las Vegas to find one, it was very frustrating, and weird.