Debugging Rule Number Seven - Check The Plug
This weekend I was involved with setting up a large number of servers for Anime Central. Web, database, other essential private and public services.
Most things were going pretty well. There were some hardware problems (some old machines and recent Linux kernels really have to be coaxed to work with each other), but other than that most things went pretty well.
Except one thing, which took the better part of the early dawn to debug. And it was all because everyone (including me, obviously) forgot to flip a switch. Doh.
In any case, the new stuff does work. My internal clock is really frobinated, though.
Title of this post is a reference to Debugging by David Agans.