8 is enough, “Like” it, back to bricks, Persistence, Apple asses, IX out again

Yesterday I FINALLY received the 8 gigs of RAM for my home server.  I initially order the RAM probably close to 3 weeks ago but it was defective.  It took this long until I got my replacements.  Thankfully this set of sticks appears to work.

Getting this ram should allow me to finalize the migration to the new server.  I was waiting for it to install my enterprise AV software on it.  Hopefully tonight I can shutdown the old server and cross my fingers no unforeseen issues crop up by doing so.

You may or may not notice that all of my blog entries now have a Facebook “LIKE” button.  Clicking this button will post a small blurb to your FB profile saying you like this entry along with a link to it.  Feel free to LIKE as much as you want, it will only help bring more minions into my kingdom.

Yesterday at the gym I did my first brick workout in a couple months going 5 miles on the stationary bike and another 2 miles on the treadmill.  I really was pushing to get through the run even though it was only two miles.  I’ll be bricking more consistently from here on out.  Saturday I may be doing a 10 mile run followed by swimming in a legit 50 meter pool, should be fun.

I checked back on my HVAC rebate status today.  I was thrilled to see it was now marked as APPROVED.  My persistence actually paid off in this instance.  I am sure many people would have written this $1500 off a long time ago with all of the roadblocks I had to clear to get it.

That little Itunes Apple issue that I thought was cleaned up still is not.  We are now a week past my initial call to Apple.  During that call they told me I should see the money that was stolen from my account refunded back within 3-5 days.  Well it was not there yet so I called.

I am talking to a nice enough girl on the phone but what she is telling me is pissing me off.  She said technically, she isn’t supposed to be even talking on the phone to me since only Apple Care subscribers $$ are privileged enough to talk to a human being on the phone.    Well she stayed on the phone long enough to tell me that I had to be the one to follow up with Itunes support which annoyed me greatly.

I said to her “So you are telling me that I have to email Itunes support to follow up on something your representative said was going to be handled?”  Yes.  When I entered my case number in on their web site it showed it had a status of CLOSED.  Great, now I have to trudge through another pile of bullshit, one email at a time.

This morning we had another extended outage at my host IX Webhosting.  There have been a number of these in recent months.  Despite these outages IX still has no fear of putting a GUARANTEED 99.99% up time in big letters on their home page, funny.

It seems that despite their repeated problems recently, they refuse to implement much in the way of proactive monitoring to head some of these problems off at the pass.  Instead they seem to prefer letting their customer base be their monitoring system and then go into Chinese fire drill mode when stuff breaks.

Yes, it’s frustrating.