I just finished an interesting trip to Brisbane.
Why interesting?
Right at the end, I was given a job opportunity, which also could be seen as a semi-termination notice.
I am confused…
I really want to be active and do what I do best and what I enjoy.
“Making changes, and being able to advise and help customers in technology”
Whatever people say about the offer, in one side of my mine, this is backstepping of my career.
Still better than a dead-end position right now.
I would have more exposure to things that I didn’t have here…
My brain is about to explode with all these thoughts….
It was december of year 2000, I joined RH as L1 support.
Since then a lot of things changed, I was in Engineering then back in to Support roles.
This week, I am back in Brisbane to help out with the support team.
They have 6 people out with various reason, so all the resources have been pulled together and I was pulled into help guys out.
So it is like a Dejavu all happening again.
I am bit tired because of the early flight that I took, but I am sorta feeling that I am back home…
I guess I have a lot of good memories and good friends here.
tainted:
Non-zero if the kernel has been tainted. Numeric values, which
can be ORed together:
1 – A module with a non-GPL license has been loaded, this includes modules with no license. Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools.
2 – A module was force loaded by insmod -f. Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools.
4 – Unsafe SMP processors: SMP with CPUs not designed for SMP.
8 – A module was forcibly unloaded from the system by rmmod -f.
16 – A hardware machine check error occurred on the system.
32 – A bad page was discovered on the system.
64 – The user has asked that the system be marked “tainted”. This could be because they are running software that directly modifies the hardware, or for other reasons.
128 – The system has died.
256 – The ACPI DSDT has been overridden with one supplied by the user instead of using the one provided by the hardware.
512 – A kernel warning has occurred.
1024 – A module from drivers/staging was loaded.
