Jun 11
Today I earned the pinnacle of Apple IT certifications, the Apple Certified System Administrator. In less than 6 months, I have prepared for and passed five separate exams, and scored high enough on each relevant one to make me eligible to become a certified trainer. I have come to the understanding that the value of certifications derives directly from the student’s desire to learn rather than memorize, and learn I have. I’m proud to have an objective, recognized quantification of my ability to perform in an area of IT that is of great personal and professional interest.
To those who have helped me along the way, I offer my sincere thanks for your contribution.
But what makes this day especially sweet is that in the past I was doubted by some people who can most charitably be described as “douches”. Always negative, always doubting, always dismissive, and always ultimately wrong. I put this certification, and the fact that I now make my living with it, in your face as if it were a paper bag filled with dog shit. Get a big nose full, douches, and think of it every time you have the urge to doubt me or call my person into question. I continue to prevail and prosper, despite the influence of toxic people who insist on projecting their own insecurities onto others.
Yes, I hold grudges.
Enough! Today is a day of celebration, success is the greatest revenge, and the feeling of your warm wet lips on my ass cheeks is the cherry on top.
Apr 29
As a professional who supports and deploys Apple products for a living, I am telling you in no uncertain terms to avoid QuickTime Streaming Server at all costs. Frankly, it fucking sucks. I have been trying for several months to get QTSS working reliably with my Xserve, and every time I attempt to use it, there’s a new error to contend with. Here’s today’s:
# Streaming STARTUP 2009-04-29 18:42:08
2009-04-29 18:42:08: FATAL: The specified RTSP listening IP address doesn’t exist.
# Streaming SHUTDOWN 2009-04-29 18:42:08
That, after using it successfully yesterday and making no configuration changes, only stopping the service.
That error will repeat about once a second. Server Admin will show QTSS as not started, even though /usr/sbin/QuickTimeStreamingServer (or multiple copies thereof) are still running. If you aren’t aware enough to issue “killall -9 QuickTimeStreamingServer” to kill the process that allegedly isn’t running, /Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Logs/Error.log will continue to log that error message until the drive in your server has been filled and your machine locks up. I know because it has happened to me before. You have to boot into single-user mode, remove the log(s), and restart your server.
Apple provides no documentation to explain vague QTSS errors.
The Apple KB seems to contain no information whatsoever about QTSS errors.
Apple’s discussion forums for QuickTime have many people asking questions with almost no answers.
Google reveals no helpful information documented anywhere on the web concerning any of the numerous QTSS issues I’ve had.
QTSS is not reliable. It is not documented. It is not something I would ever recommend to a customer or a friend. Avoid it.
Mar 23
Do you remember finger? What about ntalk? And ytalk? who? w? archie? Me too. slirp? Trumpet Winsock? Anything else?
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