NFS and Other Adventures

Much of the past week at work has been spent dealing with amazing NFS cluster woes, the worst I have ever had to deal with. It took days to bring access to user data back (not helped by a public holiday in the middle of the week), and there is still an issue with job submissions. However I do think there is some light at the end of this rather dark tunnel. Appropriately attended Linux Users of Victoria's meeting on wireshark and tcpdump this afternoon, which had plenty of people in attendance. Finally, this evening went to visit some good ol' friends who were having printer networking problems which proved relatively easy to fix (which lead to concluding the night with a few rounds of Cards Against Humanity).

Apropos gaming have had a couple of storygame sessions in the past couple of nights with Cats Against Cthulhu on Thursday night and Eclipse Phase Mars on Friday night. Tomorrow will be GURPS Middle Earth. The RPG Review Cooperative has started its own github, where an old GM friend has added his "visual combat simulator" for Dungeons & Dragons v3.5 and Rolemaster. For an organisation that is a barely a month old, I am quite happy with how the RPG Review Cooperative is faring, although it must be said that it doing so from a well-established base. It seems beneficial for such community associations to operated with a well an established timetable for activity, to offer a number of services, to publicise, and with new activities every couple of days among the committee to retain momentum.