Well, after about four years of being on call, I’m finally getting a break. It’s just as well, as now instead of getting called at 2am because an Oracle server rebooted itself, I have a little one vying for my attention. A different phase in life, I guess. I’m transitioning to a different role at DirecTV that should be interesting nonetheless – one that doesn’t involve any on call responsibilities, but still involved in the data center with Redhat boxes. I have the first meeting with my new team next week.

On another note, my profile somehow got corrupted, and IT couldn’t fix it. I’d turned off System Restore and pagefile to cut down on places for malware to hide, but I guess that was to my detriment this time. Not the biggest deal, as I don’t keep much on my laptop, but it’s still a pain to reinstall all those programs. It’s times like this that I miss having Connected TLM like I did at my previous job. I’m thinking about implementing Shadow Copy once I get it back. I’ve thought about asking for a Macbook Pro, but I know that won’t happen, so I have to plan for alternatives :)

Update: Shadow Copy doesn’t actually restore system state to a given point in time… Maybe I’ll just do frequent scans with avast!…