{"id":16,"date":"2003-07-21T23:54:17","date_gmt":"2003-07-22T03:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/2003\/07\/21\/rebooting-blogs\/"},"modified":"2003-07-21T23:54:17","modified_gmt":"2003-07-22T03:54:17","slug":"rebooting-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/2003\/07\/21\/rebooting-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebooting Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a19'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>I had to reboot the blogs server to install&nbsp;a security patch tonight, and of course nothing went smoothly.&nbsp; The stupid IBM server refused to boot without a keyboard, and we don&#8217;t have a keyboard attached (why the heck make a server default to not booting without a keyboard?!?!).&nbsp; After driving in to the server room and telling it that I really did want it to reboot, I still had to reboot the machine twice to install all of the windows updates.&nbsp; Ten years later, why are we still having to do the reboot dance on windows machines?&nbsp; Once is bad enough for a production server, but twice, with one of them taking about 10 minutes to do the actual update on a reasonably quick machine?&nbsp; Suboptimal.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The world seems to be happy now, no data was lost,&nbsp;Harvard is blogging again, and I&#8217;m the proud owner of&nbsp;two more white hairs.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to reboot the blogs server to install&nbsp;a security patch tonight, and of course nothing went smoothly.&nbsp; The stupid IBM server refused to boot without a keyboard, and we don&#8217;t have a keyboard attached (why the heck make a server default to not booting without a keyboard?!?!).&nbsp; After driving in to the server room [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}