Had a bit of a humorous situation any geek will appreciate. I’m sitting here at work learning a new server. I’m going through a tutorial that tells me how to use the scripting language that acts as a client to the server and can do anything: start/stop applications, read and change application configuration. Cool.

So I go through one tutorial that teaches me how to stop the server. Not an application, the entire server. That my CLI (command line interface) is a client to. Problem. There isn’t a start server command in the interface in the client, because there’s no server running for it to talk to and ask it to start!

Thus I had to scramble through the documentation and figure out how to start the server from the OS! Nice of them to not tell me running that command makes yoru client useless til you go find the start command!

For those of you who aren’t big ol’ cubicle-livin’ geeks, it’s basically something like if I’d been following a cake recipe (without reading ahead) that said:

1. Add flour to bowl (so I do that)
2. Add egg to bowl (then I do that)
3. Mix egg into flour (so I do that)
4. Be sure to take yolk out of egg white first before adding to flour!