trainbrain27
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RE: Mutant validation
It's nice to see some crossover between my startup tabs. Greetings from the nicest imageboard, family friendly http://www.1chan.net/rail/!
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RE: Apple Mail fail
@too_many_usernames said:
*Because I know I always put things in the recycling bin when I think I might want to dig them out a couple weeks later.**
Adding no value to the conversation, my recycle bin is not automatically emptied and fills so slowly that I empty it quarterly.
Since I started this job, I have recovered documents from it twice to save the effort of reprinting them, and it is the source of all my scratch paper.
So I do use it like my digital recycle bin, which tends to gather copies and minor revisions and is only emptied when my pretty blue drive bar turns red.
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RE: .jpg.jpeg
Case sensitivity training
To add to the hidden extension issue, one of the systems I interface with treats extensions (only) as case sensitive.
The scripts that feed it do not, so if schedule.CSV exists, they will happily update it.
I spent the morning tracking why only old data was being parsed.
The external system apparently held and used schedule.csv even after we sent schedule.CSV.
I know extensions can be unhidden, but without access to the external system I didn't have a hint to look there.
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Network booted
We're imaging 1000 computers this month. Thanks to fog, it's pretty easy. I WoL the whole lab into Linux and they image automagically.
Until students step in.
Last year the summer cleaners hooked a patch cable into two drops to keep it out of the way. The switch wasn't very smart, and the whole network went down. I spent an hour finding the loop and we updated the permanent switches after that.
This summer, the tech help wired the wireless clients to temp switches, but they wouldn't network book. The spinning bar (/-\|) didn't even spin.
They blamed the server, and I started checking for loops in the cables. 1st switch, no cable leaving and returning, 2nd switch, same, ect.. They had made a mesh topology. I need smarter switches or smarter help.
One particular Heaping Pile desktop refuses to network boot. The first workaround was gPXE by CD, but then the kids rip out the drive belts.I don't feel like replacing the drives, and I get tired of using two tweezers and a rubber band to fix it for a week until they pull it off.
I tried USB gPXE, which was booting to linux to boot from the ethernet to boot linux to install Windows, but that wasn't complicated enough, so now I use RMprepusb to load linux from the USB to choose an ISO to boot linux to boot from the ethernet to boot linux to install Windows.
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Where did Java go?
My server just 'lost' Java. Like many programmers, my programs don't start in the morning without java.
The last update changed the path to Java, but not the PATH that Windows uses. 10 second fix, but annoying.
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Power Stripped
Quote from the government hosting service that handles websites and e-mail for half the state:
WHAT HAPPENED? Monday morning during scheduled maintenance to replace a faulty power strip, we experienced a catastrophic data loss when the faulty part tripped a breaker, sending everything into a hard fault.
The faulty power strip was a heavy duty device that monitors the amperage draw of anything plugged into it. Replacement of the strip involved shutting down anything plugged into the strip, unplugging and replacing, then powering up the equipment. Somewhere during the power down, power up process, a breaker in the circuit panel blew, taking the HP SAN down hard. When we finally got the SAN controller back on line, we could not see any of the configured array of storage drives. Immediately, we opened a case with HP Support who confirmed our worst fears, the metadata file on the SAN was corrupted and the only recourse was to reformat and recover from backups. We chose against the recover from backup path because our backup software could not completely recover VMWare servers, only the data on the servers. Our only recourse for quick service restoration was to have our data professionally recovered. We drove the drives up to Ontrack in Minnesota Tuesday night and waited all day Wednesday for them to analyze the data and report back. As of now (Friday) the data recovery is underway. -
RE: Best place to store business critical documents? Try Outlook deleted items!
@joe.edwards said:
@superjer said:
What I really want is for GUI file managers to recycle overwritten files, not just deleted ones. I rarely delete by mistake, but I overwrite by mistake all the time.
Norton GoBack saved me from this a couple times, before my love-hate relationship with Norton tilted violently toward hate.
GoBack caused/contributed to the demise of one of my hard drives. Conservatively, the wackadoo partition confused my recovery software, even if it was not at fault. I lost everything since my last weekly backup.
Now I use Shadow Copy when I'm on Windows.
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RE: Asset management fail
@da Doctah said:
I dare you to bury the item offog somewhere into the middle of the list of hardware without explanation.
Good story, bad link (but still recognizable).
I was going to suggest fog in the future. It's not the only solution, but it makes my life much easier. When we deployed, the inventory feature was just a nice bonus.
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RE: The case of the magic router
Users can't configger them fancy WPAs, and they certainly can't remember a password.
Plug and play prevents thousands of returns.