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Deploying Desktops 9 Replies
What's your preferred method of deploying standard builds / images to desktop and laptop clients? At my place we use a combination of Ghost and UIU to standardise on one image regardless of hardware…
Started by Graycat in General. Last reply by Wesley "Nonapeptide" 19 hours ago.
IBM POS Type 4800 2 Replies
Have any one worked with this type of POS (Point Of Sale), Normally it's used on Hypermarkets to manage sales process. It's a little complex to manage at the first time, you will consider it as stupi…
Started by Mohammed Adel in Problems and Requests. Last reply by Wesley "Nonapeptide" Feb 5.
Sun to de-emphasize "low end commodity servers"; Focus instead on SPARC 3 Replies
Third paragraph from the bottom: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240 Somehow this link requires you to have a subscription to the WSJ. I most certainly do not and am not sure how I was able to…
Tagged: Larry-Ellison-Punches-Kittens, Sun, Oracle
Started by Wesley "Nonapeptide" in New User Information. Last reply by Robert Chipperfield Jan 27.
Sysadmin Professionalism Survey 4 Replies
Tom Limoncelli has a survey on his blog asking about professionalism in system administration. If you have a few minutes, please go fill it out. There are only 5 or so questions, so it won't take lon…
Tagged: professional, survey
Started by Matt Simmons in New User Information. Last reply by Charlie Rudinger Jan 27.
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Clustering and replication: the data loss vs. downtime tradeoff
How do you trade off potential data loss against extended downtime in a replicated / clustered environment?
Simplifying hugely, there's two ways you can handle this: you can either replicate data instantly, and not report that an action is complete until all replicas are consistent, or you do it asynchronously, and l… Continue
Posted by Robert Chipperfield on January 26, 2010 at 5:51pm — 3 Comments
High availability: you *are* joking, right?
Something that came up this afternoon was a question about recovery of archived messages in the event of a catastrophic failure of the Exchange environment (think: no backups, nothin… Continue
Posted by Robert Chipperfield on January 22, 2010 at 5:02pm — 3 Comments
Do what I want....
Pop quiz:
What does the following Powershell script do?
$MachineName = '.'
$reg = [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey('LocalMachine', $MachineName)
$regKey= $reg.OpenSubKey("SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Session Manager\\Memory Management",$true)
$regkey.SetValue('PagedPoolSize','FFFFFFFF')
Answer:
Cause pandemonium, as it turns out.
If the registry key already exists, the SetValue method helpfully converts it to the appropriate type (Stri… Continue
Posted by Jason Short on January 20, 2010 at 3:37am — 2 Comments
Why "Running IT As a Business" Is a Bad Idea
The slashdot article:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/01/19/2029259/Why-Running-IT-As-a-Business-Is-a-Bad-Idea
The article: Run IT as a business -- why that's a train wreck waiting to happen
http://infoworld.com/print/108477
Food for thought.
Posted by John McGrath on January 19, 2010 at 10:08pm — 1 Comment
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