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Awwww, that brings back some memories! :o) unfortunately we disposed of all our HP machines that are so old and big they had wheels. I'll try and get a pic of the phone system though as it's running on a squashed 386 and hasn't been rebooted in abou…
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Running an old Informix database for a legacy service. Current uptime is almost 3 months. not so much. We'll shut it down probably in a few weeks for an electric maintenance job. I have to say that is my favorite server, I even write a blog entry pr…
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Wow! What's it doing? Also, what's it's current uptime (i.e., how long has it been since a reboot)?
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Graycat

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.

Mohammed Adel

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.

Wesley "Nonapeptide"

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.

Matt Simmons

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.

Blog Posts

Robert Chipperfield

Clustering and replication: the data loss vs. downtime tradeoff

Yesterday I was speaking to a potential customer who was interested in how email archiving could be integrated with their Exchange replication technology. Which got me thinking...

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

Robert Chipperfield

High availability: you *are* joking, right?

At the moment, I'm working in Red Gate's Exchange Server Archiver team. One of the great things about the way we work is that I sit just across from Scott, who's one of our sales guys, so as a developer I get to hear what customers and potential customers are asking about, what they wish we did, and what they love.

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

Jason Short

Do what I want....

And not what I tell you to do!

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

John McGrath

Why "Running IT As a Business" Is a Bad Idea

Slashdot had a an interesting article regarding the way IT departments are run...

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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