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A Flickr group for the MacGyver in all of us
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Ever MacGyvered an IT solution? Got photo evidence? Or did your predecessor leave you with core switches powered by an exercise bike and servers propped up with broom handles? I've created the Flickr…

Tagged: ghetto, flickr

Started this discussion. Last reply by Wesley "Nonapeptide" Mar 9.

128 SysAdmin Day photos

I thought I had seen all of the funny SysAdmin photos across the intarwebs. I was wrong. There were a few in this list that I hadn't seen before: http://acidcow.com/pics/3305-happy_sysadmi gems inclu…

Tagged: Day, SysAdmin

Started Feb 16

2010 IT Dinosaur Awards!
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http://www.bigfix.com/dinoawards/ Scraped from the above webpage: It’s open season on enterprise IT evolutionary throwbacks with BigFix’s 2010 IT Dinosaur Awards Video Contest.So charge up your "Fl…

Tagged: dinosaur, hardware, IT

Started this discussion. Last reply by Matt Simmons Feb 9.

Sun to de-emphasize "low end commodity servers"; Focus instead on SPARC
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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 this discussion. Last reply by Robert Chipperfield Jan 27.

 

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:: raises eyebrow :: So you know that she spells her name with only one "t" huh? I was about to correct you, but Googled it and found out I was wrong. *tsk* *tsk* =)
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I've got 10 feet of speaker wire and a spare car battery in the garage. What can I do? =) I'll take a look at that camb-hams blog and glean some knowledge from it. I've always wondered about those houses in the various cities I've lived in that had…
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How expensive is this hobby? You've intrigued me.
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Oops, my original Bit.ly link was borked. The correct one is: http://bit.ly/9DaGqp I've updated the original post to reflect this.
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Text message your mom a heart right now. =)
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Not until I'm done siphoning off all your MP3s. Shouldn't be too much longer since I'm not taking any of your disturbingly large collection of Brittney Spears remixes. =P
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Yeah, sure. Messed up software solutions are welcomed as well. Like... database monitoring scripts that insert data and drop it to see if the connection is up. Whatever. The group's direction is determined by its members so make it whatever you want…
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I don't really have anymore pictures of ghetto hardware unfortunately (but only unfortunate in this context!). But I've still got shaky software out there; maybe some screen shots? Or is that too boring?
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Ever MacGyvered an IT solution? Got photo evidence? Or did your predecessor leave you with core switches powered by an exercise bike and servers propped up with broom handles? I've created the Flickr group for you: "Ghetto IT" http://bit.ly/9baZQI T…
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Mine is a rather funny story that I might retell in detail some day (even if it doesn't reflect so well on me). Until then I'll give it to you all in capsule form: I was shockingly content to wake up at noon and watch TV all day. That was placated…
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Windows, Linux, Networking, haxoring, chess, weatabix
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APC creates unobtrusive equipment racks that look like furniture.

This is basically a copy and paste from my own blog, but I wanted to get some targeted feedback from fellow admins on this topic.

Plenty of admins/consultants have to deal with small offices and branch offices that need a server or three, a firewall and maybe some switches. But where to put them? Usually those devices end up being bunkmates with mops and 5-gallon containers of Janitor in a Drum. However, APC has created their NetShelter CX series that looks like an unobtrusive pieces of office… Continue

Posted on November 3, 2009 at 1:30am — 4 Comments

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Small Office Disaster Recovery == Disaster (--Recovery)

The office is small. Really small. So small that you can answer the front door with one hand while you use the other hand to spray roach repellent around the back door. The mobile workforce that the office directly supports is equally small and I'm partially responsible for supporting both of them. I say "partially" because I work part time... on a volunteer basis... from 1,000 miles away. The remaining part of the time that I'm not helping the office the users create their own "solutions". By "… Continue

Posted on October 20, 2009 at 6:56pm —

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I'm new and I'm creating Zombies

Being a new member here, I feel a bit like a kid in a candy store. Except I'm hypoglycemic. So I feel like a kid in a GNC store with a coupon for $5 off BioChem Whey Protein. Excuse me while I resurrect dead threads and dig up some zombie blog posts with my comments. Except my Zombies don't want brains. They want desktop manufacturers to stop offering PS/2 keyboards and mice.

If anyone can explain why PS/2 equipment hasn't yet been banned by the UN, WTO, EU and FCCC please comment.

Posted on October 19, 2009 at 8:14pm — 2 Comments

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At 10:49am on March 5, 2010, Richard Holloway said…
Hi Wesley, thanks for pointing Baca at my forum post. Nice to see new recruits joining in right from the off.
At 1:56pm on March 3, 2010, Chris Massey said…
Hehe - Thanks! I live pretty near the River Cam, so once the weather warms up I'll see what I can do :-D
At 2:12pm on February 10, 2010, Dan Yasny said…
Software Maintenance Engineer is a mix of sysadmin, professional services, QA and T4 support :) and I've no RHT certs yet - no time for those
At 2:24pm on January 20, 2010, alberto jose monteiro said…
OK, thanks to be a part of group, i wish to learn a lot from you guys and teach the litle experience that i have.
At 5:02am on January 19, 2010, sajinkumar said…
No dear..idn't hav.............
At 4:34pm on January 18, 2010, Elizabeth Ayer said…
Michael made a lot of work for you today! :-)
At 9:04pm on January 14, 2010, Vassilis Kyvelos said…
MM3 is an outlook alternative for fax, telex, electronic mail
and maritime data communications for Windows networks.
Its basic difference from outlook is that is using a central database for multiple users using one e-mail account
So assuming we have a chartering department with x number of charterers under the chartering@shipping-co email
Anyone of them can deal with a client and every time he reads or replies to an email send or recieved the rest in the chartering department are informed on the progress and the content of it so anyone can carry on the job knowing the whole story so far
More info on http://www.messagemanager3.com/MM3%20OVERVIEW.PDF

By the way I'm interested if anyone here is using it

king regards vassilis
At 5:47am on December 12, 2009, Ayman Hashesh said…
Hi Wesley

thanks for your comment
Trixbox CE Free version is basic VOIP solution .. working fine for me for
the last year
i don`t have much experience with Linux systems which the Trix-box operating
on .. but it doesn`t need voodoo knowledge of Linux
At 2:47pm on December 4, 2009, Graycat said…
Yo, Big W! How goes it? Just send you a "I'm not stalking you" message on SFDC and here you are stalking me. :o)
At 8:54am on December 4, 2009, Venkatesh Arumugham said…
Thank you very much Wesley
 
 
 

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