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Top of Page Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ This from my friend Cricket... Peter, OK, it's updated. Stay tuned for the next exciting episode. Which is... "Memorable Quotes from Alt.Sysadmin.Recovery" (which I'm baldly ripping off from .zannah.) has some true gems, along with a heaping helping of obscure adminis-trivia. You'll find Microsoft-haters to be well-represented, as well as (l)user-hostile BOFH types. Highy entertaining for nerds and nerd-wannabes. A few of my personal favorites... I never really understood how there could be things that would drive you insane just because you knew them until I ran into Windows. -- Peter da Silva
[A]ctually it was almost in final approach, and the hydraulic assist unit for the rudder decided, "Hmm. I think the rudder would really rather be...all the way to the LEFT. Oh, no, wait, the pilot's telling me this is not the case. Screw him, he never listens to *us*. I'll show HIM. HOW'S IT FEEL, YOU SANCTIMONIOUS LITTLE HAT-WEARING WANKER?" This is why I refuse to get on 737s. Hydraulic assist thingummies apparently get crotchety in their old age, and in dog years, most 737s are dead. -- Carl Jacobs
And if you know *precisely* where it is, you can be guaranteed that it's not a Heisentowel. -- Unk. |
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Top of Page Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Yesterday a client's only server crashed completely, wiping out the partition table on the only hard disk. It was Not A Good Day. And unfortunately, since this company is organized no better than most other small businesses, including the one where I work, someone had lost or discarded that vital Box-O-Stuf that should accompany every server until its retirement. Y'know, the installation media and licenses for all the software on it, along with any miscellaneous little things that seem good to keep there. And even more unfortunately, they hadn't installed a tape backup system. So I've been trying since around lunch time yesterday to rebuild a little Compaq ProLinea ML330, without the use of that nifty little Compaq SmartStart CD. Yes, it can be done, and Compaq's phone support (for dealers, anyway) is still reasonably prompt and knowledgeable. I have no complaints of them in this situation, and I've called three or four times on this so far. So I got the whole thing more or less together last night, with NT Service Pack 6a, and Exchange 5.5 plus its Service Pack 4, plus a bunch of Compaq software, then around 11:00 p.m. I called it a night. This morning I tried to upgrade the Internet Explorer from the version 3 that comes with NT. And things got ugly again. Crash. Try to repair the installation with the emergency recovery disk I made during installation. Crash some more. Try to recover without the emergency recovery disk. Crash a bit less, and now we're back to the NT Service Pack 1 level where we started. And when it boots, it crawls. Task Manager says that two processes are eating up all the CPU time: services.exe and lsass.exe. Can't kill 'em. Need 'em to run the machine, I assume. Meanwhile, everything else has to struggle to grab a CPU cycle every so often. ARRRGH! So I'm trying to crawl through a service pack install... it'll take as long as it takes, I guess. And if and when THAT fails to please, it's back once again to FDISK. I love my life. I note, parenthetically, that Compaq's new low-end servers have IDE hard disk controllers rather than SCSI. I'd heard of this phenomenon of using cheap, desktop-style hardware on little servers, but this is the first time I've |
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