Gene writes: Hey Mike, continuing to enjoy the blog you have going. Quick question. Do you use or know of a “ticketing” type system that can be used to keep track of issues/equipment and such? Or do you just use the paper and outlook method (which is what I’m currently using) I’ve looked on a…
A little explanation today, as background to the bizarre fax we got this morning. We don’t have a traditional ISP, we have a company that we are partnered with, who provided a consultant about 6 years ago to put together our computer network. (Before I worked here). We’ve simply thrown up a fractional T1 between…
Speaking of big stinks, I just had to replace a monitor upstairs. I knew as soon as I hit that hallway that it had shorted, the odor was a definite give away. Luckily we had an extra sitting at an empty cubicle, so I didn’t have to run out and buy one on the spot….
Today is obviously just “one of those days”. I guess I should have known that when I got up early to drop my car off for service and there was no one there. The place is just 2 blocks from my office, so it’s an ideal place to drop the car, walk to work, and…
New DIMM arrived this morning, bright and early. 🙂 (Get it?? ok it was dumb, I know) Got it installed on the machine and tried restoring with the new restore CD. Still crashed! Went back to using the old CD, and it restored fine and dandy. So much for the guy who told me that…
Next!!! Got the new version of the Restore CD from Compaq, started the restore process, and wham! Crash-ola! Blue Screens, illegal operations, unrecoverable errors. Guess it wasn’t old versions of the cd that caused the crashes, eh? Well after running through various diagnostics for an hour or so with Andy, from Compaq, (who was actually…