It started with no video output, and ended with a non-booting computer with an unreadable external hard drive and potentially unusable RAID array. Yeah that’s not good. Yesterday evening my monitors went blank. An hour of troubleshooting left me with the determination that my “good” video card had failed. I removed it and was able [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Tech'
VMWare Server 2 and Windows 2003
June 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · General
A couple times now in the past several months I’ve needed to install or upgrade VMWare Server 2 running on Windows 2003 and ran into a problem that takes a little while to re-discover the solution for. This is for future reference and to help others that may hit this in the future. The problem is [...]
Tags: Tech
FogBugz on Windows Small Business Server 2008
February 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · General
I recently installed FogBugz 6 on 64-bit Windows Small Business Server 2008, and boy was it interesting. I’ll first note that I’ve had excellent installations and upgrades of FogBugz in the past, so this really caught me off guard and took a while to figure out what was going wrong. Second, after finding out what the [...]
iTunes is iAnnoying
December 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment · General
Too bad the iPhone makes you get sucked into the world if iTunes – because it sucks. I knew this going in, but it still isn’t fun when the limitations smack you in the face. The limitation of which I speak is its inability to detect new files in its directories, automatically update its library [...]
Ammo and… backups?
November 26th, 2008 · 6 Comments · General
OK, just a few more words about my data backups. Last week I ordered a few Army Surplus, 30 Caliber Ammo Cans, they arrived today. What the heck are these for, you ask? Well I thought they could make a great way to transport and store the hard drives I’m going to be rotating off-site. So [...]
iPhone
November 24th, 2008 · 6 Comments · General
My 2.5 year-long haitus from being connected on-the-go is over. I finally took the plunge and switched from Sprint to AT&T and bought an iPhone (8GB). Sprint has provided great service over the past 5+ years, but their phone selection has been lacking. Sorry, Sprint, the HTC Touch Pro and/or Diamond just don’t compare.
Backups and my first foray into PowerShell
November 18th, 2008 · 4 Comments · General
First, some background. Last week I received the final pieces of my backup strategy, a pair of 500 GB hard drives that I will be rotating periodically to some undisclosed location that isn’t my house. Right now, my fileserver makes backups and sticks them on a mirrored RAID array. These drives are simply to hold [...]
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Heights and XM Radio
November 8th, 2008 · Comments Off · General
A couple of months ago I purchased a Terk XM6 XM Radio Antenna because the reception I have been getting in the office has been poor and unpredictable. Due to some procrastination, the new antenna has been sitting in its packaging waiting to be installed ever since. Until today. This morning I decided it was [...]
