So this week has been pretty mellow. Today we're down two people. It's just me and the new guy. (Freshly minted ITT Tech graduate) One of the T1s is down, two users need files from hard drive images one of which doesn't exist so I'll have to dig through physical hard drives, a user is coming in to get their laptop replaced, and with any luck there ( Read more... )

So at my work we have a mission critical server. But it's kind of a black box, kind of not. In an effort to make it less a black box, my manager has handed me the task of building the testing version of the server. It will be installed on the same Dell hardware, and use the same Red Hat 4 OS (Read: Ancient version of Red Hat). Dell and Red Hat. All ( Read more... )

Ran across this comment today ( Read more... )

Microsoft seems to be lamenting the fact that they've given us as many tools as they have for free. One of the nice features of Active Directory is the ability to push out applications without having to stop off at every single computer. The trick is that you can't push out an exe, you have to push out an msi. So for the longest time, Microsoft ( Read more... )

So I needed to get some stuff off of a 250 gig drive that I'm probably not going to put in the FreeNAS box. So I got a little hard drive to USB adapter thingey and away I go, right? ... Right? No. Windows XP doesn't see dick when I plug it in. Fine, maybe XP is old or something. Go to the Windows 7 laptop. Same thing. Fine, maybe Windows is just ( Read more... )

So the upgrades are almost complete. My entire network, lovingly called Skynet, is losing the behemoth that is Guybrush. Donating that machine to Kellic and whatever project it is that he's working on. A good, solid machine with plenty of processing power. Unfortunately not the kind of horsepower I want though. Guybrush's replacement as I have ( Read more... )

So we've got users who remote desktop in to a server and use a program on the server. The program saves a version of the config file in the user's directory so their settings will be saved. Pretty basic stuff. For some unknown reason, one of our users has lost their config file. No problem. Copy over an already customized config file and ( Read more... )

I got my new 8 gig Imation flash drives today. Oh are they sexy. Easily fit vertically inside a 1U chassis. Also they're meant to grip on to the USB port that they're plugged in to, I would assume that's to make sure that you think before you yank. I dunno. Anyways, I'm happy so far. I'm going to install FreeNAS on to one right now. I know how to ( Read more... )

No really, the movie only gets better the more you see it.

So I've been talking to other peeps and apparently doing the whole "install ESXi to a thumbdrive" is a pretty popular route. I had just been experimenting with getting FreeNAS working from a thumbdrive. Just had a kernel panic. What caused it? Well the drive went bad. It's an old 2 gig Microcenter brand drive. Yeah, there's nothing on it anymore ( Read more... )