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LOL, I know just what you mean! There was talk of putting the servers in my office when we moved here and I said I wanted them put in a sound-proofed section of the room if they did that. At the old building the servers, cabling, switches, etc. were in closed-off rooms (2) with raised flooring, no windows, etc., and not only would I get sleepy but nauseus as well, as would others who spent much time in the rooms. Now I have a tight little wiring closet and a big well-ventilated server "area" instead and I can be with the servers for hours without a problem.

But, ummm, pr0n star? I think we need a story. :D

Marla you would have loved the fiasco we had here at work on monday. We have 2 Windows 2000 servers one for web applications and one as a file server. Well every weekend we make tape backups of everything on the file server which is close to almost 120GB. Well i guess on sunday one of the external tape drives caused an error on our server and screwed up the whole network it wiped out all of the network protocols and crashed 2 of the RAID drives. The IT people that management hires always end up getting fired. So we have contract IT people who know nothing about AutoCad and other engineering software. But we were unable to do anything untill tuesday after lunch.

WOW. That is a mess. I've never heard of a backup drive taking out the network protocols, but computers always keep throwing up new errors to keep things interesting. I had a report suddenly fail yesterday morning that had been running fine for months, and after troubleshooting it all day, I got it working by adding an extra data field to it -- still don't know why that fixed it, but it did. Another report truncates the title IF it's printed from one particular workstation, regardless of which printer is used, but doesn't truncate from anywhere else and no other report titles are truncated from that workstation, even longer titles -- how does that make sense? Gotta love the opportunities for error in a complex system. :)

The problem here is some of our work stations are still running on NT mainly the office personel, some run on Windows 2000 these are the engineers and most of the Cad Techs. Then we have a few new workstations that run Windows XP. So we got service packs galore around here. I use a program called Land Developement Desktop and this program just gobbles up memory. We use this program to make drawings. And each drawing is at least 4MB which dont sound that big but when you put like 1200 on a server it really bogs it down. AutoCad has some funny bugs in it too. Like when you use a logitech mouse you can use the wheel to pan and zoom. But when you use the newest drivers you loose that ability. And just for fun AutoCad throws in a fatal error and you lose your work if your autosave wasnt working. Sometimes you get a fatal error on the exact same command in the exact same drawing every time.

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But, ummm, pr0n star? I think we need a story.

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That caught my attention too....fess up Smulkin, can't leave us hangin, gotta elaborate on that one!!

I thought I recognized someone in that Paris Hilton video.... :lol:

Damien, yeah, we run a mixed environment here, too, mostly Win 2K but also Linux, a few NT and XP, and a couple of 95 boxes for essential apps that won't run under anything else. We also have to support CAD for engineering schematics, though we don't need as heavy a hitter as AutoCAD for that fortunately. We do have to store the schematics, though, and have a database front end to them as well.

I beat people up.















That was just a joke of course. I'm in the Safety and Security business. Supervise night security on campus :D

I buy:
turkey s**t
bull s**t
and chicken s**t
for a living.
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steer manure
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