What’s that burning smell…
by Colin • Sat 27th Feb, 2010 • Geek, Ramblings
Why do the problems always occur to the company’s major-important systems?
So today, We have fixed another problem with our (PITA) “Case Management System”
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Why do the problems always occur to the company’s major-important systems?
So today, We have fixed another problem with our (PITA) “Case Management System”
Read more → So, that’s another mini-project “started”
At 10am this morning, we started the initial setup of a Blackberry Enterprise solution in with us. This you would normally think would be dead simple, Throw in the box and configure it, then open a few ports in a firewall and away you go.
Well, our network is not that [...]
Ha! Just been informed that our Disaster Recovery site in Antrim is flooded.
So that’s a couple grands worth of equipment fried/dead/BER
What a way to start the weekend
So I now have to finish my lunch (which I was having late today) and drive from Belfast, up to Antrim to “get on the ball” and [...]
Right, so after many many hours of Left 4 Dead 2 with a few friends on Steam we have came across some interesting facts. This has been noted on our steam community servers which are running Sourcemod with the country code mod enabled.
The French seem to be the biggest country with “RageQuitters”, but this could [...]
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So anyhow I haven’t really been “updating” the site since mid 2008, and its now January 2010 so that’s about a year and a half of inactivity on the website.. but I haven’t been sitting on my ass doing nothing!
I am going to blame most of the silence on the workload in [...]
Talk about a leave of absence! Have not been near this site since early February bar the occasional upgrade to WordPress itself.
So its re-cap time, Apologies to anyone who landed on the site when they googled the 554 error. I encountered it during December a few days before I created the rant [...]
I have always wondered how some people manage to forget their passwords after 3 days.
Hell, I have had people change their password, then forget it less than an hour later!
I would see past it if we were strict with passwords and had them set to something like Bk3@~99Dra$1 and you had to write the [...]
Okay, strange post of sorts coming up.
Every so often I have came across a computer (or in this case a server) which through no reason decides that it has to blue-screen at random, the wonderful BSOD.
We have a nice 12 server Citrix Farm, but 2 of these servers are based in our off-site disaster recovery [...]