Category: System Administration
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INB352 Network Planning links
These are just for my study reference for a network design / planning subject I’m doing at Uni. Routing Protocol Selection Testking CCSP 642-515 Exam Questions Network Planning and Design Guide Introduction to WAN Architectures – very handy reference…
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Remote KVM Cards & Modular Servers
I had to install a PCI remote KVM card into a client’s server this afternoon. Oh how difficult that was!!! So, servers these days, are 99% of the time modular in every single way… The problem I’m getting to here, is that, you no longer have separate cables for your power, reset, HDD, etc etc…
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TeamViewer $$^$&$##$!!!!
TeamViewer really doesn’t work too well if your connecting to a remote client and you need to test out their VPN connection… Trust me… As soon as that VPN connection is established, you lose your TeamViewer connection and have to wait for the client to re-establish it’s connection, before you can reconnect. Heck, if you…
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Server Recovery with Acronis
My boss forwarded me some emails from one of our client’s servers, dead disk, the usual. Get to the server, and it’s got nothing on the screen, typical… Reboot, no logical disks configured on the pov Promise RAID controller… Great. Luckily for us, we run Acronis TrueImage on this client’s servers, which practically does a…
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Netgear GA311 driver install weirdness?
Today’s weird tech problem, I had to replace a network card in a client’s machine today. Simple, right? The card was a Netgear GA311, running a Realtek 8169 chipset. The chipset probably wouldn’t matter much, if I didn’t have so many bloody problems. So I installed the hardware, and booted up into Windows XP. The…
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October 22nd!
Windows 7!!!!!! I’ve been using Windows 7 for a few months now, albeit virtualised, on my Mac, but I’ve been quite impressed with it. Running on a mere 1GB of memory, virtualised, it’s “nice”. Today I upgraded one of our client’s machines to 7, using a fresh clean install of Windows 7 Pro, from REAL…
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Mousey mousey!
I’m a Mac convert. I have been working with Windows since 2003, and was always the Windows guy blah blah blah. Until I started using Linux more and more for my previous job and reluctantly signing up for an iPhone, that is. So I bought a MacBook Pro about 3 months ago, and now I’m…
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Exchange 2003 SMTP DATA command bug
This is an extract from a log file I’m looking at right now for an Exchange 2003 SMTP service… I sure as hell hope there’s just a patch missing, otherwise, this could be one NASTY bug. It appears as if the DATA section of the SMTP session has been escaped, possibly by inclusion of the…
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TeamViewer for Remote Support
We’ve been using TeamViewer here to remotely connect to clients for about 2 months now. To say we have been impressed is an understatement. The ease that we we can connect to a client’s machine and take over their session has enabled us to provide support services to clients we would otherwise had to have…