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Category Archives: Simply Disastrous
Lessons in backup (RAID failure) – never underestimate the cost of data loss
Client (I’ll call then AirStuff) had around forty employees and does design and fabriaction of air handling systems. They have four “beige box” servers, each with a minimum of four 160GB SATA drives in a RAID5 array. All told in 2007 they had around 3TB of storage and were closing in on 75% utilization of [...]
Pranks have little room in IT
Hmmm … had to be back in my programming days when I would receive data tapes (from hospitals) and had to offload all the data onto a CD Jukebox device, which was “bleeding edge” tech @ that time (another story). I was trying to download data from an important client and could not get anything [...]
And here’s the reason why we don’t just hand out admin access
I walked into work one morning and the company receptionist immediately greeted me with “Mornin! Hey the network’s down.” Unfortunately it wasn’t the first time my morning as network manager started that way. I made my way to my office to dump my stuff and see what was going on. Since my office was as [...]
Kind of like a landmine, only the fallout’s more expensive
Republished with permission from our friends at the Daily WTF: He was greeted at reception by Manny, one of the upper-level directors. He got the tour– reception, sales, call center– and ended up in the kitchen. Over a free breakfast of free coffee and free muffins (all free), they signed the HR paperwork. Once he [...]
IT Fail: This is why you don’t mess with Windows logon
Republished with permission from our friends at The Daily WTF: Companies beyond a certain size all follow the same basic pattern. Where possible, everything gets centralized in the global office- email, web servers, Active Directory, etc. They dictate policy and then leave it to the extremeties to solve their own problems within the corporate boundaries. Al [...]
Shocking Experience
Firstly, let me start this submission off by stating that I myself and not an IT person, but do believe this experience is a great IT related WTF moment. I work at a Marriott hotel, where we are updating our internet service to the “fiber optic” lines that will bring our speed from like 1.5 [...]
Crapbook Pro
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This just fosters bad behavior…
I was just at a local tech conference, and of course, there were the various vendors from GFI, VMWare, HP, Microsoft, Lenovo, etc. – So, I walk up to the HP table to take a look at the new ultrabook offerings (the commercial grade unit was pretty nice, I have to say). As I’m standing [...]
The touch of death
I work in a medical facility where we run a few procedure rooms for operations, etc. The PCs in the room are outfitted with a large 40″ medical grade LCD screen for viewing high-resolution diagnostic images and/or X-Rays. At the time of this story, the screens were about 6 years old, and they have seen [...]