Today was my first day at my new job.
Wow.
There are going to be many many moons required to whip this network into any respectable shape. They have been without a full time admin for way too long and it shows. I plan on taking pictures of the current physical state as well as [...]
Category Archive for 'Computers'
I want more Fibre in my daily life!
Not the kind that tears up my intestines but the kind that brings goodness to my house. The wife and I were out walking and I noticed that there are white pipes with orange caps poking up out of the ground and the main road .8 miles [...]
I run a server at home to store our files and act as a print server as well as my iTunes streaming server and run an automated installer off it to reinstall our Windows workstations. I have two RAID cards in it and a whopping 360GB of usable space across 4 hard drives (2 [...]
Readers of this blog have seen a few stories on how the wife and I are trying to conserve energy at our house while still living our life. One of the biggest power draws in our house is the home server I have. I am a network guy so I have computers every [...]
I snapped the H key off the keyboard of my laptop. My finger caught under the edge of the key as I was typing and PING the little sucker went flying across the desk. Nuts! After an inspection the key has 4 connectors the two at the top need to go in [...]
Google Plane
Posted in Computers, Observations on Feb 7th, 2008
The wife and I were out looking at houses tonight and found one that we really liked. I was checking out the satellite photos on Google Maps when we got home and noticed something in the trees. Zoomed in on the mark and saw it is an airplane in the shot!
MacBook Pro
Posted in Computers on Sep 4th, 2007
I have had one for about a week now. My boss decided that I should have a MacBook in my hand and order one up and so my new laptop is at no cost to me, how can one complain about that?! It is probably the nicest piece of hardware I [...]
Three weeks ago I had implemented a power saving policy to my company’s network. After 10 minutes of inactivity the monitor turns off. The monitor will come back on as soon as you hit a key or wiggle the mouse. Regardless, this has all cause some problems with people in the company. [...]