The Case Of The First Problem Revisited
Dale“Have you got any idea on why this stupid postscript driver for the digital printer/copier keeps spitting out the output below?” ‘Yes, the printer does not have the postscript option…
“I have a user on site that has over 20gig in a CSC folder in windows”
In a Windows 7 Administration course today, I was telling this story, which my fellow students thought was hilarious. Back in early 2007, this email forwarded along to me for…
“I recommend we build a tracking database”
I am always reminded of this Dilbert cartoon whenever a customer has a large complex problem at work, and some genius suggests “We’ll build a database”. Or frequently, we’ll implement…
“What is this ‘Furphy’ you refer to?
Or when I stopped using Australian slang in international telephone calls. May 22, 2003. When the CA Unicenter Remote Product started up on Windows 98SE, it would do a network…
“It is better to have and not need, than need and not have.”
As I said to the boss the other day when he asked if we wanted a final backup of the Windows 2000 Server we were decommissioning. Now where I first…
Backup mistakes I’ve made.
Confessions can be good. Here are mine around backup mistakes I’ve made. Copy “new” backup disk over the “old” backup disk. The “new” disk was blank! I (almost) “lost” 5…
Tape backup, reliable? Never ever!
Or how tape backups have failed my customers over the years, and wasted our collective time, because of customer stupidity. Melted tapes The school which stored their entire backup…
Leaving Geocities: “This website has won No Awards at all”
With Geocities shutting down, I had to move the CTOS Faq site. CTOS, my friends, was an kick-ass operating system which was released in 1979, and was supported for 20…
The mighty IBM 3800
Laser printers use two types of fusion to fuse toner to paper, hot fusion, and cold fusion. I’ve only seen cold fusion used once. StorageTek used to make mainframe printers…
Everything goes in circles: Cash Dye Bombs
Back when I was a spotty faced bank teller, banks in Australia had stopped using cash dye bombs. “Spoil the prize, and you spoil the crime.” was the theory with…