Mr. Bump on Feb 9th, 2009Shootin Ducks On A Pond
Sometimes finding something to write about is difficult. Other times ideas just fall into your lap.
If you use virtualization, do yourself a tremendous favor and run memtest86 or memtest86+ on your server before it goes into production. We’ve been fighting an ESX server Purple Screen of Death problem for three or four weeks to long […]
Mr. Bump on Nov 17th, 2008On A Hot Streak
I’ve been on a mini hot streak going back to Friday when it comes to solving little nagging problems around the work place. It started with McAfee Groupshield notifications not working. Got that working. Then came a little networking issue involving tagged and untagged port configuration on a switch. Got that working. Then tonight I […]
Mr. Bump on Aug 25th, 2008What Is This? Amateur Hour?
Back in April the place where my wife works (a very small non-profit) had some hardware problems with their only server. They contract IT services though a company that claims to be some sort of “net standard.” These people came out and spent weeks troubleshooting the server, ordering a new one, configuring it and restoring […]