To clarify, it's FedEx testing, not Staples. Staples doesn't care.

So @PSX_Defector and I did a deal. I had watched his house for him while he was out-of-state in July and so he was gonna pay me some $$ (in addition to wiping out a little $$ I owed him). Well, he happened to have a Dell Poweredge 2850 that he'd picked up years ago. It's got 2xDual-core Xeon CPUs, 2GB DDR2-ECC RAM. It's got 4 slots free. He's got some drives he's gonna give me that are laying around his house, when he finds them. Right now I have two 147gB 10k RPM SCSI drives. My plan is to run JBOD for now. Why? This server is going to be for dev/test. If a server fails, who cares?

The plan is to get more RAM on Newegg (DDR2 PC5300 ECC) and get it up to maybe 12GB (6x2GB). The RAM is about $100. I just need to get one of those IKEA tables that are raved about so much and I'll be good.

I'm planning to start learning SQL, Exchange and Server 2012 some more. Any other suggestions?

Thanks!
A.J.

I always have a hard time picking this one. I have a list of around 10 that I keep as my top 10. That list includes (in no particular order):

The Shawshank Redemption
V for Vendetta
The Princess Bride
The Green Mile
Up
The Last Samurai
Forrest Gump
The Muppet Movie
The Great Muppet Caper
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

The ones in bold are the ones for sure. The others I kind of thought of now but the others are definites and have been considered over time and many times.

And the symbols.

Also, the job I applied for, the owner is a friend of a friend. Someone he used to work with. He was kind enough to send an email for me to the guy and recommend me. I'll be calling the guy I interviewed with tomorrow to follow up!

So I'm posting this as reference for anyone having a similar issue.

I just did a copy from my NAS to my PC of a couple movies. I went to rename one of the folders to my standard naming convention after the move and couldn't rename it. I was somewhat confused. I could open it, browse inside it, create a new folder inside it, but I couldn't rename it. Okay, so I created a new folder with the name I wanted and moved the file inside to the new folder. However, now I have this ugly folder mucking up my clean list of folders.

Here is where it gets interesting. I try Shift+Del, so I can delete it, and it doesn't give me the prompt to confirm I want to permanently delete the file. Simply put, nothing is deleting. Ok, let's go CMD. I try an RMDIR on it. Nope. It keeps telling me it cannot find the specified folder. When I tried deleting it, I get the same error, with the "Try Again" option listed. However, if I cancel out, I can open the directory. I run a dir command at CMD and the directory does indeed show. However, I still cannot, by any means under heaven, delete the directory.

I run a Google search and came across what worked out to be the solution. On the same folder, I ran
dir /x
...which shows the 8.3 naming. My folder was "Despicable Me 2 2013 extra garbage here". The 8.3 name was "DESPIC~1". Running a...
rmdir "DESPIC~1"
...finally allowed me to delete the folder! I had tried rebooting, to see if there was some weird caching issue. Besides, when Windows acts weird, rebooting is always your first step.

Anyways, I got it fixed but it was a real pain! Hope this helps someone else!

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO): Net Neutrality

Saw this video and wow! Just spot on! It's a little over 13 minutes long and worth every moment! Once you watch it, go here:

http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/upload/begin?procName=14-28&filedFrom=X

Thoughts?

I just wanted to find out if it was just me. I've been having issues with the site locking up and being rendered unusable. Sometimes a refresh fixes it, other times it just takes waiting and refreshing until it works. It's been happening more and more lately. Anyone else?

@scottalanmiller said in Overthinkers Drawn to IT?:

I think that that seems likely. IT requires a lot of analytical thinking so naturally analytical people will be drawn to it.

I would agree. When you can have something being blocked at the network level by the firewall, at the computer level by the security software, by a third-party filtering service, etc, I feel like IT draws people who like constantly juggling six different things and who enjoy things that are constantly getting added as potential variables. It's maddening but when you finally figure out the solution to that complex problem, it's a rush that I can't even describe to people...

DBAN always works for me.

@technobabble said:

automagically

One I very much like as well.

@steve said:

Imaging is still in process. It takes a surprisingly long time to image these systems.

You know, it's funny that you guys run Ubuntu because @scottalanmiller always rides me for running a Ubuntu web server and not a CentOS one. HA!

@dafyre said in Looking for Highshool IT Intern:

Who was it that had to treat their kid to a lobster dinner for thinking about the firewall... She might enjoy that.

@acs77043

@Carnival-Boy said:

We have some software & hardware that will only run on Windows XP, and the XP PCs they are currently running on are getting very old. I'd like to replace the PCs with new ones. I've tried installing XP on a brand new HP PC and it just blue screens almost immediately after starting to run the setup program.

I don't think virtualisation is the answer, because the software using special hardware installed in a PCI slot, so the OS needs to run on bare metal.

Is it generally possible to install XP on new PCs, or am I on a hiding to nothing and should give up trying?

Have you checked to make sure UEFI is turned off and that Legacy Mode is turned on?

does happy dance

@steve said:

@ajstringham custom application and Ubuntu is its specific target platform. All of the core team's testing is on it. It's not like a generic web server where you'd want the optimum OS. This is a specific OS to application pairing.

Now you sound like @scottalanmiller

@Michaelnp500 said in Looking for Highshool IT Intern:

@scottalanmiller Starting out, my short term goal with AT&T is increasingly gaining experience in their sales department, helping customers out in the store. My long term goal would be working with customers over the phone in a call center or via email and live chat, being a problem solver for questions and or issues they are experiencing.

The same would have to go for Apple, but because we do not have an Apple store here, gaining experience elsewhere would be great to show on my resume, and to get references that can discuss my personality when it comes to customer service as that is what Apple is seeking for employees. I currently have volunteer experience helping Apple product owners on a forum, totally voluntary as I am also on there asking my own questions. I have owned Apple products since at least 2006 if not a year or two before then. I now have experience with more in depth questions when it comes to fixing Apple iPhones, not your basic issues. Technology is something I most definitely enjoy, as well as customer service.

Call centers are where you will gain lots of experience, but a true call center will kill your soul. Forewarning...

@technobabble said:

On ODfB I keep website backups for my clients. I have done this since day one.

ODfB doesn't like to sync these files, but I usually ignore the errors. I have never found a place for ODfB to allow these files to be synced unless I zip the client's website backup folder.

I would say zip it then. It'd be easier to manage at least.

@scottalanmiller said:

@garak0410 I was tempted to get Goat Simulator, it was so cheap. But it's not my sort if thing and I resisted.

Same here, but same here. Lol

@scottalanmiller said:

Wouldn't surprise me. We are already a society obsessed with cats and writing on walls.