Posts made by wirestyle22

We use GFI Mailessentials here for filtering. A state department that we are required to work with is saying that she cannot e-mail us. It says the e-mail address does not exist. Their domain is on the white list and the white list is at the top of the priority list. We can receive e-mails from other people on her domain and I've been assured that she is typing in the e-mail correctly as per their IT department. Should I bite down on the cyanide capsule I keep in my right molar?

@scottalanmiller said:

@dafyre said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@dafyre said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@dafyre said:

@wirestyle22 said:

How many times do you guys think I need to headbutt the concrete to successfully forget the events of yesterday and today?

Has it been that bad?

It's been bad but I also have a completely crappy attitude about it today. I had a co-worker demand that I come in. They texted me at 8:15 AM and expected me to be there by 8:30 AM with no notice. Then I get there to prepare her laptop and she's not there. I text her "where are you? I'm here." and she said she borrowed an iPad from the vocational department. I'm like, gee thanks for letting me know I didn't have to come in 30 minutes early unshowered. Totally appreciate it.

Urgh. Yeah. At least you can come and vent on here and not seriously injure the person who is causing to need beer-thirty to come early.

I was also working until 10:00 PM to resolve this file server issue we were having with the Virtual Disk Service so I already felt like I was just here. I'll get over it

Yea. But we all need time away from work especially when there's no real emergency.

Not me.

I picture SAM married to a desktop PC. The question is what operating system is she running?

@dafyre said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@dafyre said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@dafyre said:

@wirestyle22 said:

How many times do you guys think I need to headbutt the concrete to successfully forget the events of yesterday and today?

Has it been that bad?

It's been bad but I also have a completely crappy attitude about it today. I had a co-worker demand that I come in. They texted me at 8:15 AM and expected me to be there by 8:30 AM with no notice. Then I get there to prepare her laptop and she's not there. I text her "where are you? I'm here." and she said she borrowed an iPad from the vocational department. I'm like, gee thanks for letting me know I didn't have to come in 30 minutes early unshowered. Totally appreciate it.

Urgh. Yeah. At least you can come and vent on here and not seriously injure the person who is causing to need beer-thirty to come early.

I was also working until 10:00 PM to resolve this file server issue we were having with the Virtual Disk Service so I already felt like I was just here. I'll get over it

Yea. But we all need time away from work especially when there's no real emergency.

I find it very difficult to separate my work and personal life. My job is also my Hobby which is great

@dafyre said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@dafyre said:

@wirestyle22 said:

How many times do you guys think I need to headbutt the concrete to successfully forget the events of yesterday and today?

Has it been that bad?

It's been bad but I also have a completely crappy attitude about it today. I had a co-worker demand that I come in. They texted me at 8:15 AM and expected me to be there by 8:30 AM with no notice. Then I get there to prepare her laptop and she's not there. I text her "where are you? I'm here." and she said she borrowed an iPad from the vocational department. I'm like, gee thanks for letting me know I didn't have to come in 30 minutes early unshowered. Totally appreciate it.

Urgh. Yeah. At least you can come and vent on here and not seriously injure the person who is causing to need beer-thirty to come early.

I was also working until 10:00 PM to resolve this file server issue we were having with the Virtual Disk Service so I already felt like I was just here. I'll get over it

@dafyre said:

@wirestyle22 said:

How many times do you guys think I need to headbutt the concrete to successfully forget the events of yesterday and today?

Has it been that bad?

It's been bad but I also have a completely crappy attitude about it today. I had a co-worker demand that I come in. They texted me at 8:15 AM and expected me to be there by 8:30 AM with no notice. Then I get there to prepare her laptop and she's not there. I text her "where are you? I'm here." and she said she borrowed an iPad from the vocational department. I'm like, gee thanks for letting me know I didn't have to come in 30 minutes early unshowered. Totally appreciate it.

@RojoLoco said:

@wirestyle22 that number is directly proportional to the thickness of your skull in nanometers. But at least 10x to get started.

I'll take the measurements for you. I expect a report on my desk by tomorrow 9:00 AM EST

How many times do you guys think I need to headbutt the concrete to successfully forget the events of yesterday and today?

Interesting stuff. I wonder how Spybot Anti-beacon will handle it.

@IT-ADMIN said:

i understand what you mean Dear Scott, but a website whether it be an application or just blog or whatever... people still consider it a website and still expect to see effect and nice design on it (i'm talking about general public),
in our days website get more and more attractive in term of effects and flash .... so these modern website has created a culture which is : a website must have at least an acceptable level of design, otherwise they will consider it a piece of scrap even if it is running a strong coding and data management system,
this is what I mean

You can have a beautiful, functional website that is composed of html tables used the right way. I know this isn't the point you're trying to make but I just want to throw it out there

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

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@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

And, one that SMBs never seem to see but I've seen a lot in the enterprise, is a failing memory chip can cause crazy stuff to happen.

Man, trouble shooting that has to be a huge pain!

Thankfully ECC memory tends to catch it. Have it happen without ECC memory and you are in deep doo doo. It can cause ANYTHING to happen. Random crashes and file corruption are most common, but the scary things are time leaps, miscalculations, and things like that.

Is there a log when ECC does it's job?

Yes, in the ILO on a Proliant.

That's very interesting as this is a ProLiant by chance. Good to know. I'm going to run a lot of tests tomorrow. It's a very odd issue. Too much to do and not enough time to do it

@scottalanmiller said:

@wirestyle22 said:

It's not even in a VM it's a standalone server. Both the file server and the backup server.

That would be the first problem

One step at a time

@Dashrender said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Who would have guessed, Backup Exec causing a problem

I'm not so sure it is now. I turned off the backup server entirely and still ran into the Virtual Disk Service Crashing

Is that crashing in the hypervisor? or inside the VM?

It's not even in a VM it's a standalone server. Both the file server and the backup server.

@scottalanmiller said:

Who would have guessed, Backup Exec causing a problem

I'm not so sure it is now. I turned off the backup server entirely and still ran into the Virtual Disk Service Crashing

@wirestyle22 said:

@Dashrender said:

Nice find - similar weird problems like my disk issue this morning causing files to have no permissions.

Okay so It was working for a bit and the Virtual Disk Service is still crashing. It also lists this in Event Viewer:

"The Service Control Manager tried to take a corrective action (Restart the service) after the unexpected termination of the Virtual Disk service, but this action failed with the following error:
An instance of the service is already running."

I am also getting a ton of Spooler errors I assume due to the service stopping and the drive being unavailable. When Virtual Disk Service is running everything is fine. It's definitely what's causing this problem but I don't know what is triggering it to die.

@Dashrender said:

Nice find - similar weird problems like my disk issue this morning causing files to have no permissions.

Okay so It was working for a bit and the Virtual Disk Service is still crashing. It also lists this in Event Viewer:

"The Service Control Manager tried to take a corrective action (Restart the service) after the unexpected termination of the Virtual Disk service, but this action failed with the following error:
An instance of the service is already running."

I am also getting a ton of spooler errors I assume due to the service stopping and the drive being unavailable.

I'm right. Something to do with Backup Exec not mounting the volume correctly on my backup server is shutting off the Virtual Disk Service. So I'm sure the server restarts the service, it works temporarily and then it turns it off again so on and so forth. Interesting problem. I turn off the backup server temporarily to test and it isn't doing that anymore.

@Breffni-Potter said:

Right, start with that.

If I had to take a guess it would be an issue with Symantec Backup Exec and mounted volumes. I'm checking though.

@Breffni-Potter said:

Windows updates? Event log entries on the file-server?

No updates applied although I just started receiving Virtual Disk Service errors in event viewer.

@Breffni-Potter said:

Excel is mean for things like this.

Been so long since I looked at it

It's really weird. I also am not getting this error on the administrator account however I do on my own personal account which is an administrator. Keep in mind no permissions options have been changed between yesterday and today. I have no idea.

@Breffni-Potter Yes it's labeled as a Microsoft Excel Worksheet (the example file--although it applies to all excel files)