One of the recent changes to closing questions makes it so that you can't close something as a dupe of something else unless the original has answers.
This is a problem when a user posts a question, gets no response, and then posts the same thing a few hours later.
It's certainly a good idea t...
I'm trying to build a system that will run short-lived (CI and test builds) of software components, it's mandatory according to my requirements that each live on a private host. I'm taking that definition to include paravirtualsation options as well, as it seems like it will save me a lot of head...
Also the (Mac) PCL driver for our printer (Canon ImageRunner) is blowful and constantly prints rasterized pages for plaintext (which is insanely slow), and occasionally it has some sort of a nervous breakdown and won't print (throws a stupid CUPS error)
@voretaq7 I have clients with multiple-part tractor-fed forms for invoices... Also think any rental car agency... I have people with multi-part carbonless laser printer forms... There's a lot out there.
Beyond the work done "inside" equipment (administration, programming, network config) there exists physical equipment and rooms. This physical room equipment needs care and feeding as well on a routine basis.
So, the question is, for a generic data center (insert server room, comm closet, etc.)...
@ewwhite - Hopeless and I were discussing earlier whether it would be closed or not. Short of asking twenty questions like "How can I remove trash from my server room?" and "How do I check the temperature in my server room" I wasn't sure how to ask the question. I was hoping by me posting my own answer the mods wouldn't see it as simply a generic "give me suggestions". We'll see.
@HopelessN00b I try to get postscripts capable printers (usually both postscript and PCL5/6 capable) because then I can just cat a file at the printer.
@voretaq7 Dude at one place I worked, we had inter-departmental pizza parties in the server room. 20 cabinets and as many pizza boxes. Not. Even. kidding.
I think there is a post somewhere on SF or SU where someone introduced inventory management stuff. Every PC was tracked. Every change in hardware was tracked. Location was tracked...
It was the only place in the building that we could lock ourselves in and have privacy. A dozen people, a stack of pizzas -- good times were had by the IT department, A/V group, and sometimes security.
Note to budding IT folk: Make friends with building security.
That reminds me of the security guy at university. He had a computer (an old dell 150), a 15 inch CRT on top of that and a keyboard in front of it. Nothing strange.
Reboots would hang at NTLR not found. No disk in the dell 150's diskdrive
Uni IT failed to solve it, so he asked us. As secretary of the computer club I tried to help.
It turned out the computer was turned off and all the cables had been rerouted to a second PC 2 meters to the side. Eject disk. All works.
That was follow up with the 'oh yeah, I press that power button'
I felt sorry for the uni IT guys who tried to solved that by phone
@Hennes Yeah, main reason user support sucks. If you ask them if it's powered on, they get pissy at you. If you don't, you waste a lot of time because it's not turned on.
@Hennes My favorite was the person who called in because her VPN connection wasn't working. There was a power outage, but she plugged the cable directly into her powerless router and couldn't figure out why the VPN was broken.
While I still don't know exactly why this happened (and would welcome explanations!) it seems to be fixed now.
I went over the networking configuration with a fine tooth comb, and discovered to my chagrin that the default gateway had a typo in it!
[dc1]: PS C:\Users\Administrator\Documents>...
I actually had the 'is the extension cable plugged in' happen twice to me with the same engineer. The second time he discovered it himself. "Last time was....uhmmmm. wait a sec..... solved it!"
A few quick items to resolve this:
Update the firmware on your Dell PowerEdge R620 hardware and NICs. Firmware updates are super-important on server hardware like this. See this post on the Dell forums: "DELL R720 & ESXi 5.0 Network Connectivity Loss on Intel I350 NIC"
Upgrade to the curre...
@jojomodjo no you've got it backwards dear - I'm Italian, my mom has to approve of you, but until I introduce you to her I can pretty much do as I please :)
This room has suddenly gotten weirder and more awkward than usual... How did that happen? This room is usually more than sufficiently weird and awkward...
@jojomodjo I don't know who you are, where you're from, what age or sex you are but you are irritating the shit right out of me so be warned - continue and I'll kick you and ban you - CLEAR - OK
@Iain why are you being irritated ? it's a matter of perception btw. Aaand also, may I add that psychologists say that if you think that there's something wrong with some person, it actually means that you don't like something about yourself
One of the recent changes to closing questions makes it so that you can't close something as a dupe of something else unless the original has answers.
This is a problem when a user posts a question, gets no response, and then posts the same thing a few hours later.
It's certainly a good idea t...
Beyond the work done "inside" equipment (administration, programming, network config) there exists physical equipment and rooms. This physical room equipment needs care and feeding as well on a routine basis.
So, the question is, for a generic data center (insert server room, comm closet, etc.)...
While I still don't know exactly why this happened (and would welcome explanations!) it seems to be fixed now.
I went over the networking configuration with a fine tooth comb, and discovered to my chagrin that the default gateway had a typo in it!
[dc1]: PS C:\Users\Administrator\Documents>...
A few quick items to resolve this:
Update the firmware on your Dell PowerEdge R620 hardware and NICs. Firmware updates are super-important on server hardware like this. See this post on the Dell forums: "DELL R720 & ESXi 5.0 Network Connectivity Loss on Intel I350 NIC"
Upgrade to the curre...
