Archive for July, 2011
Pasword issues…
Jul 20th
We got numerous positive responses on yesterdays funny post so here is another insane Windows error messages… You try changing your password with these crazy policies! Seriously WTFluck?!
Do you work at a help desk? Jealous of what this pop-up gets to say?
Jul 19th
So all kidding aside this is a real pop-up on a real website when a real person tried to click the good old “Forgot Password” button. Now if I am clicking on that – do you really think I can use my existing password to login? I mean really… Sheeeesh!
[Via TheDailyWTF]
Blast from the past 2008: It’s an Admin’s worst nightmare (well one of them).
Jul 19th
The information published below on AtA 3 years ago today still rings true. Check it out:
It’s an Admin’s worst nightmare (well one of them).
A server’s system disk is quickly running out of space for no apparent reason. You know that when the system drive fills the server is going to shut down and you’re going to have a lot of unhappy users. You need to find out what is taking up so much space.
There are several tools for looking around your drive and getting a visual image of what is on it. Tools like WinDirStat, Folder Size and TreeSize all do a nice job of showing you where all that space is going.
But sometimes you need a quick and dirty tool and (if you’re like me) you don’t want to install something on your servers unless you really need to.
That’s one great thing about SequoiaView, it gives you a nice visual map of any drive or folder without installing anything. Download the zipped version, unzip it and run the executable. There’s nothing to install or risk messing up your servers with. Delete the whole folder when you are done and there’s no trace of it.
Of course, I am using JFFNMS to monitor my network so I was able to learn about this impending disaster early enough to do something about it. In my case – I had forgotten to reconfigure the IIS logging on my Exchange server, so the OWA logs were slowly filling up the system drive since they default to Windows\System32\LogFiles.
What do you use to monitor disk space on your servers? Do you have any horror stories to share with AtA? Well that is what the comments are for!
Review: HP Probook 4430s – Cheap but awesome!
Jul 11th
We received an HP ProBook 4430s a few weeks back and have been putting it through the vigirous AtA tests. Long story short – we absolutely love it. Starting with its not plastic – aluminum gun metal type body – it is awesome. It does not feel cheap or look like you are going to break it. Aren’t laptops fragile enough without cheaping out on the case?
The LED backlit display is very nice and bright. The system ships with a USB 3.0 port which we quickly put to use connecting a WD Portable 2TB Hard Drive.
The processor on the laptop is a core i3 running at 2.1 ghz, the system ships with 4gb of ram and a 320gb hard drive. This configuration running Windows 7 runs great. I even tested Photoshop and some other intense applications with pretty good results.
In addition to all these nice new features the device also sports a spill resistant keyboard. Anyone that has spilled coffee on a laptop without this feature knows how important it really is. If you have had an accident with a laptop with “spill protection” and you spill something on it you will thank yourself!
The way this works is it will drain out the liquid away from the fragile internal components and keep it from frying your lappie. But if you spill gallons of water or submerge the laptop you are still at risk of damaging the system (or destroying the system!!!!)
If you are in the market for a lower end laptop for a student, child or as something you can take around with you this is a lot of bang for your buck. Great laptop and we give it 4 thumbs up! That’s two of mine and two of my partners!
The best part of all is the MSRP which happens to be $519.99 (Can be bought here from Amazon)
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Jul 4th
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