Joe Glessner
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How to lose your data
January 5, 2010 - 1:58 am
Posted in Admin's Arsenal, How To, Questions | 9 comments
See that picture? When it happens to you, it may not look quite that bad (or be quite that obvious), but data loss sucks. And it does happen. I’ve been working with computers for 10+ years, and I’ve had it happen a couple times myself. Did I mention how much it sucks?
I’m not going to [...]
Mysterious Server 2003 disk space consumption
October 25, 2009 - 12:00 am
Posted in Admin's Arsenal | 8 comments
So the System drive of my (primary) domain controller has been running low on disk space (it’s a 20GB partition running with about 4GB or so free). This has been a nagging issue that I’ve had off and on for a while now, and I haven’t really had the time to delve into it.
I decided [...]
Admins Arsenal: DBAN
October 23, 2009 - 12:00 am
Posted in Admin's Arsenal | 18 comments
Ever buy a used Hard Drive on Ebay or Craigslist? Ever look to see if there was any data on it? I have, and let me tell you, it is downright scary what people will leave on HDD’s when they sell them as used. I recently purchased 12 used 250 GB SATA HDD’s from Ebay [...]
Using Notepad++ for Version Control
June 29, 2009 - 7:43 pm
Posted in Admin's Arsenal, How To, Questions | 4 comments
I have what you would call a love/hate relationship with Version Control Systems. On the one hand, it is oh so nice to be able to revert back to a working version of your document when you accidentally make way too many mistakes, and it no longer works. But on the other hand, it is [...]
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