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Obelix wrote:Tim...
Can you elaborate on how an AC unit could hose a server ?
My M&E guys are as clumsy as I am... being a firm believer in murphy's law... I need to know.
*begging look*
I sure can .... but not very well as I really know little about AC units!
Basically from what I understand the condensate extract pump broke and blocked the line. This then caused "some funky stuff" to happen at the cooler end where the water couldn't escape and somehow got blown in a nice stream (read: torrent) all over the half height rack that was about 4' away.
Fortunately we had a very old desktop style server perched on top of the rack whilst it was decommissioned and this too the main brunt of the water. Unfortunately quite a bit did get past the blanking plate for the optional fans and dripped onto the back of various servers. Seems those nice vent holes on the top of some NAS boxes also allow water in really well. Who'd have thought, huh?
We've since had the condensate track relocated into the next room, a higher rated pump installed that won't block the line if it fails and it's all on a slope away from the servers.
Combine that with the flood we had 2 months ago due to council contractors cutting through a water main right outside our office whilst digging another hole in the road ..... and we're finally getting a raised floor installed. I've only been asking for the past 2 years or so  lol
As far as the AC units go, the best set-up would be to have the condensers outside of the room and vent the air in and out as needed.
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we originally had Sysaid on a physical web server as well as a physical SQL server. Well, until the rack holding web server got hosed down by a faulting AC unit we did 
We then did a quick p2v conversion of the web server and it has been happier than ever on the VM host.
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ok, I'd never heard of the lady in question before so took it upon myself to rectify this situation ........ damn!!
Saar - if they're all like that over there ... a) how do you get any work done and b) can I stay at your place for a bit whilst my visa goes through? 
on the initial subject (and before I go hunting more photo's of the delectable Ms Rafaeli) ... my work desktop is a dual widescreen rig so I either have one desktop spread over the two or two seperate ones depending on what's going on. The most common one is a high def photo of a japanese garden as it is just so beautifully serene.
My work laptop has just been rebuilt to Vista Business x64 so it still bog standard however my home laptop is a MacBook so it's whatever the hell I want it to be! Usually a pretty simple design as I clutter things up enough as it is.
Seems like a lot of people use their desktop as a temp dumping ground too... glad it's not just me!
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I know what you mean, Obs. When the laptop arrived there was no support for XP at all! Sony had no drivers or applications for it either. In the end I had to sign a "I promise I've downgraded this to XP and won't bug you about stuff" disclaimer before they'd start slowly releasing drivers.
oh well, it's a Vista machine now. yay. 
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well after much gnashing of teeth and crying for mummy we have decided to do a few test installs of Vista on the network both 64 and 32 bit. Now me being me would have thought that installing Vista would be pretty easy. You know the usual drill of insert CD, reboot, answer the questions, provide the licence key and away it goes. Only thing left to do then is update all your drivers and find out what doesn't work.
Oh, no. That'd be far too easy wouldn't it? lol
Firstly we've got a 64 bit desktop which is less than a year old which one of my admins is doing an install on. BSoD city!!  Turns out you can't install x64 if you've got more than 2Gb of RAM unless you're using a service packed install disc. Interesting but not all that useful. He's still plugging on with that as we speak to it could be sometime.
However, here's one I didn't think would be any problem - my work laptop. It's a Sony Vaio TZ thing that originally came with Vista installed that we pushed the corporate XP image onto as soon as it touched down. If any machine was going to cruise on through, I thought it'd be this one. Yet again Vista doesn't disappoint if only in the amusement factor!
so here I am today fighting with a sick isp connection in one office, a twitchy server in another and a HR issue that I can't talk about .... whilst trying to get two instances of Vista installed. I love the variety in this job!!
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We run Watchguard firewalls across all sites and use their built in web filters which is actually a cut down version of SurfControl. Whilst we don't get all the whistles and bells you would get with Surf Control, we do get pretty much everything we need with regards to the filtering and that's what counts to us.
On the free side of things, there are lots of linux options out there that will do pretty much whatever you want but for free. I'd either build a VM install or chuck it on an old PC personally.
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Personally I love Microsoft Office 2008 if only for the e-mail client. Entourage is much better than Outlook IMHO.
Of those listed as options on this poll though ..... probably Office 2007. It has a lot of nice new features that I really like and work well for me. However, not being a really heavy user of Office (to busy fixing things, ya know  ) then I'm not sure how it stacks up to the really technical user of it.
Actually, now I think about it I probably use OWA as much as I use Outlook at work due to MS Office's system overhead built in and "improved" with each version
now if you want a proper discussion, lets look at iWork v Office 2007 v OpenOffice 
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our "leaving user" policy runs something like this on the IT side:
1. User account is removed from any sec groups, password changed and a e-mail out of office set up with who to contact instead. User account is moved into a "retired users" OU which has a really restrictive GPO applied.
2. User's machine is imaged off, image is archived onto DVD / archive server, machine is then reimaged with the company standard and apps deployed ready for reissue to someone.
3. after 2 weeks the account is completely disabled and their e-mail account is exmerged and then stored on DVD / archive server
4. a further 2 weeks down the line and the account is deleted.
that's the plan at least lol
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all for charity too, Haim It's going to be an epic trek from the south of India to the North in a tuk-tuk. 2000 miles in two weeks? easy ..... ish lol
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1. Forget about work for the month that I'm off travelling
2. Look after my staff
3. make it the best year ever for our internal IT
4. get a sysaid t-shirt / mug / pen / keyring
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I'd go with anything that'll help my trip to India but I'm just asking for people to sponsor me as the charities are really worthwhile.
Ok, if I was forced to have a present though ..... I'd love a fully load Xbox with games etc and a Honda FireBlade
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www.security-forums.com
www.theregister.co.uk
www.theinquirer.net
www.ITToolBox.com
news.bbc.co.uk
various other feeds and other fellow IT-ers
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50+ servers
8+ sites
250 - 300 users
3 full time admins
~10 part time PC admins (sometimes more hinderance than a help!)
lots and lots of coffee!
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Tim Sutton wrote:... I'm off to India at Christmas for three or four weeks and the only two bits of electrical kit I'm taking are my digital camera (if I've not lost it by then!) and my iPod for the flights .....
oh how prophetic I was! Yes, have lost the digital camera already 
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by far the workload for me at the moment!
The boss asked my what I was working on at the moment excluding day to day base issues ...... he stopped me when I got to 35! lol
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