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I’m slowly adding computers to my network now, and I’m discovering that not setting up a proper name convention when I only had 2 or 3 PCs is going to now be a problem. I want to think of a standard now while I’m in the process of moving things around and refining the network – before things really get out of hand. (more…)

It’s true – one man’s junk is another man’s treasure. I know this to be true because I was the recent recipient of such a fortune. Back in October, I was talking to an old friend of mine over instant messenger, and I had mentioned that I was working with some old UltraSparc1 machines (thank you Ed Corrado). My friend thought I was wasting my time, and mentioned that he was about to throw away 4 old Dell workstations and an ancient Dell server. A quick arrangement was made, and I set a date to drive up to Manhattan and pick them up. (more…)

I was originally going to title this post “The Reaon I’m a Terrible Systems Administrator”, but on further reflection I changed it to “The Primary Reason… ” and finally to “One of the Many Reasons…” before I decided to give up and put the title more in context. For now I’ll just thank my lucky stars that my current gig has me doing heavy PL/SQL development instead.

I’ve wasted a lot of hours the last two weeks trying to troubleshoot issues with my network at home. In two specific cases, I could have avoided a lot of frustration and grief if I had only checked the log files immediately, instead of pounding google and attempting a hodge-podge of fixes that didn’t work (more…)