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Wait until Intel finalises the native optical version of Thunderbolt; the current copper solution is only stage one.
DropBox invite link - get 250MB extra free.
But how much of that price differential is just because no-one makes nearly as much optical cable as they do copper?
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"If you don't know who Kendra is, I'm officially not speaking to you."
Polishing, fusion splicing...ugh.
If you ever want to see something cool, watch someone fusion splice fiber together. Make incredibly precise and smooth cuts on both ends of the fiber. Stick the two ends into a box. Use its microscopic viewfinder to line up the ends. Watch as the box measures and evaluates the fiber as it automatically adjusts it so that it's perfectly-aligned. Giggle as it zaps the ever-loving shit out of the two pieces of fiber, fusing them into one.
Ah, OK. No worries.
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I think it will let you enter different credentials if yours don't work.
I tried this and it didn't let me. Just said Access Denied.
I'll try that Mr_Rose.
e: It looks like I have the same problem. I can add the computer but I can't use a different user/pass combo. God I wish we had Active Directory set up.
Try the PsService SysInternals utility.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we got booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I recently created a server and made the mistake of creating temporary partitions on two of the virtual disks for the install. After the install I deleted the partitions, but now the .vmdk files are staying at their same size, and I cannot shrink the disks since they are thin provisioned.
In retrospect I should have created a separate virtual disk for each partition, and just deleted the virtual disks when the install was done, but it's too late now.
This unfortunately didn't work for the database drive as I didn't have a datastore large enough (that also had a different block size) to vmotion it to, so I just created a new drive, detached the database, robocopied the old drive to the new one, and re-attached the database. All appears to be running well, but I am going to wait a bit before I delete the old drive.
Just a thought, is the wiki plain text or have you got TinyMCE loaded on it?
TinyMCE is in place.
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If you haven't already found a solution to your PDF problem, I got bored and made a quick (and very dirty) Python madlib kinda thing that may help. I haven't yet tested it, I will some time today when I get home. And since I haven't seen the files you're generating this from I had to make some assumptions. It's got some places where you can put in values appropriate to your situation. For instance if there is some string that appears on the line identifying what branch a particular page is for, like "BRID:" or somesuch, you can put that there. Or if there isn't any such thing, but it always occurs on a specific line, put it in the indicated spot. If you could get me a version of that report scrubbed of any identifying and otherwise not public data I could probably do better.
It requires Python 2.7 and the free version of Reportlab. Reportlab has pretty good documentation if you need it.
It's got only the most rudimentary of error handling, but it may help. God it's been almost a year since I've done any Python, can't believe I forgot so much,
from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import LETTER, LEGAL from reportlab.lib.unites import cm, inch from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas import os GREENBAR = (14.875*inch, 11*inch) #Path to your input file here. inpath = "./report.txt" #Path to your output folder here. outpath = "./output/" #Whatever the name of the output file here docname = "finrep" #Put whatever unique text shows this line will say which branch the page is for idtoken = "" #Or if there is no such thing and the branch ID is always on the same line #put a non-zero non-negative number here and it will check on that line idline = -1 #The text it will look for to identify which branch each page is for branchtokens = ["branch 100","branch 200","branch 300"] intext = file(inpath,r) docs = {} for bt in branchtokens: docs[bt] = [] page = [] line = intext.readline() linecounter = 1 while line != "": if idline == -1: if line.find(idtoken) != -1: for bt in branchtokens: if line.find(bt) != -1: thisbranch = bt elif linecounter == idline: for bt in branchtokens: if line.find(bt) != -1: thisbranch = bt page.append(line) linecounter += 1 if line.find('\x0c') != -1: try: docs[thisbranch].append(page) except NameError: print "End of page found before branch token" del thisbranch linecounter = 1 try: os.chdir(outpath) except WindowsError: print "Output folder does not exist" #Replace GREENBAR with other page sizes as necessary for doc in docs: outfname = '-'.join([docname,doc]) pdfcanvas = Canvas(outfname, GREENBAR) width, height = GREENBAR #Adjust font to match desired output textobject = pdfcanvas.beginText() textobject.setFont("Courier",12) for page in docs[doc]: #Adjust starting coordinates to match desired output textobject.setTextOrigin(inch,2*inch) textobject.textLines(page) pdfcanvas.showPage() pdfcanvas.save()Took every bit of 20 minutes to get her to be able to enter a website address correctly so I could even get a remote session started
You're bringing back bad memories, man.
Though for me, if they couldn't get it after three tries I'd usually just email a link to them. Though lord knows they'd find ways to screw even that up.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we got booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
"Are you using the client or the web VPN?"
*a minute or so of trying to explain the difference*
"OK, open up Internet Explorer, and in the address bar type in V-P-N-1 *pause* .our-company.org"
"Whoah whoah whoah slow down."
*internal monologue "You obviously know the word VPN because that's what you're complaining about, and you should definitely know the name of our company, WTF was too fast about that?" *
That was followed by several minutes of
"Okay everything checks out on our end, I'm pretty sure the issue is your internet connection"
"No it's not! That's what you always say but it never is!"
*Look at ticket history. In the last 2 years she's called in with VPN issues once (over a year ago), and powercycling the modem fixed it*
"Try resetting your modem."
"I don't have a modem."
"Whatever you use to get internet, turn it off and back on."
Anyway, that didn't work, so I made a ticket to appease her, and sent it to the tech for offsite people, and 10 minutes later she called back, saying it was working after checking all her connections.
Ahahahaha
ha
That was tried. We eventually got her to the form to log into her webmail account.
She didn't know her password.
Wow, thanks for putting that together. I'll play around with it when I get some time. I did find something called A-PDF Content Splitter that works for all but 2 of the reports I run. I haven't paid for it yet, so if I can get yours working I may just use that. I don't want to make you put any more effort into this, so I'll muddle through on my own. If you really enjoy scripting the splitting of financial reports I can scrub a few files for you and send them, along with some recommendations for a good psychiatrist
And yeah, I actually kind of like processing text. It's so mostly straightforward.
Also, I tried to make that thing pretty generic, so if anyone else finds it useful go ahead steal it.
Me: "OK, open up a command prompt. Start...Run..."
User: "...hold on, slow down. Start. OK. Run? OK. Now what?"
Me: "Type 'c-m-d' and hit Enter."
User: "OK, now there's a black window."
Me: "Type 'i-p-c-o-n-f-i-g /-a-l-l' and tell me what it says."
User: "OK...i <tak> p <tak> c <tak> o <tak> n <tak> f <tak> i <tak> g <tak> s <tak> p <tak> a <tak>..." <-- one-finger typewriter death-punch
Me: "No...you don't spell space. Space bar. A space."
User: "Oh!"
Anyway, that went on for a while.
I am currently wrestling with a RAID controller on a new IBM x series server.
I'm beating my head against the following issue:
During boot I see the following:
1 JBOD(s) handled by controller
1 JBOD(s) handled by BIOS
So, if I open up the firmware/series x management interface thing, it can only see one disk.
If I hit Ctrl-H and open up the web bios for the controller it can see both but considered the drive that the firmware can see to be non-responsive and in an unsupported configuration.
Obviously with both options only seeing one drive properly I cannot RAID. Does anyone know how to get both seen by one of the raid management options? Also, time is critical... Which is a story for another day
Edit: according to IMM the drive has a fault and has been disabled. Strong contender for being the issue.
SODOMISE INTOLERANCE
Tide goes in. Tide goes out.
I guess to put it another way, in a way that might make me sound like less of a crazy person, what I really like is processing text that normally ends up as lots of paper requiring tons of time-consuming but very simple work by a human, and instead making it become handy electronic things in a few seconds automatically.
Anyone know how to install Windows Server 2008 R2 without an optical drive onto an IBM x series server?
Edit: Solved.
Solution: Make USB drive bootable
Xcopy everything from DVD to USB drive
Copy x:\efi\microsoft\boot x:\efi
Mount the install.wim image with imagex from WAIK
Copy the file C:\mount\windows\boot\efi\bootmgfw.efi to x:\efi\boot\bootx64.efi
Success!
SODOMISE INTOLERANCE
Tide goes in. Tide goes out.
Cool! I'm going to try that.
You can try YUMI (http://www.pendrivelinux.com) as well. I've had it boot ISOs not in their list before and seen reports of success with some Windows ISOs as well.
We're moving more into remote management, meaning I'm in the office a bit more, and this happens so often its not funny. Literally has lost all humour.
If you don't specify forward-slash(and tell them which one it is on the keyboard), they will type backslash every time. If you do specify, they will still type a backslash ~%50 of the time.
I think you can do it with netsh, but I can't play around with bridges on my work computer, so I don't know for sure.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we got booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
The difficulty is the EFI environment. If I were trying to install on non-EFI or non-Server hardware the xcopy bit would have likely been sufficient.
This worked fine on the x3650, but the x3250 is hanging on copying files 0%...
So... The fun continues.
SODOMISE INTOLERANCE
Tide goes in. Tide goes out.
Both!
Well, sort of.
SODOMISE INTOLERANCE
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I work for a hospital system which owns 3 hospitals, and a bunch of clinics an nursing homes. But they also own a couple small hospitals in other towns which to a certain extant have their own IT department. They're still under us, and we handle all the helpdesk calls. We also just a couple weeks ago started providing some IT on a contract basis for another small hospital. We currently just host and maintain their meditech system, but I think we're supposed to be picking up a couple other things later in the year. And I wouldn't be surprised if in a couple years we bought them.
Having waited the 5 hours for bomc to create a serverguide disk, it failed to boot correctly.
Now the IBM site is downloading at fewer than 50KBs after being unavailable for an hour.
SODOMISE INTOLERANCE
Tide goes in. Tide goes out.
Odd.