Just upgraded,?? to 2.3.2
Testing testing 123, my old granny smells of pee !
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Over the xmas break i thought i would review my data backup process, i have a few friends with kit at their house linked to mine via long range WiFi !, so File replication between server seemed like a good plan !
Got some big disks attached to each server using??USB 2, and setup replication, Sorted,
NAH, nothing is that easy,
NTFRS has got to be the most quirky thing ever to setup, my first word of advise, is go for a pint after you configure it, and BEFORE you put any data in the replicated folder. no in fact, that is No 2. No 1 has to be test you infrastructure HARD first.
My 1st snag was a delayed write error on my USB2 disk, which corrupted the USN data for the replicated folder, and completely screwed the whole replication process, after some soul searching, crying, fretting and LOTS of cursing. I reset the entire NTFRS config for that server.
Sorted I though, no such LUCK
another Delays write error, Closer inspection revealed i had been a cheap skate when i added USB2 to my aging server, it had a ???VIA??? chip, DOH!, DOH!, DOH!, DOH!, DOH!
Quick trip to a local computer retailer?? (not PCWorld), we have a local back street guy who is VERY good,
and i kissed good bye to the I/O issues. This is cool so i thought, all my data became “pre install” and everything seemed to be fine,
This is where the pint comes in, I “moved” (big mistake) my data from the pre_install folder to the replicate folder, and everything looked good, get up the next morning, NO DATA AROOGA AROOGA CURSE CURSE CURSE (BTW this was XMAS day, i have a record of upseting the wife, but tellting her i may have lost all the photos on XMAS would surely top it all)
after a week of searching volume shadows copies and offline data on all my PCs and friends servers, I had successfully recovered ALL our data, (can i have my testicles back now please)
so 1st things first MAKE Copy or three, and try again !
This time i did go for a pint or 3 before “COPYING” in my valuable data, and all i NOW Ok
all the data if almost fully synchronise across the servers, well 150 G of photos and other random data, will take a while to sync over wifi !
Some serious Lessons learnt
1. don???t fuck with your home IT on Xmas Eve
2. don???t rush NTFRS config
3. don???t MOVE data when you have the space to copy it
In a total geeky moment of boredom i have carried out a WiFi survey
Having used my tructy PDA and a copy of WiFiFoFum here are some of the results
Total discover access points 1005
Access point with NO Wep 227
Access points with BTHomeHub SSID 128
Access points with linksys SSID 39
Access points with belkin 93
Access points with livebox 27
Access points with sky 121
Access points with netgear 39
Access points with 2wire 22
Access points with BTopenzone 2
Access points with with hiden SSID 29
number of unique SSID 714
channel??number
1 313
2 11
3 12
4 10
5 9
6 209
7 18
8 7
9 26
10 16
11 351
12 6
13 17 (not sure how that works, not suppose to be available in the UK)
During 2007, i have, for business
Been on a plane 11 times
Flown 27,600 miles
Spent 55 nights away from home.
Shit that sucks !
Dear Wife,
If you see anything you like, buy it and i will give you the cash !
However I will wrap it and you can’t have it till Christmas day !
Regards Hubby
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Went Shopping at PCWorld over the weekend
Apart for the mental shock of stepping into PCWorld, I experienced something which just goes to highlight my thoughts about PCWorld Techies
The PCWorld till are windows 2000 based touch screen epos systems, so you woudl think, a PCWorld Techie would have no problem keeping them working,
however 2 of the 3 tills in the gloucester branch were offline due to Techincal problems
Go Figure
As i am writing this i am FTPing 3Gig of Video files from my cousins house (Watford) to my place (Gloucester) over the internet, he has a decent Cable connection so it should not take too long
certianly quicker than burning a DVD and getting TNT to delivery it !.!.!.! 🙂
BTW the video files are from my recent 40th birthday bash,
Going back towo years i took a geek test, well in a moment of boredem i took it again,
Its bad news i am afraid
Overall, you scored as follows:
0% scored higher (more computer geeky),
0% scored the same, and
100% scored lower (less geeky).
Compared to those in the same age group as you:
0% scored higher (more computer geeky),
0% scored the same, and
100% scored lower (less geeky).
What does this mean? Your computer geekiness is:
Step aside Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, and Steve Jobs… You are by far the SUPREME COMPUTER GOD!!!
My ldap enabled enterprise bloging platform at “the firm” is picking up momentum, lets hope it scales properly, it has been built on the same 3Tera grid technology as wordpress.com But only time will tell
Only one little snag, guess who has to do a blogging with wordpress demo at the Xmas meeting 🙁
