Nothing New Under The Sun

The new MuNu sever has locked up again, and my F drive has turned into a pumpkin.

How long does Windows XP take to chkdsk a 240GB pumpkin, anyway?

Comments

1 Do you need a sympathy card?

Posted by: Susie at January 23, 2004 08:34 AM (0+cMc)

2 And would this be the reason comments are not being emailed as per checked off little box?
Or, as my granny used to say, am I not holding my tongue right?

Posted by: LeeAnn at January 23, 2004 10:33 AM (HxCeX)

3 No. That's probably because the existing server is on a network blacklisted for spam, and your ISP is rejecting them.

Which is one of the reasons I want to move to the new server.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 23, 2004 10:39 AM (jtW2s)

4 Tsk, tsk... servers hanging about with bad companions...
Not complaining, Pixy, I know you're the hardest working man in indecipherable techno stuff.

Posted by: LeeAnn at January 23, 2004 10:50 AM (HxCeX)

5 More a case of the neighbourhood going bad.

The company I signed up with got bought by another group - that's when the spam problems started.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 23, 2004 10:52 AM (jtW2s)

6 All my comments are still e-mailed to me, if that means anything.

Why is your equipment always bugging out, dude? Where do you get that stuff? Just wondering is all.

Posted by: The Bartender at January 23, 2004 05:44 PM (BMSp+)

7 Well, I had a bunch of IBM GXP75 drives. They were famous for dying unexpectedly.

I had a 250GB drive formatted with FAT32. Probably a bad idea.

I have no idea why my F drive just got screwed up. I think it's probably Windows rather than the drives, but it's odd.

As for the new MuNu server - I have no idea what the problem is. We replaced the drive, and it still has the problem.

I suspect that most people do not routinely copy hundreds of gigabytes of data about, or expect their computers to have uptimes measured in years. I do both.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 23, 2004 07:11 PM (jtW2s)

8 Besides which, I have, let's see, 13 computers at home, plus another 8 I'm responsible for at work, plus the two MuNu servers. Some of which work just fine.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 23, 2004 07:14 PM (jtW2s)

9 I see - you're just playing the odds. With that many computers at least some should work some of the time.

Posted by: Simon at January 24, 2004 12:28 AM (ghnB9)

10 Well that's a different story then... I thought all those problems were with the same box.

That's a seriously expensive hobby you have there my friend. Ever wonder how much money you have tied up in hardware alone? I suspect that you probably run a lot of open source and free stuff, but still the software licenses would run a fortune too, not to mention your phone bill. Damn....

Posted by: The Bartender at January 24, 2004 10:10 AM (8jYl9)

11 Almost all of the software I use is open source - the major exceptions being games and the Sonic Foundry (now Sony) software I use to write music.

A lot of the hardware is relatively old; two machines are brand new; six are around three years old, and the rest are older. My SGI O2 dates from 1997, and my Sun Ultra 5 from 1998.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 25, 2004 01:27 AM (jtW2s)

12 Oh, and I used to earn a lot of money. From 1996 through 2001, anyway. I'm still doing okay, but most of the stuff dates from those years.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 25, 2004 01:29 AM (jtW2s)

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