April 5, 2012 at 4:06 pm
SQLRNNR (4/5/2012)
Brandie Tarvin (4/5/2012)
Lynn Pettis (4/5/2012)
Oh well, no bomb. Back to work.Was it Twinkies?
Strawberry flavored with a touch more fiber than normal.
Save some for supplies in the event of the Zombie Apocalypse.
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April 5, 2012 at 4:10 pm
The Dixie Flatline (4/5/2012)
SQLRNNR (4/5/2012)
Brandie Tarvin (4/5/2012)
Lynn Pettis (4/5/2012)
Oh well, no bomb. Back to work.Was it Twinkies?
Strawberry flavored with a touch more fiber than normal.
Save some for supplies in the event of the Zombie Apocalypse.
That and enough oil to deep fry them (zombies not twinkies)
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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April 5, 2012 at 4:39 pm
SQLRNNR (4/5/2012)
The Dixie Flatline (4/5/2012)
SQLRNNR (4/5/2012)
Brandie Tarvin (4/5/2012)
Lynn Pettis (4/5/2012)
Oh well, no bomb. Back to work.Was it Twinkies?
Strawberry flavored with a touch more fiber than normal.
Save some for supplies in the event of the Zombie Apocalypse.
That and enough oil to deep fry them (zombies not twinkies)
there are zombies comming?? where. im glad i have offsite backups so when i run i dont have to carry my servers and my guns.
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April 5, 2012 at 5:11 pm
Lynn Pettis (4/5/2012)
Oh well, no bomb. Back to work.
Darn. I remember back in '79 we had a bomb scare in High School. All 600-odd of us evacuated into the park opposite the school. Cops arrive, no sniffer dogs, no bomb squad. They declared the premises safe after a search of like 15 minutes and the Headmaster expected us to go back inside. It didn't happen.
April 5, 2012 at 5:20 pm
Jan Van der Eecken (4/5/2012)
Lynn Pettis (4/5/2012)
Oh well, no bomb. Back to work.Darn. I remember back in '79 we had a bomb scare in High School. All 600-odd of us evacuated into the park opposite the school. Cops arrive, no sniffer dogs, no bomb squad. They declared the premises safe after a search of like 15 minutes and the Headmaster expected us to go back inside. It didn't happen.
Same thing at my high school in 93. Except they did bring dogs and they did find something.
What we got for living in a CP-run town. Local shopping center got hit once too.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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April 5, 2012 at 6:55 pm
CP-run town?
April 5, 2012 at 7:12 pm
Conservative Party
Gail Shaw
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April 5, 2012 at 8:24 pm
Evil Kraig F (4/5/2012)
Lynn Pettis (4/5/2012)
Unclaimed briefcase in the lobby and now we aren't working. The CSPD Bomb Squad is here to remove the briefcase.20 years ago, you saw something like that and either figured it was going to be stolen shortly or you went over to it, grabbed it, hauled it up to the lost and found, and gave it to some bored security guard.
Now: RUUUUUUNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!
*facepalm*
In the UK 30 years ago, my team spent an afternoon in the pub writing code on napkins and beermats after a phone call threatening a bomb; and we were very careful about unidentified packages and briefcases. But then things improved, and we became much like CKraig describes as "20 years ago". But some time (not immediately) after 11/9/2001 the security theatre (it wasn't real security) performed by the police and other government agencies to exaggerate the threat of terrorism began to damage the way people thought about such things and (although we don't yet have anything quite as bad as homeland security) we are back to being thoroughly scared of unattended bags and accept an almost totalitarian view of surveillance; and although at least we, unlike the USA, require laws to be passed to allow the surveillance with no judicial oversight nonsense before it is implemented - our administration is a bit more constrained by law than US presidents seem to be - our representatives are apparently so paranoid as to be willing to pass the sort of draconian crap legislation that will allow our security agencies to behave as if they were organs of a totalitarian state with no effective oversight.
Tom
April 6, 2012 at 8:12 am
Okay a couple of semi-technical questions:
What do you all run to backup your home systems?
I may need to buy a new laptop soon. I use it for work and presentations so I need something pretty powerful, but $1500 or less. What do you recommend?
Jack Corbett
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April 6, 2012 at 8:17 am
Jack Corbett (4/6/2012)
What do you all run to backup your home systems?I may need to buy a new laptop soon. I use it for work and presentations so I need something pretty powerful, but $1500 or less. What do you recommend?
I actually use the Windows Maintenance backup tools to backup to a drive that I keep offsite. I know a lot of people who swear by the cloud-managed backup tools, but I can't quite trust something that public with my data.
Toshiba Satellite with a Windows Business OS installed. It's pretty good, and pretty light compared to some other laptops.
April 6, 2012 at 8:38 am
Brandie Tarvin (4/6/2012)
Jack Corbett (4/6/2012)
What do you all run to backup your home systems?I may need to buy a new laptop soon. I use it for work and presentations so I need something pretty powerful, but $1500 or less. What do you recommend?
I actually use the Windows Maintenance backup tools to backup to a drive that I keep offsite. I know a lot of people who swear by the cloud-managed backup tools, but I can't quite trust something that public with my data.
Toshiba Satellite with a Windows Business OS installed. It's pretty good, and pretty light compared to some other laptops.
Recently had a client using cloud managed backup tools to perform SQL Backup. They lost a LUN and needed to restore. Cloud tools took 24 hours restoring before they would error. They were out of business for a week thanks to those tools.
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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April 6, 2012 at 8:49 am
Jack Corbett (4/6/2012)
Okay a couple of semi-technical questions:What do you all run to backup your home systems?
I may need to buy a new laptop soon. I use it for work and presentations so I need something pretty powerful, but $1500 or less. What do you recommend?
Windows Home Server, license from the MVP program. Works OK, but I'd virtualize it on older hardware since boot drive failures result in reinstalls. Never had to reimage a machine from it, not sure I would, but it gets backups of all files from machines.
For a new laptop, Glenn Berry is pretty happy with something he got, I might ask him. I know I asked a guy in Vegas with a W400-Series, 16GB RAM and he was pretty pleased with that machine.
April 6, 2012 at 9:10 am
Jack Corbett (4/6/2012)
Okay a couple of semi-technical questions:What do you all run to backup your home systems?
I may need to buy a new laptop soon. I use it for work and presentations so I need something pretty powerful, but $1500 or less. What do you recommend?
Laptop: Glenn Berry has the same laptop as me (Dell Precision M4600)
Here's a quick config for $ 1500.
Don't buy RAM from Dell unless you want to pay ludicrous amounts. NewEgg is much cheaper. You can buy additional 8 GB for around $70 and upgrade to 16 GB using all the four RAM slots.
IMHO it's a great machine, with many upgrade possibilities (mSATA card, 2nd HDD, up to 32 GB of RAM).
It's a bit heavy, though.
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April 6, 2012 at 9:14 am
Jack Corbett (4/6/2012)
Okay a couple of semi-technical questions:What do you all run to backup your home systems?
I may need to buy a new laptop soon. I use it for work and presentations so I need something pretty powerful, but $1500 or less. What do you recommend?
Home backup: Manual to secondary storage & DVDs. Looking into Mozy or SOS now.
Laptop. I love my Lenovo w510, but to get it set up right, you'll go over $1500. Recommendation, if you're going to put virtuals on this laptop, minimum of 16gb of ram. I did it with 8gb and it worked... mostly, but it was hyper-painful. 16gb made it a dream. One way to save money is buy the laptop & the memory seperately.
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April 6, 2012 at 10:20 am
Jack Corbett (4/6/2012)
Okay a couple of semi-technical questions:What do you all run to backup your home systems?
I may need to buy a new laptop soon. I use it for work and presentations so I need something pretty powerful, but $1500 or less. What do you recommend?
You mean... I'm supposed to be backing those up too???
I have a 2TB Seagate drive. It comes with software to run scheduled backups, essentially is does an initial full b/u, and then deltas periodically as specified. Seems to work pretty good for my purposes.
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