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Posted on 06/01/2005 7:12:04 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Your confidence is a great asset then... Pester them. :-)
Howdy! :-)
Is it just me or is this week really d r a g g i n g...?
It's not just you! ;-)
Speaking of dragging...our main server went down at 11:30 this morning and we had the whole Miami region working off of the backup server.
S l o w - m-o t i o n all day long.
Finally got better at 5:15pm ~after~ we'd sent a bunch of payrolls up to office in Michigan to get processed.
Figures. :-P
Trouble is...it's a committee deal. I can pester human resources...but they don't have any say in the final decision, and I dunno who's actually on the panel.
If'n I did, I'd show up on their doorstep with chocolate chip cookies warm from the oven. Or brownies. Something like that. ;-)
As it is, I can only hope they like what I wrote about my experience. They had a form with a bunch of essay questions - I had to explain what experience I've had with customer service, Windows, networking, etc. I wrote what came to mind, but if it isn't what they were looking for, or not worded in a way that makes sense... *sigh*
Hmmm....I should lay off the sauce. At first glance I thought you said your sewer went down.
Stinks when that happens.
Heh. [sip]
Bummer... At least you've got a failover. I'm still working on that.
Do you have a failover for email as well? Just wondering...
Heh... roger that. Good luck... :-)
The right one will come through before long. It'll happen.
Finished off the Chiraz. I liked it less than the Woodbridge Zin...so I'll stick with the zin. It's not great either, but the chiraz made me gag.
Maybe 'cause it was cheap...maybe a fine chiraz would taste better? Maybe a fine zin would too, but it doesn't make any difference.
The Outlook program works off of the same server, unfortunately.
Everything does.
So, when the server goes down - everything stops. From e-mail to internal applications.
The difficulty is (I think) that we are linked to the main office in Georgia, so things aren't high speed to begin with. When our conneciton to Georgia goes down, we're cut adrift, so to speak.
When the backup server comes online, do you get email back from the remote site?
Yes. Everything is restored, but with serious delays and drag.
The more users on the server, the more likely that certain programs will cease to operate altogether.
We have a program which allows employees to make requests from other departments by sending "cases" to their respective "queues". When the server fails, it's the first program to go bye-bye.
It may be designed to be the first casualty of server-failure though, since it is simply a way to document our questions - instead of phone calls which cannot prove who said what.
We just go back to calling each other when that program is FUBAR.
Heh, that's the kind of interview I like! Congratulations!
I need to open one of the bottles of Zin that we have. BBL!
What kind is it? What brand, I mean...
Mmmm. This one is tasty!! It's DeLoach 2000 Estate Bottle Zinfandel from the Russian River Valley in Santa Rosa CA. The aftertaste is actually pretty fruity rather than bitter like some reds I've had. It's a bit spendy, though. I think it was about $13 a bottle, but we'll be drinking it slowly. Even SSQ said he could tolerate the taste and he usually detests red wine! ;o)
Hmm... Interesting. I'm trying to build a failover system for mail, and its working in our tests, but wow... it's a really complex nut to crack.
[sigh]
OK, OK... I'm leaving work mode now. Sorry. :-) [sip]
heh... yuh got that right...
I hope yer right about a trend 2J
Still liftin' you up Rosie...
< serious fangeek mode engaged >
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