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I shall rule you all!

OscarWilde

Fri Feb 8 08:50:15 2002

Our office power lines are b0rked. We had two lines, one which was 24/7 which our fax machine and server was connected too and the other is our line which is on when ever the office it self is open.

By afternoon we managed to get our main line back and i had to connect the server to the main line to get things back up and running. So there are all these power chords and extensions all over the place as the technican is re-wiring the damaged lines! The ceiling and what not is ripped from various places to allow access to the wires.

Basically the work place looks like it went through a mini war. And the technician is in front of me drilling the wall!!!!

WHAT THE HEY!!! :eek:

Anyway it was ammusing getting the servers and computer up and running and then have the power over load and then suddenly you hear nothing. You'd be surprised how much computers add to the background noise in an office place because when all the computers went off it was really really silent. Very odd. This company runs on its correspondance with its buyers and since the office lines have been out since 4pm yesterday and we couldn't get at least some power till this afternoon thats a lot of money on the line.

Anyway because its friday things are generally slow. And i'm sitting here at work bored because we have to be careful at not overloading the lines till the problem is fixed. I can't even have my server monitor turned on!!! Its that bad. We had take our color laser jet off line and move our other laser jet (HP 8000n) somewhere else where it won't load the lines to much.
What a day! and yet its very dull right now.

I shall rule you all!!!

ph34r!!!

deathe

Fri Feb 8 09:32:00 2002

Wow, sounds interesting as all hell.

Over here in OryGun we had a good windstorm, knocked power down all over town, tree's where flying, it was pretty good. People where acting like it was the end of the world. :)

Today I put in a HD in my roomies computer, pissed me off, Symantec's ghost PCDos bootdisk was giving me shitfits on larger partitions, after a few hours I got it all up and running, and now, here I sit attempting to get samba to work properly..... I got it working, but the passwords aren't working properly. :(

Imitation Gruel

Fri Feb 8 09:47:13 2002

It snowed here a couple days ago. I was happy.

Now the snow has melted and I am sad again.

deathe

Fri Feb 8 10:05:15 2002

Oh God!

I'm freaking retarded.... I just spent way too long trying to figure out a damn pebcak. :( Forgot to create a password for my samba password file. Jesus.

OscarWilde

Fri Feb 8 10:07:57 2002

sometimes its the most obvious things. It happens to the best of us. Its all good though.
DuffMan

Fri Feb 8 10:18:47 2002

Today my NT4 PC had a blue screen. :(
OscarWilde

Fri Feb 8 10:25:37 2002

HUH!!!????

a blue screen in NT? don't the BF 'tards always harp on about how if you post you had a blue screen in NT you're a liar because only win9x has blue screens?

:biggrin:

I love the parallels you see here and at the BF. Basically what ever problems you guys post here at the BF would be 'pooh poohed'.

Its all really inane anyways.

Back to the point, i think i've had blue screens once long ago on my NT server but everthing has been working really well with all the service patches up to date and hardware following the HCL (except for one LAN card).

So how come you had a blue screen Duff?

DuffMan

Fri Feb 8 10:28:29 2002

Boy would I like to know. It's not entirely my PC (we have 4 shifts, and we run all day), and the person who the PC really belongs to is probably going to be pissed about the fact that I was messing with it.
Imitation Gruel

Fri Feb 8 10:28:30 2002

a blue screen in NT? don't the BF 'tards always harp on about how if you post you had a blue screen in NT you're a liar because only win9x has blue screens?

NT-based OS's can blue screen. They can't BSOD -- Blue Screen Of Death. In NT-based OS's, blue screens can be recovered from fairly easily. In 9x it's a big problem.

Or maybe I'm a stupid fuck and have those reversed.

DuffMan

Fri Feb 8 10:30:01 2002

You can't recover from a blue screen in NT. You can recover from Win98 blue screens some times. Lots of times it will partially recover, but still need a reboot.
OscarWilde

Fri Feb 8 10:35:30 2002

now i'm really confused. I was actually convinced that Blue screens were non-existent in NT. So it is?

what the fuck are those tards in the BF going on about then? why lie to prove a point? oh wait i answered my own question... never mind ;)

does anyone feel that Paul Hill has lost his mind and slowly becoming like pdampier? there are some posts where you get the impression he's high fiving pdampier in the same thread!

DuffMan

Fri Feb 8 10:38:39 2002

I've had blue screens in NT4, 2000, and XP. Not saying that they're unstable OS's or anything, just that it's entirely possible. Usually a driver or hardware problem is to blame.
OscarWilde

Fri Feb 8 10:46:02 2002

I wasn't suggesting a blue screen means a computer is unstable. I don't look at it that way. ACtually i prefer having something like a bluescreen because it provides some info to what happened.

Unlike OS X where i've experience some really odd (and rare) freezes i have no idea whats causing it other then if i did something out of the ordinary. I have YET to experience a kernel panic that seems to effect the other OS X users.

So i don't look at bluescreens as a bad thing. Now teh irony as i said, the systems i put together myself with good hardware i haven't experienced any bluescreens with the exception of the ones i had on my server last year before i rebuilt the server.

No blue screens in Win2k on this dual piii 866 computer either. Not to bad seeing as i have a nvidia riva tnt card. :biggrin: its not a gaming rig and i just wanted some cheapy video card.

deathe

Fri Feb 8 10:48:34 2002

Well, unless it's a STOP blue screen. Then it's definatly deadly. :)
AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Fri Feb 8 14:42:36 2002

In NT, BLuescreen == poop.

YOu can often work through them in 9X.

Riso

Fri Feb 8 15:36:48 2002

Shit, in 9x you can get a blue screen just wanting you to insert a cd.
PaulHill

Sat Feb 9 11:40:03 2002


now i'm really confused. I was actually convinced that Blue screens were non-existent in NT. So it is?

Okey dokey.  For some reason (possibly due to standardised setup liverly or something) the kernel output screen is blue.  You see it on NT 4 when starting, you see it during setup, and you see it when the kernel stops.

A BSOD - or in technical terms, a kernel stop or a "stop" - happens when the Windows Engine decides it's more hazardous to go on that it is to just stop processing and frighten you with a stack dump.  Normally this is when a driver has gone bonkers nutzoid and is trying to do something above it's privilige level.

In 9x, the "Bluescreen" is usually the Win9x boot loader freaking out - you've took a CD out and it's not kept track of it or system code has been corrupted or the stack has crashed.  Limp crap like that.

They've "done things" to the stop screen in XP that I can't remember, and as I haven't had a stop yet (even in Beta Form) I don't know what it is.  Maybe I'll grab Peter's program and try it out.

HitScan

Sat Feb 9 21:13:39 2002

They've "done things" to the stop screen in XP that I can't remember, and as I haven't had a stop yet (even in Beta Form) I don't know what it is.  Maybe I'll grab Peter's program and try it out.

I saw several when I was using ATi's craptacular Radeon VE drivers. It's basically still a graphics screen, since it uses a thin sans serif font, and finally tells you just what happened to cause it to freak out. (I saw lots of "This module has entered an infinite loop and has been terminated" or something similar...)

Still sucks to see, but at least it's "improved" ;)

OscarWilde

Mon Feb 11 03:49:50 2002

Ah, thank you PH. That certinaly goes with what I understood previously about Blue screens before the silly BF twisted and distorted my wonderful mind...