Archive for August, 2004

going gentle into that good night

Monday, August 23rd, 2004

Yet another drive in yet another raid array has failed on me. This one is less important, though, so we’re not replacing it. And also, $300 for a 78 GB drive is just crazy. We’re going to let the hot spare rebuild the array, and the plan is that when the next […]

still fighting the good fight

Thursday, August 19th, 2004

Yesterday, I swapped around yet another spare drive in my RAID enclosure, hoping, on the advice of the Adaptec techs, that this would stop my irritating runs-for-24-hours-and-then-dies problem.

It did not. Now, I’m left with the conclusion that I’m facing a situation like that described in Adaptec knowledge base article #2328, which tells me I […]

turning off remote profiles

Wednesday, August 18th, 2004

In a long overdue move, and as part of a rolling-out of XP SP2, I’m turning off roaming profiles on my samba PDC. This involves a change on the clients. Here’s the recipe:

In the Group Policy Editor (C:\windows\system32\gpedit.msc), under the “Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\User Profiles” tree, enable “Prevent Roaming Profile changes from propagating to […]

what does this mean?

Wednesday, August 18th, 2004

I’ve been fighting a running battle against my RAID controller and enclosure for the past two weeks.

dervish, and some sad news

Monday, August 9th, 2004

Doing some research into backup utilities that would work over rsync and ssh, I came across dervish, which seemed like a likely candidate, or at least a place to start looking. This was a few months ago. When I had occasion to come back to it, I found that the link I’d slipped […]