I was recently working with a server that was locking up every ten seconds or so and wouldn’t respond for thirty seconds. Every ten seconds, it would record an event 7011 in the eventlog and would just stop responding. Thirty seconds later, I’d have ten seconds to diagnose as much as I could, then I’d have to wait another thirty seconds to fit in as many diagnostic checks as I could.
Apr, 30 2009
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Apr, 28 2009
I use Office 2003 at home and the office. Unfortunately, Microsoft decided to modify the default format used to save files in the new version 2007 of its office suite. When using older versions of Microsoft Office, you have to have a converter pack loaded or the file will fail to open. Sometimes things go haywire with the converter pack, as I found out last week when every .xlsx (Excel 2007) file I was given, failed to open Read the rest of this entry »
Apr, 04 2009
Fortunately, my ISP doesn’t cap usage other than by available bandwidth. More often now, we are seeing internet service providers cap transfers to several gigabytes each month. Their argument is usually that users are hogging the available bandwidth on their network.