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I don’t want to work there anynmore!!! Read from the bottom!
Posted: 2007-05-02 by Patrick

Ok. Thanks
Cristian MesBoullesAdministrateur de bases de données/ Database AdministratorCSTI / ITSC Téléphone: 555-555-2427 ext: 3748Télécopieur: 555-555-0717E-mail: cristian.MesBoulles@La_Conne.ca
From: Poncet, Patrick
Sent: May 3, 2007 2:45 PM
To: MesBoulles, Cristian
Subject: RE: Access cluster servers
Hi Cristian, I’m surprised you do not know the drive letters of the server. Sorry if we missed giving you the info... ideally, you should know where data is located on the server in order to locate data files acurately. Searching for files remotely is as fast as doing so locally on the server. In fact it’s even quicker :-) C: contains the OSD: contains the pagefile - not sure you’ll need to look for much data there ;-)L: contains the SQL transaction logsP: contains shared data used for eEnterprise etc...S: contains the SQL data filesT: contains the tempDB That’s the way the cluster is built, no matter which node is the active one. This should help you find files efficently. Please let me know if you need more info. Regards,Patrick
De : MesBoulles, Cristian
Envoyé : 3 mai 2007 14:25
À : Poncet, Patrick
Objet : RE: Access cluster serversNo it doesn’t help Patrick.I am looking for a file…have no idea what are the drive letters of the server.And using Remote Desktop would have taken me 15 sec to find the file. I have 30 min trying to find it…blindly. What’s the point? Let me work on this project…when it will be in prod I don’t care if it takes 3 h to find a file..We are in a rush with this project…and the things are not going well at all L All we need are other things to slow us down…. Hope you will understand what I am trying to say and I hope you will take care of this… Thanks a lot!
Cristian MesBoullesAdministrateur de bases de données/ Database AdministratorCSTI / ITSC Téléphone: 555-555-2427 ext: 3748Télécopieur: 555-555-0717E-mail: cristian.MesBoulles@La_Conne.ca
From: Poncet, Patrick
Sent: May 3, 2007 2:17 PM
To: MesBoulles, Cristian
Subject: RE: Access cluster servers
Hello Cristian, You may connect to the administrative shares of the server e.g.: servernamed$ ... then use the windows built-in search feature to look for the file you need. Ideally, we should create the appropriate shares that point to the appropriate physical folders on the server, with the appropriate permissions because administrative shares are dangerous :-) That’s hopefully the direction we’ll take once we complete the plan of normalisation of server accesses. I hope this helps, Take care! Patrick
De : MesBoulles, Cristian
Envoyé : 3 mai 2007 13:56
À : Poncet, Patrick
Objet : RE: Access cluster serversOook. I am looking for a file on the server. Have no idea where is it…how can I find it using the remote admin tools?
Cristian MesBoullesAdministrateur de bases de données/ Database AdministratorCSTI / ITSC Téléphone: 555-555-2427 ext: 3748Télécopieur: 555-555-0717E-mail: cristian.MesBoulles@La_Conne.ca
From: Poncet, Patrick
Sent: May 3, 2007 1:06 PM
To: MesBoulles, Cristian
Subject: RE: Access cluster servers
Hi! Normally not... as I explained below, we try to avoid logging on locally onto servers and use tools from the admin pack and control panel to connect remotely to the specific items we need to manage on the remote server. Regards,Patrick
De : MesBoulles, Cristian
Envoyé : 3 mai 2007 11:58
À : Poncet, Patrick
Objet : RE: Access cluster serversCan i connect on the server user Remote Desktop with this user? Thanks
Cristian MesBoullesAdministrateur de bases de données/ Database AdministratorCSTI / ITSC Téléphone: 555-555-2427 ext: 3748Télécopieur: 555-555-0717E-mail: cristian.MesBoulles@La_Conne.ca
From: Poncet, Patrick
Sent: May 3, 2007 10:17 AM
To: MesBoulles, Cristian
Cc: Bernier, Paul; Labonte, Mario
Subject: RE: Access cluster servers
Hi Cristian, Sorry for the delay. As per your request, you are now Administrator of 10.1.4.196 (QC1S196), the cluster using our model (in progress) for normalizing server accesses. Please make sure you avoid accessing a cluster node individually and always refer to the cluster itself. We must always use QC1S196. In other words, we should never refer to QC1S192 or QC1S193. As local sessions should be used only for adding/removing software and hardware drivers, access to the server should be performed exclusively using local tools (admin pack or local control panel applets) on your PC, using the "run as" feature with a right-click on the shortcut to the tool and using your Administration account. Your administration account on the server is is_balc. I will forward your password in a subsequent email that you may change later by opening a windows session on your system (open a session and change your password).
Access to filesystem should also be performed from your system using the admin shares of the server using your is_ userID.
Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any question.
Regards,
Patrick
De : MesBoulles, Cristian
Envoyé : 2 mai 2007 16:18
À : Poncet, Patrick
Cc : Bernier, Paul; Labonte, Mario
Objet : RE: Access cluster serversIn the setup phase it’s hard to identify the exact access I need.It really depends on the needs. For example: I had to recreate the replication, the database distribution existed before, was detached but the files were still on the disk.So to recreate it I had to delete this files (I asked Mario to do it).This is just an example so it’s hard to anticipate what other situations may appear. I can ask Mario to do this things but I find this inefficient and it delaying the things (and we don’t have much time to spare).He is also very busy so I don’t think he has time to baby seat me. When this project will be in production we will see the day-by-day needs. But now having admin rights will spare us of wasting time. Speaking of wasting time…righting emails doesn’t help J Thank you!
Cristian MesBoullesAdministrateur de bases de données/ Database AdministratorCSTI / ITSC Téléphone: 555-555-2427 ext: 3748Télécopieur: 555-555-0717E-mail: cristian.MesBoulles@La_Conne.ca
From: Poncet, Patrick
Sent: May 2, 2007 4:09 PM
To: MesBoulles, Cristian
Cc: Bernier, Paul; Labonte, Mario
Subject: RE: Access cluster servers
Hi Cristian, We are actually meeting on this topic today. We are following best practice methods to normalize access to servers for everyone within the IT department. We are putting together a security model that will allow us to accomodate your request. It’ll be a few days before we can define the complete model. However, since you are in a rush, we can accomodate an intermediate solution if you would please define more accurately what you need to do on the cluster. i.e.: access perfmon data (cpu usage, disk queue length etc), access event viewer content, access log file on servers file systems etc... Please let us know what your immediate access requirements are. Thanks,Patrick
De : MesBoulles, Cristian
Envoyé : 2 mai 2007 14:27
À : Poncet, Patrick
Cc : Bernier, Paul; Labonte, Mario
Objet : Access cluster serversI need admin rights on both nodes of the cluster in Quebec.Please take care of this as soon as possible. Not having the rights is slowing down my work (I have to keep asking Mario to do things for me). Thank you Cristian MesBoullesAdministrateur de bases de données/ Database AdministratorCSTI / ITSC Téléphone: 555-555-2427 ext: 3748Télécopieur: 555-555-0717E-mail: cristian.MesBoulles@La_Conne.ca



Yeah....We’re Gonna Get Hate Mail from PETA...
Posted: 2007-05-01 by Mike G




May is Masturbation Month!
Posted: 2007-05-01 by Mike G

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EDI Laffs, Gaffs and Blunders: Whatever
Posted: 2007-04-26 by MikeB

Edition V3.5: Make up your fucking mind...

So the amazing decision process at my unnamed employer works so smooth, there are no flip flopping or confusing logical circles ever!

 

Shithead 1: Mike isn't on DW - he needs to be reinstated.
Me: Whatever.
Shithead 2: Ok, we'll reinstate, get the client peice installed.
Me: Who cares.
Shithead 1: Well he isnt on DW as a cost saving measure.
Me: Don't care.
Shithead 2: Ok, as long as he gets notified of any necessary tickets.
Me: Do what ya gotta do.
Shithead 1: Who is going to notify him, should be you?
Me: Blah.
Shithead 2: I thought it would be your responsibility.
Me: Who gives a shit.
Shithead 2: It will be me, the Top durka just told me.
Me: Whatever V2.

Some people have a lot of time on their hands.....

 




Why are you here???
Posted: 2007-04-25 by Wandering Techie

It's days like this that I love the best. YOU are calling ME for support. Why do YOU insist that YOU know more than I do and will not shut up long enough for ME to fix YOUR problem. If YOU are soooo smart, why do YOU have the problem in the first place? Why is it MY fault that YOU can't surf for YOUR porn, even though you can get YOUR email? I really have so much free time that I can afford to sit here and argue with YOU all day long, not getting anything accomplished.

Things for you to do before YOU call and bitch at tech support (ME):

1. Is everything plugged in? I know it sounds stupid to check but please do. YOUR loving significant other might have done something without telling YOU. If YOU have kids and/or pets, they might have chewed through something or pulled something they should not have. If you have a hard time with this, take a picture once everything is working. Look at the picture and compare. If something has changed, put it back. If something is off, turn it on. If that doesn't fix YOUR problem, then YOU might want to call ME.

2. Was something just installed? Did YOU or someone in YOUR house install a new program on the machine? Don't automatically say NO, CHECK!  YOUR child really had to have that kool game off the internet and installed it without telling you! YOUR good friend knows all those secret tweaks that will make your machine super duper fast and knows that YOU really want him to fix YOUR machine for YOU! YOUR wife thought pagefil.sys was where YOU kept all YOUR porn on the machine and deleted it!

3. When did it stop working? Think hard about this one. If YOU haven't been able to work for a week, don't call ME today and expect it to be MY priority. What happened a week ago? Lightning storm? Flood? Irate lover using it for target practice? Gods decided to have some fun with YOU? Household animal decided to use the machine as a rest stop? Not sure? Figure it out first! Then YOU can call ME.

 4. Remember, information is KING! Give ME as much useful information as YOU possible can. Call ME up to say that YOUR machine doesn't work tells me NOTHING! Upon giving me all of that useful information, remember to get really irate, tell me its all MY fault and I should drop everything to fix it NOW! That will get me motivated to fix your problem! I will get to it - right after the second coming of Christ. Telling ME that this morning YOUR DSL link light is just flashing and YOU can't go anywhere on the internet is fantastic. I will check Bell portal stats, I will check all the logs available to me, I will provide all the support I can. If I can nail it down to a hardware problem, I might even be generous enough to tell you that if YOU bring ME YOUR hardware, I might even be able to replace it under warranty at no charge to YOU! If I nail it down to software and think YOU are capable enough to be walked through this over the phone, I will.

 There is more, but my fingers are beginning to cramp. I will continue this rant at a later date.

Remember - Be nice to your support people! We are here to help! We just help the nice people faster!




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