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I love my job.....I love my job....I love my job.... a .357 leaves a bigger hole than a 9mm....I love my job...

Oh, YOU are back again. I have to wonder if YOU have any other calling in life other than to annoy the hell out of ME.

Shall we take it from the top. Why are YOU calling today? Oh, the problem I fixed last week has popped up again. YOU can't get on the internet any more? It happened right after YOU went to that website that so severly infected YOUR machine last time that I almost had to reformat YOUR machine to get rid of it. The only reason I didn't was because YOU whined sooo much about not losing all those valuable MP3's of shitty songs and JPG's of some other woman's vagina that I went above and beyond the call to save them. Did YOU do the backup like I asked you to? No, good. I really enjoy a challange. Oh, YOU still want me to save all those "valuable" files. OK, not a problem. Oh, you need it back this afternoon, riiiight. I'll get right on that.

Hi, it's ME again. Sorry to inform you that your hard drive has crashed and everything is gone (not really, I just can't be bothered to go through all this again). Nope, I could not get anything off the drive before it died (other than all your porn and some of the better MP3's that you downloaded)(What on earth possessed you to download Insync anyway). It started up, put up the background screen of YOU in that "interesting" outfit (and I am trying to be kind here) and then I got the lovely BSOD (right after I repeatedly pulled the power cable out and pushed it back in again several times in a row as it was booting). In layman's terms, it went to the great hard drive roundup in the sky. No, I can't get any info off it (because currently the insides are decorating the walls of my office (boy these magnets are strong)). I am sorry that all your info is gone and no, there is nothing we can do about that now. No need to cry, for a small fee we can put a new drive in your machine and get you back up and running again. All I need is for you to bring in the CD's of your original software for me to reload. What, you have no idea where they are? (Surprise!) What about the sticker of authenticity for your copy of XP. Hmmm, don't know where that is either (usualy found on the outside of your machine, I wonder where it wandered off too). Ah, no, I can't "just" put on a copy of XP for you. XP sells for $599 (not really, but maybe you'll stop bugging me). Yes, I know that you can get a new machine from Futureshop for that price (and maybe you'll stop bugging me). I'm sorry but we are not a huge box retailer who gets great deals (and maybe you'll stop bugging me). I can talk to MY boss about getting YOU a better price on XP (and you really don't get the idea about not bugging me, do you!)

Thank you for you call and once again, I am really sorry that you lost everything (which of course some of the more interesting things will find their way to my friends blog and Youtube account). Please call again (like when Hell freezes over). Click!

May 24, 2007 - Admittedly when Mike B suggested Niagara On the Lake
for a BHON pub crawl, we all thought he was crazy. There couldn't
be any decent or cheap wings to be had in Ye Olde town of Niagara?
Or could there? Quel suprise!

First stop - The Irish Harp Pub! Guinness a flowin' and first batch
of wings starts out with a quality presentation.

Fuck...these are really good! FUCK...THESE ARE REALLY HOT!!!!!
More Guinness please!!!!

Despite the quality beers on tap and decent wings, is was agreed that the
atmosphere at the Angel was the best feature thus far...

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

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