What Are You Doing Right Now
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thwr - that's some scary shit! I'm glad it turned out OK - and that it sounds almost like a daily occurrence - glad it turns out OK more often than not.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Still trying to get my P2V 2003R2 box to boot on it's own
Why?
it will finally boot if I use a Hirem's Boot Disk to act as the MBR.
This is an archive and it will always boot this way, so stop already FFS.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Still trying to get my P2V 2003R2 box to boot on it's own
Why?
it will finally boot if I use a Hirem's Boot Disk to act as the MBR.
This is an archive and it will always boot this way, so stop already FFS.
Because - learning.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Still trying to get my P2V 2003R2 box to boot on it's own
Why?
it will finally boot if I use a Hirem's Boot Disk to act as the MBR.
This is an archive and it will always boot this way, so stop already FFS.
Because - learning.
Because you like to waste money.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Still trying to get my P2V 2003R2 box to boot on it's own
Why?
it will finally boot if I use a Hirem's Boot Disk to act as the MBR.
This is an archive and it will always boot this way, so stop already FFS.
Because - learning.
Learning about Windows 2003 today isn't useful. It's just wasted time. Might as well just be surfing the web or watching Netflix. Not info that is applicable to other things nor something that you will ever use again.
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Even if all you do is take time to relax it is probably more useful than learning about Windows 2003 details.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Still trying to get my P2V 2003R2 box to boot on it's own
Why?
it will finally boot if I use a Hirem's Boot Disk to act as the MBR.
This is an archive and it will always boot this way, so stop already FFS.
Because - learning.
Learning about Windows 2003 today isn't useful. It's just wasted time. Might as well just be surfing the web or watching Netflix. Not info that is applicable to other things nor something that you will ever use again.
Learning about how boot sectors work - and tricks to fix them isn't. though it's possible that anything I do learn won't be usable much longer as we move away from MBR to GPT.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Even if all you do is take time to relax it is probably more useful than learning about Windows 2003 details.
Says the guy who doesn't really relax unless he's reading about something.
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OH, and
Shut up and get off my lawn!
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And in the meantime I helped Wired get a stubborn DC removed from his network - they had a removed DC that wasn't properly DCPromoed out of the network causing issues.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
And in the meantime I helped Wired get a stubborn DC removed from his network - they had a removed DC that wasn't properly DCPromoed out of the network causing issues.
What a great learning experience for me though. Thanks again!
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Now I want to figure out why network printers aren't populating (and have never populated apparently). Group Policy seems likely.
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Heading out on the town finally.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Now I want to figure out why network printers aren't populating (and have never populated apparently). Group Policy seems likely.
Sounds like a computer browser issue.
Do they show up under network ?
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@Dashrender yeah they do
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Sounds like a new thread.
Keep these threads coming - it's the main thing I miss about SW, question threads about technical issues.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
thwr - that's some scary shit! I'm glad it turned out OK - and that it sounds almost like a daily occurrence - glad it turns out OK more often than not.
One might think so but actually we are so used to "blocked roads / public transport routes due to a bomb" that no one really cares. The only real problem is that no one of the former allied forces actually knows how many bombs they dropped on us. Like SAM mentioned before we are still finding some potentially deadly "leftovers" more than 70 years after the end of WW2.
BTW: That's why you need to have your piece of land inspected when you want to build a house here in Hamburg - there could be a bomb beneath.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Still trying to get my P2V 2003R2 box to boot on it's own
Why?
it will finally boot if I use a Hirem's Boot Disk to act as the MBR.
This is an archive and it will always boot this way, so stop already FFS.
Because - learning.
Learning about Windows 2003 today isn't useful. It's just wasted time. Might as well just be surfing the web or watching Netflix. Not info that is applicable to other things nor something that you will ever use again.
Learning about how boot sectors work - and tricks to fix them isn't. though it's possible that anything I do learn won't be usable much longer as we move away from MBR to GPT.
Ah, but how relevant is this knowledge? Do you work in an environment where you will even have a reasonable chance to see this again? The answer is no. So you are doing nothing but wasting your time.
Wasting your time means that you are wasting the company's money. Granted your boss waste more with refusal to do basic things that would reduce IT expenses over time. But this is still your choice to waste not your boss's.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
thwr - that's some scary shit! I'm glad it turned out OK - and that it sounds almost like a daily occurrence - glad it turns out OK more often than not.
One might think so but actually we are so used to "blocked roads / public transport routes due to a bomb" that no one really cares. The only real problem is that no one of the former allied forces actually knows how many bombs they dropped on us. Like SAM mentioned before we are still finding some potentially deadly "leftovers" more than 70 years after the end of WW2.
BTW: That's why you need to have your piece of land inspected when you want to build a house here in Hamburg - there could be a bomb beneath.
How would knowing how many were dropped be helpful? You don't know how many didn't explode. I suppose if you did know, then once you reached that number you could stop checking - but, yeah that would never happen.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
thwr - that's some scary shit! I'm glad it turned out OK - and that it sounds almost like a daily occurrence - glad it turns out OK more often than not.
One might think so but actually we are so used to "blocked roads / public transport routes due to a bomb" that no one really cares. The only real problem is that no one of the former allied forces actually knows how many bombs they dropped on us. Like SAM mentioned before we are still finding some potentially deadly "leftovers" more than 70 years after the end of WW2.
BTW: That's why you need to have your piece of land inspected when you want to build a house here in Hamburg - there could be a bomb beneath.
How would knowing how many were dropped be helpful? You don't know how many didn't explode. I suppose if you did know, then once you reached that number you could stop checking - but, yeah that would never happen.
That's the point. You never know if there's still one left or not.
