I've been upvoting A.J.'s posts. What's wrong with me? checks for a fever

@IRJ said:

How do you feel about spelling Tech as Tek in the business name? I was thinking of a business name using tech but all domains are taken. I found that using the business name with tek in it it, shows an available .com domain.

That is really personal preference. There are popular sites out there, such as tek-tips.com, but to me it ranks up there with textspeak in a negative fashion. irjtech.com is available.

@RoguePacket said:

@RAM. said:

All People Seem To Need Data People
.... OSI!!!!

"Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away"

I learned it as:
"Programmers Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away." and "Please Do Not Tell Sales People Anything."

@Nic said:

Aaaaaannnnd they got hacked. http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/20/yo-app-allegedly-hacked-by-college-students/

Remote Rickrolling. Now that's an app I'd pay for.

That's a brilliant example of a lack of proper Disaster recovery planning. With business practices like that, I'm glad they went under. I wonder if they attackers made copies of anything before they cleaned house?

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@alexntg said:

.net domains were for ISPs and networking providers, so depending on your business, they may or may not be a good choice. There's always the country-specific TLDs, such as .us.

That used to be the case, but certainly isn't any more.
My office went with a .net for email (I have no idea why - I wasn't around when that decision was made).

Still is the case. Just widely abused. It you use a .net inappropriately it reflects poorly on the company - makes the look confused.

Much like this is an Italian website.

The thing with interviews is that you haven't actually lost anything. To compare it with relationships, it's like asking someone out and being rejected. It's a very different thing from being dumped. After a while, you get used to it. I've had my share of pitfalls along the way. I interview well, but in discussing the position, I more often than not get the hiring manager to realize that they need something different, thereby retooling or sometimes even eliminating the position. Needless to say, by the time I'm done talking, those jobs are no longer a good fit.

Take each interview as a learning experience and apply what you learn to the next one. Wash, rinse, repeat.

First off, it sounds like someone fed Windows 8 after midnight.

Have you tried a wipe and reload? It should be SOP for new computers, anyway.

@Minion-Queen said:

Just reach out to me tomorrow and I have Alex do that with you if you would like.

Apparently I've been volunteered.

If someone can explain why my idea's bad or why it won't work, great. If somone can't explain or back it up, I go and get one of these:

Dang it, I just took a position with another firm

For others, as someone who's worked with HDS's HUS, AMS, and HNAS products, I can safely say that it would be a "dream job" for a storage-inclined IT professional. The entry-level support issues are comparatively complex, so you wouldn't get bored for a while to come. They're also very big on training for not only employees, but partners and clients as well.

@ajstringham said:

@alexntg said:

There's also Vancouver.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Vancouver

Edit: If you specialize within your 5-year plan, Boston might be worth looking at. There's (at least currently) a healthy demand for IT folks there. Also keep in mind that as you plan your 5-year plan, things may change, and IT jobs may shift around a bit.

I despise the Red Sox almost as much as the Dallas Cowboys. I love New England Clam Chowder but also SERIOUSLY hate the Patriots. Boston would be bad for me...

I don't care for sports, but I survive. Just don't go to Fenway Park or Gillette Stadium. Boston also has WAAF.

@MattKing said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Hubtech Vancouver would require him to get a visa for which he does not qualify.

I thought Canada was pretty friendly to "skilled professionals" in getting visas, am I all wonky on that?

I checked less than a year ago, and Canada was fast-tracking IT immigrants/work visas.
Edit: Yes, group 2171 is still on the list: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/apply-who-instructions.asp?expand=jobs#jobs

I think there's some missing bits of the story.

Was that video at the Javits Center?

There's also Vancouver.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Vancouver

Edit: If you specialize within your 5-year plan, Boston might be worth looking at. There's (at least currently) a healthy demand for IT folks there. Also keep in mind that as you plan your 5-year plan, things may change, and IT jobs may shift around a bit.

@nadnerB said:

Source: Disk
Event ID: 15
Description:
The device, \Device\Harddisk2\DR2, is not ready for access yet.

Which machine are you seeing this on?

I've checked the ESXi host and the data store, partition and the VMFS seem to be ok (two other servers on the same data store back up perfectly fine), and this has lead me to believe that there is something wrong with the virtual hard drives.

What kind of storage/RAID type is that VMDK on?

Now the questions:

1. Can I defrag the virtual hdd without taking exchange offline?

If you have a bad disk, one of the last things you ever want to do with it is defrag it. You risk causing further damage.

2. If I take the Exchange database offline, is it likely that the database won't mount after I run ESEUTIL against it? I have attempted to restore into a Recovery database but it's in a "Dirty Shutdown" state and I can't fix it, so I'm concerned.

Not sure. "It depends." If you're keeping it on the same disk, you're repairing a database on a bad disk. If you drop the database, move it to a new disk, then try to bring it up, if you do need to repair it, you'd be repairing it on a new disk.

I can't move hosts at this point in time as I have not yet configured the new host (awaiting an extra CPU and RAM).

Can you set up a new disk with a new database and move the mailboxes over to it? That might be your safest bet, though it is possible the IS would crash when you hit the corrupted part of the disk.

As a side note, check for any residual snapshots and that the Veeam proxy doesn't have any extra mounted disks. It shouldn't have anything to do with the issue, but it doesn't hurt to check.

@scottalanmiller said:

@MattKing said:

Finally home; large clouds coming in from the west but managed to put the top down for a little stress relief!

Seems to have mostly passed by me here now.

Methinks that's a different front.

@ajstringham said:

Having electricity shot through my body while I lay here...lol

Damn! I set the current too low!

@MattKing said:

@alexntg said:

Prepping for my last day with NTG and making sure all the i's are crossed and t's are dotted.

Who's taking your place?

I don't know. I performed a knowledge transfer to existing resources.