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rkressg
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How about this today, I was involved in two hit-and-run accidents. One in the parking lot of a shoping center. I leave my truck in one peace, away from all the other cars,and go inside to buy some food. When I return, my right rear running board was ripped off, along with part of my bed! Of course, no insurance information, or name associated with my new modification.
So, I get home and weld the sheet metal back together, straighten up with some Bondo, and prime the panel. OK, at least I know the diamond-plate did some good damage to what ever hit me.
After fixing everything, my Mother needed me to go and pick something up for her. So upon leaving my driveway with a recently patched up truck, I drive only three blocks from my house only to be rear ended by some guy in brand new BMW 5-Series. Of course, he was talking on the phone and eating at the same time.
The good news, anyone who knows my truck has seen the home-made pintle hitch hanging off the back, which is my "rearend insurance". The only damage to my truck this time was some good new German black paint aiding in stopping rust from forming on the hitch. The hood and gril were trashed on his car.
So ok, I hit my turn-signal to pull into the local Sunoco station, thinking he would follow, but no, he flys off. I personally do not care, like I said, this one caused no damage to my truck, but his car was messed up pretty bad.
I know he felt the hit, it pushed my truck forward about 6". I guess that is what happens when you are trying to make a left turn and not cutting off into oncomming traffic.
To make matters worse, I have had an Exchange server go offline at work Sunday night. It was my welcome home gift afterging to Muncie this year Oo. . A power dip (480v turned into around 40v for about 5 min. Run this through a step down transformer, and you have a little less than 10v at the wall. Not good for servers, but enough of a variance to make UPSs and Generators act very funny) took out a Raid-Array of Ultra-Wide SCSI drives. All the data is still there, I just can not access the drive array from the OS. I personally think a memory pointer is now goofy, but dropping power off a SCSI drive with out sutting in down first can cause them to go dead. I hope to have the system back up by Fri, but it is still too early to tell. Loosing a week of e-mail can be very bad, but what can you do. If the company you work for continually forces you to work on a thinner budget, you have to trim the fat somewhere. Can you say "Good By" to disaster recovery. I have somewher around 500 employees bothering me every 5 min. for their junk e-mail that contains nothing useful, but viruses. Even better, distracting me and my fellow IT employees from fixing the problem.
Sorry for ranting but it has been a very long day/week.
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So, I get home and weld the sheet metal back together, straighten up with some Bondo, and prime the panel. OK, at least I know the diamond-plate did some good damage to what ever hit me.
After fixing everything, my Mother needed me to go and pick something up for her. So upon leaving my driveway with a recently patched up truck, I drive only three blocks from my house only to be rear ended by some guy in brand new BMW 5-Series. Of course, he was talking on the phone and eating at the same time.
The good news, anyone who knows my truck has seen the home-made pintle hitch hanging off the back, which is my "rearend insurance". The only damage to my truck this time was some good new German black paint aiding in stopping rust from forming on the hitch. The hood and gril were trashed on his car.
So ok, I hit my turn-signal to pull into the local Sunoco station, thinking he would follow, but no, he flys off. I personally do not care, like I said, this one caused no damage to my truck, but his car was messed up pretty bad.
I know he felt the hit, it pushed my truck forward about 6". I guess that is what happens when you are trying to make a left turn and not cutting off into oncomming traffic.
To make matters worse, I have had an Exchange server go offline at work Sunday night. It was my welcome home gift afterging to Muncie this year Oo. . A power dip (480v turned into around 40v for about 5 min. Run this through a step down transformer, and you have a little less than 10v at the wall. Not good for servers, but enough of a variance to make UPSs and Generators act very funny) took out a Raid-Array of Ultra-Wide SCSI drives. All the data is still there, I just can not access the drive array from the OS. I personally think a memory pointer is now goofy, but dropping power off a SCSI drive with out sutting in down first can cause them to go dead. I hope to have the system back up by Fri, but it is still too early to tell. Loosing a week of e-mail can be very bad, but what can you do. If the company you work for continually forces you to work on a thinner budget, you have to trim the fat somewhere. Can you say "Good By" to disaster recovery. I have somewher around 500 employees bothering me every 5 min. for their junk e-mail that contains nothing useful, but viruses. Even better, distracting me and my fellow IT employees from fixing the problem.
Sorry for ranting but it has been a very long day/week.
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