Last week I had a disk corruption which proved to be somewhat catastrophic. My main server had an apparent corruption of the Directory database, and even after I’d run a system restore, still could not bring Active Directory back up. To cut a long story short, my journey would have […]
Hardware
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As un-Architect as it sounds, I still very much like to stay “hands on” when it comes to hardware and software. Particularly, I like to hand build my personal machines so I can stay current with advancements in hardware. You may recall from the previous post, I’ve been planning on […]
It’s been a few years – more than I’d like to admit – since I hand built my current server/workstation. It was way back in 2008 when living in Brisbane that I ponied up the cash to procure the appropriate hardware. Fast forward to now, in 2014, the current rig […]
It’s been a tough week for me from a hardware and infrastructure perspective. Late Thursday night, I lost one of the two desktop machines I own which still functioned. It had been on its way out for a while in theory, since somehow the CPU fan docking clamps were broken […]