Just to be a geek and also to see my wife roll her eyes. I decided to carve a pumpkin to help announce the release of Windows 7.
Windows 7 Pumpkin Carving
October 26th, 2009Expanding a RAID5 array without losing data
September 15th, 2009One of my remote offices was getting a little low on drive space on their data partition, so it was time to upgrade the existing drives to large capacity drives. This particular server is a Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard SP2 on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with six 146GB SCSI drives and a PERC 5/i integrated controller. Drives 0 & 1 are configured RAID0 for the system partition and drives 2-5 are configured RAID5 for the data partition. Six internal drives are all the server is capable of, so I have no empty slots for additional drives to expand the RAID5. So replacing the 146GB drives with 300GB drives is the route I took to add additional space to the array. Here are the steps:
Google Desktop Gadget Posted
September 10th, 2009Just a quick post to say that Google has posted the Internet Storm gadget that I wrote. Check it out here.
Can’t delete a user from Unity Connection
August 20th, 2009This week we closed one of our satellite offices and therefore I had to remove the office from, among other things, Cisco Unity Connection. I started deleting the users and hit a problem when I tried to delete the Operator User. The error I receive was:
“Operation cannot be completed because the object is in use”
Now since I had just finished removing this office from the Cisco Unified Communications Manager box, I expected to have the option in Unity to actually see what object is using the User that I’m trying to delete, as I did in UCM. But no such luck.
Monitoring WildBlue Satellite Usage
August 2nd, 2009Where I live I have no access to cable or DSL for broadband internet. My choices are dial-up or satellite, so the decision is clear, I went with satellite through WildBlue. I signed up with them through Dish Network since they’re a partner. I’m mentioning this because what I’m about to explain, I’m pretty sure won’t work if you’re a direct WildBlue customer or have signed up through another one of their partners. So, bottom line, if you have WildBlue through dish Network read on. I’ll show you how to monitor your bandwidth usage directly from your desktop.
