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I am on a travel job. Everywhere I go, I am given a per diem on hotels. Basically I am told: "Spend x dollars or less for your hotel." I seem to be about the only person who actually takes this seriously. Other people basically take the attitude of staying wherever they want, in spite of what...

I have been on a job that involves travelling for a couple months. There is one aspect of it that I absolutely loathe. Since I am always working with someone else, the company has us share a rental car. It is something I had not considered before I took this job. As a result, this means we have...

I just took a class on the EMC Clariion at their headquarters in Massachusetts. What certification should I start out with? There isn't much information on the web site.

Let me start out by saying that I have no problem with people listening to music in the workplace. I have noticed an enormous difference in my enjoyment of a job based on this. But I am starting to hate Ipods and anything with headsets. It seems that more and more often, I approach someone to...

I am in a position that may see me getting a security clearance. Does this help with regard to getting a CISSP?

I got into the server room this morning and noticed that some type of security update had been forced on a Windows 2003 server. The system had rebooted. After that, the system came up with a really bizarre color scheme. Some program backgrounds went from white to black, some text went from black...

An "instructionally-disabled" person is simply a person who has little or no ability to follow simple instructions. How do you deal with instructionally-disabled people? Last year, I moved my business address to a mailbox. About a month before the move, I notified many associates of this change...

We have two Windows 2003 Enterprise servers. Each server has two network cards on two different networks, <192.168.x.x> and <143.166.x.x>. They have static IP's, and I have tried to enter the DNS and the WINS for both network cards. For the <192.168.x.x> interface, I enter DNS and WINS servers...

RTFM"--if you don't know, it means "read the freaking manual." Sometimes other adjectives are used in the F position. This phrase needs to die. While it is entirely true that many people do NOT read the manuals, this response is often simply a confession meaning, "I don't have time to read your...

Every years, I build my own personal system. I dual-boot Windows. I buy a case and everything I need. It gets tougher every time, it seems. Three years ago, I managed to get an Asus motherboard. The board didn't have any sound, video, network ports, or other stuff I didn't want on-board. I...

I have noticed an annoying problem with Veritas Netbackup 5.1. My policy for Windows machines often produces duplicate jobs and sometimes even triplicate jobs in one day. This is unnecessary, of course. Sometimes the jobs are the same time, and sometime they may be a few hours apart. I end up...

Naturally I am curious as to what everyone thinks, but I am considering starting a new campaign. Maybe I am just a sucker for lost causes, but I think this is quite worthwhile. We need to SAVE THE FLOPPY. Yes, it's a technology that is at least 15 years old. It's slow and noisy. But the truth...

I am trying to backup a few monster servers. One is over 1 TB. Another is about 500 GB. Naturally, our bandwidth is critical. We have a 1 Gbps network. I have upgraded the network drivers on all the Windows servers involved. Backup bandwidth is pretty poor, however. Are there any software...

I have NetBackup 5.1 on a Windows server. It is the master server. It backed up a few Linux clients, and I would like to do a restore to make sure that I have a good backup. How do I do that? I can't seem to find it in the manuals.

I came into the office this morning. I opened up the admin console on the master server and noticed a message on the backup: "file read filed." However, the monitor also indicated that the backup was still in progress. On the activity monitor on the master server, the percentage completed has...

What DVD/CD writers work best with Linux? I have heard one report of a user having trouble with a Plextor on serial ATA.

In DOS or Windows, if you type in DIR/S, it will list the contents of the directory and all subdirectories and all subdirectories and so on. At the end, it gives you a total number of files and bytes used. Is there an equivalent for this in Linux? I have used ls and dir in Linux, but have not...

Is there any good backup software out there? I used Arcserve for almost four years and found it to be garbage. Now I am on a job using Veritas Netbackup and am not finding it to be much better. I have been trying to backup a server for about three weeks now and have gotten probably a half dozen...

I have Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition. There doesn't appear to be an option to shutdown any more. When I hit the shutdown button from the start menu, I get a box. The only option in this box is "log off." If I hit CTRL+ALT+DEL and select the shutdown button, the same box appears. The...

I know it seems like a dumb question, but how do I restore? I am using Net Backup 5.1 on Windows 2003. I have just inherited this job and the backup system. I am new to Veritas backup products. I am naturally wondering if anything is getting backed up. I honestly have no idea what is on the...