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I want one of these.. :>

Tonight I am babysitting a server.  It likes to randomly reboot. :>  Which is not good for servers.  Right now I booted with a Dell diagnostic CD and I’m running memory test Loop 2 of 4.  I’ve been here for 2 hours and really not sure if I want to stick around for the 3 hr test.  All good so far.  Its a Dell PowerEdge 1650 server running Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition.  It has 1 GB of ram and RAID configured 80 GB SCSI drives.  It is a Pentium III 1.8 mhz processor.

I setup my laptop and plugged it into the network.  Funny how you can see the previous post below in the picture.

A friend of mine asked if I could help salvage data from their computer.  Apparently they tried to install some “Anti-Spyware” and when they rebooted the system, it would allow them to login, but then promptly log them off.  DELL tried. I tried.  But I think ultimately they had a nice deep embedded virus. 

So I decided to remove their HD, put it inside a spare computer I had and make it a secondary HD.  After messing with the BIOS & DIP swtiches on their HD, I was able to bootup and see their data.   Now I had to decide how to copy their data off…  I decided to use a spare External USB HD that had enough capacity to hanldle all their stuff.   It took all night to copy (USB 1.0 speed).   Here is a picture of the setup I used.   It is nice to have the skills to be able to help a friend in need.

I love this.  Can you really believe this is better?

 http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html

The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) by Donald E. Knuth.

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html

http://www.residencypartner.com/mms/lsuhsc.htm

mms://ELPHIN.gothicsoftware.net/racecar_100.wmv

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Today’s milestone was that I bought my first 500 MG External HardDrive…at Office Depot for $229.00  (~$2.18 per MB)