Posts by norsni

My smartphone has wiped my microSD card again: Is it a conspiracy?

Re: Flash yes car no

Someone did make the car you want- Norwegian manufacturer Th!nk, former pivco. I've had two of those, and apart from wear parts and finally rust induced death, they never failed during 350k km's of my driving. Basic, with diesel webasto heater and a radio. Plus, believe it or not, you can fit a standard 60x60cm appliance (washing machine etc) in the "boot". Sadly not made anymore.

BOFH: Where do you think you are going with that toner cartridge?

Re: HP Laserjet 5

Got a discarded laserjet 2200dtn probably 15 years ago. Unfortunately the extra paper magazine had been broken, but the printer itself is built like a tank. Had to log in to check statistice, somehow the page counter has been reset, it says 130 pages. I do remember somewhere north of 100k pages on it years ago. The network module is manufactured 2002. The best part? It just works. Even if sat for years between uses once, i just powered it up, and volia! Some things were built better before.

BOFH: Something's consuming 40% of UPS capacity – and it's coming from the beancounters' office

Remembering ALL the vital things to go on ups.

I got a nice big ups at home, external batteries for about 5 hrs runtime at full load, powering my proliant server & network kit. Our utility announced a maintenance outage. No problem, been there, done that, i power down the unneccessary stuff before heading to work that day, and monitor the situation remotely. About an hour into the outage the proliant goes down. ILO tells me its having a heatstroke. Whoopsie, i forgot the cooling air fan; the server is a bit noisy, so after complaints from the missus it sits in a silencing cabinet, therefore requiring external forced air to keep it running. And i forgot to put the fan on the ups circuit. Thank you ILO, after the power came back i could power it on remotely. And rewired the fan after i got home. Lesson learnt.