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Yes, graphics work. Need to make sure print layout colours are correct etc. and they block light / stop glare for more accurate colour representation.
But they are also handy for my breaks when I want to check MacRumors
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Only backup once a week to tapes. We have a homemade nas box located in another area of the building for nightly backups.
I'm a network admin for a small primary school in the UK. All those servers control the network of 150 client machines...
Unfortunately the school wont buy any macs!!!!
The three servers to the right are xeon 3ghz 8GB RAM 2 x 1000 NICS with about 1TB hard drive in a RAID 5 array. All the user data, AD, DHCP, DNS, Ghost, WSUS are loaded on these servers.
The other 2 are just cheap dual core servers that house RAID 1 arrays. These serve all the applications / Virtual CD's to the client machines
It usually doesn't get any messier than this (its current stage):
P.s.: The wall looks a lot dirtier in a HDR picture.
Got any more pics? Setup looks awesome!
nice! i really want to get into network administration - its where my heart lies (and hopefully lots of moneys)
blasphemy!! what idiots.. managing macs is SO much easier
impressive, are they under load much? our school of about the same size only had 1 server of that sort of calibre - it did fine
virtual CDs thats a very smart thing to do! all our stuff was physically based and not virtual. how annoying.
what sort of qualifications do you have to land you that sort of job? i am at uni now studying Bach. IT (major is Networking & Security) and hoping to get into some high end sort of admin. (either that or my drumming better increase by 10fold BAHA).
If you don't mind me asking what backup software you running for the tapes and to the nas box
Thank you very much.
And here you go. Another current one and 3 older ones where it was arranged a little bit different.
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nice! i really want to get into network administration - its where my heart lies (and hopefully lots of moneys)
blasphemy!! what idiots.. managing macs is SO much easier
impressive, are they under load much? our school of about the same size only had 1 server of that sort of calibre - it did fine
virtual CDs thats a very smart thing to do! all our stuff was physically based and not virtual. how annoying.
what sort of qualifications do you have to land you that sort of job? i am at uni now studying Bach. IT (major is Networking & Security) and hoping to get into some high end sort of admin. (either that or my drumming better increase by 10fold BAHA).
To be honest I was really lucky. I only have a GNVQ in IT that i got from college. Then i started in a high school as a junior tech and finally moved my way up in a few years and moved to a school where I was the admin.
The servers are under a pretty high load as they are used all the time. We have 60 laptops that go around to the kids classrooms and used wirelessly. The main strain is when you have 60 children all trying to log on at exactly the same time!
I use Veritas Backup Exec for the Tape drives but have just created some robocopy scripts for the backups to the nas box.
thats awsome! id love to be working in the market that i want to get into, but nooo im stuck at woolies as a check out chick lol.. im trying though!
i imagine that would be very heavy load. but wouldnt the bottlenecks tend to be more around the wireless and stuff like that?
thanks for replying
thats awsome! id love to be working in the market that i want to get into, but nooo im stuck at woolies as a check out chick lol.. im trying though!
i imagine that would be very heavy load. but wouldnt the bottlenecks tend to be more around the wireless and stuff like that?
thanks for replying
Just keep trying, you'll get there in the end.
To be honest we have a fantastic managed wireless system.
All laptops are wireless N but when they all log on together they get an actual throughput of about 5 MB/s each.
Not too bad, have trimmed down their profiles so they logon in about 2 minutes from a cold start.
oh i am lol. believe me
thats not too bad!! when you consider the amount of people trying to log on OVER WIRELESS! thats great!
is there anyway to fix that? cant you store their profiles on the local machines (thats only if they are designated one laptop i guess).
our school disabled profiles for students (only teachers had them), it was for the best though.
It usually doesn't get any messier than this (its current stage):
P.s.: The wall looks a lot dirtier in a HDR picture.
I see the album artwork for Mothers Milk...good stuff!
Here's mine. Among the items on my desk are:
Old Razr phone from T-Mobile I stopped using when I got my iPhone
Fabric shaver
USB linker for transferring files to my Game Boy Advance flash cart
Used tissue
Empty wine bottle
Mechanical pencil
Notebook paper
Sticky notes in the shape of an "M"
Various coins
Expired coupon to American Eagle
Letter from the Social Security Administration about my current contribution
Tengu
Flea comb
Lipitor pen
Movie from Netflix I've had for about 6 months and haven't watched
Various CD-Rs and DVD-Rs
Barack Obama action figure pointing towards the door to the garage
Collection of plastic grocery bags under the desk we re-use as trash bags
Old Razr phone from T-Mobile I stopped using when I got my iPhone
Fabric shaver
USB linker for transferring files to my Game Boy Advance flash cart
Used tissue
Empty wine bottle
Mechanical pencil
Notebook paper
Sticky notes in the shape of an "M"
Various coins
Expired coupon to American Eagle
Letter from the Social Security Administration about my current contribution
Tengu
Flea comb
Lipitor pen
Movie from Netflix I've had for about 6 months and haven't watched
Various CD-Rs and DVD-Rs
Barack Obama action figure pointing towards the door to the garage
Collection of plastic grocery bags under the desk we re-use as trash bags
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