Real men don't make backups
We recently have observed some strange things in our local are network. Some Internet resources, mostly from Microsoft, failed to open in any web browser (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Telnet to port 80). As it happened on all computers, we thought that this is our ISP issue and wrote to support. ISP shortly responded that …
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We got hand on brand new Dell Rack UPS 5600W. It comes with EBM (Extended battery module), NMC (Network managament card) and Environment probe (Temperature and humidity). It has some nice integration with VMware vCenter for automatic host/guest shutdown. This automation is included in the price. It has run time of impressive 49 minutes at …
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We have a program written in C# using Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.0 / .NET 4.5. It rapidly executes many queries in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and then exits. Executed query count varies from several hundred to many thousand. Today, when executed particular task with very many queries, I noticed an error in …