[olug] OT: shoot me

[Charles.Bird]

I have a windows machine thats in a reboot loop right now. Cant make it
through disk check.
Almost time to invoke the four letter word commands.

cant even go to safemode, windows wont see any of the keyboards, lol



Looks like I'll be around pretty late, if you want some locally written
documentation on how I do it with 2008 and DFS, let me know.





On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com> wrote:

> Going bottom of the barrel cost effective, 2kAS and SQL2k.
>
> So far looking into getting a DFS setup between the two servers for a
> replicated file system between them and use as a poor man's SAN.  After get
> that far, will look into MSCS stuff followed by SQL2k installed on top of
> the MSCS stuff.
>
> I severely hate reading MS documentation, by the second page you've been
> inundated with 20 trillion buzz words and acronyms that are all intertwined
> and just... blech heh.
>
> Slowly making progress molesting some vmware sessions into a mock / test
> setup heh.
>
> I've seriously considered having some MS SQL Express 'heads' running within
> vmware that translate to postgres backends under the host linux system ...
> this way NLB would handle the IP failover in the Win VM's and with
> everything talking to postgres backend that's configured HA ... it'd...
> just
> work out :).  But... nah... I wanna do this a semi-appropriate way heh.
>
> Appreciate the offers for help, haven't hit a dead end yet.  Will cry
> loudly
> if I do :).  Apologies on top posting.
>
> -Will
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Charles.Bird <charles.bird at powerdnn.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I do this sort of thing alot, I'm hoping your using windows2008, its
> easier
> > that way.
> > I even have documentation, part of which I could let you look at.
> >
> > Its way easier than most people think, whats the hurdle you need to
> cross?
> >
> > Peace,
> > Charles "Sitting in the hot-isle" Bird
> >
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