# 97 ~ When the dentist shows you an image of your cavity and asks what you think and you reply "Nice, I like the color and composition... Great Depth of Field but you overexposed that cuspit on the upper right,,, I give it an 8"
True story... I just got back home... When I looked at the expression on his face, I understood my mistake and blamed it on the NitricOxide
Originally posted by myqyl: # 97 ~ When the dentist shows you an image of your cavity and asks what you think and you reply "Nice, I like the color and composition... Great Depth of Field but you overexposed that cuspit on the upper right,,, I give it an 8"
True story... I just got back home... When I looked at the expression on his face, I understood my mistake and blamed it on the NitricOxide
That nitrous makes ya do some embarassing things...lol. I won''t share my experience though.
* This message has been edited by the author on 7/31/2002 6:30:34 PM.
#98 you know you're addicted when you watch and read a thread for 6 days even though you can't think of anything to add! - off to La belle France for 3 weeks, good luck to all in the 'Corporate World' and 'Something Old' challenges.
Originally posted by myqyl: ... When I looked at the expression on his face, I understood my mistake and blamed it on the NitricOxide
Uh, "before someone gets hurt" the ansthetic gas is Nitrous Oxide. "Nitric" is altogether different and probably fatal (as is Nitrous unless one is breathing oxygen along with it).
I'll have to dig out Isaac's ultrasound photos which I used on his "birth announcement."
Originally posted by GeneralE: Uh, "before someone gets hurt" the ansthetic gas is Nitrous Oxide. "Nitric" is altogether different and probably fatal (as is Nitrous unless one is breathing oxygen along with it)
Whoops, that'll teach me to post before Carol proofreads :) Good point General! I should have added...
You can tell there are a few others addicted when ... it's after midnite here on the west coast, and you've just posted a few rants --- and you get a quick reply from people on the east coast!!
Sorry to hear about the controller, i can understand i got the same job. nothing worse than getting called in the middle of the night to rebuild a server, .. good luck.. what brand was it?
Originally posted by Ronin: Sorry to hear about the controller, i can understand i got the same job. nothing worse than getting called in the middle of the night to rebuild a server, .. good luck.. what brand was it?
The server is a Compaq Proliant M370 and it has a Compaq SmartArray 5300 RAID controller...
On this particular server, I have a disaster recovery plan in place.. I have 6 replacement drives ready to rollout with the OS already installed (Windows 2K Advanced Server) as well as MS SQL Server v7. With those two pieces in place, all i had to do was replace the controller, replace the drives, restore my backups and restore some minor other applications... it's mainly watch and shove discs in the CD drive :)
Ive had good luck with the 5300's sucks thought when they go belly up. hope your not restoring across the wire it takes forever. do you work for nortel?
Originally posted by Ronin: Ive had good luck with the 5300's sucks thought when they go belly up. hope your not restoring across the wire it takes forever. do you work for nortel?
No.. I'm restoring locally... I work for Caterpillar...
i should have brung my friggin camera.. i could have photographed a brand spankin controller board that costs twice as much as yer average pc :)
I think they would arrest me if i tried to bring my camera into work, then it would probably lock up in the server room anyway. Its only 1am here on the west coast, but I remeber being at work until5:30 am rebuild half of the san clusters, after someone decided to format the the external disk enclosures that had the clusters quorum disks on it... well i learned a great leason there, not to have all your eggs in the same basket...
Originally posted by Ronin: I think they would arrest me if i tried to bring my camera into work, then it would probably lock up in the server room anyway. Its only 1am here on the west coast, but I remeber being at work until5:30 am rebuild half of the san clusters, after someone decided to format the the external disk enclosures that had the clusters quorum disks on it... well i learned a great leason there, not to have all your eggs in the same basket...
I'm the lucky one with my camera here... I have a 'camera pass' that allows me to take photographs inside the facility now... I also get asked to do some fun stuff like THIS sometimes... this is a 1939 model motor grader that we are going to restore as an employee project :)
I just got back from work -- burning some backup files to DVD and copying my laptop disk to a hard drive so I can take it in for repair...tiny potatoes compared to what you have. Just saw something in a magazine (ad?) relating to the NFL Carolina Panthers and how they back up their 6TB of data...and yet I still get printing jobs on floppy disks!
