Do you know that you can now use your notebook sata harddrive on your desktop?

well i tried it and it worked. the notebook sata uses exactly the same connectors as that of the desktop, so i connected my sata cables to my notebook' harddrive (sata) and boot up my pc and wow, my joy when i saw that the notebook harddrive was working just as fine as my ide on the pc.

Just try it.

(Posting this one from a friend... Hope y'all dont mind)

Back in the OS/2 days the mouse driver was loaded during a graphical boot process.

For all Admin Fish:

What methods are you using to schedule outages?

I.E.; patches requiring reboot across the board or just hardware modifications to a Mail server get the same response, invariably whatever im taking down is being used RIGHT THEN. (Even on weekends and extreme after hours) "Come on guys, I have a life too."

So I'm at a trade conference when one of the local IT publications puts on a nice liquid lunch. Lovely idea, until some of the well lubricated dinner table conversation shows up, fully attributed, in that publication the following month.

Ouch.

Arriving at the hospital where we have network presence and see the satellite installer cutting a 6ft dish in half. OK, recycled metal is good...1 hour later need to take the elevator to an equip closet and it is cordoned off - Satellite guy muscling half the cut dish into the elevator.

So last friday we need to shut down computer room for building a/c repairs. Work was done off hours, I took the morning shift to finish re-starts. Re-start admin servers, all is well, need to go to another building to start listeners. Very easy startup normally, but listeners would not start, receiving error message.

A new hospital is going thru final testing of it's new IP phone system, and it's integration with the new network when the whole phone system shuts down along with the new network. Everyone is pointing fingers at everyone else for an hour until someone finally found out what was going on..

Working on something this morning, I needed to know what the largest number is that can be stored in a 32-bit signed integer. A 10-digit number starting with "214". In other words, a Dallas phone number.

I think I've found the most effective and reasonably priced tool for remote desktop support: Techinline Remote Desktop (www.techinline.com). I was using LogMeIn Rescue for about a year, but at over $100 a month, it got a bit pricey.

Not very IT. It was the late 70s when a journeyman electrician was working on a de-energized 600v DC panel. A new apprentice was assigned to him, and he told the apprentice to just stand back and observe.