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Printers and Old Memories
I was cleaning out my home office and came across something I’ve kept since my first tech job back in 2003. I was fixing a badge printing machine and after lots of tinkering out spit a Windows 98 test page PRINTED ON A CARD. I wonder if the card printer is still in use. The…
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Rodents and Servers
Recent I was dusting off a lightly used Dell R720 for a client when to my horror I discovered a home for a mouse. This teaches me two things. One don’t leave a server in a storeroom. Two don’t ever take a card out and not replace the slot. This rodent squeezed his way in…
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There are four lights!
I’m not sure what is it with tech manufacturers these days. They have to make the LED’s brighter and brighter. Below you will see four switches. The bottom two Cisco units have resonable brightness LED’s but Dell EMC went over the top with the S4100 series. They want us to know those fans are working.…
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Microsoft Word Top Margin is Missing
I just had this issue last week and it took me much longer than I care to admit to figure it out so I figured I’d make a Blog Post about it. As you can see from my screenshot below the Top Margin is missing. To fix the problem you have to mouse over to…
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DANGER!!! REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS
Danger Do NOT RUN DBCC CheckDB REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS DBCC CHECKDB (‘DATABASENAME’, REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS); NEVER run the command above on a production database. As it says you will most likely loose data. That syntax commands SQL to throw out any corrupted 8K Page. There can be lots of data in that page and there may be multiple pages…