Yea, the CPA said it was very unusual for a new little bitty company to get audited. I am just real glad everything came out as it did. I learned to keep better records. I had to buy a new printer-scanner-copier-fax machine. Now it is easy to scan a paper receipt. I keep a PDF version of everything on my computer, and the analog version in a file. I will keep the paper version for 3 years. The PDF version for forever. I back up the files to a online site run by Norton and to a thumb drive I keep in a safe. I need to set up my hard drive as a mirrored drive but I am waiting for one big client to give us the go on a project.

The only thing mirrored boot drives has done for me is let me know I need to replace my boot drives. It tells me the Raid is degraded, I get new drives, format and restore from my bootable backup drive(s). I also keep a time-machine backup which is hourly retrievable. And a nighty bootable backup to an external raid.

Computer commandment #2. One, two, three many backups.

The time machine backup came in handy. A company had a vindictive employee that put trash on their web site. I just used the time machine backup to go back to just before the employee trashed the site, restored it, and changed the passwords. They are happy as larks.

Just now Pepper was sleeping beside me. She said "Hello" in her sleep waking herself up. She immediately jumped up looking around, then barked once in disapproval. Struck me a funny. Had to let her out so she could see if anyone was out there. Think she is looking for whomever she dreamt hello to.

My main computer system at the former work place was a 12 year old Win XP computer. (Yea, we got to have the good stuff.) It had mirrored boot drives.

Anyway over the years I lost a drive and easily replaced it several times. It was still running fine when I last saw it. To give you an idea of it's age, it had a huge 260 MB hard drive. It was mirrored only because I wanted it that way had used a spare drive from another system. We had a bunch of those drives from a friend that closed a company and did not want to throw them away. There were a few more on the self ready to go.

After lunch today I swung by a grocery store that is huge. They have 8 registers open and staffed and at lest one clerk and bagger at each register.

As I was walking in I just happened to notice a very attractive lady walking out that was in a pretty blue dress, high heels and hair all nicely done. The totally strange thing was she was pushing a shopping cart FULL of groceries. She had 5 or 6 gallons of milk on the bottom shelf under the basket.

Normally ladies that look like that are not at the grocery store. And the ladies with shopping carts overflowing with food are not dressed up. I looked around for Candid camera, I did not see them. It was a surreal sighting. Pleasant, but surreal.

shopping for company at the last min?

She is going to take a milk bath after she gets home?

Pasteurized? Nope, past her hips is just fine.

Couple of my grandma's brothers had a small town dairy. It was back when they delivered milk in bottles to your porch. Told me they ran out of raw milk bottle caps and put a regular cap on a bottle of raw milk for a customer. The lady *****ed them out for not giving her raw milk. After that they made sure to give her pasteurized milk with a raw milk bottle cap. He said she never noticed and it always made them smile.


Found one disk in a raid goes south, not long before they all get good weather reports and join the one that went south. So if a raid drive goes, I just replace them all with a fresh set and a fresh raid so all the files are new, fresh disk cataloged and defragged better. Always been pretty cheap since I only replaced the drives and not the interface controllers. Just me though and I don't have to mess with it very often.

We had 4 real raids, and several computers with mirrored drives. One drive fails, we pull it and replace just it. Some drives just run forever. I found most RAID drives that failed just had errors in the master boot record area. We would format them, and use them as data drives. They worked fine for years as a data drive.

We had one system running Win 2000. The original boot drive was still in it and working fine, and it was on 24-7-365 for 17 years.

Isn't raid for killing bugs?

Lucky

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks.

It was originally "Inexpensive" disks but as been replaced with "Independent" so they could charge more $$$ for the disks.

RAID the bug spray may work better though. Here is a picture of the first documented computer "Bug"

https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/b/bug.jpg

and have to pay the IT staff to take care of it.

Well, they need to earn their paycheck somehow. Killing bugs is what they do! Heck they make most of em. ;)

So,Orkin or Terminix are in the IT game? ;)

yep.

MailChimp sucks and marketing departments that use MailChimp suck even harder.

Or, if you want to send phishing emails, USE MailChimp!

Is MailChimp really a thing in the business world?

Some people think so. It is a web site that lets you do mass mailings. Design a pretty email, upload your list of email addresses and send it. They charge by the number or recipients. When they first started they were really good about keeping spamers etc from using their service. Now, not so much.

Morning all.
Happy Hump day again.

Morning all. I would say good morning, but I am sitting at my work desk getting ready for a meeting at 9:30 and another at 11:00 and catching up on my email. This is my Monday. :(

So, we have a policy and form for requisitioning equipment and as I am going through emails I have a request for a new monitor. Then another request with the original email attached. I know I put the automatic replies as out of office for the time I was at the rib conference with the major players, and the IT conference. I am afraid to check my voicemail to see how many she left. Funny thing is, had she gone through the proper procedure she would have had it days ago as we have a couple here for emergencies.

Our datacenter has all the VMs on a RAID 6 which backs up to a RAID 10 which is also duplicated in the "cloud". Our cloud storage is in a bunker in Colorado similar to Cheyenne Mountain. If we had the money, I would put a second SAN in for HA failover for the drives to match the HA on the cluster of servers. Funny thing is, our SAN the drives are terrible expensive and the NAS they are WD Enterprise SATA drives and they are pretty cheap.

Again, it was great to meet you all at the rib palace. Jacob doesn't generally get to play on the phone that much but Jenny thought it would be better so the rest of us could talk. Otherwise he would commandeer the conversation. Emily is pretty talkative once she gets going. They were already talking about whether to tag along to next years conference and hitting the OK City and the one to the west since it would be on the way to the one in New Mexico. We drove (according to the GPS) 2600 miles and a little over 44 hours actually moving on the road.

It was great to meet up with you. Glad you made it back to home and back to work.