sammy

HP warranty support, nicer interface , more robust and reliable over the years is will be in service , but, and the big but is that the cost difference often means you can just keep a couple of spares in the cupboard for swapouts when needed. One other feature , and a slightly selfish one is that being comfortable with the HP interface will put your cv in good stead for a possible move to corporates in the future, if that was ever part of your plan.

How many of you guys been out on the roads in the last few weeks of snowy weather....if you have your braver then me.....i finally managed to pull the old warhorse out of the shed last week....hopefully there wont be any more snow.

This stinks of a DNS issue to me, perhaps some issue with the Round robin configuration or an incorrect record in the DNS which is preventing clients from querying the other DNS servers in the event of a failure. I know round robin is on by default, so theoreticaly the other 2 servers with the GC should point clients to the correct DNS server and provide logon authentication....so in my mind the only reason this wouldnt work is if GC was not pointing clients to the other DNS servers.

Hi there, was DNS only running on 1 server ? Sam

Hey Steve....Yamaha Virago XV1100 eh....love those cruiser style bikes myself....absolutley love em....just wish we had better weather here in the UK for them...... Sam

Looks like the bikers are finally coming in.... I have managed to avoid the injuries so far...but then i suppose its probably becuase i have managed to avoid really pushing the bike to where it needs to be...anyone done any track days or can recommend any courses specifically for learning get knees down?

Jaffa Cakes....mmmm.....right now i would love to eat my way out of a mountain of jaffa cakes.

LG used to do a screen which was much more reasonable then £40k, just trying to dig up the info....be back shortly.

touché , thats exactly what i did, i knocked on doors, i cold called poeple, i did everything possible to get in front of poeple. In this day and age sending a electronic CV just isnt enough. Either you can leave your future in the hands of some greedy little recruitment agent who is equally happy when you get a job and even happier when you lose it so that he can replace you elsewhere.... or you take your future in your own hands and go knocking. thats my opionion anyway have a good day and happy hunting.

Hi James, any issues post em up and we can all have a dig at em....there is enough technical guys on here to start up a school for techies.... If it doesnt get resolved on this forum, it doesnt get resolved.

hmmmm Stone buying out Viglan.....interesting. I was down there a few months ago and they were pulling in orders for servers and racking like it was going out of fashion with some very large prestigious clients.....interesting to see that they are closing up now....wonder if Stone will maintain the "brand" if you can call it that. Still.....good riddance i suppose, i have always preferred HP /IBM /DELL .... even though I have been required to facilitate some third party stuff over the years....never did like it. 2009 is going to be fun fun fun. :D:D:D:D:D

agreed...i cant distinguish between them...they all seem to have the same problems....in fact i think i should catalogue there excuses and the true meanings.... eg. Operator - Sorry sir your parcel was dispatched to the wrong depot, it will be back here today and shipped out tonight and to you first thing tomorow morning. What he meant - Sorry pal, we left your parcel lying here, and the driver cant be bothered to come back and get it, so it will go out on the next delivery. Operator - Sorry sir we cant actually find your parcel in our system, when did you ship it? What he meant - Sorry pal, we havnt picked it up from the company shipping it to you, hence theres no chance your getting it in the next 2 days, you twat..

third party chargers are fine, the only difference is branding...you ultimately pay for that. been selling the third party ones for years without any issue, just make sure they are UK sourced and that way you can return with issues if need be.

Hey guys, its pretty standard procedure for them to ask for the drive back as part of the warranty procedure. All being said and done the drive will go back, realistically they will format it first, then check for disks errors on some bit of generic software and if all is ok resell it as a returned and non-faulty drive. If it ever lands in any new clients server, either it will replace a drive in an array and therefore be immediately written too, or someone will install a OS on it to start a new build...either way you data is never accessible. Also with it being 1 drive in the array, it has some parity info on it which contains pointers to bits of data in the array, nothing usuable in that state anyway. I wouldnt worry at all, the HP "machine" is such a huge operation, im tempted to tell you that there is almost no human intervention in the initial receipt and formatting stage. By the way Happy New Year Guys and Gals.

Hitachi have always been excellent storage systems...didnt know this one had been released at this price point until now. I think i need to start paying more attention to Hitachi. The HP MSA2000 in any of its several flavours is great...i have customers out there using all versions and having no issues. I hope any of you guys that do have issues with the units are relying on the reseller you purchased it from to push through any issues you have directly to HP. Its the resellers responsibility to take care of you.