Woohoo…

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Got the Server back up and running.  Used chkdisk as suggested by Jared in a comment on my previous post, but no dice.  It was worth a shot.  I Googled some and found a software program that recovers items from deleted or unpartitioned drives.  It found my database files for the reporting software!!  I copied [...]

Days like these, I really hate computers.

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Today I decided that after I got off work at 0700, I would stop by the fire department, pick up one of the new computers, and install it at our other station out in the sticks.  It was to be connected to the main station down here in civilization via VPN where it would connect [...]

Whew!

Friday, October 5th, 2007

I just spent 5 hours at the fire department getting 3 of 4 remaining computers on the domain and with some software installed (Symantec AVS, fire reporting software, paging software).  It’s not hard, just a bunch of waiting sometimes.  I also un-f’ed one of our older computers so it can be reused in another office.  [...]