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Use one simple question to help get the project back on track
Have you ever listened to people talk about how, when, and why they failed? Or, for that matter, listened to your own stories about how circumstances and events conspired to create a “perfect storm” in which failure simply could not be avoided? These things, we say, just happen...
Tags: Team, Failure, Question, Team Management, Management, Shannon Kalvar
Blog posts 2007-09-22
Yet another motherboard issue
So one day, doing nothing out of the ordinary, checking my email, the computer completely powers down out of the blue. I opened the case, redid all connections, blew out any dust, re-seated my CPU, and tried to power up with only the motherboard power connection plugged in....
Tags: motherboard, Nashifb@..., malfunction, amber light, fan power, failure, power supply, ha, beep
Discussion threads 2007-02-20
Two different beep types...HELP!!!!
I am a student and was working in Photoshop yesterday when I did something very stupid. I went to print a large photo and sent it to the print queue and realized that I didn't have the printer's USB cable connected. Instead of turning off the computer and...
Tags: computer, keyboard, tlbuster75@..., USB
Discussion threads 2007-02-09
XP home login failure
I'll just describe the nature of my problem and hope someone has some idea...When i log in there is a blank alert box except for the image of a red circle and white x, with 2 options of yes and no. Both of the options have the same result: XP...
Tags: p1rat33r, windows, software, login, logon, failure, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Discussion threads 2007-02-03
Microsoft Script Editor (MSE) failure
Found MSE very useful in the past to convert text in a Word document to HTML for inclusion on a web page eg Ebay item descriptions. At beginning of January created a document in Word, selected all text and clicked the MSE button on toolbar only to see a small...
Tags: Dell Computer Corp., failure, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Script Editor, Microsoft Word, office, programming, Safe Mode, script editor, software, WGGuthrie@..., windows, xp
Discussion threads 2007-01-14
Vaio will not boot
Hey, the other day I booted up my computer to do some video editing. This is the only computer i own that is powerful enough to handle the large files and processing that i conduct while editing my Videos. Anyway, the other day I turned the computer on and nothing...
Tags: beep, boot, computer, day-I, failure, hard drive, hardware, software, sony, Sony Vaio, Utemetsu@..., vaio, will not boot, windows
Discussion threads 2007-01-08
Hard drive failure after Windows XP defrag
I did a defrag on my computer. Let it run and came back to find it on the boot up screen saying Windows did not shut down properly. Tried the safe mode and it hung. Unable to boot and asked to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del. I have another exact...
Tags: failure, hard drive, hardrive, hardware, jeh513@..., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP
Discussion threads 2007-01-01
Windows 2003 Server - Local Machine Account does not appear at logon
This morning a user called with an issue accessing a shared drive on the DC... he posts some files there daily for processing, etcHis system reported that he was already mapped using another user ID... but he wasn't, and net use didn't show that eith
Tags: logon error, non operating, off-topic, failure, logon, help, 2003, networking, hardware, project management, security, software, windows, Local Machine Account, brian.dixon@..., reBOOT, it management, Local Machine, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2003, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, server
Discussion threads 2006-12-15
Learned lessons from early IT adoption
How quickly do you implement new technology into your production environment? Do you wait for a few Fortune 500 companies to integrate it first before jumping on board, or do you help lead the way and tout your company as one that stays on the...
Tags: Analysis, Change, CLaRK, Comments, Decision Making, Enterprise, Failure, general, Hype, information technology, Management, Planning
Blog posts 2006-11-14
Are Newer Hard Drives Failing Faster?
I have hard drives with sizes from 250MB to 300GB (ATA 33/66/100/133 and SATA 150/300 - no SCSI). I had not experienced a hard drive failure until one 80GB drive died, then another, then a 160GB, and then two 250GB drives died. To top it off, my new...
Tags: hard drive, failure, hard drives, warranty, SCSI, SCSI Drives, mark.c.duncan@..., hardware, SCSI Drive
Discussion threads 2006-05-22
Temporary Envelope Failure
My friend said he got the following error when trying to email me:Unexpected recipient failure - 421 temporary envelope failure (#4.3.0)Is this a problem with his email sending machine, or a problem with my email server? I have just had greylisting enabled on my server and wondered whether this is...
Tags: e-mail
Discussion threads 2006-03-14
Suspend To RAM Failure
I have a computer that has suspend to ram but no longer works. The computer just goes into standby mode with the power on and fans working. This feature is enabled in the BIOS and am wondering what happened to make this stop working as it should. ...
Tags: Operating systems, Memory, operating system
Discussion threads 2006-01-18
anybody getting SATA drive failures in Dell nas
we have rolled out a number of Dell NAS and low end servers with SATA drives, around 18% of these have had multiple drive failures where during the regeneration of a failed drive a 2nd drive fails and the array goes pear, a couple of other servers have lost a...
Tags: dell, Dell Computer Corp., Dell NAS, failure, hardware, mintsause@..., NAS, sata, Serial ATA
Discussion threads 2006-01-12
missing / duplicate drive
My setup:A Seagate ATA 120GBB Seagate ATA 120GBC Seagate SATA 400GB on Promise SATAII150 TX4I used the Seagate Diagnostic to test drive C, the drive passed the surface scan but failed the file structure test. Therefore, I assume that its not a physical problem but a software problem. The drive...
Tags: drive, drive-I, failure, files, hardware, MFT, missing, ntfs, promise, recover, sata, seagate, Seagate Technology LLC, shdwsclan@...
Discussion threads 2005-11-25
Why Your Security Investigation Is Going To Fail
People have a tendancy to work on their own cars, even if they aren't ASE certified mechanics. You can't talk them out of it. They drive their cars every day, they know every vibration, noise and sputter. They know where all the parts are located, and by golly - they...
Tags: failure, investigation, security, security investigation, securitymonkey
Discussion threads 2005-11-09
are programmers involved early enough in sdlcs?
Analysis of failures in large system development projects often usually highlight management and communication problems as the main causes.I feel the programmers, the guys who actually cut the code, or at least the senior programmers, should be involved in all phases of the software development life cycle once it gets...
Tags: Development tools, programmer
Discussion threads 2005-10-14
House backs Bush on Internet stance
single point of failure?if the root servers, as I read and understood it to be, are placed around the world, why would anyone with sense and logical thinking want or allow the UN to have control?The UN being what they are, political teenagers, probably have plans to establish a single...
Tags: failure, Internet, it management, jdw242, root services, server, serverS, single point of failure, Un
Discussion threads 2005-10-10
Software install results in Acrobat Reader wanting to install...
Hello. I am a Macintosh user but have someone who is having a bit of a bad day. They are trying to install some software under Windows XP I am ASSUMING Home but each time they try it is trying to install Acrobat Reader.Now I am not sure...
Tags: Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader, failure, installation, installer, macbraveheart@..., Microsoft Windows, software, windows, xp
Discussion threads 2005-08-05
Quote of the Day -- 06/14/2005
"If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure."-- Robert Hillyer by Jason Hiner
Tags: Failure, Jason Hiner
Blog posts 2005-06-14
ServStats 0.5.0.5 (Windows)
ServStats is a Firefox extension that lets users share statistics about Web server connectivity and diagnose network failures. When a network failure occurs, ServStats automatically conducts diagnostic tests and infers the most likely cause of failure. ServStats also communicates with remote diagnostic agents to improve the accuracy of diagnosis. In...
Tags: Network, Microsoft Windows, Failure, George Lee, ServStats, Web Servers, Servers, Networking, Internet, Hardware
Software downloads 2007-09-25


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