|
Hey Chris,
Preferring the new fonts on RA compared to CP, it seems a lot crisper and a better size.
Also, the green menu is a big improvement.
Buttons next is it?
background-color: #C93 (same as nav menu) or #c9c9c9 with Black font (even as a stop gap to the over powering blue buttons!)
|
|
|
|
|
More tweaks. Got sick of the blue.
cheers
Chris Maunder
|
|
|
|
|
Generally agree, but I think the green is a little 'too' green.
I think it needs a little more pastille.
|
|
|
|
|
Dust off your watercolour set and send me an example. I'm still happy to tweak. A little.
No, that's not a euphemism.
cheers
Chris Maunder
|
|
|
|
|
Should be allowed here. It's IT questions that should not be allowed.
Specially considering that this is kinda like a mirror image to the other site.
|
|
|
|
|
You could always satisfy your craving by posting something on PowerShell.
|
|
|
|
|
Powershell is programming for Sys Admins where the programmers didn't finish the gui. I am pretty sure PowerShell and all sorts of scripting will be a fairly popular topic here.
|
|
|
|
|
Nish wrote: Should be allowed here.
Don't go starting trouble!
|
|
|
|
|
Need a soapbox already?
|
|
|
|
|
I know this is kinda late, but...fixed!
(Oh, and do I need to slap you for posting a bug in the Lounge instead of the Bugs and Suggestions forum?
cheers
Chris Maunder
|
|
|
|
|
|
I want to use my first post on here to say;
Hello!
Now, the first thing on my mind is; Should The Lounge on here have a different name, to differentiate it from the other lounge on our other favourite site?
Hmmmm.....
|
|
|
|
|
Hello to you too.
Would "The ITPro Lounge" differentiate it enough?
The Lobby, The MeetingPlace, Central Square, The Green Room, Around the Water Cooler, come to mind but personally I prefer something based on the Lounge.
Do you have any ideas in mind for a name?
|
|
|
|
|
I too had also thought something about the water cooler, and The Basement but the one that keeps jumping out at me is The Bunker.
The bunker is where we used to go to discuss things about the systems and ended up just chewin' the fat.......
|
|
|
|
|
I would hate "The Bunker".
Watch me play golf and you would see.
|
|
|
|
|
DaveAuld wrote: Should The Lounge on here have a different name, to differentiate it from the other lounge on our other favourite site
Nah - the lounge is the lounge no matter which of our sites you talk about.
cheers
Chris Maunder
|
|
|
|
|
Fair do's.
Anyway, have you got time to be on here? You have a list of things to be getting on with I'm sure.
|
|
|
|
|
Gee - I wonder who sent that list?
cheers
Chris Maunder
|
|
|
|
|
There's still a bug in the way you sign up. It lets you login using the CP email but you can't save your settings as it says the account email is in use. So you are forced to entering an alternate email there.
|
|
|
|
|
That's the same problem I had initially until Chris fixed the problem. (?)
|
|
|
|
|
Took me 3 days and about 25 attempts to create an account.
Maybe Chris wants to keep coders out of this site?
|
|
|
|
|
Why is it that when one hard drive goes, 6 others tag along with it.
Evidently the lifespan of these things is so carefully calculated that when you buy them in the same batch you get very, very similar lifespans.
Hang on - I have another.
Why is it that the faster, the smaller, and the more expensive a server-grade HDD is, the more likely it is to explode on you.
cheers
Chris Maunder
|
|
|
|
|
Chris Maunder wrote: Why is it that the faster, the smaller, and the more expensive a server-grade HDD is, the more likely it is to explode on you.
Well you know what they say;
"You get more Bang for your Bucks"
Maybe that is why
|
|
|
|
|
The Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) stat. from the manufacture should be an important consideration before investing in equipment.
It should also be considered for the preventative maintenance schedule for your equipment.
I recently had a Compact Flash card fail for an important piece of equipment....if I had paid attention to the MTBF, I would have replaced it before this happened....of course there is not too much we can do about defective equipment which seems to be the case here, other than rally together as ITPros as a single voice to have manufactures create dependable products.
|
|
|
|
|
MTBF is an important stat to consider. However I find that having one manufacturer often outweighs any benefit of having one thing from these guys, two things from those guys, a handful of things from the other guys.
Typically, cost is King and Performance and Reliability are Misfit triplet brothers that were born 2 mins too late to be King. When reliability becomes a major issue, thats when a new MFG is usually given a try.
When the warranty runs out its time to upgrade or you can just cross your fingers and hold on for the ride. I find things tend to break weeks or months after the warranty expires, and if you buy the extended warranty it never dies. The tried and true 3 year replacement programme is still the way to go in my books. When I do an ROI, its almost always based on the length of warranty.
In our case, these failures happened on older drives, that are out of warranty, and they had suffered from an over heat situation not all that long ago. Its not surprising, but certainly was not expected.
|
|
|
|