thestockers.org http://www.thestockers.org/blog My Geeky Misadventures in Florida Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:24:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Happy Birthday Baby! http://www.thestockers.org/blog/2008/11/03/happy-birthday-baby http://www.thestockers.org/blog/2008/11/03/happy-birthday-baby#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:22:40 +0000 Eric http://www.thestockers.org/blog/?p=77 Was it 43 or 33 can’t remember except that your still beautiful as the day I met you and you will always be the best thing ever to me.  I know sometimes I don’t show it but believe me babes I love you very much.

Happy Birthday my dearest love!

]]> http://www.thestockers.org/blog/2008/11/03/happy-birthday-baby/feed Microsoft SQL Server Clustering http://www.thestockers.org/blog/2008/10/29/microsoft-sql-server-clustering http://www.thestockers.org/blog/2008/10/29/microsoft-sql-server-clustering#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:41:58 +0000 Eric http://www.thestockers.org/blog/?p=75 I’ve built a number of clusters before so I have some pretty good experience.  Today I was met with the most odd issue that I’ve ever had.  I built up the Microsoft Cluster, tested failover making sure the drives would fail over to the passive server.  All was good so I went ahead and installed SQL Server.  Install went good so I tested the failover again.

Well boy did I ever get a surprise.  The Quorum and the MSDTC drives failed over correctly but the SQL Data and Log drives did not.  The passive server that became active could see the drives but could not access them.  In Cluster administrator the drives failed to move over then eventually it failed back, the issue was with the passive server.  So scratching my head I tried some quick Google searches but didn’t find anything (more likely because I was frustrated and impatient).  But I managed to fix the problem here is what I did.

  1. In cluster administrator I removed the data disk dependencies from several SQL resources.
  2. Delete both the data and log drive resources
  3. Recreate both resources (the active server should see both drives still)
  4. Reboot the passive server
  5. After reboot test fail over.

All was good after that but I’ve never seen that happen before.  I have to admit I was worried that I would have to rebuild everything.  Not sure why both the Data and Log disk resources had issues but not the Quorum and MSDTC disk resources.  But in any case at least this worked for me.

]]> http://www.thestockers.org/blog/2008/10/29/microsoft-sql-server-clustering/feed The Woman is Insane http://www.thestockers.org/blog/2008/10/26/the-woman-is-insane http://www.thestockers.org/blog/2008/10/26/the-woman-is-insane#comments Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:09:53 +0000 Eric http://www.thestockers.org/blog/?p=73 Every time starting with Halloween the woman goes completely crazy and full on holiday mode.  If she had her way the whole house, inside and outside would be decorated from top to bottom.  What makes Halloween worse is the fact she keeps trying to dress up poor little gizmo.  As we were walking through Target yesterday she grabbed a bumble bee costume.

Poor Dog

Luckily this is not Gizmo but it could have been had I not intercepted her and put the costume up.  But just look at this poor little dog, he looks so miserable.

Woman no torturing the dog or I’ll have to torture you more than I do now which is pretty bad, not sure how I’ll make it worse but I could.

]]> http://www.thestockers.org/blog/2008/10/26/the-woman-is-insane/feed Finally!!! http://www.thestockers.org/blog/2008/10/25/finally http://www.thestockers.org/blog/2008/10/25/finally#comments Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:39:12 +0000 Eric http://www.thestockers.org/blog/?p=66 The pitaboy did it, he reached 1st degree black belt.  We’re so proud of him and how far he has come.  He really enjoys it and it’s really helped his self esteem out especially this is something that he has done all by himself.

Congratulations my boy we are so happy for you!

Black Belt!

]]> http://www.thestockers.org/blog/2008/10/25/finally/feed New Toy http://www.thestockers.org/blog/2008/09/20/new-toy http://www.thestockers.org/blog/2008/09/20/new-toy#comments Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:10:20 +0000 Eric http://www.thestockers.org/blog/?p=71 Well the Mustang had to go.  My poor Pitakids had a hard time getting in and out of the back of that bloody thing so I traded it in for a VW Jetta TDI.  You read that right the TDI.  Why?  Well first the Jetta is a sporty little car with great handling plus it’s 4 door so the kids have an easier time entering/exiting the car.  It’s stick which I missed very much after the accident that totaled my Honda.  So why the TDI, considering it’s diesel and I’ve never owned a diesel before?  The answer to that is I was looking for a vehicle that would not only get better gas mileage than my Mustang (18mpg) but also a less carbon foot print on the environment.

I looked at the Toyota Camry Hybrid and the Honda Civic Hybrid.  Now don’t get me wrong they are great cars but something about driving around with a mini-power plant didn’t seem like such a great thing.  Plus my driving is not all city, I do have stretches in my drive where a Hybrid doesn’t make sense.  But early summer I was leaning towards the Camry Hybrid when I heard about VW bringing back the TDI.  From researching the new TDI, it not only has a small carbon foot print via the requirement that it not only run Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel and had to meet some of the worlds most restricted emissions requirements, but being diesel I can convert this to either bio-diesel fuel or run the car off vegetable oil via conversion kit.  Being that it’s brand new I won’t do either as I now average 31mpg but just about everyone that I’ve talked to said I won’t really break the engine in until I hit 60K and the gas mileage will improve after that.

So here is the new beast that I really love to drive

Front View Side View Angle View ]]> http://www.thestockers.org/blog/2008/09/20/new-toy/feed