March 19, 2007
About a month ago I was given 65 new Dell Optiplex 745’s to replace my 6 year old desktops in my training environment. This presented a multitude of problems for me.
Problems:
- Our imaging software ran off of a floppy disk.
- It was DOS based, and I hate DOS
- It couldn’t detect SATA drives (you would not believe how mad I was when I finally solved the floppy problem just to run into this).
As usual, I’m dumped into this with no support of note and a limited time frame. Not to mention all of my normal duties. So what do I do? The same thing I do whenever I have an insurmountable obstacle… Turn to Linux.
Ghost 4 Linux is a CD based distro designed with imaging in mind. It’s really useful and all that, blah blah blah. This post isn’t about extolling its many virtues. This post is to teach you how to use it. More accurately, this post is to teach my coworkers at our other sites to replicate my setup. I’ve included below the document I sent to them so they could get up and running with Windows 2003 servers.
Enjoy.
Ghost 4 Linux instructions
Ghost 4 Linux is natively a CD based distribution; however it can be easily modified to run from a network boot. These instructions assume you are using a Windows 2003 Server for DHCP.
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November 18, 2006
I spent the last week in Orlando, FL on a business trip. I drank more than anyone else and met a lot of really awesome people who I look forward to working with in the future. I also met someone who I hope will remain a really good friend. To all my readers/coworkers who were there, thanks much for the wonderful times. It will not soon be forgotten.
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June 8, 2006
I’ve been in Quantico for four days now. Yesterday I was actually on base until 11pm. Needless to say, training has me a bit tired this week, lol.
In other news, I’m trying yet another method for blocking spam. After this comes completely disabling trackbacks and putting a captcha on comments. That will at least make sure the spammers are human before they get to be seen on my homepage.
If any of you bastard spammers actually read this thing, could you just make a temporary screen name and message me? My screen name is RedPicasso and I’d really like to discuss a few things with you. It’ll be like the movie Enemy Mine, except there’s no way in fuck I’m going to try to learn your language.
I actually wonder if you speak any language at all. If you were intelligent at all, I know you’d find a job to make money and not spend all day every day harassing people who just want to share tidbits of their life. You’re pathetic. What you do is akin to putting stickers on people’s cars in parking lots advertising things that have nothing to do with cars or parking lots. Do you really think my readership gives a flyng fuck about penis enlargement (half my regulars are chicks dude…), cheap airline tickets (heard of priceline.com?), or internet gambling (here, let me give you money I don’t have so you can put spyware on my computer)? It’s retarded, really.
Meh, I’m too disgusted to continue. Time to get some training in.
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May 4, 2006
Leaving now for VT… I may post on the road, depending on how bored I get. Time to pack now though, so I’m going to make this short.
Lessons learned this week:
- My boss likes me ALOT.
- I’m getting a raise sooner, rather than later.
- My boss likes drunk bowling almost as much as I do.
- Choke holds hurt the next day more than when they’re happening.
Yeah, that’s it.
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