Down the Gurgler continues again part 4

This is the fourth article in a series from “Murphy”, following on from Going down the Gurgler and Down the Gurgler continues … and Down the Gurgler continues—part 3

As some of you may have read I have had a recent setback in my life – a heart attack and being asked to vacate my home of 14 years plus the ending of my IT contract and finding it hard to secure another contract.

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Disaster, Disaster, Disaster!!! Planning for Murphy’s Law—Part six

In the sixth article in this series, following on from Disaster, Disaster, Disaster!!! Planning for Murphy’s Law and Disaster, Disaster, Disaster!!! Planning for Murphy’s Law—Part two and Disaster, Disaster, Disaster!!! Planning for Murphy’s Law—Part three and Disaster, Disaster, Disaster!!! Planning for Murphy’s Law—Part four and Disaster, Disaster, Disaster!!! Planning for Murphy’s Law—Part five, “Murphy” continues taking a closer look at the list of problems he has experienced …

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Disaster, Disaster, Disaster!!! Planning for Murphy’s Law—Part five

In the fifth article in this series, following on from Disaster, Disaster, Disaster!!! Planning for Murphy’s Law and Disaster, Disaster, Disaster!!! Planning for Murphy’s Law—Part two and Disaster, Disaster, Disaster!!! Planning for Murphy’s Law—Part three and Disaster, Disaster, Disaster!!! Planning for Murphy’s Law—Part four, “Murphy” continues taking a closer look at the list of problems he has experienced …

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Disaster, Disaster, Disaster!!! Planning for Murphy’s Law—Part four

In the fourth article in this series, following on from Disaster, Disaster, Disaster!!! Planning for Murphy’s Law and Disaster, Disaster, Disaster!!! Planning for Murphy’s Law—Part two and Disaster, Disaster, Disaster!!! Planning for Murphy’s Law—Part three, “Murphy” continues taking a closer look at the list of problems he has experienced …

As you may see from the following challenges—System Administrators often come across OSI level 8 problems.

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Disaster, Disaster, Disaster!!! Planning for Murphy’s Law—Part three

In the third article in this series, following on from Disaster, Disaster, Disaster!!! Planning for Murphy’s Law and Disaster, Disaster, Disaster!!! Planning for Murphy’s Law—Part two, “Murphy” continues taking a closer look at the list of problems he has experienced …

  • Client: We have one of your systems and we stuck our necks out choosing your system instead of a well known product. We did an upgrade and now it will not boot. What are you going to do about it?

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Disaster, Disaster, Disaster!!! Planning for Murphy’s Law

This is the beginning of another series of articles from “Murphy”. The topic this time is backups.

I spend a fair bit of my time making sure backups are working because I have also spent a bit of time under extreme pressure to recover files from backups and there was a time when I had to handle some University Students who wanted to be sponsored for their Systems Analysis and Design (SAD) practical workshop.

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Going down the Gurgler

This is the first of a series of articles from a guest blogger that we’ll just call “Murphy” (not his real name).

I am an older 55 plus person who recently had a large unemployed gap in my employment record. It was actually due to the economic downturn. They called it an operational budget cut. There were many others involved and I can only hope that they are younger and more employable than I.

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