... my rants & raves

Jan-212010

power outage

we had a 3 hour power outage that affected our whole neighborhood, therefore my server went down too.

luckily i have it connected to a battery backup which after a while gracefully shut down the server. nevertheless after the power was restored, the system complained about one disk in the RAID mirror being dead. funny enough it pointed to another disk after every reboot…

i removed the “dead” disk from the mirror (or better: the disk that it considered dead at that point in time), re-added it and rebuild the mirror … worked :-)


Published: Jan-21-10 | 0 Comments | 14 Links to this post
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Nov-72009

back to the roots

while creating a backup of my laptop hard-drive before kicking off the bitlocker setup, i found the original header graphics for my old homepage.

so as you can see i decided after a long inactivity to update my blog again and create a Sharepoint CKS:EBE theme with the original graphics.

maybe this will motivate me to post more frequently again :)


Published: Nov-07-09 | 0 Comments | 1 Link to this post
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May-182009

server restored... somewhat

just a quick note that the server crashed on saturday and it took my the whole weekend to reinstall & recover data.

it might take another couple of days to have all features enabled again (e.g. FTP configuration, etc).

yes, the last backup was of course too long ago and especially recovering the sharepoint sites just from the database files was giving me some headache last night. i will maybe post a bit more extensively tonight and explain what happened, what problems i encountered and what solutions i found.


Published: May-18-09 | 1 Comment | 1 Link to this post
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Apr-202009

added Facebook webparts

just spend some time to add Facebook webparts to my blog.

if you use the “Connect” button on the right to login with your Facebook account, you will see the following add-ons to my sharepoint:

    • you can see my Facebook status on the top right (if you are in my Facebook friends list)
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    • you can comment on posts as your Facebook user
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    • you can share a blog post on Facebook
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Yeah, useless play-stuff :) But it was interesting to hack around the sharepoint layouts and understand web-parts a bit better.
On a somewhat unrelated sidenote, the blog is now also reachable via blog.saschap.org


Published: Apr-20-09 | 0 Comments | 1 Link to this post
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