Verizon Fios - Fios For Home
A friend tosse me a link for Fios and the article for about it in Keller, TX. 15Mbps + speed with fiber to the house... for $35.00/mo plus a hefty set-up fee. Well I checked to see if it was available in my area (Yeah, right!)... Nope. They have a nice an nifty form to fill out to be informed on future news and rollouts, but guess what... The damn submit button does not work! (Morons!).
Monday, May 16, 2005
Talk about a clogged nozzle!
A friend of mine stated the following to me, “there” being a place of work.
“dentist was a little less fun this time, i almost passed out a couple of times still better than being there though”
Clogged or not… You decide!
“dentist was a little less fun this time, i almost passed out a couple of times still better than being there though”
Clogged or not… You decide!
Many Questions
What do you do when everything is urgent!?
Where has the art of triage gone? It seems few people are left with the art/skill of diagnosing issues, which can wait with those that cannot wait. Is this common in other fields and businesses? If so, I worry…
Growth by acquisition.
Lately at work we have gotten a lot busier. Enough that some people complain, others withdraw into themselves, and few even manage to continue on unphased.
They also stop thinking about how to work smarter… A few minutes here or there to re-work or automate a process can save literally hundreds of hours of labor over the coming weeks/months… yet it is not done... Despite attempts to introduce such improvements into the fold. It really is amazing some times.
What about personal skills development? I have always viewed life as a constant learning experience. Some people think they can actually “stop” learning. “Hey, I completed my degree, I am done!”.
Yet, when it comes time to turn around the landscape has changed, new legislation, new IT infrastructures, new software versions, new markets all advancing at an exponential rate… yet, the skill sets are from 3, 5, 7 years ago!
Where is the balance, where does it end? I guess I am filled with many questions today.
Where has the art of triage gone? It seems few people are left with the art/skill of diagnosing issues, which can wait with those that cannot wait. Is this common in other fields and businesses? If so, I worry…
Growth by acquisition.
Lately at work we have gotten a lot busier. Enough that some people complain, others withdraw into themselves, and few even manage to continue on unphased.
They also stop thinking about how to work smarter… A few minutes here or there to re-work or automate a process can save literally hundreds of hours of labor over the coming weeks/months… yet it is not done... Despite attempts to introduce such improvements into the fold. It really is amazing some times.
What about personal skills development? I have always viewed life as a constant learning experience. Some people think they can actually “stop” learning. “Hey, I completed my degree, I am done!”.
Yet, when it comes time to turn around the landscape has changed, new legislation, new IT infrastructures, new software versions, new markets all advancing at an exponential rate… yet, the skill sets are from 3, 5, 7 years ago!
Where is the balance, where does it end? I guess I am filled with many questions today.
Friday, May 13, 2005
BITS, SUS, and Windows Update...
We had recently been battling an issue with a laptop; whereas a user was not able to pull updates form SUS or Windows Updates. We had run through a listing of normal troubleshooting steps and were not able to resolve the issue. We finally got to the heart of the issue. The BITS queue was clogged with errored out or suspended transfers.
Windows Update, SUS, and SMS 2003 use BITS. Also a number of third party applications are starting to use BITS as well. (What is BITS? Background Intelligent Transfer Service) BITS has an Admin tool which is part of the Windows XP Service Pack 2 Support Tools.
Full information and instructions can be found at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/bits/bits/bitsadmin_tool.asp
In the case of this machine, the command syntax needed was,
BITSADMIN /LIST /ALLUSERS
12-14 bad transfers in the queue.
BITSADMIN /RESET /ALLUSERS
Once the queue was cleared, Windows Update was able to download and install updates normally.
We had recently been battling an issue with a laptop; whereas a user was not able to pull updates form SUS or Windows Updates. We had run through a listing of normal troubleshooting steps and were not able to resolve the issue. We finally got to the heart of the issue. The BITS queue was clogged with errored out or suspended transfers.
Windows Update, SUS, and SMS 2003 use BITS. Also a number of third party applications are starting to use BITS as well. (What is BITS? Background Intelligent Transfer Service) BITS has an Admin tool which is part of the Windows XP Service Pack 2 Support Tools.
Full information and instructions can be found at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/bits/bits/bitsadmin_tool.asp
In the case of this machine, the command syntax needed was,
BITSADMIN /LIST /ALLUSERS
12-14 bad transfers in the queue.
BITSADMIN /RESET /ALLUSERS
Once the queue was cleared, Windows Update was able to download and install updates normally.
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