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My Pacman profile cabinet (finished!......99%)
leapinlew:
--- Quote from: c64rulez on February 14, 2006, 02:29:53 am ---Thanks man.
This last week was pure havoc for me. Here's my (foolish) "howto not make progress on your cab (or anything else for that matter)"
1. You decide to upgrade your company's mail server (That's already a dumb move - if it works, let it be)
2. You have this superb backup software that keeps telling you "DRIVE G: IS IN USE"
3. You break the mirror set on the server and it's still not satisfied (stupid step #1)
4. You restart the server (restart is your best friend, no ?) (stupid step #2)
5. The machine boots and it sticks it to you with an error of finality - No active directory for you buddy
6. You forget the stupid password you assigned the server while promoting it three years ago.
7. You spend 8 days in total mayhem, looking for cover as users point at you and demand "I WANT MY EMAILS BACK"
8. You also find out that the dead server used to issue terminal licenses, was a DNS server, a PDC and then some.
So, anyway, with that finally behind me (I hope), some cab progress is ahead. I am having a hard time with that color and sideart stuff. I think now that a full sideart adhesive solution is gonna cost too much, so I'll stick to that "paint-it-yourself" art.
I tend now to go with versapak's design which I think is brilliant, and could be applied "manually".
Here's a 3d mockup for that design.
And keep away from MS Mail Servers. They bite.
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Little off subject here....
Did you upgrade exchange 2000 to 2003? You said PDC, so I'm not sure if you are using exchange 5.5. I upgraded 5.5 to 2003 last year. The safest way to do it from what I can tell is to have new hardware. Doing it all on 1 box is dangerous. Also, as a quick extra safe step - use exmerge. It'll work in a pinch and doesn't take that long. If you've never used it - go check it out now, you'll love it!
A few other things I've learned regarding Exchange 2003 -
Upgrade to SP2. It seems fairly stable and allows you to have a 75gb message store. The upgrade to a 75gb message store isn't automatic. You'll have to hack the registry (thanks Microsoft).
RPC over HTTP is pretty much the only reason to upgrade to 2003, and it's worth it.
Symantec Mail Security is a great anti-spam utility.
Ok, I'll zip it. But I thought I'd share - I upgraded/moved half a dozen exchange servers last year and in the beginning it was pain pain pain! Also - I'm glad to see you don't do EVERYTHING perfect...
MinerAl:
That side art is perfect for paint-it-yourself. It should look great if you use the right paint and stencils. You might want to mask out where the pac-characters will be and then shoot the background so you aren't trying to put light paint on dark.
I have no advice on upgrading windows mail servers... I hope never to have to.
Havok:
Cab looks great.
Oh, and NEVER "upgrade" from Lotus Notes to Exchange. You will miss many of the features that you took for granted in Notes, which are only available as third party apps in Exchange...
MYX:
Sorry about work. Computers suck sometimes.
c64rulez:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on February 14, 2006, 12:16:18 pm ---Little off subject here....
Did you upgrade exchange 2000 to 2003? You said PDC, so I'm not sure if you are using exchange 5.5. I upgraded 5.5 to 2003 last year. The safest way to do it from what I can tell is to have new hardware. Doing it all on 1 box is dangerous. Also, as a quick extra safe step - use exmerge. It'll work in a pinch and doesn't take that long. If you've never used it - go check it out now, you'll love it!
A few other things I've learned regarding Exchange 2003 -
Upgrade to SP2. It seems fairly stable and allows you to have a 75gb message store. The upgrade to a 75gb message store isn't automatic. You'll have to hack the registry (thanks Microsoft).
RPC over HTTP is pretty much the only reason to upgrade to 2003, and it's worth it.
Symantec Mail Security is a great anti-spam utility.
Ok, I'll zip it. But I thought I'd share - I upgraded/moved half a dozen exchange servers last year and in the beginning it was pain pain pain! Also - I'm glad to see you don't do EVERYTHING perfect...
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Thanks for all the tips. 5.5 is exactly what I currently run. The intended upgrade was a new box and 2003, but just made it to the new box... the 2003 upgrade would follow when the new box proves steady.
--- Quote from: MinerAl on February 14, 2006, 01:26:54 pm ---That side art is perfect for paint-it-yourself. It should look great if you use the right paint and stencils. You might want to mask out where the pac-characters will be and then shoot the background so you aren't trying to put light paint on dark.
I have no advice on upgrading windows mail servers... I hope never to have to.
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Thanks for the painting tip.... I hope you'll never have to too. ;)
--- Quote from: MYX on February 14, 2006, 09:48:18 pm ---Sorry about work. Computers suck sometimes.
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Wrong. They suck most of the time ;D
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