Welcome all!

This is my first foray into the contributing writer’s world so I hope you’ll hang in there.  I’ve put together a few forum sticky’s and comments for Steven in the past so I’m by no means a new member on the scene, maybe it’d be best to chalk me up as a member less posted.  Indeed, my first introduction to Steven was as a member of the Lockergnome crowd many years back.  Being the individualistic group we were, we banded together and decided to be individuals elsewhere.  When we figured out we had no place to go, Steven ponied up the forums and away we went.  That must have 8, 9 or even 12 years ago.

So, to the point. Steven asked for a volunteer to put together a weekly round-up of what occurred in the forums. I stepped forward and raised my hand. Now I’m writing. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I enjoy the writing.

We have a rather special person in the forums. An unique individual with the odd ability to ask questions and subsequently answer them. Allow me to introduce to you our fellow member Joe. He’s asked so many questions and then answered them himself that we’ve turned his name into a verb. Now when folks ask a question and reply to themselves we say they’ve “Joe’d” the rest of the forum. Only, something strange happened recently. Joe asked a question and couldn’t answer it within the allocated post-post hour. He wanted to know the differences between 64- and 32- bit systems.  Five posts later, Pierre answered with one of the more succinct responses I’ve seen come from his fingers.  I’d tell you what he said but I would only do the man a disservice.  Go.  Read for yourself.  Learn from the human mainframe known as Pierre.

One of our hotter topics lately has to do with a problem posted by Moosepucky.  In his “Need LOTS of HELP!!!!!” post he states “I have had my main system go south.   Posts fine, SCSI / raid post fine(.)  (I)t gets to where the XP pro logo “should” appear and freezes.”  Despite the utter lack of mentioning any causal factors, he finally Joe’s the group and arrives at a solution all by himself.  Turns out he was using….  Well, again, I’ll let you read the thread.  Along the way, you’ll pick up a neat trick (or two) from Pierre, the human mainframe.

~ David ~ asks “I’m trying to understand exactly how a spooled print job progresses to help me troubleshoot a client’s setup. Could anyone confirm if I have this figured correctly?” in his post “Spooling – do I have this right?“  (It sounds more like one of those college book thesis papers….)  If spooling is your thing, take a look and see if you can help answer the question.  Me?  I prefer spooning.

There are many hot topics undergoing considerable action over in the Cage but you’ll have to join the forums and ask permission to enter the Cage.  It’s not a place for the faint of heart.  XCARLOSX, Infinidean, Chadman, Cleo and a few of the others will skewer you with their commentary.  You’ve been warned, beyond those doors lie dragons.

I would like to take the opportunity to point out one resource oriented section of the forums that seems to get underutilized:  “Tutorials, FAQ’s & Other Helpful Stuff“.  Your’s truely, Pierre (the human mainframe), and many of the other usual suspects have been our main contributor in this area but I’d like to challenge you, the blog reader, to check it out and see if you can contribute.  In this section of the forum, you’ll find some neat little tips, tricks and suggestions that you probably won’t find elsewhere.

Until next time:  “Have a great day!”