Archive for April, 2007

Laser Rentals

Jeff Walters April 16th, 2007

Laser rentals are the way to go. The days of buying high priced laser systems is now at an end. You can now rent laser systems! Amazingly enough, for a fraction of what it would cost to buy a high dollar laser system, you can not rent a system by the month.

Laser Depot offers the best alternative to meet your direct part marking (DPM) requirements. Using fiber laser technology, then now offer the FiberTower MiniTM Marking System and Hand-Held Fiber Laser Marking System for a relatively small monthly rental charge. They plug into any 110VAC outlet and produce high quality marks on many types of parts. They are ideal for marking on anodized metals, steel, stainless steel, aluminum, copper, graphite, rubber, titanium, composites, plastics, ceramics, coatings and more! Software is included with the system.

Check it out.
Jeff Walters

Pressure Cleaning

Jeff Walters April 16th, 2007

Pressure Cleaning

Pro Pressure is a family owned Pressure Cleaning and Landscaping Services Company serving the Orlando (Central Florida) area. I personally know this family and highly recommend their pressure cleaning services to everyone.

Recently, I called Chris at Pro-Pressure to improve my water irrigation system. There were a couple of areas that were not getting enough water, as my front yard is a bit sloped. So, the water tends to run off a bit more than wanted. Chris fixed my problem in a little more than a day by re-zoning and installing several smaller heads. I’m so glad I called him, as I hate digging through grass.

Thank you!
Jeff Walters

Laser Marking, Laser Engraving & Laser Cutting

Jeff Walters April 9th, 2007

I’m currently working for a rather exciting company that specializes in laser marking, laser engraving and laser cutting technologies; Laser Photonics, LLC. Laser Photonics, a subsidiary of Fonon Technology Internationl, Inc. (Fonon), is a leading company in the development of fiber laser and CO2 laser systems for many different industiral applications.

Fonon’s advanced laser systems development has lead to specialized Intellectual Property and Worldwide Patents. Laser Photonics has delivered hundreds of fiber laser cutting and marking systems around the world. I’m proud and excited to be part of this development in laser systems technology. For more information on laser technology, visit Photonics.com.

Jeff Walters

XCopy and Robocopy Backup to the rescue?

Jeff Walters April 9th, 2007

“robocopy to the rescue?”

Recently I’ve been dabling into the world of System Administration. As most people already know, this is a rather large world of next to useless information that only System Administrators can truely admire. For the rest of us, it’s a major pain in the you know what. System Administration by itself, serves no true purpose other than to support others. Yet, it has to be done.

Backup systems are one of these pains in the you know where. I did some research for the company I am working for and came to the conclusion that there is no great backup solution. There are just too many complications of trying to cover every possible system, program, environment, person, etc. So, like in Web design (my more experienced area), you try to design a system to accommodate as many situations as possible.

I started out using XCopy as suggested by a Server Admin friend of mine, only to get dreaded error messages. XCopy will not work with filenames or directories that are longer than 255 character, or ones that do not follow ISO-8859-1.

So, I started to look at Robocopy. This program is available as part of the Windows Server 2003 Resource Tool Kit. It handles backups much better than XCopy. It will even delete unneeded files at the destination. This feature may cause some issues for some, so be carefull.

Once downloaded and installed, you can create a .bat file to run the commands using the Windows Scheduler program. For example, you can call the file “backups.bat” and save it on the C:\ drive. Then use the “Scheduled Tasks” program under your System Tools (Accessories) folder to setup a task that runs nightly at 2:00AM.

The commands for the Robocopy backup are fairly simple, just check the Google.com for the Robocopy commands page. If it couldn’t get any easier, there is now a Robocopy GUI for those who don’t like to dabble in command lines.

Cheers,

Jeff Walters