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plonqI currently have three machines at my immediate disposal. One of them (the old OS/2 box) doesn't do much these days, but I keep the two Windows boxes hopping. I do most of the development on the Win2K box that is sitting on my desk (long overdue for an upgrade to XP), and the balance of the actual work happens on the XP lab machine at the head office. I control that one through a (surprisingly responsive) remote desktop. Since my local desktop has multiple monitors, I have given each computer its own monitor. It is a very convenient arrangement, but...
The remote machine has a problem.
There is a known issue with our XP image; it has a memory leak, and if it is not rebooted once every ten days or so, the machine eventually fails and requires somebody to do a local power-cycle to get it going again. That's no problem for me, since I can just open up a command shell on the remote machine and type "shutdown -r -t 0" to force an immediate restart -- if I remember. I was going to put up a Post-It on my monitor saying, "reboot the robot every Friday" when I had an ingenious inspiration.
Why don't I just write a script to reboot it automatically every Friday at 23:00?
Brilliant!
I had everything set up and ready to go when a sane little voice in the back of my head said, ".. and you're planning to come in at 23:05 to sign the machine back in again after it reboots?" D'oh! The best laid plans... I'm glad that little detail occurred to me before I scheduled this thing. Back to the Post-It I suppose.
The remote machine has a problem.
There is a known issue with our XP image; it has a memory leak, and if it is not rebooted once every ten days or so, the machine eventually fails and requires somebody to do a local power-cycle to get it going again. That's no problem for me, since I can just open up a command shell on the remote machine and type "shutdown -r -t 0" to force an immediate restart -- if I remember. I was going to put up a Post-It on my monitor saying, "reboot the robot every Friday" when I had an ingenious inspiration.
Why don't I just write a script to reboot it automatically every Friday at 23:00?
Brilliant!
I had everything set up and ready to go when a sane little voice in the back of my head said, ".. and you're planning to come in at 23:05 to sign the machine back in again after it reboots?" D'oh! The best laid plans... I'm glad that little detail occurred to me before I scheduled this thing. Back to the Post-It I suppose.
