Sticky keyboard

Audiolab said:
soapalchemist said:
I'm thinking now of washing it in the sink and giving it a good swirl round. Or I could try levering off one of the many keys that I've never used just to see what happens......I mean what does 'pause-break mean?????
If I give it the sink treatment, I'll try the hair dryer on it afterwards. Have to wait 'til a weekend morning to try any of these though, so I can dash off to Merry Hell (if you'm from Black Country you'll know what I mean) to replace it if necessary.
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When the computer is booting through the BIOS screen pressing the pause/break button halts the boot process, it was more useful on legacy systems for debug purposes. When in an application that is becoming non responsive, usually because it is trying to connect to a resource and it is taking forever holding down Ctrl and pressing pause/break tells the application to quit the current task. This is especially useful in Lotus Notes.

In Win XP onwards pressing the windows key and pause break brings up the system properties. Don't know if you really wanted to know that but it is one of the useless bits of info I carry around in my head. Now if I could just remember the things that make money :lol:
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Audiolab do you know how to restart an OS's DHCP Server?
 
Sure Andy which OS?

Windows can be done in the GUI by using start / run then type services.msc then look for DHCP Server service then double click (or right click) and select stop then when it has stopped do the same and click start.

Through command line it is "net stop dhcp server" followed by a "net start dhcp server".

Am sure you found this with a quick Google but in case anyone else needs it <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc778064%28WS.10%29.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr ... 10%29.aspx</a><!-- m -->

On Linux last time I used it was ages ago but it is a similar principle, try here <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/DHCP-Server.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/DHCP-Server.html</a><!-- m --> It is not often you need to restart the server service, is it acting up? you sure it is the server service and not the client that needs its lease forcibly renewed?

I used to set up Tivoli and configured PXE and SAN boot with virtual machines on scalable systems. When they go wrong it can be a pain but just work through it from one end to the other eliminating one item at a time.
 
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