What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Roommate is home, they are sending people home from work due to the snow.
How much snow are you getting?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Roommate is home, they are sending people home from work due to the snow.
How much snow are you getting?
Heavy dusting, right now.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Roommate is home, they are sending people home from work due to the snow.
How much snow are you getting?
Heavy dusting, right now.
haha..... and people get to go home early.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Roommate is home, they are sending people home from work due to the snow.
How much snow are you getting?
Probably 1/2 inch.
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My daughter just came and told me that she wants an HTC Vive.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
HTC Vive
Only if everyone at MangoCon gets to test it before she does!
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Rep for VTech on SW just posted an article on SIP as if VTech had just discovered VoIP and had no idea that it existed and the article acts like everyone doesn't already know about VOIP. It's insane. SIP is 21 years old! And VTech acts like there are alternatives, like PRI. Ha, almost all PRI is secretly delivered over SIP. VTech seriously missed the boat here.
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I feel like 80% of IT work is just "correcting crazy assumptions and unfounded leaps in logic." It constantly amazes me how often this is all that needs to be done. I think IT is so much easier than people think that it is because they are using flawed thinking that leads to crazy assumptions and then, of course, things are really hard or confusing. Sure, you still need to know things, but so many fewer things. Thread after thread today (elsewhere) where the ENTIRE thread is nothing other than an initial post of nothing but incorrect assumptions and then a huge thread of people either confused because they don't know what those assumptions were or figuring out the assumptions and trying to show somewhere where their logic doesn't work.
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Some examples....
- SPOF is all I have to worry about for reliability, no need to look at reliability.
- The term SDS means highly reliable and multiple nodes, or redundancy of some sort.
- Backups don't need to be different things than the originals.
- I can use this SAN thing I've heard about for file shares.
- Red Pro drives are safe and Red drives are not (hint: identical).
- RAID ideas that are horrific are good when brand names are slapped onto them.
- Redundancy is magic at some levels and useless at others.
- Mention a storage concept and everyone will automatically know that I specifically mean a specific instance of it (e.g. is it safe to put backups on a NAS. Oh I thought you all knew that I mean the NAS that the original files were on.)
It's really consistent. For some reason in IT, not only do technical assumptions get awry, but basic English seems to be a huge challenge regularly.
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Oh and this one all the time... my servers don't meet my needs, obviously this means I need a SAN instead of fixing my servers. WTH
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Well our plans just changed a lot. My aunt just found my grandmother unconscious in a pool of blood. We are guessing that she fell. She's in Ohio. So we are throwing everything into the car as quickly as we can, going to try to get out of Texas tonight and see how far we can make it. Hoping there is some change to get there before she goes. No idea how bad it is, but sounds like she isn't coming back at this point. She's in the ER and my baby cousin is there with her.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Well our plans just changed a lot. My aunt just found my grandmother unconscious in a pool of blood. We are guessing that she fell. She's in Ohio. So we are throwing everything into the car as quickly as we can, going to try to get out of Texas tonight and see how far we can make it. Hoping there is some change to get there before she goes. No idea how bad it is, but sounds like she isn't coming back at this point. She's in the ER and my baby cousin is there with her.
Oh wow I'm really sorry.
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She's in a CT scan right now. So no idea how bad it is. But she is cold, but does have a heartbeat. We are packing quickly.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Well our plans just changed a lot. My aunt just found my grandmother unconscious in a pool of blood. We are guessing that she fell. She's in Ohio. So we are throwing everything into the car as quickly as we can, going to try to get out of Texas tonight and see how far we can make it. Hoping there is some change to get there before she goes. No idea how bad it is, but sounds like she isn't coming back at this point. She's in the ER and my baby cousin is there with her.
oh crap - sorry to hear this. If there is anything I can do from here, please let me know.
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@scottalanmiller Here for you man. Really sorry to hear
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Thanks everyone. This is my mom's mom, my last grandparent and my last direct person on that side of the family since mom passed long ago and grandpa like six years ago.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
- Mention a storage concept and everyone will automatically know that I specifically mean a specific instance of it (e.g. is it safe to put backups on a NAS. Oh I thought you all knew that I mean the NAS that the original files were on.)
Like putting your spare key on the same keyring as the first. - wife of Dash.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Thanks everyone. This is my mom's mom, my last grandparent and my last direct person on that side of the family since mom passed long ago and grandpa like six years ago.
Sorry, hope you make it.
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@Dashrender I like that your wife understands this.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This ride on 402 west in Canada is BORING!!!
at least your a passenger and not driving.. .so you can be online.
Never stopped me apparently.
