What Are You Doing Right Now
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Sounds like a new thread.
Keep these threads coming - it's the main thing I miss about SW, question threads about technical issues.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
thwr - that's some scary shit! I'm glad it turned out OK - and that it sounds almost like a daily occurrence - glad it turns out OK more often than not.
One might think so but actually we are so used to "blocked roads / public transport routes due to a bomb" that no one really cares. The only real problem is that no one of the former allied forces actually knows how many bombs they dropped on us. Like SAM mentioned before we are still finding some potentially deadly "leftovers" more than 70 years after the end of WW2.
BTW: That's why you need to have your piece of land inspected when you want to build a house here in Hamburg - there could be a bomb beneath.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Still trying to get my P2V 2003R2 box to boot on it's own
Why?
it will finally boot if I use a Hirem's Boot Disk to act as the MBR.
This is an archive and it will always boot this way, so stop already FFS.
Because - learning.
Learning about Windows 2003 today isn't useful. It's just wasted time. Might as well just be surfing the web or watching Netflix. Not info that is applicable to other things nor something that you will ever use again.
Learning about how boot sectors work - and tricks to fix them isn't. though it's possible that anything I do learn won't be usable much longer as we move away from MBR to GPT.
Ah, but how relevant is this knowledge? Do you work in an environment where you will even have a reasonable chance to see this again? The answer is no. So you are doing nothing but wasting your time.
Wasting your time means that you are wasting the company's money. Granted your boss waste more with refusal to do basic things that would reduce IT expenses over time. But this is still your choice to waste not your boss's.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
thwr - that's some scary shit! I'm glad it turned out OK - and that it sounds almost like a daily occurrence - glad it turns out OK more often than not.
One might think so but actually we are so used to "blocked roads / public transport routes due to a bomb" that no one really cares. The only real problem is that no one of the former allied forces actually knows how many bombs they dropped on us. Like SAM mentioned before we are still finding some potentially deadly "leftovers" more than 70 years after the end of WW2.
BTW: That's why you need to have your piece of land inspected when you want to build a house here in Hamburg - there could be a bomb beneath.
How would knowing how many were dropped be helpful? You don't know how many didn't explode. I suppose if you did know, then once you reached that number you could stop checking - but, yeah that would never happen.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
thwr - that's some scary shit! I'm glad it turned out OK - and that it sounds almost like a daily occurrence - glad it turns out OK more often than not.
One might think so but actually we are so used to "blocked roads / public transport routes due to a bomb" that no one really cares. The only real problem is that no one of the former allied forces actually knows how many bombs they dropped on us. Like SAM mentioned before we are still finding some potentially deadly "leftovers" more than 70 years after the end of WW2.
BTW: That's why you need to have your piece of land inspected when you want to build a house here in Hamburg - there could be a bomb beneath.
How would knowing how many were dropped be helpful? You don't know how many didn't explode. I suppose if you did know, then once you reached that number you could stop checking - but, yeah that would never happen.
That's the point. You never know if there's still one left or not.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
thwr - that's some scary shit! I'm glad it turned out OK - and that it sounds almost like a daily occurrence - glad it turns out OK more often than not.
One might think so but actually we are so used to "blocked roads / public transport routes due to a bomb" that no one really cares. The only real problem is that no one of the former allied forces actually knows how many bombs they dropped on us. Like SAM mentioned before we are still finding some potentially deadly "leftovers" more than 70 years after the end of WW2.
BTW: That's why you need to have your piece of land inspected when you want to build a house here in Hamburg - there could be a bomb beneath.
How would knowing how many were dropped be helpful? You don't know how many didn't explode. I suppose if you did know, then once you reached that number you could stop checking - but, yeah that would never happen.
Well, say it was a known fact that 50,000 bombs were dropped. The bombs had a failure rate of x%, then you can figure out approximately how many are still playing hide and boom.
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Made it past Jackson,Tennessee
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@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Made it past Jackson,Tennessee
Which route are you heading north on?
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Is it a healthy MSP relationship for the client wanting to kill the MSP, for silo'ing information / refusing to provide information?
I mean, I don't think it's healthy, but I just want confirmation. Cause.... people might literally be murdered today.
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Just got a sales spam email from Pure Storage. Apparently they think I work for E*Trade (I work for a company called E-Ring). Swing and a miss.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Is it a healthy MSP relationship for the client wanting to kill the MSP, for silo'ing information / refusing to provide information?
I mean, I don't think it's healthy, but I just want confirmation. Cause.... people might literally be murdered today.
May not be healthy, but it sounds about right.
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@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
thwr - that's some scary shit! I'm glad it turned out OK - and that it sounds almost like a daily occurrence - glad it turns out OK more often than not.
One might think so but actually we are so used to "blocked roads / public transport routes due to a bomb" that no one really cares. The only real problem is that no one of the former allied forces actually knows how many bombs they dropped on us. Like SAM mentioned before we are still finding some potentially deadly "leftovers" more than 70 years after the end of WW2.
BTW: That's why you need to have your piece of land inspected when you want to build a house here in Hamburg - there could be a bomb beneath.
How would knowing how many were dropped be helpful? You don't know how many didn't explode. I suppose if you did know, then once you reached that number you could stop checking - but, yeah that would never happen.
Well, say it was a known fact that 50,000 bombs were dropped. The bombs had a failure rate of x%, then you can figure out approximately how many are still playing hide and boom.
But this is not a real number. Say it was 5%, would you really expect that after you find 2500 bombs that's it? you just stop worrying about it?
I would hope not - because who knows it might have really been 5.1% or 10%.
JB beat me to it - I think we (JB and I) agree that knowing this number really isn't helpful. I suppose if the reported failure rate is 5%, and you find 10,000 bombs, well after that I guess you could become less concerned, but would you really become less concerned? I don't think I would.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Is it a healthy MSP relationship for the client wanting to kill the MSP, for silo'ing information / refusing to provide information?
I mean, I don't think it's healthy, but I just want confirmation. Cause.... people might literally be murdered today.
Sounds like a reason to fire them, UNLESS, they are IT.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Is it a healthy MSP relationship for the client wanting to kill the MSP, for silo'ing information / refusing to provide information?
I mean, I don't think it's healthy, but I just want confirmation. Cause.... people might literally be murdered today.
Well you can't break up. You've got CD's in her car
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I feel like I'm stuck in a sunk cost fallacy issue with these guys... can't stand em, yet can't leave because of the aforementioned cd's left in her car....
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I feel like I'm stuck in a sunk cost fallacy issue with these guys... can't stand em, yet can't leave because of the aforementioned cd's left in her car....
You're not the one stuck, management is. You're just left holding the purse.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Is it a healthy MSP relationship for the client wanting to kill the MSP, for silo'ing information / refusing to provide information?
I mean, I don't think it's healthy, but I just want confirmation. Cause.... people might literally be murdered today.
Well you can't break up. You've got CD's in her car
That's why no one uses CDs anymore.
Just remove her from you Google Play account.
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Watching the inauguration.
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@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Watching the inauguration.
Have they gotten to the point where they install the ram upgrade and better cpu?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Watching the inauguration.
Have they gotten to the point where they install the ram upgrade and better cpu?
Almost there. Upgrades have just arrived at the new tower.
