What Are You Doing Right Now
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Very busy but fruitful
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Updating some server BIOS and iDRAC firmware.
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Testing out this afternoon's latest pushes. Drinking coffee. Not necessarily in that order.
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About to move the kids from their current bedroom to the one that they prefer that was recently vacated by the old roommate. They are excited for the extra space.
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Singed a new Social media client why is adding someone to a Facebook page as an administrator so hard for the average person?
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Well - just ran
do-release-upgradeon a system....
Oh - and eating chocolate chip cookie dough
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@scottalanmiller sounds familiar
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Finally finished upgrading all 1511 and 1607 workstation to Windows 10 1703. 165 computers
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Oh yeah me.
User: The passport USB drive is acting squirrelly..
Me : oh?
user: Unplugged in and plugged it... now wants to format. I need to get a file from it... -
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Oh yeah me.
User: The passport USB drive is acting squirrelly..
Me : oh?
user: Unplugged in and plugged it... now wants to format. I need to get a file from it...You (should say): OK; yeah format it and don't call me back. . .
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Oh yeah me.
User: The passport USB drive is acting squirrelly..
Me : oh?
user: Unplugged in and plugged it... now wants to format. I need to get a file from it...You (should say): OK; yeah format it and don't call me back. . .
Yea,.. job graphics files... about a gig each..
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Oh yeah me.
User: The passport USB drive is acting squirrelly..
Me : oh?
user: Unplugged in and plugged it... now wants to format. I need to get a file from it...You (should say): OK; yeah format it and don't call me back. . .
Yea,.. job graphics files... about a gig each..
You: "sorry user, when you unplugged it that converted all the files to magic smoke, which promptly escaped through the disconnected USB cable..."
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@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Oh yeah me.
User: The passport USB drive is acting squirrelly..
Me : oh?
user: Unplugged in and plugged it... now wants to format. I need to get a file from it...You (should say): OK; yeah format it and don't call me back. . .
Yea,.. job graphics files... about a gig each..
You: "sorry user, when you unplugged it that converted all the files to magic smoke, which promptly escaped through the disconnected USB cable..."
Yea,.. but I'm a sucker to try to recover them anyway..
damn Windows and NTFS
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@gjacobse I'm glad my users know not to just randomly unplug things without asking.
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@rojoloco I've got user who expect the same sorts of things. . .
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This guy claims to own a RAID data recovery company and have 27 years of IT experience. But can't even figure out the difference between RAID levels and just makes stuff up that is obviously wrong and even the most basic RAID knowledge would tell you that it can't be true.
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@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse I'm glad my users know not to just randomly unplug things without asking.
you are lucky.. my users unplug shit all the time.
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@scottalanmiller That's such an old thread...
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This guy claims to own a RAID data recovery company and have 27 years of IT experience. But can't even figure out the difference between RAID levels and just makes stuff up that is obviously wrong and even the most basic RAID knowledge would tell you that it can't be true.
that whole thread is just a disaster!
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@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller That's such an old thread...
Yeah, that too!
