there's no respect
i'm an older worker now and people think you don't know anything because you don't know about the latest xyz.
truth be told, I don't know about the latest xyz because i've seen that type of thing before and it had limited market appeal and folded after 5 years

the less experienced generally see initial benefits
the more experienced generally see initial benefits, long term issues, growth pathways and so on.

getting from 25 yo to 50 yo doesn't take long, you should always have your ears open ready to learn and always treat people respectfully.

Scratching my head wondering what Mangolassi means?
Could it be a Scottish woman eating a mango?

Happy Friday everyone.

Happy for me as the prodigal tool has returned!

good morning, 9:22am.

got the word yesterday that we're expecting back on site from the 12th onwards. such ashame, the past many months have been some of the most productive, interesting & joyful with regards to work, of my last 10 years.

normally i move from site to site everyday, forgetting what I did last and wasting time settling into the newly arrived at site each time I arrive.

the past few months i've rekindled my interest in IT coz I had time to sit in one place, complete tasks & investigate new things.

I'm going to spend the time between now and the 12th trying to work out how I can run my work life from the cloud, so everytime I arrive at a new workplace, my desktop will still have tasks, jobs, notes open from the previous site, if that makes any sense.

and what the hell is a Stroopwafel??? ^^^

they asked for a rate sheet incase they need me to come in and help with something.
i'm loathed to help at all following the way i've been treated.
if i do help, the rate will be astronomical.

a great example of bridge burning.

Another "I'm not really computer lierate"
OK I don't care, just sit there, be quiet and let me fix your problem.

Brand new around here. I see some people here I know of from elsewhere.
Currently enjoying what must one of the last few beautiful sunny days down here before winter sets in for 4 solid cold miserable months.

Having a ball with ZeroTier, this thing seems to be able to connect through anything!

Wondering who the imbecile was that convinced the world to stop placing LEDs in Num Lock and Caps Lock keys was.

It's a toss up between intermittant mouse pointer movement & not knowing if your number / caps lock is on as to which is the most annoying thing.

That person "will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes".

sitting down after driving 1.75 hours to get parts to resurrect a 9 year old server that died last night.
server 0 - me 1.

what a darn shaky day on the roads yesterday.
started to move out from behind a van, had had a good look up the road before hand, nothing there, stuck me head out, whoa, a bloody 4WD coming at me.
coming home, had a DH tailgate me at 100kmh/60mph most of the way home on roads with no one else on 'em. this person had a real problem with space and distance, just irrationally close.
i slowed down and let 'em pass, then i did something im not proud of, but was so pissed off.
i got the jack handle ready at the T intersection we both had to stop at just in case.
I just cannot stomach tailgaters, the action makes no sense. if you can see you're coming up on someone, plan your move so you spend as little time behind them as possible. don't come up behind and just wait there hoping this guy will speed up.

Hello,

I’ve created a Macrium rescue boot USB stick for imaging with.

The stick has a 1GB FAT32 partition and a 100GB NTFS storage partition.

All devices boot up off the stick, but on older laptops, the device doesn’t see the 100GB partition, but on newer devices it does.

On the older laptops, I’ve tried with UEFI and Legacy set, but that made no difference.

The stick is setup using MBR not GPT.

What am I missing here???

Thanks for any help.

@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

it's finally hit. a local town that up to this point had only about 4 cases of the big C has gone from 1 to 18 in 3 days.

They're shipping the real sick ones off to a hospital 3 hours away. that's where i'd end up. stuff that, i'm working remotely for a few days.

All the best in your attempts to avoid it!
We're going to get smashed when our borders open up.

Yep. All you can do is look after you & yours.

Thing I don't understand, NSW cases dropped from 1000+ to 200+ when they hit 80% but in Vic we're still up in the 1000+ range, it's barely dropped. Don't understand that at all?

it's finally hit. a local town that up to this point had only about 4 cases of the big C has gone from 1 to 18 in 3 days.

They're shipping the real sick ones off to a hospital 3 hours away. that's where i'd end up. stuff that, i'm working remotely for a few days.

@scottalanmiller haha, look like you've watched that video too many times Scott.

I was thinking about this last night. Is there anything you could do with QR codes or similar. Issue a card per device. They swipe/flash the card to log on and the same to log off.

TLDR, but whatever you end up doing, you'll need to make it very easy for the users, otherwise they'll just end up sharing passwords coz that'll be easier and faster.

You somehow need to make the users responsible for their actions, that's the only way you'll get compliance from them.

couldn't you just backup to something that can be shutdown by the backup app once the backup is complete?

then just add powering the device back up as one of the daily tasks to be undertaken by the sysadmins or whoever.

you used to be able to get those 'cassette' drives which were just disks in a casing that were used in a similar way to tapes. maybe there's something similar to that with a capacity of 1TB+ ?

if you work in a 24x7 centre maybe you can get one of the night sysadmins to just unplug the backup medium once the job is complete?

i did that years ago at a place that had mainframe admins 24x7, they just added it to their nightly tasks.

gee. what a slow monday. i'm getting through it, but this one's been a tough slog.

5 mins past midday on a monday. time for an early lunch.