What Are You Doing Right Now
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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!
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@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!
True.
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Getting our new battery powered weed whacker charged.
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Listening to Die Antwoord and counting down to quittin' time.
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@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Listening to Die Antwoord and counting down to quittin' time.
Wanting a beer as well, been a long day.
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You know RAID 0 and RAID 4 are identical, right?
Oh, I mean that the on disk data is the same for the first N disks
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You know RAID 0 and RAID 4 are identical, right?
Oh, I mean that the on disk data is the same for the first N disks
FFS /sigh
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You know RAID 0 and RAID 4 are identical, right?
Oh, I mean that the on disk data is the same for the first N disks
But what if I'm not using N disks?
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After troubleshooting for a few minutes, I just remembered I need to contact Vultr about allowing SMTP traffic for my FreePBX system. Methinks I need to go take a nap.
