Posts by yetanotheraoc 1756 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Jan 2021
Although with a bag full of repair options, if one doesn't work just try the next one. The article does say Windows 95 Office 97 era, so NTFS was around. Maybe it was the customer's mistake sending the _server_ to the usual PC repair shop, when it most probably had its own support contract. That would perhaps explain why they were so understanding when it was rendered unbootable.
"all disks were FAT"
If they weren't, they are now.
In all seriousness, though, certain tools are meant for end users, and other tools are meant for those who are supposed to have RTFM. My first purchased PC (DOS 3.1) came with a printed manual that explained things like CHKDSK could be harmful. My most recent purchased PC (Windows 11) came with a picture of how to plug it in and where the on switch is. It's relatively easy to make a computer say "error", but aside from this Microsoft ships all the tools needed to make a bonfire of the installation.
Good job on the politics.
"I told him he had fixed his own PC and could tell people that (which he did to other directors, his PA etc.)………….but in future if moving IT equipment please call us first. That was company policy but strangely that didn’t always apply to directors."
But you underestimate the director. In future he will just go to the patchbay and move some wires around. "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing...."
Upvoted for the most succinct summary comment.
Musk can say what he likes about whomever he likes on whatever platform he likes. Tomorrow: "The unions can go fuck themselves." That doesn't make shooting off his mouth a smart business move. The advertisers, unions, crash-test dummies, etc. are not in any way forced to do business with Musk. As demonstrated, they can vote with their feet.
"When she got up to leave, she did not log out of her computer or save her work."
Not required _here_ if she has a private office, though maybe policy was different _there_. Notice she had to be persuaded to let the tech remain behind, so she was not clueless of security concerns.
"Once activated by the Euro key switch on the FES control panel..."
**Before** being activated by the Euro key switch, perhaps the buttons on the **intercom system** could announce something like, "Hi, we are the emergency buttons, the non-emergency buttons are over there."
Ha, similar but different, just recently. Brand new laptop, try to Delete a file and quickly Enter to say yes I really want to delete that file. Now the cursor changes shape and whatever right-click, left-click, keyboard magic incantations I use -- "Nothing happens." I have unsaved work, web search on the phone for solutions to unresponsive linux, no joy. Eventually in my random attempts to make progress in the dark cave, I must have used the Escape key at some point, oh it's working again. The penny dropped the *next* time I tried to Delete a file. This time I wasn't in a hurry and actually looked at the resulting dialog ... of the linux Screenshot utility! The PrintScreen|Delete keys on the new laptop correspond to the Delete|Fingerprint keys on the old one. So the *previous* time after Enter it was patiently waiting for me to grab a region from the screen....
"0-60 in 2.9s"
How beefy is the tailgate? Would be a shame if some heavy load, say a cast-iron stove(*) headed for the recycle, were somehow not to keep up with the accelerating CyberTruck.
(*) Currently there is precisely this item loaded on the truck in the driveway. When I suggested to the truck- and stove-owner that we should secure the load, he declined, saying "I'm not going that far." Good, good, I'm not going with you then.
"if you just want to be safe, don't get out of bed. Don't get in your car. Don't do anything," Rush told Pogue.
Many years ago my brother made this exact argument "getting out of bed is unsafe" to his wife. She was unimpressed by the logic. Men not only discount the risks in adventure scenarios, they are fatally attracted to them. _In the moment_ I tend to act just like my brother did. As a counter to this known tendency, I give extra weight to a woman's voice of caution.
"But where Cristina understands the difference between calculated and foolhardy risk, Gabriel operates without filter or boundaries. As they begin to quarrel, they mark out the difference between adventure and the kind of careless folly that endangers others as well as the self."
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/14/619515077/gabriel-and-the-mountain-explores-how-a-young-man-died-and-how-he-lived
Of course we want the service restored, but we are also looking ahead to the next outage. I see three regions on the current Venn diagram. (1) They don't know what caused the outage. Time spent in this region is inversely proportional to the technical skills on staff. (2) They know what caused the outage but won't say. Some skills on staff, but too many layers of weasel management. (3) They know, and are candid about what caused it. "They're spies like us!"
"Can I keep MFA disabled?" -- No.
"The microsoft authenticator may be problematic because all of my computers are linux." -- You can use a different authenticator, Microsoft even says so. Search for "totp linux".
"off topic, help would be appreciated" -- Not good form.
"the driver who had delivered my package reported receiving racist remarks from my 'Ring doorbell'"
Doesn't Amazon own Ring? I expect if they had checked their records, they would have realised they didn't have any and therefore it was not in fact a Ring doorbell. Ergo, they didn't check, and just switched off a customer on the say-so of a driver. Be nice to your driver. Be very, very nice.
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