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Distribution: Mac OS X Leopard 10.6.2, Windows 2003 Server/Vista/7/XP/2000/NT/98, Ubuntux64, CentOS4.8/5.4
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I had one of them bad days today. Why are old people reluctant to change? I have some old coworkers who don't like working on the file server. The previous I.T. guy set up 20 workstations with no central authentication or file sharing, so now my users are used to working locally and emailing files back and forth. They also have no concept of backups. So I tried implementing this strategy today and everyone got confused when I mentioned sharing files on the server and how it makes my job easier. Ughhh................
Hey, didn't I say leave the politics out of this thread? Let's get it back on topic or we'll find this thread closed..
There's a topic now?
But anyway, politics are a no-no.
Back OT: I'm in a bad mood, I fought my network for over a week, trying to understand why nothing was working. Only to find (And this is after double checking before crimping, double checking after crimping.) that I'd only gone and crimped the cable the wrong way round...
So I'd cut both ends off the cable and pulled it out of the floor, for somehting I could have seen if I had looked closer...
Distribution: Vector Linux 5.1 Std., Vector Linux 5.8 Std., Win2k, XP, OS X (10.4 & 10.5)
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Ok...its a bad when a category 5 hurricane is heading your way and you have no way of leaving area which its going to hit.
Its an even worse day, when you survive the hurricane only to face the hazards of being stranded in a ruined city without enough food and water for all of the survivors.
In my mind it was an unconscionable failure of leadership to not evacuate as many people as possible when they had the chance.
Distribution: Mac OS X Leopard 10.6.2, Windows 2003 Server/Vista/7/XP/2000/NT/98, Ubuntux64, CentOS4.8/5.4
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Well, at least you know when a hurricane is coming. I live in California and I live right on top of a fault line. THere are little earthquakes now and then and it freaks me out. I hope the "big one" doesn't happen in my life time. IN the meantime, my data is being backed up to an off-site office. So, if I die my work can recover their data!
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