IT BS thread

I have a picture I had taken somewhere, at the Boston museum of science, where a 3D projection of Earth is asking me to clean up my unused desktop icons.

 

Bank signs with BSODs rather than Time/Temp are my favorite.

 

This happened a few weeks ago and i forgot this thread existed.
A teacher called saying their desktop didn't work. Went over and it was saying no os found. Took the desktop back to the office and pulled the SSD to find it was dead. Nothing would recognize the drive at all. Went back to the teacher and said its dead Jim. He looked at me and said no that cant be, I didn't back anything up. I said well it did. He has been with the district for over 40 years and had ALL of his teaching material on there with ZERO backs up made.
A hell of a learning lesson to get. What makes this even stupider is we have an onsite server with mapped paths to it for each teacher, in addition unlimited google drive storage for every employee in the district.
Guess you cant help everyone...

 

Counter argument: why weren't you guys using desktop/folder/profile redirection again?

Take the idiocy from their hands. Let them complain it takes a few minutes longer to login.

 

Ouch... I have backups of backups. >.>

 

I have asked. They don't want to implement or pay for anything else. We have to fight to get our Microsoft licensing renewed. We also haven't had a budget for the last 10 years.
We have had a 3 year long on going conversation to just get a guest wifi set up. Still hasn't happened.

 

Same.

I didn't backup anything for the longest time when I was younger. Almost lost stuff to FAT32 problems.

 

IT failures usually are a summation of several failures. He has no defense though. If he's been teaching this long it's not like "backup and backup often!" is an easy to miss mantra.

 

I agree. There is a lot of wrong here. However, it is what it is. He said he was going to retire 2 years ago. I suggested now is a good time

 

Holy shit.

This is hilarious and sad at the same time.

 

I've been lucky that in the time I've been using computers, I've only had one hard drive flat out die on me. Nothing important was lost.

My last close call was with NTFS in the early days of XP. Most of my text based files and bitmaps files were corrupted.

 

I had each of the original Western Digital Raptor and Velociraptor (10krpm and 15krpm) die long ago. I didn't buy them after they failed to outlast so many other older disks that ran so much longer. I was lucky they had nothing critical on them.

 

I've always prefered WD over other brands. I've had Fujistu, Seagate and Maxtor drives fail on my slowly. The one WD drive that flat out died was most likely my fault.

 

No knock on Western Digital. They're the only magnetic media I'd bother to buy. My server at home runs on them.

Solid state I err towards Samsung, Crucial, Kingston, and Mushkin. I trust just about anyone who makes memory to make decent flash storage as well.

 

So far I've had Liteon, Samsung, Kingston and Crucial. The Crucial SSD I have had a bug, where after 1500 hours of accumulated uptime, it would stop responding roughly 30 minutes after power-on. After a firmware update, it's been fine since. It currently has 45000+ hours, and claims only 8% life lost.

Edit: Looks like Western Digital does SSDs now. Might be rebranded Sandisk drives though.

 

By any change, has anyone here upgraded the RAM in a Thinkpad? I hear Thinkpads don't accept any old RAM (or replacement batteries.)

My Thinkpad has 8GB of RAM, and I want to get a 16GB module for it. From what I can find, this module should work. People have reported other brands aren't recognized by Thinkpads.

 

Good to know. From what I've been reading, it's hit or miss with the 16gb RAM modules.

 

Never heard of RAM issues in ThinkPads, but I do know you can't just throw any wireless card into it. They have a whitelist and will only take cards that could have come in the machine from the factory.

 

I get this. I spent most of career in K-12. However if you already have mapped drives setup it's only a GPO setting to enable folder redirection.