Ah-Yup, It's A Monday

[filkertom]

So the drive died.

I got everything I could off it, most everything that I needed with the exception of a very few recent vocals and one mix I can recreate. Reformatted, checked for integrity, tried to write to it twice and it hung. Sigh.

I might go get another drive today. I might not. Money's a touch tight until Dragon*Con. Not a huge crisis. But an annoyance. THANK GOD it was only an annoyance. I backed up 99% of my recordings to another drive two weeks ago, a drive I hardly ever use except for backups, and I didn't lose, oh, all the tracks for the last few albums.

I did liberate myself from a buttload of old game files I was never going to go back to. Some multimedia, downloaded movies and such, that I won't really miss. The last four install packages of Open Office. Psh-yeah, like I was going back to 1.1.1 anytime soon.

All in all, I got off lucky. This time.

So, how's your Monday?

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[nimitzbrood.livejournal.com]

We have two T1 circuits coming into the office here on bad copper. One is our connection to the corporate office, one is our voice circuit for the phone system.

Did I mention the copper was bad? When we go down they just switch pairs inside the same bad wire.

What that means is that we often have either phones or internet but not both. Today we have internet but no phones. I'm talking to "the death star" as we speak but things as usual look grim for a repair for today.

[per_solo]

Mine is the bureaucratic hell of people who don't understand why software pushes should be done with the knowledge and coordination of end users, leading to major frustrations, and an overabundance of calls to helpdesk people who are never informed of what happens when.

I LIKE the money that working brings in, and will keep repeating that to myself.

[nimitzbrood.livejournal.com]

Ahh yes! The "We choose to upgrade this software and to hell with all the users!" Usually followed by much coffee and maniacal laughter. My sympathies. And from all the "real" I/T people in the world my apologies. Some schmucks should never have gotten into computers in the first place.

I will join you in a similar mantra:

"I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job.""I love my job."

[nimitzbrood.livejournal.com]

I just realized through my coffee induced haze that it might have sounded like I was poking at you as and I/T guy - sorry. That's not what I meant.

I was poking at the "suits" really. And I/T guys that don't listen to their users become "suits" quite quickly...

[per_solo]

See, the joyous fun is that I WAS one of the "real" IT people, who helped to make sure that people thought of the end users, so that they didn't lose their productivity.

And then went through a year of hell of mostly unemployment, with sporadic employ, then finding a Tier 1 position, since that's all I coudl really find. So yeah, I understand the pain real well, and am just happy to be employed, paying off huge debts, and trying to plot a course out of IT. :-)

"I love my job" indeed.

[nimitzbrood.livejournal.com]

I was extremely lucky in that 6 months after the bubble burst I was hired on as a consultant for the same place that let me go in April 2001.

I of course then walked the fine line for 12 months and got re-hired at my old salary but without benefits. (I could fix that with a word in the right ear but I refuse to play politics - the cost would be a little too high.)

As for charting a way out of IT? I'm working on that as well. A friend of mine has started making pipes (http://www.pipecrafter.com) and is quite talented at it. (If you look in the gallery there is a churchwarden style pipe that looks like a diamond (http://www.pipecrafter.com/galleries/pastwork/tn/diamond1.jpg.index.html). He made that custom for me. ^_^ )

I'd love to do independent things but with our daughter's therapy stuff (Autism) and other things it just isn't possible right now.

[ericthemage.livejournal.com]

Did an Oracle 9i to 10g upgrade on Saturday. Today we find out the problems it causes, especially from those developers who were too busy about their vacations in India to properly document their code.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Mine's the "last day and a half before I leave for Worldcon" and "lack of any motivation to work" Monday.

[mdlbear]

I have that problem, too.

At least, so far, I don't have any broken backups to contend with.

[giza.livejournal.com]

If you're not doing so already, I strongly recommend backing stuff up onto CD or DVD for archival purposes.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'll be doing a lot of that over the next few days. I think the newer Lightscribe drive is dual layer, so I should go get some blank media for that.

[nimitzbrood.livejournal.com]

DVD+R DL is still expensive media. (Approz $3/ea.) If you can stand to back it up on a lot of discs then DVD-R is probably the cheapest way to go.

[partiallyclips.livejournal.com]

Yeargh. And my comp is dead in the water right now too. Is it safe to say I know which mix you are recreating? :-/

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Actually, no. Too busy with another. I'll be getting to that later this week. I'll have to double-check the integrity of the audio; the archives you sent were among the files that got hosed, but the raw audio is, I think, okay.

[mdlbear]

The relevant cron job on my home fileserver looks like:

mount backup drive
rsync everything over to it
unmount backup drive

Uses the same resources as a RAID-1 pair, but if something corrupts the data on the main drive the backup drive is likely to be unaffected.

That's in addition to the weekly rsync backup on a different drive.

[devospice.livejournal.com]

I've got 7 things that need to be finished by the end of today, and a client wondering why we're not sticking to his (completely unrealistic) timelines.

So I'd say things are pretty normal around here.

[alicetheowl.livejournal.com]

Started it pissed off. I e-mailed three people with my training availability for the month TWO WEEKS ago, asking for advance notice if they wanted to use any of that time. So of course the third guy takes that to mean I'm sitting around with my thumb up my ass in the meantime, waiting on his word to be able to train RIGHTNOW!

So of course, I now have to take time out of my week sometime to schedule this damn thing. If he ever gets back to me.

What is so difficult about, "I'm not available every second of every day; I need to clear space in my schedule, so let me know ahead of time"?

[louisadkins.livejournal.com]

Just woke up (approx 3 hours earlier than normal) Wide Awake, and have a dozen things that suddenly need to be don yesterday. Other than that, and being tight on the money stuff as well for a bit, not too bad.

[danruk.livejournal.com]

Good to hear you 'dodged a bullet' on that crash, Tom. Especially for the recorded songs part. I'd hate to have that work of yours just get arbitrarily erased and you'd have to 'start from scratch' again. As a musical artist that can't be EASY to do if that sort of thing happens.

Monday's going well for me BTW, thanks. :)

[capt-video.livejournal.com]

Personally, I like Mondays... It's my day off after a weekend of retail sales! (Even if I was awakened early this morning by a desperate co-worker who couldn't find the manager on duty... all's well) Completely off topic... Tom, have you or any one else here) had any trouble with Filk.com? Getting paid, whatever? My sister ordered a bunch of CDs from them about three months ago and has heard nothing since. No CDs, no response to e-mails sent. A previous order (about a year ago) was short a couple of items as well (she decided not to follow up on that, don't know why). I know they had a massive system crash but it seems like they should be responding to direct e-mail. Sorry to hijack the thread, but I figured this crowd might have some insight/knowledge. Thanks!

[daundelyon.livejournal.com]

I restarted my last semester of nursing school. I didn't scream when I found out that a supposedly set in stone policy had been changed in less than three months after I was handed a line of crap about policy being hard to change.

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

Still trying to get my shoulder back to normal after surgery, but other than that, not too bad.

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

If your drive died, maybe you weren't feeding it enough fools?

[sylverwolfe.livejournal.com]

monday involved getting labwork done, where only one guy in the entire lab showed up to work, thus what should have been a 15 minute stop turned into an hour and totally killed my timeline for getting to work in a leisurely fashion, and also involved my insulin pump resisting my attempts to refill it, further crimping my timeline. but kane had taped the roast of william shatner, so we watched that, and i almost choked a few times. GOOD stuff.