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techrecovery2004-05-18 10:40 pm
taleya.livejournal.com) wrote in techrecovery2004-05-18 10:40 pm
...you're shitting me, right?
Not really work tech support, but just happened right now....
I run a home lan of about 9/10 computers. One of which is my sisters, as I got sick of prising her off my comp every time she wanted to use the net and just friggin' well coded a proxy server.
So in she meanders.
Her: "Can you access any of my hard disks right now?" (at least I've broken her of the habit as referring to HD space as "memory")
Me: "Yeah," (load up run dialogue) " is your comp turned on?" (CLUE #1 - I ASK THIS QUESTION IN THE FIRST PLACE)
Her: No, I haven't turned it on since you said that thingie whatsit was sticking out (Note: her comp was acting up, I cracked open the box and found out that it had been running with bank 0 HALF-SEATED for god knows how long. No, I don't know how it did it. And I mean this thing was literally half seated. Half in nicely, other half jutting out. Fucked if I know why it even ran, let alone didn't fry itself)
Me: "I fixed that. You do realise that I need your machine to be turned on and logged onto the network to access the hard disks from here?"
Her: *smug look hahahaha I know more than the tech who only wired the entire bloody house from scratch* "No you don't. I don't at work. I can access the hard disks at work with my computer turned off from someone elses machine at work."
*deep breath, education regarding servers rapidly perfomed with a flathead screwdriver....*
I run a home lan of about 9/10 computers. One of which is my sisters, as I got sick of prising her off my comp every time she wanted to use the net and just friggin' well coded a proxy server.
So in she meanders.
Her: "Can you access any of my hard disks right now?" (at least I've broken her of the habit as referring to HD space as "memory")
Me: "Yeah," (load up run dialogue) " is your comp turned on?" (CLUE #1 - I ASK THIS QUESTION IN THE FIRST PLACE)
Her: No, I haven't turned it on since you said that thingie whatsit was sticking out (Note: her comp was acting up, I cracked open the box and found out that it had been running with bank 0 HALF-SEATED for god knows how long. No, I don't know how it did it. And I mean this thing was literally half seated. Half in nicely, other half jutting out. Fucked if I know why it even ran, let alone didn't fry itself)
Me: "I fixed that. You do realise that I need your machine to be turned on and logged onto the network to access the hard disks from here?"
Her: *smug look hahahaha I know more than the tech who only wired the entire bloody house from scratch* "No you don't. I don't at work. I can access the hard disks at work with my computer turned off from someone elses machine at work."
*deep breath, education regarding servers rapidly perfomed with a flathead screwdriver....*
There is a worse scenario
At a previous job I was a programmer for a small software development company. So, instead of wandering in and saying "Why don't we use XYZ" the boss would come in with a head full of crazy-ass ideas and dump them on me asking me to MAKE the bloody software....
*bangs head on desk at memory*