What Are You Doing Right Now
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 @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @donaldlandru said in What Are You Doing Right Now: I am $85/m for 30/5 right now, given what it is and where it is not bad. Frontier was charging me $75/m for the 1Mbps DSL You don't paint a rosy picture of Minnesota. Not an accurate representation. I am 70 miles south of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis / St Paul) and 40 miles east of Mankato (another major population). I think it would be a more accurate representation of midwest rural America than of any state as whole. 
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 Contemplating the JB policy to rebuild a few VMs to centralize on a single OS.I like the practice- but this is outta hand ,...... 
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 @gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now: sigh 
 Contemplating the JB policy to rebuild a few VMs to centralize on a single OS.I like the practice- but this is outta hand ,...... I need to get into the practice of doing this as well... a few to many different systems. 
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 @dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now: sigh 
 Contemplating the JB policy to rebuild a few VMs to centralize on a single OS.I like the practice- but this is outta hand ,...... I need to get into the practice of doing this as well... a few to many different systems. same here... and I need to build another one for UNMS... I mean.. really?? Pushing a lot of Linux VMs and things that I'm not accustom to... really waaaaay out of my comfort zone.. 
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 Such a busy morning. Finally my first chance to stand up from my desk. 
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 @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now: Such a busy morning. Finally my first chance to stand up from my desk. It has been a tad busy - which is good. 
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 Very busy but fruitful 
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 Updating some server BIOS and iDRAC firmware. 
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 Testing out this afternoon's latest pushes. Drinking coffee. Not necessarily in that order. 
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 About to move the kids from their current bedroom to the one that they prefer that was recently vacated by the old roommate. They are excited for the extra space. 
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 Singed a new Social media client why is adding someone to a Facebook page as an administrator so hard for the average person? 
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 Well - just ran do-release-upgradeon a system.... Oh - and eating chocolate chip cookie dough 
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 @scottalanmiller sounds familiar  
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 Finally finished upgrading all 1511 and 1607 workstation to Windows 10 1703. 165 computers  
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 Oh yeah me. User: The passport USB drive is acting squirrelly.. 
 Me : oh?
 user: Unplugged in and plugged it... now wants to format. I need to get a file from it...
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 @gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now: Oh yeah me. User: The passport USB drive is acting squirrelly.. 
 Me : oh?
 user: Unplugged in and plugged it... now wants to format. I need to get a file from it...You (should say): OK; yeah format it and don't call me back. . . 
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 @dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now: Oh yeah me. User: The passport USB drive is acting squirrelly.. 
 Me : oh?
 user: Unplugged in and plugged it... now wants to format. I need to get a file from it...You (should say): OK; yeah format it and don't call me back. . . Yea,.. job graphics files... about a gig each.. 
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 @gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now: Oh yeah me. User: The passport USB drive is acting squirrelly.. 
 Me : oh?
 user: Unplugged in and plugged it... now wants to format. I need to get a file from it...You (should say): OK; yeah format it and don't call me back. . . Yea,.. job graphics files... about a gig each.. You: "sorry user, when you unplugged it that converted all the files to magic smoke, which promptly escaped through the disconnected USB cable..." 
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 @rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now: Oh yeah me. User: The passport USB drive is acting squirrelly.. 
 Me : oh?
 user: Unplugged in and plugged it... now wants to format. I need to get a file from it...You (should say): OK; yeah format it and don't call me back. . . Yea,.. job graphics files... about a gig each.. You: "sorry user, when you unplugged it that converted all the files to magic smoke, which promptly escaped through the disconnected USB cable..." Yea,.. but I'm a sucker to try to recover them anyway.. damn Windows and NTFS 
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 @gjacobse I'm glad my users know not to just randomly unplug things without asking. 









