What Are You Doing Right Now
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
On today's episode of "Monday, Part 4" - Non-rookie makes completely stupid rookie mistake which ends in ruined hardware
Simple task at hand - upgrade the small 256GB SSD in my laptop to a 1TB SSD so that I can stop carrying around the 1TB portable HDD that will inevitably get lost or dropped / damaged. I've done this dozens of times, no big deal as long as some care is exercised. Well, today was different - I ended up breaking the plastic connector on the motherboard, as well as the pins that used to be attached to the motherboard. The little plastic latch piece that locks the ribbon connector from the drive into the motherboard connector also broke off. No chance of me fixing it that I can see, and I'm pretty sure this level of stupidity isn't going to be covered by the warranty, so yeah - nice 15" paperweight that I have right now.
How is everyone else's day going?
More fun with Quickbooks. Random slowness, servers aren't seeing any sort of high load, local workstations seem to be fine as well. Only thing going on is the database manager not running after a server reboot that we can see (because Intuit can't make their own software automatically run on startup, trust me, I've been through that one before).
A simple PowerShell script could handle that for you...
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
On today's episode of "Monday, Part 4" - Non-rookie makes completely stupid rookie mistake which ends in ruined hardware
Simple task at hand - upgrade the small 256GB SSD in my laptop to a 1TB SSD so that I can stop carrying around the 1TB portable HDD that will inevitably get lost or dropped / damaged. I've done this dozens of times, no big deal as long as some care is exercised. Well, today was different - I ended up breaking the plastic connector on the motherboard, as well as the pins that used to be attached to the motherboard. The little plastic latch piece that locks the ribbon connector from the drive into the motherboard connector also broke off. No chance of me fixing it that I can see, and I'm pretty sure this level of stupidity isn't going to be covered by the warranty, so yeah - nice 15" paperweight that I have right now.
How is everyone else's day going?
More fun with Quickbooks. Random slowness, servers aren't seeing any sort of high load, local workstations seem to be fine as well. Only thing going on is the database manager not running after a server reboot that we can see (because Intuit can't make their own software automatically run on startup, trust me, I've been through that one before).
A simple PowerShell script could handle that for you...
Oh how I wish you could script Quickbooks Server Database Manager!
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
On today's episode of "Monday, Part 4" - Non-rookie makes completely stupid rookie mistake which ends in ruined hardware
Simple task at hand - upgrade the small 256GB SSD in my laptop to a 1TB SSD so that I can stop carrying around the 1TB portable HDD that will inevitably get lost or dropped / damaged. I've done this dozens of times, no big deal as long as some care is exercised. Well, today was different - I ended up breaking the plastic connector on the motherboard, as well as the pins that used to be attached to the motherboard. The little plastic latch piece that locks the ribbon connector from the drive into the motherboard connector also broke off. No chance of me fixing it that I can see, and I'm pretty sure this level of stupidity isn't going to be covered by the warranty, so yeah - nice 15" paperweight that I have right now.
How is everyone else's day going?
More fun with Quickbooks. Random slowness, servers aren't seeing any sort of high load, local workstations seem to be fine as well. Only thing going on is the database manager not running after a server reboot that we can see (because Intuit can't make their own software automatically run on startup, trust me, I've been through that one before).
A simple PowerShell script could handle that for you...
Oh how I wish you could script Quickbooks Server Database Manager!
I was talking about scripting your mouse to go through the stupid clicks. . .
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About to do some printer troubleshooting for a client.
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Cooking freshly picked corn,..
Is it done yet,……
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Hello Everyone!
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Going out dancing with the team tomorrow night!
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looks bloody awful where you are Scott.
we've been out of lock down for 1 week. now we're back in it again.
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Waiting at a horribly understaffed Burger King for my dinner.
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Lady just came in to get a burger and asked the manager if he would hire someone that c oh do only work 4 hours a day in the middle of the day.
He told her he has 12 staff of 32 and could she start tomorrow?
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Lady just came in to get a burger and asked the manager if he would hire someone that c oh do only work 4 hours a day in the middle of the day.
He told her he has 12 staff of 32 and could she start tomorrow?
Good for her.
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America is so crazy right now. So many jobs and no one wants to work them. So totally the opposite here. So many good workers and so few jobs. It's all crazy competitive.
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Stressing over a work decision where I have no information to make a decision.
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@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Stressing over a work decision where I have no information to make a decision.
And you are stuck with the decision because....?
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Morning all, have a coffee and waiting on my first meeting to start.
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Looking at home network hardware options.
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Listening to Fedora Nest 2021 sessions while working.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
America is so crazy right now. So many jobs and no one wants to work them. So totally the opposite here. So many good workers and so few jobs. It's all crazy competitive.
Yeah, in the US right now there are the same amount of job openings as there are unemployed. That's was as of a few months ago.
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@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
America is so crazy right now. So many jobs and no one wants to work them. So totally the opposite here. So many good workers and so few jobs. It's all crazy competitive.
Yeah, in the US right now there are the same amount of job openings as there are unemployed. That's was as of a few months ago.
Sure, but so what? No one wants many of those jobs, likely never did - they pay like shit. The last year has shown many people that they can simply live with less.
Do I think they will stay there? Of course not - they'll be forced back into the crappy pay jobs by their own personal desire to "keep up with the Joneses" -
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
America is so crazy right now. So many jobs and no one wants to work them. So totally the opposite here. So many good workers and so few jobs. It's all crazy competitive.
Yeah, in the US right now there are the same amount of job openings as there are unemployed. That's was as of a few months ago.
Sure, but so what? No one wants many of those jobs, likely never did - they pay like shit. The last year has shown many people that they can simply live with less.
Do I think they will stay there? Of course not - they'll be forced back into the crappy pay jobs by their own personal desire to "keep up with the Joneses"Yeah, the US in general has an "overemployed" workforce by global standards. Meaning many people were working dual income households, double jobs, or long hours that would not have if they worked anywhere else. It's just the culture. Everyone works, a lot.
COVID kind of reset the thinking on that and tons of people are realizing that life can be fulfilling without going to work. I don't think this way, but lots of people do. Now, suddenly, a country built around providing jobs just to provide jobs and rewarding companies for essentially making half of the nation's workload be a proxy for welfare is finding that it has to adjust a LOT of thinking if it wants a happily employed workforce at normal employment levels.
