@Jimmy9008 said in Huge Mistake:

@pmoncho said in Huge Mistake:

@WrCombs said in Huge Mistake:

There's apparently a theory that you can "freeze a hard drive, and get it to read again"
Anyone ever hear of this?

Yep. Spinners only. I've been successful 3 out of 12 times. It only works when the drive heads or a platter is "stuck"

Wrap in saran wrap and Freeze for 2-3 hours, give a decent love tap along the side of the drive on the floor and plug it in to see if it will start.

Yep, I did this too. Problem is as it heats up the drive fails pretty quickly. So, if you have lots of data to get off the drive, with little time... good luck with that!

Good point.

@WrCombs said in Huge Mistake:

There's apparently a theory that you can "freeze a hard drive, and get it to read again"
Anyone ever hear of this?

Yep. Spinners only. I've been successful 3 out of 12 times. It only works when the drive heads or a platter is "stuck"

Wrap in saran wrap and Freeze for 2-3 hours, give a decent love tap along the side of the drive on the floor and plug it in to see if it will start.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo... Ping!
Just checking in to make sure you're ok.

Things seem to be a bit crap over your way.

Hey, how are you going. Things are turning upside down over here.
My wife and I live 4 hours out of Melbourne so we're free and easy, just can't leave the state nor visit the capital.
I'll tell you what the world is going to be like this until a vaccine is found, so this could be going on for a few more years.
The Premier said yesterday that one problem they have is getting enough people to do the tracing work that is required. It spreads so fast that they run out of manpower.
It must be a nightmare in places with a greater population.

Don't say that man - Next year is my 20 year wedding anniversary - and we planned a two week vacation to Aussieland!

It's a big place. Plenty of places to pick.

Nope. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article244059902.html

and? Nothing unusual...

I reckon the USA is scarier, you guys have bears. You can't outrun, out climb, out muscle those things.

Bears stay in the mountains. Spiders are jerks (see: https://www.facebook.com/uniladmag/videos/4375225242500501/). Snakes don't give a fuck, and they bite the Uber.

Nope.

They don't, I've got nearly nose to nose with a bear in the yard while taking out the trash.

But I've also had a huntsman in my hallway.

In Dallas?

Bears in upstate NY. Huntsman on Crete, in Aptera.

I'll take a few more bears in NE Ohio if they eat some of these damn deer.

Send the deer to me, I will eat them all.

All you have to do is come sit in my back yard with a bow and have at it. You can get 4-6 a week. Unfortunately, city ordinance doesn't allow it.

City ordinance means much less when you process the deer yourself. Besides, I balk at the laws of man.

That is why they are still alive and ruining my yard. I can't stomach the processing.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo... Ping!
Just checking in to make sure you're ok.

Things seem to be a bit crap over your way.

Hey, how are you going. Things are turning upside down over here.
My wife and I live 4 hours out of Melbourne so we're free and easy, just can't leave the state nor visit the capital.
I'll tell you what the world is going to be like this until a vaccine is found, so this could be going on for a few more years.
The Premier said yesterday that one problem they have is getting enough people to do the tracing work that is required. It spreads so fast that they run out of manpower.
It must be a nightmare in places with a greater population.

Don't say that man - Next year is my 20 year wedding anniversary - and we planned a two week vacation to Aussieland!

It's a big place. Plenty of places to pick.

Nope. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article244059902.html

and? Nothing unusual...

I reckon the USA is scarier, you guys have bears. You can't outrun, out climb, out muscle those things.

Bears stay in the mountains. Spiders are jerks (see: https://www.facebook.com/uniladmag/videos/4375225242500501/). Snakes don't give a fuck, and they bite the Uber.

Nope.

They don't, I've got nearly nose to nose with a bear in the yard while taking out the trash.

But I've also had a huntsman in my hallway.

In Dallas?

Bears in upstate NY. Huntsman on Crete, in Aptera.

I'll take a few more bears in NE Ohio if they eat some of these damn deer.

Send the deer to me, I will eat them all.

All you have to do is come sit in my back yard with a bow and have at it. You can get 4-6 a week. Unfortunately, city ordinance doesn't allow it.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo... Ping!
Just checking in to make sure you're ok.

Things seem to be a bit crap over your way.

Hey, how are you going. Things are turning upside down over here.
My wife and I live 4 hours out of Melbourne so we're free and easy, just can't leave the state nor visit the capital.
I'll tell you what the world is going to be like this until a vaccine is found, so this could be going on for a few more years.
The Premier said yesterday that one problem they have is getting enough people to do the tracing work that is required. It spreads so fast that they run out of manpower.
It must be a nightmare in places with a greater population.

Don't say that man - Next year is my 20 year wedding anniversary - and we planned a two week vacation to Aussieland!

It's a big place. Plenty of places to pick.

Nope. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article244059902.html

and? Nothing unusual...

I reckon the USA is scarier, you guys have bears. You can't outrun, out climb, out muscle those things.

Bears stay in the mountains. Spiders are jerks (see: https://www.facebook.com/uniladmag/videos/4375225242500501/). Snakes don't give a fuck, and they bite the Uber.

Nope.

They don't, I've got nearly nose to nose with a bear in the yard while taking out the trash.

But I've also had a huntsman in my hallway.

In Dallas?

Bears in upstate NY. Huntsman on Crete, in Aptera.

I'll take a few more bears in NE Ohio if they eat some of these damn deer.

They don't.

I didn't think they did until I researched it. I figured mostly fish, insects and plants/berries.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo... Ping!
Just checking in to make sure you're ok.

Things seem to be a bit crap over your way.

Hey, how are you going. Things are turning upside down over here.
My wife and I live 4 hours out of Melbourne so we're free and easy, just can't leave the state nor visit the capital.
I'll tell you what the world is going to be like this until a vaccine is found, so this could be going on for a few more years.
The Premier said yesterday that one problem they have is getting enough people to do the tracing work that is required. It spreads so fast that they run out of manpower.
It must be a nightmare in places with a greater population.

Don't say that man - Next year is my 20 year wedding anniversary - and we planned a two week vacation to Aussieland!

It's a big place. Plenty of places to pick.

Nope. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article244059902.html

and? Nothing unusual...

I reckon the USA is scarier, you guys have bears. You can't outrun, out climb, out muscle those things.

Bears stay in the mountains. Spiders are jerks (see: https://www.facebook.com/uniladmag/videos/4375225242500501/). Snakes don't give a fuck, and they bite the Uber.

Nope.

They don't, I've got nearly nose to nose with a bear in the yard while taking out the trash.

But I've also had a huntsman in my hallway.

In Dallas?

Bears in upstate NY. Huntsman on Crete, in Aptera.

I'll take a few more bears in NE Ohio if they eat some of these damn deer.

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Stuck in a loop trying to log into Microsoft VLSC. I sign in with my email and it tells me to use another email that is linked. Try using that one and it says it doesn't exist. It TOLD me which email was linked. Oh, and the 'personal' or 'work' logins are ridiculous.....

I know the that pain. UGH. Feel for ya.

@WrCombs said in Huge Mistake:

So let me start this off by saying if I hadn't listened to my boss first thing this morning, this mistake wouldn't have happened. but god forbid he say he was wrong.

Okay: so, Went and picked up a PC from a customer: the plan as it was said to me was

• Pick up PC

*Bring back to office, put 2 new HDD's in and pull over the information after we image it.

*take it back and install it at the site again.

So, what actually happened?

Brought the PC back, boss told me to stop, he has an idea.
Reformat one of the Hard drives we have here, on that PC and then have the FakeRAID we use rebuild the information, then test the PC to run a terminal and verify it works properly.

So I added the other drive to the PC. Little did I know (nor did I check) the Optical drive was set to boot first (which is where I added this Drive to the PC ). It came up as C: and the PC I wanted to load as C: loaded as D:

so when I opened cmd and typed in
format d: and pressed enter, I wiped all of the customer data from the Drives..

it wasnt until I noticed a program we don't use on aloha PC's was when I realized what I had done.

My Tuesday Fuck up in a nutshell. -- Let's all take a moment to give me shit for this colossal screw up.

we already downloaded a Software to Recover lost partitions and I have that running right now .

Sorry man.... I had a huge F'up in my career about 20 years ago. Fess up to it, fix it the best you can, eat crow, learn from it and never do it again. That is all you can do from this moment on.

From my F'up, I learned to "slow down, verify and think before hitting enter or clicking "yes""

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

$600 worth of kaboom

As someone who has spent large sums on fireworks, that is not an insignificant amount of kaboom.

I've done family fireworks shows dropping ~$300 on stuff. Though I do not think I got any shells bigger than 2"

Same here. Spent $300 this weekend and my little show lasted a whopping 15 min with most of the time spent setting up the next "bang"

Will have a much better show next year though as my father-in-law and a couple others want to chip in.

I found I'm bad in a candy store, but I discovered I am worse in a fireworks store.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Obsolesce I don’t know how many times I’ve said people cannot do fucking math

The problem is, emotions get in the way of calculating the math.