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I should take pictures of my new job and submit. It's not all I.T. wiring, but equally harrowing in places.
This is one reason I'm a tiny bit bummed I've been promoted from Crew Lead to Associate Designer for Halloween this year -- my crew's cable runs looked better than everybody else's. The higher-ups even said as much.
Of course, we burned through probably three times the zip ties of any other team in order to make that happen....
Except that I used to have a 640Gb hard drive partitioned into two equal size drives of ~320Gb... and now I only seem to see one ~320Gb (which shows 288Gb in Windows Explorer, but IIRC that's normal)
Was there data on the second partition? If not, you should take a look in
Control Panel >> Administrative Tools >> Computer Management >> Disc management
And see if there's a partition that's not active.
If there
was
data on the second partition, then go straight back to MicroCenter.
Thanks, Jon! I tried and it's stubbornly telling me that it only has 320. So there'll be a trip back to the store in just a little while longer....
My antivirus detected a thing it called a POSSIBLE_HFIRM(or something like that) but it couldn't remove it(I've got the company working on it, too,ftr)
Computer seems fine...but I've just been through Virus Hell...how much should I be concerned about this?
Of course, we burned through probably three times the zip ties of any other team in order to make that happen....
zip ties are cheap, awesome cable runs are priceless. Seems like a good deal to me. Especially where safety is involved.
I'll be buying extra zip ties this year.
We caught a bit of flak for going through so many zip ties. Of course, part of the problem was that we lost a bag for a few days, which caused Drew to have to make an emergency zip tie run that turned out to be unnecessary....
Rockbox; it turned my new Sansa e260 mp3 player from a pretty good value unit, into a goddamn-fricken-fracken-fantastic value unit. The only reason I've avoided buying anything like that is not the money but the lack of support for FLAC and other decent lossless formats but it turns out the only impediment was software and Rockbox fixes that. I can now play FLAC, APE, SHN, or a host of other lossless formats. I can now also play some simple games on the thing. :)
Works on certain types of iPods, as well as a host of other brand portable music players.
Using duct tape to stick telephone lines out of the way shouldn't cause any problems, right?
Well, to your paint, maybe. It shouldn't cause a problem with your line. Tack-in cable stays would be better, and pretty cheap.