(If you have to explain what a tracert is to the developer, what do you expect him to help you with??? Clearly not a network engineer...)
Ten percent of nothing is -- let me do the math here -- nothing into nothing, carry the --
Jayne ,'Serenity'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Dec 05, 2012 1:25:07 pm PST #3303 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Burrell - Dec 05, 2012 1:33:37 pm PST #3304 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Ugh Suela, I'm glad to hear that you took a walk and got a break, but I'm sorry it's been such a craptastic day.
Consuela - Dec 05, 2012 1:37:38 pm PST #3305 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I'm sorry it's been such a craptastic day
Really, it's been the whole of the last two weeks, and the rest of the year wasn't great either.
Very difficult not to just walk out right now, I have to say...
Atropa - Dec 05, 2012 1:38:32 pm PST #3306 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I'm trying to figure out why "data are" is so grating to me. It shouldn't be!
Let's be active, not passive! Organise the data! Datas! Datae! Datum. It's very flexible. Jilli--please interrupt the presentation, stat.
Ha. No. One of the presenters is terrifyingly blonde and perky. I am lurking safely in the back of the room, and now away from whomever had hosed themselves down with a horrible floral scent.
Suela, I really hope things get better for you soon.
le nubian - Dec 05, 2012 1:41:15 pm PST #3307 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
'Suela,
can you leave work early? I think maybe it isn't the best place for you today.
Dana - Dec 05, 2012 1:42:23 pm PST #3308 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Poor Suela. Sorry things are the perfect storm of crap right now.
Scrappy - Dec 05, 2012 1:48:34 pm PST #3309 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Suela, so sorry. I'm glad you're making sure to find moments to take care of yourself.
Consuela - Dec 05, 2012 2:20:35 pm PST #3310 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
And my folks just got in the car to drive back to the old place. Either they get there and discover they don't have a key (in which case my mother melts down) or they get in and discover that it's mostly emptied and kind of a mess, with random piles of stuff everywhere (in which case my mother melts down). And then they call me and I end up hanging up on her.
Oddly enough, they do seem to be getting marginally better, but I'm less and less able to deal. And my sister is at a conference for 3 days in Monterey.
ARGH.
§ ita § - Dec 05, 2012 2:21:46 pm PST #3311 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Walking out straight into a daiquiri. Or libation of choice...
Sometimes it's really hard communicating with my team. Table tags, the difference between ping and tracert, just...things I thought were our commonish language, you know? And when it's the business saying "Hey, I ran a tracert and it looks kind of dodgy once it hits the data centre..." I'm cringing listening to them not understand the call or my manager trying to make sure a cascade of half-rights didn't start up (She knew it wasn't really a network problem, but the language to say the tracert was misleading? NSM).
And I just looked over my shoulder to see the anti-virus software pop up with a hit on one of the developers' machines--he's just sailing through his emails and clicking on stuff not one week after a virus took down our entire shared storage. At least it caught it--if not, he'd have been the third dev in our group to get his machine infected, totally aside from the network.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 05, 2012 2:26:22 pm PST #3312 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
The org charts in Smart Art are for an org chart with like 20 people. If you have twenty people, why do you need a chart?
Alas, for me the answer is "because clients keep asking for them with each new proposal even if we've worked for them before, and things change just enough to require a new one each time instead of using what I made 6 months ago."