-=> Quoting Jeff Green to John Tserkezis <=-

Hello Jeff,

 JG> No. I lost all data on three of my five HD's.
 JG> No crash. Just a screwed up program that destroyed the partition
 JG> tables. My attempts to fix them failed :-( Oh well! I had nothing to
 JG> lose by trying to fix them. 

 Ouch.  I did that once.  After a brief brown out, the machine rebooted, but
the drive contoller didn't reset properly, as such, one of the drives behaved
like it had failed.
 Of course I had found this out AFTER performing vrepair several times in an
attempt to salvage what was left over.  Resulted in losing everything, (well
so much that it wasn't worth saving the scrappy bits of data left over).
 Then I powered the bugger down and up again, and found the drive worked
properly after that.  I was not a happy chappy.

 JG> That depends on who you tell where I work. I have found that with one
 JG> of the sales mangers, the secret word is 'reality'. He really hates
 JG> that word as it destroys all his delusions of how the world runs :-) 
 JG> My boss frowns upon the use of that word when this dickhead is around.
 JG> Needless to say I use it continuously when this dickhead is around :-) 

 That sounds like rod speed and "boy".  He was annoying someone,
and once he
found out they took offence to "boy", he did it some more. :-)

 JG>> My boss has just gone on holidays and he made me promise not
 JG>> to bait the sales people
 
 JG> I've failed miserably. I even phoned one on his mobile at home (he was
 JG> on holidays) and the blew the shit out of him. With good reason. 

 Grrr.  They used to do that to us too.  Cause a massive fuckup, and then piss
off on holidays letting everyone else fix their stuffups.  Geez that gave me
the shits.

 JG> "We ordered cable (value $6700) and had it direct supplied to our
 JG> customer as per ........ instructions. This was authorised by ,,,,,,,,
 JG> (......'s boss, the reality man above). They failed to invoice the
 JG> customer for said goods." 

 JG> A good functioning sales department that is!!! Fuckwits! We're
 JG> surrounded by them. 

 Did I tell you about the time that one of our sales people recommended a
client upgrade to windows, while knowing that they had diskless workstations,
(well, harddrive less workstations anyway).

 Since Newcastle was a long way to come back and tell them they were fuckwits,
we decided to actually try it out.  After working out each of the 12 odd users
needed at least a 10meg swap file (that had to live on the file server), it
occured to us that 120meg (minimum) of swapfile, and the network traffic was
NOT an option the customer would be willing to take.  This was in the days of
300-500meg file servers, and 10Mbit networks, so was not an option that could
be considered.
 I tried calling this dickhead and explain that what he sold was not a viable
solution, he suggested I call the tech group (where I was located ROFL) and ask
them how to do it.  I don't think he realised that I was actually just trying
to tell him he was a dickhead.

 JG> Do I sound a little tense and frustrated to you?

 I've been told that a root can solve that, but I didn't like the idea of
a slap in the face.

John Tserkezis,  NSW BBS Registry Coordinator. Sydney, Australia.
FidoNet: 3:712/610   BBS: +61-2-9716-8310   Internet: jt{at}nospam.iform.com.au

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