My dad the engineer used to say that equipment passing a test isn't a success.

[madbaker]

Failure is what counts, because you learn the tolerances.

On that basis, today's disaster recovery test is very successful.

I'm working from home on the company-issued laptop. However, several of the critical applications aren't functioning. I'm not going to yell at the I/T guys, because 1) it's not really their fault; 2) never make people with administrator access mad at you.

I can't do a whole lot, work-wise. So I'm reading research (and this).
But the extra 45 minutes of sleep, and not driving in, were both very nice.

What I'm reading: Kevin Anderson, Scattered Suns

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[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

ON the company-issued laptop....

Reboot, and press the F8 key during the reboot process.

Select the 'Command-line' option. This will put you in a text-typing mode used by the I/T guys.

At the C:\ Prompt, type "FORMAT C:", and just keep answering "Yes" at all the subsequent prompts.

Mat is 'Mat Nguyen', they guy in charge of all disaster-recovery services in the greater Bay Area, and 'C' means "Check".

So, you're basically sending a message for Mat ("FORMAT"), telling him to check ("C:") your critical applications.

Yup. That's it. That'll get you LOADS of help from the I/T guys when you get back to the office.

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

Suggestion to madbaker -- just in case you don't realize it, this was a joke. Don't do it. <g>

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

Duh.

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

Just checking. I never know how much of DOS anyone knows anymore ...