"Murderous Speeding Drunken Distracted Driver (Hector Goldstein)"
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> Kwyjibo wrote:
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>>"Murderous Speeding Drunken Distracted Driver (Hector Goldstein)"
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>>> clifto wrote:
>>>>Murderous Speeding Drunken Distracted Driver (Hector Goldstein) wrote:
>>>>> Kwyjibo wrote:
>>>>>>> Yup the lack of cryptic error messages went as soon as I switched
to
>>>>>>> Linux.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Very true. Linux is a lot worse than Windows when it comes to
cryptic
>>>>>>error
>>>>>>messages.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's only the case if you're incompetent.
>>>>
>>>>No, he's right. Windows exists to prevent you from seeing error
>>>>messages,
>>>>no matter what awful thing is happening to your system that might be
>>>>prevented if you saw an error message.
>>>
>>> That must explain we're seeing roughly a 15% failure in the Windows
>>> Management Instrumentation interface in the 2500
>>> Winblows eXtra CraPpy installs my team sup****ts.
>>>
>>
>>Your team can't be doing a very good job if you can't diagnose a WMI
>>problem
>>when you have 375 examples to investigate.
>
> LMAO. My team's primary purpose is software development, and we've got
> higher priorities than dealing Microsoft's 15% failure rate.
Ahh. So it's Microsoft's failure that you can't/won't investigate a
problem.........
> It's in
> the task list, but toward the bottom.
>
>>> Those failures result in NO errors being returned, when there are
>>> problems with the system. Interestingly enough, in researching the
>>> problem to try to fix it, I see a number of solutions posted by
>>> "microsoft guys" (some MVPs, others actual employees), yet in our
>>> cases none of those solutions work.
>>
>>So you and your team are not capable of diagnosing a problem and coming
up
>>with your own solution?
>
> We'll get it, when we have our other priorities taken care of. The
> main piece, which is to reboot the terminals, works without issue;
Apart from totally unneccessary downtime.........
> we
> just provide re****ting with 15% inaccuracy. The business owner is fine
> with that, as he's got much higher things on his wish list, too. His
> main concern was the stability of the terminals, which was cured by
> the rebooting piece.
That's *not* a cure. The fact that you consider it to be a 'cure' is even
more cause for concern over your abilities.
> The re****ting piece is hardly "mission critical,"
> unlike the basic operation of the point of service terminal itself.
>
>>> Freakin' useless, and if the decision would have been mine (I wasn't
>>> on the team at specification time) I would NOT have pushed that
>>> flaming pile of garbage into our sites. One of the tasks I've had to
>>> perform was to write a service to make the terminals reboot
>>> automatically at a given time each day, as they don't seem to be able
>>> to operate for more than 72 hours without breaking.
>>
>>Again - That just shows a lack of investigative and problem solving
>>ability.
>
> No, it shows you don't have a clue as to what my task list is like.
You had time to write a windows service to make the server reboot as a
bandaid to a problem, but don't have time to investigate the cause?
Tw comments on that idiocy:
1. Windows doesn't grind to a halt every 72 hours by itself. Look for
****y
applications (probably the ones you wrote) as the culprit.
2. Anyone with half a brain would not write a 'windows service' to
routinely
reboot a server. Windows comes with a task scheduler and a 'shutdown'
command as standard.
> For that matter, it's evident you don't have a clue, period.
I don't have a clue, but you were willing to waste your employers time and
money writing a windows service that's not required?
>>I'm surprised you would openly admit your incompetence in an open forum
>>such
>>as usenet. If I was that piss-poor at my job I would keep it to myself
and
>>probably be looking for emplyment elsewhere.
>
> Unlike you, I've not made that admission.
You have. A number of times, Mr 'windows service'..........
> By the way, if I'm incompetent, why has my income doubled in the four
> years I've been with this employer?
Not hard to get a pay rise when you are on 5000 per year.
> Why am I about to receive yet
> another promotion which will bring with it another 50% increase in
> pay?
>
>>> Ah well, as long as idiots keep specking Microsoft crap, I'll have a
>>> job.
>>
>>Until someone someone notices your inability to solve fairly basic
>>problems.......
>>
>>> Can't say that with Linux; those boxes are "fire and forget."
>>
>>Just the way you like them, huh? No thinking involved.
>
> My primary job purpose is to develop software,
Which is probably the cause of your servers ****ing themselves every few
days.
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Kwyj.
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