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Thu 2005-04-07 09:31

This morning we have a network outage at work, and none of the computers in this room can talk to the network.

Except, for some undoubtedly bizarre reason, mine, which is perfectly all right.

I fear I'm not going to get to stay sitting at it for very long; one colleague has already tried to kick me off so he could check an ‘urgent’ email, and I strongly suspect others will be doing similar sorts of things soon enough.

(Mind you, this kind of makes up for yesterday. Yesterday we had a three-second power cut and all the machines rebooted; everyone else's was fine after it came back up, but mine stopped talking to its trackball for several hours. Karma is very quick these days.)

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[identity profile] ewx.livejournal.comThu 2005-04-07 08:36
Next time lie about why yours is still working? l-)
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[identity profile] ewx.livejournal.comThu 2005-04-07 08:36
I mean whether, not why.
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[personal profile] simontThu 2005-04-07 08:39
Nice thought, but their next question would have been "so what's all the typing about if you don't have a network either?"...
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[identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.comThu 2005-04-07 09:34
You could lie to that too.

"I'm composing emails for when I can send them"
"I'm catching up on some off-line work I'd got behind on"
"Since I can't work, I'm writing a novel"
"No, that clicking noise is my geiger counter, not my computer"
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[identity profile] satanicsocks.livejournal.comThu 2005-04-07 10:02
I want to keep a geiger counter next to my desk now. Mwhahahaha.
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[identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.comThu 2005-04-07 10:14
Conversation from physics lesson:

G: *clicks very slowly*
P: BTW, when should we be worried?
T: Well, if the first three digits were whirring faster than you can see, Icertainly start thinking of leaving the room.
P: What's the next sample?
T: *holds metal to geigercounter*
G: *first three digits were whirring faster than you can see*
T: What's wrong?
P: Uh, um, I know that *can't* be dangerous or you wouldn't be holding it, but, uh, you did say that, uh,...
T: Doh! It's only scary if everywhere in the room's like that.
T: *moves metal 1/2 cm away*
G: *stops*
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[identity profile] ewx.livejournal.comThu 2005-04-07 09:37
Can't you work without a network? (Certainly there are plenty of work things I can't do without a network but I can usually find something productive to do without.)
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[identity profile] hsenag.livejournal.comThu 2005-04-07 09:43
The only way to get stuff automatically backed up is to store it on the network. So many people probably wouldn't have access to anything useful to work with.
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[identity profile] satanicsocks.livejournal.comThu 2005-04-07 10:01
Hmm, I hate it when everything you can possibly do is on the network. It's like that for me too (home directories are on NFS) and the couple of times we've lost networking in the computer room have been pretty hellish. Actually, I can't think of a job for years that hasn't involved using the network for everything.. yay modern technology, etc.

Random small-world syndrome thing -- do you know Caroline Berry (wol)?
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[identity profile] hsenag.livejournal.comThu 2005-04-07 16:54
I could in principle use my local disk and make sure to back stuff up/check it in to the network. That'd also have the advantage of making builds significantly faster - but in practice I haven't found it worth the effort yet. If they start making a habit of breaking things I might, though.

And yes, I do know wol :-)
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[identity profile] satanicsocks.livejournal.comThu 2005-04-07 18:48
Cool, I went to school with her. I vaguely remember meeting you at an open day? Long time ago :)

Small world syndrome strikes again.
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[identity profile] ewx.livejournal.comThu 2005-04-07 11:55
That would make a difference, yes. I commit often enough that even if my desktop blew up I'd only lose hours of work at most, usually much less than that.
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[identity profile] hsenag.livejournal.comThu 2005-04-07 08:36
Maybe I won't come into work for a bit then...
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