What are you listening to II: Electric Bogaloo
- Thread starter CynicismKills
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I will never understand this logic.
I power up/down every session.
I apply every (required) update (but not until after the maximum delay, of course).
I never have issues (that haven’t ultimately been traced to either hardware or driver incompatibility-type stuff).
Am I just lucky?
—Patrick
GasBandit
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If so, that makes two of us.
GasBandit
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I recently had my position reinforced professionally.
I did the programming and commissioning for the new AV system for a power plant control room.
Some of the PCs in that room were over 15 years old. Some were running Windows XP. One, the main control computer for the natural gas generator, ran Windows 98 SE. Part of the commissioning process was trying to get the video for these PCs into HDMI inputs on a video wall processor in a rack in the next room. I recommended they use HDMI-over-Cat6 extenders and not move the PCs, because to move them would require shutting them down.
The Project Manager, the plant shift leader, and everybody's bosses all agreed with me. They put in a ticket with their IT department to get that done.
The IT blowhard showed up, scoffed, and shut down the first computer to move it.
It did not power back on.
Fortunately it was one of the slightly less critical ones.
So yeah. Over the years, my experience has been, whenever something dies irretrievably, it usually happens during a reboot or power-up. Especially hard drives.
I did the programming and commissioning for the new AV system for a power plant control room.
Some of the PCs in that room were over 15 years old. Some were running Windows XP. One, the main control computer for the natural gas generator, ran Windows 98 SE. Part of the commissioning process was trying to get the video for these PCs into HDMI inputs on a video wall processor in a rack in the next room. I recommended they use HDMI-over-Cat6 extenders and not move the PCs, because to move them would require shutting them down.
The Project Manager, the plant shift leader, and everybody's bosses all agreed with me. They put in a ticket with their IT department to get that done.
The IT blowhard showed up, scoffed, and shut down the first computer to move it.
It did not power back on.
Fortunately it was one of the slightly less critical ones.
So yeah. Over the years, my experience has been, whenever something dies irretrievably, it usually happens during a reboot or power-up. Especially hard drives.
I've recently realized that the best songs for that nostalgia aren't the classics from one's youth, but the songs that were popular and then promptly were forgotten about. Good times looking through the old billboard charts from high school/college and finding songs I haven't thought about in years.
Going to see Alan Doyle tonight!
I am incredibly jealous.
Great show! Hope you get to see him. I never got to see Great Big Sea, so this was a long time coming.
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I've seen him live, as well as GBS back in the day. That's part of why I'm jealous. Last time he was touring in my region it was high-Covid season, so the show got moved to a date I couldn't attend.
Glad you had a great time!