Once. Twice. Three times a Cunt!
The situation: I need to configure a mail server for a client. The client last year, by Miss Managed's lead, spent thousands of dollars upgrading a piece of shit, out of warranty server to use as their new Exchange server. One of my first projects here. Since then, countless amounts of time and money have gone into the issues surrounding this server.
NOW, finally they are ordering a brand new server. Which Miss Managed needed me to configure a quote for today in between faxing proposals to her uselessly. Her one stipulation was that we somehow use the hard drives we ordered separate for the old server in the new one. (One might remember a while back, she ordered a duplicate set of these same hard drives, because her ego would not allow her to deal with a problem my way... my way turned out to be right and she dumped the drives on me telling me I had to do the return merchandise order for them.)
I start to config the server on Dell's site, and there is a speed bump. Because the system needs to be RAID, I cannot order it without hard drives. And, depending on the RAID setup, I cannot order it with only ONE hard drive. Now there is "software RAID" and "hardware RAID". The whole RAID thing confuses me beyond the simple idea that it's a mirroring of drives and it can either be done through Windows or through a physical piece of hardware plugged inside the system.
So, I emailed Miss Managed (and the Boss since she once AGAIN CC'ed him on an email) and asked the simple question, if we ordered the system without a RAID setup at all, could we then utilize the software RAID in Windows, or do we really want to have the hardware RAID and if so is it alright to config the quote with new hard drives.
I basically just needed to be nudged in the right direction.
Miss Managed, who ignored other emails of mine this morning and gave me no "thanks" for faxing that fucking proposal, responds back almost immediately with our Dell reps email address and says to just ask him for help. Oddly, she does NOT CC the Boss on this email. A few minutes later, the Boss as cool as always sends back a clear cut, succinct response saying that we should just order it with the hardware RAID and a set of drives but make sure it has the capacity within the RAID to handle the two other drives.
Was that so hard you cock-juggling thundercunt?!??!?!?!!?!?!?! If you don't have something intelligent to reply with. Which is NEVER. Then please, for the sake of your life, please just don't say anything. You're fucking useless. I hope you have a nice Mother's Day bitch... oh wait.... your mom died years ago. Too bad.... but then again, lucky for her.
NOW, finally they are ordering a brand new server. Which Miss Managed needed me to configure a quote for today in between faxing proposals to her uselessly. Her one stipulation was that we somehow use the hard drives we ordered separate for the old server in the new one. (One might remember a while back, she ordered a duplicate set of these same hard drives, because her ego would not allow her to deal with a problem my way... my way turned out to be right and she dumped the drives on me telling me I had to do the return merchandise order for them.)
I start to config the server on Dell's site, and there is a speed bump. Because the system needs to be RAID, I cannot order it without hard drives. And, depending on the RAID setup, I cannot order it with only ONE hard drive. Now there is "software RAID" and "hardware RAID". The whole RAID thing confuses me beyond the simple idea that it's a mirroring of drives and it can either be done through Windows or through a physical piece of hardware plugged inside the system.
So, I emailed Miss Managed (and the Boss since she once AGAIN CC'ed him on an email) and asked the simple question, if we ordered the system without a RAID setup at all, could we then utilize the software RAID in Windows, or do we really want to have the hardware RAID and if so is it alright to config the quote with new hard drives.
I basically just needed to be nudged in the right direction.
Miss Managed, who ignored other emails of mine this morning and gave me no "thanks" for faxing that fucking proposal, responds back almost immediately with our Dell reps email address and says to just ask him for help. Oddly, she does NOT CC the Boss on this email. A few minutes later, the Boss as cool as always sends back a clear cut, succinct response saying that we should just order it with the hardware RAID and a set of drives but make sure it has the capacity within the RAID to handle the two other drives.
Was that so hard you cock-juggling thundercunt?!??!?!?!!?!?!?! If you don't have something intelligent to reply with. Which is NEVER. Then please, for the sake of your life, please just don't say anything. You're fucking useless. I hope you have a nice Mother's Day bitch... oh wait.... your mom died years ago. Too bad.... but then again, lucky for her.