Where's Jimmy?
I think I found Jimmy Hoffa.
No seriously. He's under Documents and Settings.
Allright, so a bit of background. I work for Wells Fargo. My primary duty (asides from wanting to grab our user base over the phone and hang them upside down until all the stupid falls out) is creating images (hard drive snapshots for the non techies) and loading them on to computers both new and old to ship out to our user base (who are so far below techies as to make you wonder "Why the hell are these people given computers?! Can't we just send them rattlesnakes? Those'd be less dangerous in their hands.")
So a good portion of my time is spent loading an old image onto a fresh machine, updating it, changing settings, and saving that image onto our server to push it out to 3 to 12 machines at a go.
And somewhere along the line Jimmy Hoffa found his way into the c:\Documents and Settings folder.
I'm pretty sure I know about when it happened. We had one of the more experienced techies here in my windowless overheated Lab of Doom getting information on how our branch of the business builds our images. I remember distinctly taking him through our image creation process step by step, using an HP Compaq dc5100 sff (these things should really belong in a museum, but our users love 'em...well, their managers do because it costs them next to nothing). I remember him asking me to build a user account on the machine with some random name and, with a mischievous grin on my part, Jimmy Hoffa made his way onto the image (sans cement sneakers).
I have sinced pushed this image, laden with its precious cargo of one long missing teamster, to over 20 machines. And yes, Jimmy's doing fine thank you. In fact he's going onto 2 more machines as a speak, with 15 more in queue after them.
I'm just waiting for the day when I get a phone call from one of our users, franticly short of breath, stating "Jimmy Hoffa is on my computer?!"
To which I'll calmly respond "Good job, you've found him."
No seriously. He's under Documents and Settings.
Allright, so a bit of background. I work for Wells Fargo. My primary duty (asides from wanting to grab our user base over the phone and hang them upside down until all the stupid falls out) is creating images (hard drive snapshots for the non techies) and loading them on to computers both new and old to ship out to our user base (who are so far below techies as to make you wonder "Why the hell are these people given computers?! Can't we just send them rattlesnakes? Those'd be less dangerous in their hands.")
So a good portion of my time is spent loading an old image onto a fresh machine, updating it, changing settings, and saving that image onto our server to push it out to 3 to 12 machines at a go.
And somewhere along the line Jimmy Hoffa found his way into the c:\Documents and Settings folder.
I'm pretty sure I know about when it happened. We had one of the more experienced techies here in my windowless overheated Lab of Doom getting information on how our branch of the business builds our images. I remember distinctly taking him through our image creation process step by step, using an HP Compaq dc5100 sff (these things should really belong in a museum, but our users love 'em...well, their managers do because it costs them next to nothing). I remember him asking me to build a user account on the machine with some random name and, with a mischievous grin on my part, Jimmy Hoffa made his way onto the image (sans cement sneakers).
I have sinced pushed this image, laden with its precious cargo of one long missing teamster, to over 20 machines. And yes, Jimmy's doing fine thank you. In fact he's going onto 2 more machines as a speak, with 15 more in queue after them.
I'm just waiting for the day when I get a phone call from one of our users, franticly short of breath, stating "Jimmy Hoffa is on my computer?!"
To which I'll calmly respond "Good job, you've found him."