A pleasant change
Today one of my users came to me saying the hard drive on his development system had serious problems. I go into the usual spiel as we walk down the hall, warning that even if we do get it working, we need to focus on getting his files off before it fails completely. Unfortunately, it made a horrible clacking noise on boot, and failed to even start the manufacturer's diagnostic mode. This is an ex-storage device. Unpleasant, but system is new enough to be under warranty and we have a good one, should have a new drive in a couple of days.
I asked him about his files... things didn't look good, how important was it to try how hard to recover what was on the drive? No worries, everything important was checked into Subversion. OK, what about IP (intellectual property) concerns, did we need to shred the drive since we couldn't wipe it? No worries, everything he was working on was open source.
It's probably a bad sign that things "merely" working as they should lifts my day this much, but I'm still smiling.
I asked him about his files... things didn't look good, how important was it to try how hard to recover what was on the drive? No worries, everything important was checked into Subversion. OK, what about IP (intellectual property) concerns, did we need to shred the drive since we couldn't wipe it? No worries, everything he was working on was open source.
It's probably a bad sign that things "merely" working as they should lifts my day this much, but I'm still smiling.