When I installed Manjaro on my desktop, I got a new ssd and hard drive so I wouldn’t have to risk wiping the original windows SSD I’ve had for 8 years. I thought I’d install Manjaro and once I’m up and running, I’ll read in the data now that I have larger drives. Well, I faced a simple reminder that Windows isn’t gonna let me leave without a fight and will attempt to hold my data hostage. Drama aside, we can’t have that.
When you’re travelling a lot, hotel Wi-fi can easily become the bane of one’s existence. You leave to do some work for the day and come back, turn on the TV and the wifi is fighting you because it probably has trouble remembering your connection after agreeing to the terms and conditions on their captive portal.
I constantly have to fight with forgetting the connection, reneweing my DHCP lease and I’ve even resorted to chanting incantations for wifi. It’s almost like the Wifi is getting the same design choices as some hotel bathrooms nowadays.
I’ve been using Windows for over 15 years and even worked in IT maintaining PC’s during college. This is why I use MacOS and Ubuntu. Jokes aside, Windows has come a long way in getting stuff done with the terminal. PowerShell and WSL makes for a great one-two punch in productivity. I loved it when chocolatey came out and used it immediately on my PC. Although it’s made great progress, there are still times where it reminds me that it’s Windows.
I’m currently setting up reporting using VantagePoint. It was supposed to be a smooth process but computers always seem to find new ways to prevent that.
I had called the support line to notify them that Modelbuilder, a tool used for modeling reports was not working properly.
After they digged into it further with their own virtual machines, I had found an “anomaly” as Rockwell calls it. You can’t fool me, guys. A bug is a bug.
Earlier at site this week, we found that it is faster to put files in a USB stick and DRIVE over to the computer where we need the files.
The network connection is reliable but transferring files over the network can take time, especially if we are transferring it from Virtual Machines to the local PCs.
I have a kit of 7 flash drives and some USB C adapters for any newer devices. I have over 512GB’s of pure firepower stored in an bag with USB 3.2,3.1, and 2.0 drives.