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My NAS/hard drive/My Cloud
It SHOULD just be as simple as a folder on my desktop I can drag photos and stuff too and then open up anywhere in the world, shouldn't it?
Nope.
Needs a different password for each device
Needs logging in via software not the internet browser, so lastpass hasn't remembered the passwords
I'm trying to create a folder on it so the OH can use it too, but that's not as simple as right clicking apparently, and I can't find the manual.
Seriously, WD, people buy this stuff because they don't want to bother with knowing what NAS stands for, or how to set up a raspberyPI running linux connected to a hard drive. I just wanted something simple!
And now the hateful thing has got stuck in a loop where it won't update the software so is about as much use as a large, white, oversize expensive paperweight. Which is ironic, because one thing I wanted was to scan all our paperwork onto it!
Submitting a tripadvisor review
Submitting my expenses claim.
Two weeks late! Owed thousands. Grrrr.
Strippers ain't cheap cap'n
Booking a flight online. I miss being able to phone real people who could just sort it for you quickly. Instead it takes hours of farting around to work out what is going on
Booking a flight online. I miss being able to phone real people who could just sort it for you quickly. Instead it takes hours of farting around to work out what is going on
Careful now...Or I might just go full
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Today was also spent wrangling flight bookings to Chicago. After hours of effort on my part, the company booking system was forced to accept that I was able to get a far, far better price and schedule by doing it myself.
winding ptfe tape onto threads with the correct rotation at the first attempt
Talking to a bank.
+1 NAS drives. PITA
I'm pretty sure the new system at my last job was designed to put people off actually claiming for anything.Submitting my expenses claim.
"Press Ctrl + enter + d to print off your form in triplicate and then scan an submit the pink copy to the pope for his blessing, if you do not have a colour printer then please contact your IT Yogi and submit blue form 325b along with £3.23 P&P and a Ravi Shankar CD ..........................
I'm pretty sure the new system at my last job was designed to put people off actually claiming for anything.
"Press Ctrl + enter + d to print off your form in triplicate and then scan an submit the pink copy to the pope for his blessing, if you do not have a colour printer then please contact your IT Yogi and submit blue form 325b along with £3.23 P&P and a Ravi Shankar CD ..........................
Properly laughing at that! Thank you!
Getting out of bed.......
Windows with an MS Account set up, folder on desktop called OneDrive, drag files in there.
Job done. Just log in with any browser anywhere in world, or log into another Windows device with same account.
NAS used as backup (turn on File History in Win 10, point it to NAS. Job done).
😉
Leffeboy, spent weeks pissing about trying to sort a family holiday, Mrs S goes to travel agent, "what about one of these three, they're all good", " Yeah, that one". Sorted.
Printers. I can open my
Laptop, press power and be online in less than a minute, but in printer land it's still 1980.
I've now reached a point where I can see 3 different lists of files on the drive depending which device I access it from. The combination which doesn't work is I can't see the OH's folder from anywhere other than chrome on my laptop!
Except when I do it through the windows file explorer, it now asks for a password.
I've never set a flipin password for it through windows and last time it did this I ha to re-set the bloody thing. What is the point of nice secure password protected drive, if the only way I can get into the bloody thing is to be there in person to press the reset button for 4 seconds to remove the password from the drive itself.
Losing weight.
Just stop eating crap, how hard can it be 😕
My job.
Wrapping something in cling film
Getting paid on time.
Client makes contact says we need a job doing in a hurry, I say I'm busy but if i work the weekend and a couple of evenings I could probably fit it in. A week or so later they get what they need and I submit an invoice. That should be it, as far as I'm concerned 1 month later I expect the money to be in my bank account. That's only happened twice in nearly ten years, it's such a shock when it does happen I feel like sending a thank-you card and a box of doughnuts.
singletrackmind - Memberwinding ptfe tape onto threads with the correct rotation at the first attempt
After many years of compressed air installations I could do it in my sleep, my old boss even called me the "PTFE King" as I got it down to a fine art & speed.
Assuming your right handed, pipe on your left with threaded section at the right end of it, PTFE Tape roll on either your index or fore finger with the tape dropping off the front side of the roll, allow the tape to drop onto the top part of the thread & gently press that onto the final few threads with your left thumb, keeping a light tension with your right thumb on the tape drum roll the tape around the pipe until it grips into the threads then wind round till you reach the front then wind to the back again, at the last turn increase the right thumb pressure till the tape snaps.
Smooth over with your hand and make sure there are no stray bits of PTFE in the flow area of the pipe.
This should take about 3 seconds to complete on a 2" NB pipe.
If you have read all that you are as sad as me!
Non-straggly application of PFTE type is extremely satisfying.
Life
Bedmaker- I feel your pain.
The trouble is that crap food tastes sooooo good.
And I have a total lack of will power.
I have no problem with my NAS, its easy peasy.
Opening a tomato ketchup packet with my fingers sometimes defeats me through 😆
Getting a parcel redirected to a local pick up shop.... How?!? Website says I can do it, the we missed you email says I can do it.... Argh.
To be fair, the DPD driver came back round past at 6.45 pm to see if I was in, what a star. Thank you Neil (at least, that's what the website said your name was). Well impressed.
Based on the last 3 attempts, getting Speedy hire to actually deliver/have ready for collection the one specific specialised bit of kit you absolutely need for the job.
After hours of effort on my part, the company booking system was forced to accept that I was able to get a far, far better [s]price[/s] seat and [s]schedule [/s] drinks menu by doing it myself.
Printers. I can open my
Laptop, press power and be online in less than a minute, but in printer land it's still 1980.
Last week I managed to get a printer up and running with software only in Japanese. I'm sure had I had the software in a language I could read I'd still be there now.
Avdave, there is a modicum of truth in what you say.....
(I mean, really, does anyone deserve to fly United? No. They don't. Not even in their laughably poor business/first seats.)
Opening anything with a tab. Ham, bacon, new sauce bottles.
The tab will snap off requiring the packaging to be attacked with a knife.
If they omit the tab in the 1st place, it will lead to less frustration & save thousands in plastic.
talking to the opposite sex
Getting Thomson seat post on my Fatbike to stop squeaking. F-ing thing.
Losing weight as easily as I've done to my Voodoo Wazoo this summer, would love to get back to ~75Kg, like I was 3 years ago (instead of feeling sluggish at ~86Kg).
Getting paid all the overtime payments I'm due having claimed correctly, rather than frequently being underpaid and needing adjustment in the next wage packet.
Feeling full of energy after breakfast and some coffee, wanting to go out and do things on my days off work, rather than rarely going out if I don't have a proper purpose (health has not helped this spring/summer).
Not getting injured
Walking out of front door into a communal area 🙂
im working in africa right now - so just getting 3 square meals is a challenge.
iTunes. I hate iTunes.
Re-sealing a so-called re-sealable pack. Why oh why do they use a cellophane material that rips from top to bottom, spilling the pasta/rice/couscous all over the floor when you actually manage to break it open. and NAS drives-I manage to use it but heaven knows how I got to that point-more luck than judgement.
PTFE tape tips useful, secretly its used by many on stratocaster tremolo arm threads (whammy bar for you waynes world fans) so they don't flap around all over the place
Booking a weekend in London with a group of supposed adults (mate's stag do).
The youngest is in his twenties & the oldest is somewhere in his 40's.
But.....send an e-mail asking for ideas & get a volley of replies within minutes, send a request for money to pay in advance for said ideas & everyone goes into stealth silent lock-down mode. Completely unreachable & unable to access e-mail/text/whatsapp via the normal methods.
Requests for my bank details about 50 times.
Oh, I don't like x, can we do y instead?
Is that a halal, peanut free, gluten free, protein rich pub? Does the hotel have Egyptian cotton, or hessian sheets?
Are you arranging travel for us all from all over the country?
GAAAAAAHHHH!! There have been multiple occasions when I have had my mouse pointer hovering over the send button of a strongly worded MTFU e-mail to the all & then changed my mind. I don't wanna come across as a grumpy git..... 🙂
A dustpan and brush that don't always fall out of the under-sink kitchen cupboard when the door is opened.
Wrapping something in cling film
I just did a cookery course and a top tip they gave me was to fold the cling film in half as you take it off the roll which makes it much easier to work with.
Opening a carton of milk - or anything else for that matter - with your bare hands
Why does the packet explode or tear down the side or absolutely refuse to open without scissors and even then it's been sealed on the piss so the opening is useless
Why why whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Taking Weetabix out of a box without a million Weetabix crumbs spontaneously scattering across a 5 metre radius.
Buying a light bulb.
Used to be 4 options, 60w or 100w, clear or pearl. Oh no not any longer.
Take me back to the old ways.. Like the Daily Express wants.
I was going to say seagate NAS, but thanks to the file history tip I've saved a good half day of grumping.
Golf - my swing has gone awol
(choosing a leader obviously 😉 )
Walking past doorhandles without smashing hip on them
Choosing a sandwich at lunchtime. Choice used to be ham, cheese or ham and cheese, perhaps prawn mayo if you were fancy.
Now M&S present you with row upon row of choice, I literally waste five minutes a day working out what to choose.
Now M&S present you with row upon row of choice, I literally waste five minutes a day working out what to choose.
Especially if you're trying to find one without b****y mayo...
Expecting relevant rational debate on a STW thread.
We're on the second page and shocked this has not become more acrimonious.
Hooking a laptop up to a projector or TV. In the 21st Century, why does this not just work?
Choosing a sandwich at lunchtime.
This was introduced I believe as a replacement for the hours spent in a video rental shop trying to decide which film to watch.
Now M&S present you with row upon row of choice, I literally waste five minutes a day working out what to choose.
Before choosing the same thing as yesterday, and the day before, and the day before, and the day before......
Self service tills. It's in the ****in bagging area .... Arrrgghhhhhh
[i]Opening a carton of milk - or anything else for that matter - with your bare hands[/i]
Yes! Those plastic packaged food things - espoecailly from Lidl. Always a little tab on one corner, so you can grab and simply... peel ... away.. the ... bastard... plast.. grr.. grab it.. peel... argh, where's the bloody scissors!
Typing the word especially
Spelling the work [s]maintanence[/s] maintenance
Finding the end of a roll of sellotape
Getting sticky price labels off books without leaving a mess
staying signed into an Internet forum when you've paid for a subscription purely so that you won't see the adverts.
Getting any kind of bike component that you need and is preventing you riding without it, any time within the next week.
DVDs, books, gadgets, from Amazon... no problem. Next day, even same day now!
Bike parts take forever, even when they ship "next day" (order confirmed next day, ships the day after, then goes into some time warp and turns up next week or if lucky the day before or the day you need it and then have little time to fettle).
LBS, "oh yeah, don't have it but we can order in"... a week later.
Then "it's out of stock". Try somewhere else that says it's in stock. Out of stock. Try somewhere else. Same. Turns out everyone just uses the one distributor and they are out of stock but the stock system is telling them it's in stock. Had that a number of times.
I need an Amazon for bike stuff (they do some bike stuff, but rarely are they 'Prime').
Most IT network things.
Bringing up children.
Stopping saucepans from boiling over.
In some form of karma, my job for today was to destroy 400 hard drives.
Wore out or snapped about 30 drill bits in the process! Seriously, what are some of those cases made from?
Half were cast aluminium and no problem apart from the platters spinning, binding on the bit and snapping it once in a while, but some cases were so hard they didn't just blunt the bits, they melted them, and set fire to the wood underneath!
Almost anything involving Perforce.
Operating a photocopier.
And getting my work laptop to talk to either my home or work printers.
Changing a bike seat on a Reverb (or pretty much any seatpost in my experience)
Replacing a toilet seat.
Car breakdowns. Call recovery they tell you it's an hour it WILL be 3. Everything about it is a ball ache from the time wasted to sorting out recovery to a garage and sorting out a hire car.