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2 months, seriously? Ignore Yale's process, go to the computer store that night get a new hard drive and swap it out. 500GB laptop hard drives cost approximate
by jwcacces 16y ago
2 months, seriously?
Ignore Yale's process, go to the computer store that night get a new hard drive and swap it out. 500GB laptop hard drives cost approximately $60. What was the cost of not having your computer for 2 months?
Also, here's another case of don't outsource your bread and butter. You have no control over what Mosy does with your data, and you're relying on trust alone that it will be there when you need it. Why would you think that a company you aren't paying will treat you as well as you'd treat yourself?
If you want someone to be mad at, be mad at yourself for being a dumb consumer.
- barrkel 16y agoI have no idea what it's like at Yale, but I have known people in colleges in Ireland who are not allowed to do any maintenance on their own machines for IT union reasons.
- makmanalp 16y agoWhat sort of union is this?
- barrkel 16y agoA workers union to which the IT department workers belonged, but the lecturers didn't. I don't know the particulars.
- jwcacces 16y agoYeah, we have that too, they call it stealing work. But it has to do with unions and exclusivity deals they work out with companies. I worked for a company that only union members from facilities were allowed to rearrange your office. So moving a file cabinet was impossible. You couldn't do it without stealing work, and there was no way your department would pay to have something like that done for you. The same went for changing the height of your height adjustable desk, getting a whiteboard screwed on the wall (instead of leaning against the wall while sitting on the desk) or even moving your computer from one side of the desk to the other. Sometimes you just had to do it anyway and hope the union guy who empties your trash doesn't notice.