Your not alone, I have always heard silimiar noises and I'd bet that many others can to.
I believe the thing they all have in common is switched mode power supplies and it's something to do with the coils vibrating with the power frequency or some harmonics of it. I've also heard you can put a drop of hot glue on them to prevent it but I have always been more lazy than iritated to try it out.
"install one little app and if you have problems your on your own"
This is a pet hate of mine. Yes, it's one little app or card, but theres also 199 other little apps or cards that the other 199 users want supported. They are also all totally different and all absolute shit with drivers that keep crashing cause you bought it for next to nothing. All the while I've got my REAL job to do - you know - the one I'm paid for. I don't ask the sales guys to sell stuff on ebay for me, or accounts to balance my check book, why is it always ok to dump shit on IT?
Oh, and regardless of my little rant, I think I'm a good sysadmin, I honestly try to do the best I can for my colleagues given the finite money and time I have.
Funny, my little desk calendar had the quote "a man willing to steel for me, is a man willing to steel from me". If your Boss is fine with stealing from software companies, what makes you so sure he wouldn't have a problem stealing from you? Nevermind FAST or the legalities of it all, your train of thought should be ruling it out on grounds of job security before thinking about anyone else.
Saying the "editorial system crashed" is the modern day equivalent of "my dog ate my homework". To all the PHBs out there, when you read a phrase like that I want you to replace it with "I am too incompetent to do my job!". I'm tired of hearing people talk about computer systems as if they are some wild, uncontrollable magic when anyone who have worked in I.T for long enough knows that exactly the opposite is true -- the only difference is knowledge of how the system works.
Recently I've seen the words "backup" and "RAID" in the same sentence far too often.
Raid IMHO should only ever be seen as a convenience -- it means, for example, you don't need to drive out to your server at 3am and it lets you warn users of the possibility of downtime.
As many before me have said, RAID does not protect against user error or filesystem corruption but also it does not protect against floods, fire, walls falling in, power surges, theft, etc, etc. Off-site backups, it's the only solution!
Generally when I am called to solve a problem, my first stance is to trust nothing and no one, they may not be intentionally lying but they, along with the hardware, cannot be trusted to be giving accurate reports.
There are many reasons for this, a lot of the time it's a case of, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing - they are making assumptions and you should not be mirroring, that can seem confrontational.
Other times they believe their job might be at risk, I wouldn't want to tell my boss that I'd corrupted the payroll, a little white lie to save your ass seems harmless but now that poor PFY is sweating because he's unable to meet his call quota.
When you've been burnt enough times, you tend to check everything twice inspite of other evidence.
Even after this, there is not excuse for poor manors.
I was going to reply to your post but decided not to as you would have expected that but that's when I got clever and decided to post anyway, ha! Didn't expect that did you? huh? you..? oh, right... STAY OUT OF MY THOUGHTS!
Exams in faraday cages, and don't give me that crap about exam pressure, you either know it or you don't. If I asked you what your cell phone number was you wouldn't break into a cold sweat and complain that I'm putting you under too much pressure. Similarly, when asked a question by your boss, he's not going to accept a multi-page diatribe where you carpet-bomb the issue in the hope of saying the correct answer.
What about the other tapes in the cycle? Did you not test it before? What about data recovery on the hard disks?
Thats a lot of unfortunate co-incidents and a lot of questions. It sounds more like the reality is that none of these ever existed and someone got caught-out.
Wouldn't it be great if someone made a website where we could upload videos and watch them using a browser and flash plugin, maybe they would call it YouTube.
The video I linked above is a good demonstration of how Bruce Lee generated such power, see how there is almost a straight "power line" from is rear foot to his fist. Every individual muscle along that line has been trained to contract while keeping the other muscles of that group relaxed. He's using everything from his toes, ankle, knee, hips, spine, shoulder, arm, and wrist. So a trained Martial Artist punching such as Bruce Lee will not recoil any more than a weight lifter should while doing a dead lift.
I trained Wing Tsun Kung Fu with Emin Boztepe for a number of years and a good Martial Art is not based on voodoo, it's an understanding of physics, the forces at work, insane amounts of training to develop sensitivity, muscle control and power.
Why don't you ask the people that installed whatever it is your plugging into the switch, as they obviously had the same problem, if they didn't why are you putting the switch beside the industrial machinery?
I work for an engineering company and a case like this recently came up.
The customer (who happened to be an engineer himself) wanted to buy a replacement gear wheel but we do not class it as a user servicable part, the reason being that if you install it incorrectly, stall the motor and burn your RV/Caravan to the ground (yes, it should be fused, but how do we know you havn't covered it in tinfoil after the last failure), your gonna phone us and say 'You told me to do it!'.
You just don't see this side of the argument because they are too busy suing McDonalds for making their coffee too hot.
The broken optical drive was what caused this whole mess in the first place. It's connected to the main board with a single ribbon.
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There are two wires that need to be disconnected before you can safely remove the DVD unit. One is a plug type of connector that only requires a little tug. The other is a circuit strip connector that requires you to lift the brown catch, which will release the pressure holding the strip in place (Figure 9). Do not break this!
I find the major difference is that if I do a key mash (accidentally hit 2 keys at once) using a keyboard with a good mechanical feedback I am already heading towards the backspace key as I know (possibly even subconsciously) which keys will have registered. Using a squishy keyboard I need to wait on my relatively slow eyes to process if both, one or neither keys registered.
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Oh! Gigidy, gigidy, alright.
Your not alone, I have always heard silimiar noises and I'd bet that many others can to.
I believe the thing they all have in common is switched mode power supplies and it's something to do with the coils vibrating with the power frequency or some harmonics of it. I've also heard you can put a drop of hot glue on them to prevent it but I have always been more lazy than iritated to try it out.
"install one little app and if you have problems your on your own"
This is a pet hate of mine. Yes, it's one little app or card, but theres also 199 other little apps or cards that the other 199 users want supported. They are also all totally different and all absolute shit with drivers that keep crashing cause you bought it for next to nothing. All the while I've got my REAL job to do - you know - the one I'm paid for. I don't ask the sales guys to sell stuff on ebay for me, or accounts to balance my check book, why is it always ok to dump shit on IT?
Oh, and regardless of my little rant, I think I'm a good sysadmin, I honestly try to do the best I can for my colleagues given the finite money and time I have.
She is definitely not one encumbered by the burden of thought.
Funny, my little desk calendar had the quote "a man willing to steel for me, is a man willing to steel from me". If your Boss is fine with stealing from software companies, what makes you so sure he wouldn't have a problem stealing from you? Nevermind FAST or the legalities of it all, your train of thought should be ruling it out on grounds of job security before thinking about anyone else.
Saying the "editorial system crashed" is the modern day equivalent of "my dog ate my homework". To all the PHBs out there, when you read a phrase like that I want you to replace it with "I am too incompetent to do my job!". I'm tired of hearing people talk about computer systems as if they are some wild, uncontrollable magic when anyone who have worked in I.T for long enough knows that exactly the opposite is true -- the only difference is knowledge of how the system works.
Recently I've seen the words "backup" and "RAID" in the same sentence far too often.
Raid IMHO should only ever be seen as a convenience -- it means, for example, you don't need to drive out to your server at 3am and it lets you warn users of the possibility of downtime.
As many before me have said, RAID does not protect against user error or filesystem corruption but also it does not protect against floods, fire, walls falling in, power surges, theft, etc, etc. Off-site backups, it's the only solution!
I've heard it as, "If you think you understand quantum thoery, you do not understand quantum theory" and attributed to Richard Feynman
Generally when I am called to solve a problem, my first stance is to trust nothing and no one, they may not be intentionally lying but they, along with the hardware, cannot be trusted to be giving accurate reports.
There are many reasons for this, a lot of the time it's a case of, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing - they are making assumptions and you should not be mirroring, that can seem confrontational.
Other times they believe their job might be at risk, I wouldn't want to tell my boss that I'd corrupted the payroll, a little white lie to save your ass seems harmless but now that poor PFY is sweating because he's unable to meet his call quota.
When you've been burnt enough times, you tend to check everything twice inspite of other evidence.
Even after this, there is not excuse for poor manors.
I was going to reply to your post but decided not to as you would have expected that but that's when I got clever and decided to post anyway, ha! Didn't expect that did you? huh? you..? oh, right... STAY OUT OF MY THOUGHTS!
He recognizes himself in the mirror, plays hide-and-seek and breaks into fits of giggles when tickled.
I have cow-orkers that would struggle with those tasks and I still have to respect their human rights.
Exams in faraday cages, and don't give me that crap about exam pressure, you either know it or you don't. If I asked you what your cell phone number was you wouldn't break into a cold sweat and complain that I'm putting you under too much pressure. Similarly, when asked a question by your boss, he's not going to accept a multi-page diatribe where you carpet-bomb the issue in the hope of saying the correct answer.
Actually, it's a question that has already been answered.
Microsoft has announcement...
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All your base are belong to us.
An empty desk is an empty mind.
Primary disk: Accidently deleted.
Backup disk: Accidently formatted.
Tape: Unreadable.
What about the other tapes in the cycle? Did you not test it before? What about data recovery on the hard disks?
Thats a lot of unfortunate co-incidents and a lot of questions. It sounds more like the reality is that none of these ever existed and someone got caught-out.
Not half as irritating as having an angry gopher in your pocket.
Wouldn't it be great if someone made a website where we could upload videos and watch them using a browser and flash plugin, maybe they would call it YouTube.
The video I linked above is a good demonstration of how Bruce Lee generated such power, see how there is almost a straight "power line" from is rear foot to his fist. Every individual muscle along that line has been trained to contract while keeping the other muscles of that group relaxed. He's using everything from his toes, ankle, knee, hips, spine, shoulder, arm, and wrist. So a trained Martial Artist punching such as Bruce Lee will not recoil any more than a weight lifter should while doing a dead lift.
I trained Wing Tsun Kung Fu with Emin Boztepe for a number of years and a good Martial Art is not based on voodoo, it's an understanding of physics, the forces at work, insane amounts of training to develop sensitivity, muscle control and power.
Why don't you ask the people that installed whatever it is your plugging into the switch, as they obviously had the same problem, if they didn't why are you putting the switch beside the industrial machinery?
First outsourcing, now your just going to give IT firms away?
This is the real reason. (Safe for work, not goatse.cx or anything :))
I work for an engineering company and a case like this recently came up.
The customer (who happened to be an engineer himself) wanted to buy a replacement gear wheel but we do not class it as a user servicable part, the reason being that if you install it incorrectly, stall the motor and burn your RV/Caravan to the ground (yes, it should be fused, but how do we know you havn't covered it in tinfoil after the last failure), your gonna phone us and say 'You told me to do it!'.
You just don't see this side of the argument because they are too busy suing McDonalds for making their coffee too hot.
Informit.com:
I think I know why your Wii is broke!
I find the major difference is that if I do a key mash (accidentally hit 2 keys at once) using a keyboard with a good mechanical feedback I am already heading towards the backspace key as I know (possibly even subconsciously) which keys will have registered. Using a squishy keyboard I need to wait on my relatively slow eyes to process if both, one or neither keys registered.
In the United States of America your computer runs on a virus!