Just as I was thinking I need to call the Alliance Francaise to sign up for french lessons this quarter, I get the following email from our IT people:
We will be moving some CGlobe servers this morning in order to make room for the new Quad Processor DL 580's we need to use in the Production Fusion servers. We are hopeful everything will be re-attached and up by 10:00 AM CST.
I recognize the words as english based, but I have no clue what they're talking about.
Like I'm supposed to be impressed by a Quad Processor DL 580? Does it come as a 480? Or not as whiz-bang as a 1000? I supposed a Quad Processor is better than a solo processor? And what the heck is a Production Fusion server? Re-attached? Were they ever detached?
What I need to know is that the server will be down, IT is doing maintenance (I hesitate to say "upgrades"), and it should be back up in a couple of hours.
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10-28-2008, 06:17 AM #1
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english?
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10-28-2008, 06:57 AM #2
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We had an IT director who would send out the most pompous sounding e mails. I think they do it to frighten you off.
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10-28-2008, 06:57 AM #3
pedal pedAL PEDAL!!!
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haha...I am married to an IT guy (he actually built one of the computers and the server at my office) I deal translating his language on a daily basis!!! All I want to know is what button to push so I can move on and do what I do...I do NOT need to know WHY I am pushing that button.....
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10-28-2008, 07:02 AM #4
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We get those all the time at work. Rambling emails about they are moving this server or that server. I never know why it is significant and never notice a thing so it just wastes my time hitting DELETE.
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10-28-2008, 09:37 AM #5
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I think I'll stick with French.
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10-28-2008, 11:08 AM #6
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moi aussi
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10-28-2008, 06:26 PM #7
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We have a rule at our office (I'm on the Technology Committee...)...only describe technology in a way that I can understand.
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10-29-2008, 07:48 AM #8
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It looks like a direct translation from the Chinese of the original manual.
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