Dangerous

Dangerous

When is it dangerous to have power cut off for the terminal computer, such that it begins a reboot again?

Looks that while I was gone, my office terminal got turned on, and there was at least five re-boots, one of which gave me zero bytes in an older file I was ocasionally working on. I had thought that with the terminal being turned off things were safe. Apparently not.

What got recovered was the very original format of my work, and now got to start from zero again, remember what I had done weeks ago and where had gone to get that location. The re-booting wiped out several versions of my work.

We used to have a warning system to guard against such accidental erasures, but that went south. After awhile they simply yelled out the open door, of a reboot about to happen, or now they tell you "after" the button was pushed. Oops?

Wm.

Save your work on a thumb drive or other external hd.

Always save your work after each change.

As Ollie said, also save them to a thumb drive/external HDD.

Save your work on a thumb drive or other external hd.

Does not seem possible.

1. Each computer is underneath a desk.

2. Most all (including mine) have a tin shield bolted onto back side that stops the plugging in of any external device.

Wm.

Impossible to slide the computer to the front and attach an external storage?

Try emailing to yourself, leave a copy on the server till you're absolutely positive you don't need the backup.

Email to your private address; i.e.: at home. Not the company system.

I frequently email myself just in case.

Off isn't always safe, unplugged does the trick.

Impossible to slide the computer to the front and attach an external storage?

 

Try emailing to yourself, leave a copy on the server till you're absolutely positive you don't need the backup.

 

Email to your private address; i.e.: at home. Not the company system.

 

I frequently email myself just in case.

 

Off isn't always safe, unplugged does the trick.

Routine they set up (apparently they had trouble with another employee, months before me) is that there is only ONE modem conencted into the outside world. I have to then get all my messages and attachments ready for at one minute after 5PM they all get sent out by one of the partners off a certain computer he has. I think that is when the rates go lower. As I am usually gone by then, I have nothing to do with mailing out anything. And they frown upon sending to certain addresses, including your home.

I still have not figured out as to just who turns the computer on each morning (if need be) and when it powers up. I think Boy Genious turns on everything as he rides the bus to work and gets in quite early (no breakfast). The plotter does not get turned on until some one needs "Two" prints. It usually is on by 10AM but also have seen zero come off it for two days in one row. They figure to save on paper and ink then. Another Yell from a room. "Anyone need a plot, I'm about to turn it off".

Several other cost saving matters going on their too. The said something is now going on with the tech man who used to visit one a week or every ten days. He may be the one who bought and installed the Heat Shields on the backs to each computer.

Wm.

Routine they set up (apparently they had trouble with another employee, months before me) is that there is only ONE modem conencted into the outside world. I have to then get all my messages and attachments ready for at one minute after 5PM they all get sent out by one of the partners off a certain computer he has. I think that is when the rates go lower. As I am usually gone by then, I have nothing to do with mailing out anything. And they frown upon sending to certain addresses, including your home.

 

I still have not figured out as to just who turns the computer on each morning (if need be) and when it powers up. I think Boy Genious turns on everything as he rides the bus to work and gets in quite early (no breakfast). The plotter does not get turned on until some one needs "Two" prints. It usually is on by 10AM but also have seen zero come off it for two days in one row. They figure to save on paper and ink then. Another Yell from a room. "Anyone need a plot, I'm about to turn it off".

 

Several other cost saving matters going on their too. The said something is now going on with the tech man who used to visit one a week or every ten days. He may be the one who bought and installed the Heat Shields on the backs to each computer.

 

 

Wm.

From what you're saying, it seems like your only bet is to befriend the IT guy.

Is there usb ports on the front of your tower or on the side of your monitor? If there is, just use a flash drive. I don't see how a flash drive

can effect much (except for the obvious reasons). Every workplace that

I know of, people use flash drives/external HDD's.

I once worked for an engineering firm in Phoenix, AZ.

The firm encouraged work from home, or saving work however you could.

The bosses figured, "Free man hours."

Who's to say you wouldn't take a peek-a-boo at your work Sunday morning, at home, tweak something here or clean up something there? No charge to the employer!

The firm you're working for seems paranoid to say the least.

What kind of TOP SECRET work do you do?

Perhaps the tech man was a spy?

From what you're saying, it seems like your only bet is to befriend the IT guy.Is there usb ports on the front of your tower or on the side of your monitor? If there is, just use a flash drive. I don't see how a flash drive can effect much (except for the obvious reasons). Every workplace that

I know of, people use flash drives/external HDD's.

Going back to original question though, I do not think what they are having us use is (Shall we say) the "Most Modern" of equipment, nor often has the beast laod of in-built bells and whistles. Looks as though everyone has a differrent looking computer, and so must have come on line at a different time then. I was at one a few motnhs ago, where in it looked as though someone tool a screwdraive to front panel, and gouged out the goodness to some front mounted connection. (Save a nickel, save a dime, save at Thrifty computer every time. Save a dollar and much more at your local...)

Standard proceedure when I visit (to P-U paycheck) is to review what is now in the Recycle Bucket, for that may be only thing that works with out getting the dreaded CRC Error message upon opening up the auotcad file I last worked on prior week. It may be old but it has a few minutes of work saved upon it. Thus I come up with one of the five latest copies that still work OK. These files are often HUGE, going from 50 to 399 K in size each.

Wm.

Does your computer have a floppy drive or a CD-ROM drive?

Does your computer have a floppy drive or a CD-ROM drive?

I think like some government agencies, floppy drives or any external drives don't exist. Security reasons.

If a CD-ROM drive were available, copy files there.

Floppy drive available, copy files there.

Neither of the two exist.

What top secret government agency do you work for again? Oh, I know, you can't tell me because it is a secret. Gotcha.

Is there a parallel port on the computer? If so you can plug in an Iomega Zip drive. I know someone who has one for sale along with a couple of 250MB Zip disks.

Does your computer have a floppy drive or a CD-ROM drive?

The work computer has a CD reader only. Not a writer also.

Was told before hired on that listening to music via the CD drive was forbidden, as previous operator used to go, and go, and go well after the lunch break, and they figured he must be getting away with something then. I do not have anything to shove into the drive, but that does not stop them from occasionlly looking.

Iff'n we need to load on anything software wise, then it has to be done via the server connection. Only one thing I can remember got loaded up that a way, and it was many months ago.

Wm.