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[somedaybitch]

dear automount system,

i frakking hate you. a lot.

no.really.

a. LOT.

seriously no love whatsofuckingever,

moi.

Comments

[ardaniel]

Is it *still* doing that? Jesus. You'd think they'd build in some way to turn that shit off.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

oh honey, he added it to the network. *nods* it's not just the macs now. it's my show mount and edit mount.

[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

automount just doesn`t mean what you think it means...

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

sure it does...it means that it automatically mounts and un-mounts itself on a pre-determined time interval. when that time interval is 5 minutes, and you don't know the name of every directory in the network by heart, navigating for digital assets is kind of a bitch.

[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

well see you thought Automount meant usefull...

you just need to know the abort command that forces it to stay mounted :shifty eyes:

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

well see you thought Automount meant useful...

heh. true that. i find things that hamper user workflow as inherently not a good choice.

[ardaniel]

I think I told that thing to cut the shit about 15 different ways when I was one of the setup in question's five or six sysadmins. Nothin'.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

alan's a shifty beast.

[pualaridesagain.livejournal.com]

It sounds like a fucking machine that fucks other machines and then it fucks itself and then when its done with its machine fucking fest, it fucks you. How far off am I?

[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

this, is the essence of IT. :zen: it is also the reason that I am up at 2am working. "vpn encountered a problem and crashed... whatever you haven't saved is no-more. it is an ex-parrot. the parrot is dead."

on the up side? I showed the kids the parrot sketch last weekend, because they had a stuffed parrot along with them, and they thought it was hysterical. They are now quoting it.

this makes IT failure amusing to me somehow. that is until I drag my sorry buhonkas into work in 4 hours.

I feel your pain, T...

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

thanks, brother. it's fairly obnoxious.