Jul 14, 2017

Chris Allen (cpallen@savasc.com):
10:02:34 AM: What do you know about Macs?

Vick Dang:
10:03:05 AM: uh

10:03:13 AM: its a blowback operated machine pistol

10:03:16 AM: takes either 45 or 9

Chris Allen (cpallen@savasc.com):
10:03:18 AM: Sigh.

10:03:32 AM: Based on your shoes, I thought you were cool.

I THOUGHT you were cool.

Vick Dang:
10:04:14 AM: lol

10:04:17 AM: what about macs

Chris Allen (cpallen@savasc.com):
10:05:30 AM: Mine shit the bed last night.

10:05:33 AM: You familiar with them?

Vick Dang:
10:05:55 AM: uh

10:06:06 AM: I'm pretty familiar with hardware

10:06:16 AM: shit the bed because of hardware or software?

Chris Allen (cpallen@savasc.com):
10:06:23 AM: It froze. I did a hard reboot. Fucker now cannot find something it needs to start the OS.

10:06:32 AM: I'm not sure.

Vick Dang:
10:06:41 AM: oh yeah that sounds like software

Chris Allen (cpallen@savasc.com):
10:06:54 AM: It's that fucking folder with the question mark when it starts up.

Vick Dang:
10:07:16 AM: idk anything about that, but sounds like your OS is corrupted

10:07:23 AM: do you have the macOS disk?

Chris Allen (cpallen@savasc.com):
10:07:26 AM: Can my data be retrieved?

10:07:28 AM: I do not.

Vick Dang:
10:07:33 AM: yeah most likely

Chris Allen (cpallen@savasc.com):
10:07:37 AM: Where would one procure such a thing from?

Vick Dang:
10:07:47 AM: well you don't want to grab the disk just yet

10:07:53 AM: (from apple presumably)

10:08:01 AM: the disk is to fix the issue

10:08:10 AM: but you want to do a data back up independently of that

Chris Allen (cpallen@savasc.com):
10:08:53 AM: This is why I don't trust computers. It didn't get run over. Nothing tangible happened to it. It just...decided to not work one day.

10:09:23 AM:

Vick Dang:
10:10:20 AM: Right, I'm not familiar enough with macs to know if there is a repair option through the install disk

Chris Allen (cpallen@savasc.com):
10:10:41 AM: There is. But it was unavailable on mine.

Vick Dang:
10:11:01 AM: so you do have the disc?

Chris Allen (cpallen@savasc.com):
10:11:22 AM:

10:11:39 AM: The OS disk? I don't have it.

10:11:49 AM: This will be my last Mac. Never had a PC do this to me.

Vick Dang:
10:11:55 AM: lol

10:12:00 AM: dawg PCs can do it too

Chris Allen (cpallen@savasc.com):
10:12:22 AM: We must endeavor to create computers impervious to such arbitrary failure.

10:12:34 AM: I know the HD is still in the computer. No one took it out.

Vick Dang:
10:12:50 AM: it's never going to be impervious

Chris Allen (cpallen@savasc.com):
10:12:59 AM: Then we should go back the paper and the pen!

Vick Dang:
10:13:01 AM: something tangible is happening

10:13:07 AM: no one is stopping you lol

Chris Allen (cpallen@savasc.com):
10:13:16 AM: No idea why it just up and quit.

Vick Dang:
10:13:21 AM: ok

10:13:31 AM: so anytime you make any changes to the computer

10:13:37 AM: it has to write that data to the disk

10:13:43 AM: sometimes there's a failure

10:13:59 AM: so like

10:14:07 AM: let's say your AR stove pipes

Chris Allen (cpallen@savasc.com):
10:14:15 AM: I can see that.

Vick Dang:
10:14:17 AM: it's not going to let you continue firing

Chris Allen (cpallen@savasc.com):
10:14:18 AM: Touch it.

Vick Dang:
10:14:34 AM: right right

10:14:38 AM: its the same thing

10:15:05 AM: so you have to clear the malfunction and move on

10:15:18 AM: doing a repair from the install disk might fix that

10:15:41 AM: but let's say somehow a part gets damaged

10:15:42 AM: let

10:15:48 AM: s say your bolt got damaged

10:16:01 AM: that's not a malfunction, you can't just clear that and continue shooting

10:16:12 AM: you have to get it replaced

10:16:24 AM: so right now, we think you have a malfunction, and we have to see if we can clear it

10:16:31 AM: if we can't clear it

10:16:48 AM: we have to take the AR apart and save any components that are not damaged (ie backup your data)

10:17:02 AM: and then replace the bolt, and you're good to go

Chris Allen (cpallen@savasc.com):
10:17:17 AM: I see. That makes sense.

Vick Dang:
10:17:47 AM: but right now, I don't have information to know if its just a malfunction or if there is a damaged part

10:17:53 AM: enough information*

10:18:04 AM: now, of course instead of clearing it

10:18:12 AM: we could just take the AR apart and look at everything

10:18:23 AM: IE back everything up first

10:18:29 AM: since that seems like a priority for you

10:18:57 AM: also computers will break without proper maint. imagine running an AR over and over without cleaning and lubing it

Chris Allen (cpallen@savasc.com):
10:19:00 AM: It is.

10:19:02 AM: Ugghhh.

10:19:19 AM: I don't shutting down. I don't like backing up. And I don't like running defrag/diagnostics/or anything else that keeps me from the internets.

Vick Dang:
10:19:26 AM: lol

Chris Allen (cpallen@savasc.com):
10:20:03 AM: I just want shit to work.

10:20:22 AM: And I utilize it for so little, I feel comfortable in that expectation.

10:20:36 AM: I don't even print wirelessly. I carry my laptop into the office and plug it in.

10:20:47 AM: I feel I'm being reasonable. Mr. Mac, why aren't you

10:20:47 AM: ?

Vick Dang:
10:20:55 AM: how old is it?

Chris Allen (cpallen@savasc.com):
10:21:02 AM: Five or six years at this point.

Vick Dang:
10:21:04 AM: yeah

10:21:25 AM: so I'll admit, there is a thing as planned obsolesce that just is a part of the tech world

10:21:35 AM: can't really get around it

Chris Allen (cpallen@savasc.com):
10:21:51 AM: :-(

10:21:59 AM: My PC is actually older than that.

10:22:05 AM: But again, I do so little on them.

Vick Dang:
10:22:10 AM: but your PC is a tower right?

Chris Allen (cpallen@savasc.com):
10:22:13 AM: I need to just buy a new one from Best Buy and be done with it.

10:22:17 AM: Nope. Laptop.

10:22:22 AM: I play WoW on it.

Vick Dang:
10:22:25 AM: lol