In IT support years ago
I once heard someone pronounce SCSI as 'sexy'. But I quite liked that and adopted it myself.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 11:42, 13 replies)

Oh! Oh! Speaking of IT - I've got one!
I was on the dog to the tech dept t'other day and they asked me if I'd tried "a hard re-boot".

WTF? was my response.

"We'll try one now", he said, "I'll walk you through it. First, press the power button on your desktop machine and hold it for 10 seconds ... "

Ya, say I.

"Right ... OK ... now we wait for about 30 seconds ... *30 seconds* and now - press and hold the power button for me again?"

REALLY?! REALLY? You mean "turning it on and off again is now a "hard re-boot"?!
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 11:46, closed)

yes but its different to a soft reboot.
where you have to hold the power button down using a pink fluffy teddy bear.
(Miggyman, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 11:47, closed)

and different to a soft boot
which is made from distressed leather and has a furry lining/
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 11:49, closed)

it's not that bloody difficult to comprehend
it's as opposed to a soft, or graceful, shut down.

For example, in older versions of Windows and Office, the OS would remove unused temp files on shutdown. Therefore if you lost loads of work, shutting down gracefully meant it'd be lost forever (or at least be far more difficult to find). By doing a hard reboot, 9 out of 10 times, the document you lost would be there once you opened word/excel etc again.
(likeajackhammer, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 12:07, closed)

Hahahahahahaha
Yeah but it's the twonks that think turning it off and on again being rebranded somehow makes it different or makes them sound more techy or something equally laughable.

He should have just said "Have your tried turning it off and on again?" instead of introducing unnecessary techno-wankology.

Hard re-boot.

Yes. And then I shall initiate the Monitor Viewing Association Technology and investigate whether or not the solutions opportunity has been fully resolved.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 12:25, closed)

I think the point is:
If he'd asked you 'turn it off and on again' what process would you have followed?
( IHaveABadFeelingAboutThis most likely working from home on, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 13:06, closed)

I'd have, er ... turned it off and on again, like I did when he patronisingly "walked me through it".
FFS. It's a computer, not a 3 year old baby with special dietry requirements.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 13:25, closed)

By doing what?
There is a difference between hard re-boot and soft re-boot, as detailed above, and they're both legitimate terms.

I'm probably coming across as a bit of a dick now.
( IHaveABadFeelingAboutThis most likely working from home on, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 13:30, closed)

no, you're not...
it's perfectly plausible to give two distinct method of turning a PC off differing names.

It's not like an "Emergency Stop" is the same as "Pull over" - both outcomes are a parked car.
(likeajackhammer, Thu 15 Apr 2010, 11:38, closed)

I'm bringing SCSI back.

( flake has nothing against your right leg, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 11:51, closed)

I kept my porn
on what I called my 'scuzzy' drive.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 12:13, closed)

I hate it when some twonk calls something totally different to what youre used to.
Like Nagios. The unix based server monitoring tool.

Is it pronounced Nag i os. Nag as in nagging, I as in eye and os as in the yorkshire word for horse?

Or as people call it here. Nadge ee os.

Is it linux or lyenux ?
(Miggyman, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 15:10, closed)

Linus pronounces it "Leenux", but that might be just his Finnish accent.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Thu 15 Apr 2010, 1:15, closed)