[NO] Faith in Technology

Why do I continue to put my faith into technology? I'm very tempted to list the chronology of crashed hard drives, smoking motherboards, and spyware issues I've had in recent years. Let's simplify instead and say it's somewhere around a dozen.

Tech has been working for me good lately. No major problems. Until Sunday night, when I tried to remote into my bookstore's server to do some late-night ordering... only to find that I could not remote in. Huh, that's weird, I wonder if the Internet is down... Seconds later, I tried to remote into the C28 server, which is located on the same network. I successfully connected. Oh crap, I bet the bookstore's server crashed again.

Yep. I am sick and tired of Windows. Honestly, I do not understand how IT guys put up with these issues all day long. You by far have more patience than I do.

While I have no faith in technology, I do have faith in people.

I called up CF's IT Guy, Hector, and asked him to take a look at my crashed hard drive. He did, and even ran some diagnostics for me. Hector's an incredibly busy guy, and that he took the time to run the scans for me means alot. Thanks Hector! I'll have my data recovery guy Wes work his magic tomorrow and we should be in great shape! Sadly, Wes has done this for me far too many times.

I've learned over the years that dependence upon technology will only disappoint. I've said it before. I have no faith in technology.

Hard Drives will die.
Motherboards will smoke.
Networks will go down.
Software will freeze.
Servers will crash.
Applications will fail.

Tech is "means". Not the "end". Honestly, I've tried to spend more time focusing on the "end" than I have the "means".

While tech will let me down
on a regular basis
people rarely do
and God never does.

God, thank you for the lesson learned.

PS - Uh, God, if you could figure out a way to remind me of this lesson without crashing my server, I would greatly appreciate it.

PPS - Or, God, if you could give me an advance warning so I can make sure the backup would work, I would even be okay with that.

Comments

[Mike Sessler]

Jeff, I feel your pain. In my "day" job I am forced to work on an XP box. It's 9 months old and our IT guy has completely reinstalled the OS 3x. My Mac on the other hand...well you know.

I have 1 word for you: XServe!

[Eddy]

You of all people still use windows? That is a shock.

[Jeff Reed]

HA HA! Thanks Eddy. Unfortunately, the Bookstore runs on a propietary software that requires Windows... MAYBE I'll consider running a XServe running Bootcamp... MAYBE...