I reserve the right to laugh at you if you insult me
Alright, I’ll be vague today because I don’t want to ruffle any major feathers.
This dude was trying to mess around with his computer. He asks a friend of mine “if I change the size of a partition I’m not going to loose my data”… to which I sorta butt in and say “uhh.. no”
This guy seemed like he knew what he was doing. He was booting into Linux and the easiest way to partition things is using a program called Gparted. There is also the hard way, which is using a command line and using fdisk.
I say “You should use gparted”… he comes back to me like an ass and says “Uhh, I’ll use FDISK”… “uhh… but gparted is easier”… “but I’m still going to use fdisk”
Fine… be an ass
5 minutes later… “Aww fuck”
Goodbye data!
Now, this isn’t just a general end user. This is a student paid hourly to provide support to other students.
And it is a school computer, so I don’t really care what happens to it and nothing he did would have devalued anything other than his ego.
Nevertheless, I try to be sympathetic: “do you have a LiveCD?”
This started something of a shouting match… In retrospect it was hilarious.
Back to the Olympics
