Well, my first day at the new job went very, very well. I really enjoyed it and ended up doing a lot better than I thought I would. I proved to myself, yet again, that my product knowledge on Apple and related products is pretty decent if not very good. The main thing that was nice was that I had fun. Something that hasn't happened at work in a long time.
After today, I know that I am fit for business sales. If I can weasel my way into that, I would be on some form of salary + commission which would make LIVING so very easy (I do use easy relatively and loosely).
Also, there is the issue of going for the dream and becoming an Apple technician there. I would really enjoy that. There is, however, the challenging question of money. That would probably be the only thing that would stop me from pursuing that. We shall see how all the chips fall.
On a separate note, all the employees at my old job chipped in and bought me a little bare-bones system to make a file-server with. I am working on it now with the only issue being that the thing does not want to boot from SATA drives. Looks like I will have to put it on the back-burner until I can acquire an IDE drive seeing as everything I have runs with SATA. I considered updating the BIOS thinking that might help the issue, but I don't have a 3.5" floppy drive in the computer(s) that I would download it from. It seems that the machine wants a 3.5" floppy disk to do any BIOS updating without an operating system.
So, anyhow, hopefully I can put that together soon. I really wanted to keep all of my stuff separate form my main system and gaming machine. Ah well, can't win 'em all, eh?
Get back to you soon.
After today, I know that I am fit for business sales. If I can weasel my way into that, I would be on some form of salary + commission which would make LIVING so very easy (I do use easy relatively and loosely).
Also, there is the issue of going for the dream and becoming an Apple technician there. I would really enjoy that. There is, however, the challenging question of money. That would probably be the only thing that would stop me from pursuing that. We shall see how all the chips fall.
On a separate note, all the employees at my old job chipped in and bought me a little bare-bones system to make a file-server with. I am working on it now with the only issue being that the thing does not want to boot from SATA drives. Looks like I will have to put it on the back-burner until I can acquire an IDE drive seeing as everything I have runs with SATA. I considered updating the BIOS thinking that might help the issue, but I don't have a 3.5" floppy drive in the computer(s) that I would download it from. It seems that the machine wants a 3.5" floppy disk to do any BIOS updating without an operating system.
So, anyhow, hopefully I can put that together soon. I really wanted to keep all of my stuff separate form my main system and gaming machine. Ah well, can't win 'em all, eh?
Get back to you soon.
Ah, that's because XP doesn't recognize SATA drives, this is what my friend said --
ReplyDelete"Bill: XP was realeased before SATA drives were around. So it doesn't have any drivers for them built in. If you want to install windows to a SATA drive, you need to tell the windows installer to load the drivers from disk (F6). And I believe it only works for floppys. No CDs. The other option is to create a new windows install disk with your SATA drivers on it."
I just bought two new SATA drives and I am expecting to have the same problem.
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ReplyDeleteNope. My other system is all SATA. I can install Windows on a SATA normally and run Windows just fine. What does need to happen is in your BIOS, you have to go in and change the SATA setting from RAID to IDE. Then computer sees the SATA as a bootable drive.
ReplyDeleteAlso, this has nothing to do with Windows since I haven't even gotten to that step. The motherboard itself does not see the drive.
Plus, I am not running Windows. I am throwing in Ubuntu Server.
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ReplyDeleteI love you more?
ReplyDeleteOh yeah...and SATA SATA SATA.
Congratulations on the career-related happiness, always a perk in life. Keep on kickin ass Josh!
Doing my best Todd. Doing my best.
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