Helped out the next door neighbour...
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...it didn't go well!!
He was trying to cut a castellated concrete drain channel with little angle grinder. Don't do that I says, use my large and heavy Makita diamond bladed disc cutter so went and got it, I could see he was concerned about the size and weight of it so I said give it here and proceeded to cut all around so that it could be snapped. On the very last inch of the cut the bloody thing jumped and hit my shin just above the ankle grazing it for about 6 inches (no blood though (bonus!), shredded the leg of my 501's and the thing that's really, really annoying me is that it also shredded a brand new and quite expensive merino wool sock, bugger!
The neighbour feels bad about it but It's completely my own fault for being blasé and not treating a dangerous piece of kit with the respect it deserves.... I was wearing ear defenders though!
Lesson learned, don't do favours for neighbours.
He was trying to cut a castellated concrete drain channel with little angle grinder. Don't do that I says, use my large and heavy Makita diamond bladed disc cutter so went and got it, I could see he was concerned about the size and weight of it so I said give it here and proceeded to cut all around so that it could be snapped. On the very last inch of the cut the bloody thing jumped and hit my shin just above the ankle grazing it for about 6 inches (no blood though (bonus!), shredded the leg of my 501's and the thing that's really, really annoying me is that it also shredded a brand new and quite expensive merino wool sock, bugger!
The neighbour feels bad about it but It's completely my own fault for being blasé and not treating a dangerous piece of kit with the respect it deserves.... I was wearing ear defenders though!
Lesson learned, don't do favours for neighbours.
I actively try to avoid fixing boot issues on peoples PCs and laptops. What they think will be a simple 15 minute job often turns out to be a 3-5 hour partial reinstall waiting for downloads and installs.
If I now do it, I insist I have the laptop overnight so I can fix it when doing other things - I really don't care if you have cat porn or whatever on your hard drive.
If I now do it, I insist I have the laptop overnight so I can fix it when doing other things - I really don't care if you have cat porn or whatever on your hard drive.
vikingaero said:
I actively try to avoid fixing boot issues on peoples PCs and laptops. What they think will be a simple 15 minute job often turns out to be a 3-5 hour partial reinstall waiting for downloads and installs.
If I now do it, I insist I have the laptop overnight so I can fix it when doing other things - I really don't care if you have cat porn or whatever on your hard drive.
wtf is cat porn? Is that porn for cats or porn involving cats? I don't think I want to google that!If I now do it, I insist I have the laptop overnight so I can fix it when doing other things - I really don't care if you have cat porn or whatever on your hard drive.
vikingaero said:
I actively try to avoid fixing boot issues on peoples PCs and laptops. What they think will be a simple 15 minute job often turns out to be a 3-5 hour partial reinstall waiting for downloads and installs.
If I now do it, I insist I have the laptop overnight so I can fix it when doing other things - I really don't care if you have cat porn or whatever on your hard drive.
I have worked in IT (development) for 33 years and I learned very very quickly that you never ever never never never fix peoples PCs when asked - everyone assumes that you build PCs for a living. As stated you can spend hours and hours trying to get a new OS or whatever installed on something that is just not up to spec. Not only that, you have lumbered yourself with the millstone of supporting them forever.If I now do it, I insist I have the laptop overnight so I can fix it when doing other things - I really don't care if you have cat porn or whatever on your hard drive.
What I tell them is patent b
ks "I don't know anything about PCs; you see those big computers you see on TV with the spinny bits on the front? I work on those" but it gets rid of them.Do not fix people's computers. Ever. Just. Say. No.
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