"Astronomical amounts of stuff" may just refer to the amount of customization needed. There are about 5 people in the office that I delay giving a new machine to as long as possible, because their machines are the biggest pains to set up. Financial software is the bane of my existence, speaking metaphorically in a Tron sense of course. I only install it once every 3-5 years and it is so god damn touchy, especially when going from XP to 7, or 32-bit to 64-bit.
Recently, I upgraded one of these users and the bank that was supposed to issue her machine a certificate, but they didn't know how to handle a 64-bit machine. It took them over two weeks to fix the problem, but somehow it was my fault. My boss and I took flak for it the entire time, despite us showing time and again that it was out of our control/hands and that the bank needed to fix the problem. I fucking hate financial software.
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While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
Alright, now to learn Powershell for realsies. *cracks knuckles*
*weeps softly*
Nobody learns powershell, they just google all the answers.
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TL DRNot at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered Userregular
Really I just have to figure out how to export all these documents from a Sharepoint 2007 library, and someone suggested Powershell. Apparently there's supposed to be a "View in Windows Explorer" option, but the Actions menu that it's supposed to be in does not exist, and the Navigation options menu to enable the Actions menu does not exist.
Downloading Sharepoint Designer 2007 in the hopes that it will shed some light, but I'm totally in the dark and the guy I'd normally ask is on his honeymoon.
"Astronomical amounts of stuff" may just refer to the amount of customization needed. There are about 5 people in the office that I delay giving a new machine to as long as possible, because their machines are the biggest pains to set up. Financial software is the bane of my existence, speaking metaphorically in a Tron sense of course. I only install it once every 3-5 years and it is so god damn touchy, especially when going from XP to 7, or 32-bit to 64-bit.
Recently, I upgraded one of these users and the bank that was supposed to issue her machine a certificate, but they didn't know how to handle a 64-bit machine. It took them over two weeks to fix the problem, but somehow it was my fault. My boss and I took flak for it the entire time, despite us showing time and again that it was out of our control/hands and that the bank needed to fix the problem. I fucking hate financial software.
Ugh, I know this feel. Back when I worked at the hospital I was constantly finding old, obscure, undocumented, unsupported, and--natch--business critical apps. It was super awful, too, since we had just switched from a patchwork of about 3 major systems and a bunch of smaller apps to one big new system that was supposed to unify everything. Except they didn't get everything rolled into it. Which wouldn't be so bad, but all the people supporting the old apps moved to supporting the new major system only, and us poor desktop techs were left supporting the legacy apps.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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KakodaimonosCode fondlerHelping the 1% get richerRegistered Userregular
That is the reason why we have all our software delivered via a Citrix session. And there are still ways to get that screwed up. My favorite was the guy who complained that he couldn't move the windows to his other monitors. Turns out, his other monitors were attached to a different computer.
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TL DRNot at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered Userregular
Quick question for you guys: I have an SBS 2008 domain, mixed XP/7, and the owner has finally acceded to redirected My Documents folders after one of his managers' laptop died and he lost some critical data.
Is this just a matter of creating the %username% shares, setting the applicable GPO and letting the clients redirect and copy the relevant data, or is the data move something that has to be done manually?
With windows 7 there was something weird I had to do with the 'sync' center on some of the PCs. Can't recall what it was I had to do though.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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TL DRNot at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered Userregular
Oh hey, PowerShell so easy. Finally worked after I'd given up and started searching for a way to enable the aforementioned menu in Sharepoint. I found a place in IIS to install the Windows Azure Command Prompt plugin to the website, after which the script was finally able to recognize that the library existed.
Really I just have to figure out how to export all these documents from a Sharepoint 2007 library, and someone suggested Powershell. Apparently there's supposed to be a "View in Windows Explorer" option, but the Actions menu that it's supposed to be in does not exist, and the Navigation options menu to enable the Actions menu does not exist.
Downloading Sharepoint Designer 2007 in the hopes that it will shed some light, but I'm totally in the dark and the guy I'd normally ask is on his honeymoon.
So when you go to the sharepoint site that has the documents you want to export, there isn't a library tab up top? And on that tab there isn't the View in explorer button?
self service ticket today
summary: monitor going out
details:My PC monitor is making shrill whistling noises. It's beginning to drive us nutty and some days that's a short trip.
On today's episode of Why You Should Learn Powershell:
I made a small tool yesterday to dig through an application's settings, grab all the port numbers that app has assigned to various machines, then sort and group those numbers into contiguous blocks; so you can see what ports are used already and which are free. I got sick of trying to look through a randomly ordered list of like 100 numbers.
My boss's reaction was basically: "See, this is why you're so much better than the guy you replaced."
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
You are the second person to say that to me, and you will be the second person I give an exasperated sigh to. The amount of stuff this person has on their PC is astronomical, it'll take me all day to do it. I tried to add them explicitly to the policy as a last ditch hail mary attempt but I'm afraid it might be time to break out the clonezilla.
When all else fails, just make a logon script.
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jaziekBad at everythingAnd mad about it.Registered Userregular
edited September 2013
The guy who was mentoring (is that a word?) me quit today.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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jaziekBad at everythingAnd mad about it.Registered Userregular
edited September 2013
I feel less in over my head than I did a couple of weeks ago.
There are only a couple of tickets where I feel like I don't have the technical know-how to be able to deal with them, and a load where I just don't know company's own software / procedures well enough to be able to deal with them in a timely fashion.
That and having to learn batch, since we can't install any sensible scripting tools. Fuck batch. Every day I find another stupid idiosyncrasy that slows me down for a silly amount of time.
I'm also beginning to feel like working towards getting CCNA would be a good use of my time. the company wouldn't pay for it, but still. Its good to have.
I feel less in over my head than I did a couple of weeks ago.
There are only a couple of tickets where I feel like I don't have the technical know-how to be able to deal with them, and a load where I just don't know company's own software / procedures well enough to be able to deal with them in a timely fashion.
That and having to learn batch, since we can't install any sensible scripting tools. Fuck batch. Every day I find another stupid idiosyncrasy that slows me down for a silly amount of time.
I'm also beginning to feel like working towards getting CCNA would be a good use of my time. the company wouldn't pay for it, but still. Its good to have.
Well, we're alway here for ya. Also, if you've batch, you've powershell. Way less stupid than batch.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
You are the second person to say that to me, and you will be the second person I give an exasperated sigh to. The amount of stuff this person has on their PC is astronomical, it'll take me all day to do it. I tried to add them explicitly to the policy as a last ditch hail mary attempt but I'm afraid it might be time to break out the clonezilla.
When all else fails, just make a logon script.
When that fails, put a script in \all users\start menu\startup :rotate:
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life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I have been having the / directory of our main DFS file host randomly switch to read-only, which screws up samba. And we discovered that it may be an issue with the journal, so the fix is to boot up on a recovery disc or live usb image, delete the journal from the unmounted drive / is mounted on, run e2fsck, and then recreate the journal.
The device in question is sda3. I ran the procedures on sdb3. Then I remember, and panic, and go back, and sda3 doesn't exist. Only sda and sda1. Is the driver no loading something? Is something wrong? I go googling on partitioning issues in CentOS. Spend about 30 minutes. Then I go back to check if maybe the partitions weren't being read. Boot the drive back to normal, check the partitioning space with fdisk. Boot back to the live usb image. I check sda.
sda is the usb drive.
I check sdb.
sdb is what I wanted in the first place.
I'm still learning linux.
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jaziekBad at everythingAnd mad about it.Registered Userregular
I feel less in over my head than I did a couple of weeks ago.
There are only a couple of tickets where I feel like I don't have the technical know-how to be able to deal with them, and a load where I just don't know company's own software / procedures well enough to be able to deal with them in a timely fashion.
That and having to learn batch, since we can't install any sensible scripting tools. Fuck batch. Every day I find another stupid idiosyncrasy that slows me down for a silly amount of time.
I'm also beginning to feel like working towards getting CCNA would be a good use of my time. the company wouldn't pay for it, but still. Its good to have.
Well, we're alway here for ya. Also, if you've batch, you've powershell. Way less stupid than batch.
We don't have PS, or at most we have PS 1 , which seems to be pretty terribly documented compared to ps 2+.
I feel less in over my head than I did a couple of weeks ago.
There are only a couple of tickets where I feel like I don't have the technical know-how to be able to deal with them, and a load where I just don't know company's own software / procedures well enough to be able to deal with them in a timely fashion.
That and having to learn batch, since we can't install any sensible scripting tools. Fuck batch. Every day I find another stupid idiosyncrasy that slows me down for a silly amount of time.
I'm also beginning to feel like working towards getting CCNA would be a good use of my time. the company wouldn't pay for it, but still. Its good to have.
Well, we're alway here for ya. Also, if you've batch, you've powershell. Way less stupid than batch.
We don't have PS, or at most we have PS 1 , which seems to be pretty terribly documented compared to ps 2+.
Are you on some unpatched xp machines or something?
7 comes with PowerShell 2 at minimum. Run $host.version to find out.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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jaziekBad at everythingAnd mad about it.Registered Userregular
Most of the machines I'm working on are server 03.
Most of the machines I'm working on are server 03.
Laaaaaaame. I'm guessing they won't let you install it?
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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jaziekBad at everythingAnd mad about it.Registered Userregular
So windows has found a new way to piss me off. Unable to install a device on a workstation on the other side of the country, because well, device manage is empty. Blank. No errors anywhere, it just doesn't exist. I checked the standard solutions involving permissions and it all seems fine until I get to a certain key in the registry:
I'm pretty sure that's what's causing devmgmt to take it's vacation (as it's in the exact section all my research says to check permissions in), and I'd love to just delete it but I can't. Standard windows "let's list a file you can't do anything to because I don't recognize it as a valid filename" crap.
I've tried every which way to delete, including the "RegDelNull" tool from sysinternals which sounds like it was made for this exact situation except for the fact it never finds anything to delete...
So I'm stuck looking at yet another restage (which I'd like to avoid as it requires tons of hacks and workarounds because we never clean up anything around here) unless anyone has an idea. Yes plug and play is started and running btw:)
PSN/Steam - Quantux
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mightyjongyoSour CrrmEast Bay, CaliforniaRegistered Userregular
Would installing a language pack help? It looks like gibberish text that comes up when it's trying to display Chinese or Japanese but can't.
Then again I feel that it would be incredibly stupid to allow non-standard characters in the registry, but who knows...
Would installing a language pack help? It looks like gibberish text that comes up when it's trying to display Chinese or Japanese but can't.
Then again I feel that it would be incredibly stupid to allow non-standard characters in the registry, but who knows...
I couldn't guess how it got there if it was a wrong lang. driver causing it. The only driver files available are the ones we put there (same as what's on the other 14k machines). Though the issue did occur right after swapping a mainboard (which our vender will swear is identical, but, yeah...) though who knows, it could have been like this for months. I'm wondering if this entry was generated upon a new device discovery and if it'll disappear if that device is unplugged. Guess if I'm calling to walk them through starting a restage anyway, having them unplug stuff first won't hurt.
PSN/Steam - Quantux
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lwt1973King of ThievesSyndicationRegistered Userregular
"I'm getting a lot of spam a day now."
"How much?"
"I think I've got about 5."
"..."
"He's sulking in his tent like Achilles! It's the Iliad?...from Homer?! READ A BOOK!!" -Handy
The staging media boots to winpe (Yes, the process is really that old. We never clean anything up) and starts a vnc-like app that I can use to connect and mess around with it in the live environment; should be able to move those files around. I'll give it a shot and if it still fails, guess I'll just continue the stage process.
So I have a weird one, and MS has jack for answers. I have a user who has an out of memory error when trying to open Excel sheets. We've reinstalled Excel, tried closing everything but Excel. It's different sheets and different times every day. I'm doing a saving throw against re-imaging her machine with the hive mind. Any thoughts?
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Apothe0sisHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality?Registered Userregular
What the hell is up with CAL licenses for Microsoft Servers? You have to license every user within your organisation who might use print sharing or whatever nonsense? That is balls crazy.
Oh joy, a Win XP machine where I can map a network drive by name and open it, I can open the server share with it's IP address in explorer, but not with its name.
And naturally rebooting the machine fixes it for no particularly discernible reason. Hoping forcing NetBIOS over TCP/IP to enabled was what worked.
What the hell is up with CAL licenses for Microsoft Servers? You have to license every user within your organisation who might use print sharing or whatever nonsense? That is balls crazy.
It's good to be the king, I guess.
Pretty much, it is for anyone that is connecting through AD. You can probably try getting away without any but if you got a software audit you would probably get hammered with a big fine.
Because if you're going to attempt to squeeze that big black monster into your slot you will need to be able to take at least 12 inches or else you're going to have a bad time...
Oh joy, a Win XP machine where I can map a network drive by name and open it, I can open the server share with it's IP address in explorer, but not with its name.
And naturally rebooting the machine fixes it for no particularly discernible reason. Hoping forcing NetBIOS over TCP/IP to enabled was what worked.
Very possible. XP does some weird shit with NetBIOS and uh...crap what's the Windows one...WINS. It's better than NT at least!
Machine in the lab wasn't powering on.
Oh, it's one of these stupid ones that has its own UPS.
Ah, looks like this UPS is dead.
Let's plug it right into the regular power rail, fuck that UPS. VVBWOP!
...
Oh, right. These rails are 220v.
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life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Machine in the lab wasn't powering on.
Oh, it's one of these stupid ones that has its own UPS.
Ah, looks like this UPS is dead.
Let's plug it right into the regular power rail, fuck that UPS. VVBWOP!
...
Oh, right. These rails are 220v.
¬_¬
I love the smell of burnt power supply in the morning...
That is, unless the $300 CPU/MOBO combo decided to save the $30 power supply by blowing first. You always have that.
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Recently, I upgraded one of these users and the bank that was supposed to issue her machine a certificate, but they didn't know how to handle a 64-bit machine. It took them over two weeks to fix the problem, but somehow it was my fault. My boss and I took flak for it the entire time, despite us showing time and again that it was out of our control/hands and that the bank needed to fix the problem. I fucking hate financial software.
Nobody learns powershell, they just google all the answers.
Downloading Sharepoint Designer 2007 in the hopes that it will shed some light, but I'm totally in the dark and the guy I'd normally ask is on his honeymoon.
Ugh, I know this feel. Back when I worked at the hospital I was constantly finding old, obscure, undocumented, unsupported, and--natch--business critical apps. It was super awful, too, since we had just switched from a patchwork of about 3 major systems and a bunch of smaller apps to one big new system that was supposed to unify everything. Except they didn't get everything rolled into it. Which wouldn't be so bad, but all the people supporting the old apps moved to supporting the new major system only, and us poor desktop techs were left supporting the legacy apps.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Is this just a matter of creating the %username% shares, setting the applicable GPO and letting the clients redirect and copy the relevant data, or is the data move something that has to be done manually?
With windows 7 there was something weird I had to do with the 'sync' center on some of the PCs. Can't recall what it was I had to do though.
Two things:
http://chuvash.eu/2012/12/11/powershell-copy-an-entire-document-library-from-sharepoint-2007-to-disk/
So when you go to the sharepoint site that has the documents you want to export, there isn't a library tab up top? And on that tab there isn't the View in explorer button?
Odd.
summary: monitor going out
details:My PC monitor is making shrill whistling noises. It's beginning to drive us nutty and some days that's a short trip.
I made a small tool yesterday to dig through an application's settings, grab all the port numbers that app has assigned to various machines, then sort and group those numbers into contiguous blocks; so you can see what ports are used already and which are free. I got sick of trying to look through a randomly ordered list of like 100 numbers.
My boss's reaction was basically: "See, this is why you're so much better than the guy you replaced."
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
When all else fails, just make a logon script.
Guess who all his stuff is handed over to.
I now have 57 open tickets.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaah.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
There are only a couple of tickets where I feel like I don't have the technical know-how to be able to deal with them, and a load where I just don't know company's own software / procedures well enough to be able to deal with them in a timely fashion.
That and having to learn batch, since we can't install any sensible scripting tools. Fuck batch. Every day I find another stupid idiosyncrasy that slows me down for a silly amount of time.
I'm also beginning to feel like working towards getting CCNA would be a good use of my time. the company wouldn't pay for it, but still. Its good to have.
Well, we're alway here for ya. Also, if you've batch, you've powershell. Way less stupid than batch.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
When that fails, put a script in \all users\start menu\startup :rotate:
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
The device in question is sda3. I ran the procedures on sdb3. Then I remember, and panic, and go back, and sda3 doesn't exist. Only sda and sda1. Is the driver no loading something? Is something wrong? I go googling on partitioning issues in CentOS. Spend about 30 minutes. Then I go back to check if maybe the partitions weren't being read. Boot the drive back to normal, check the partitioning space with fdisk. Boot back to the live usb image. I check sda.
sda is the usb drive.
I check sdb.
sdb is what I wanted in the first place.
I'm still learning linux.
We don't have PS, or at most we have PS 1 , which seems to be pretty terribly documented compared to ps 2+.
Are you on some unpatched xp machines or something?
7 comes with PowerShell 2 at minimum. Run $host.version to find out.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Laaaaaaame. I'm guessing they won't let you install it?
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I'm pretty sure that's what's causing devmgmt to take it's vacation (as it's in the exact section all my research says to check permissions in), and I'd love to just delete it but I can't. Standard windows "let's list a file you can't do anything to because I don't recognize it as a valid filename" crap.
I've tried every which way to delete, including the "RegDelNull" tool from sysinternals which sounds like it was made for this exact situation except for the fact it never finds anything to delete...
So I'm stuck looking at yet another restage (which I'd like to avoid as it requires tons of hacks and workarounds because we never clean up anything around here) unless anyone has an idea. Yes plug and play is started and running btw:)
Then again I feel that it would be incredibly stupid to allow non-standard characters in the registry, but who knows...
I couldn't guess how it got there if it was a wrong lang. driver causing it. The only driver files available are the ones we put there (same as what's on the other 14k machines). Though the issue did occur right after swapping a mainboard (which our vender will swear is identical, but, yeah...) though who knows, it could have been like this for months. I'm wondering if this entry was generated upon a new device discovery and if it'll disappear if that device is unplugged. Guess if I'm calling to walk them through starting a restage anyway, having them unplug stuff first won't hurt.
"How much?"
"I think I've got about 5."
"..."
In recovery console: should replace the file and then device manager should work. Note that you will probably have to reinstall all the drivers.
But the problem is you are across the country and I assume you don't have anyone on site you can use to muck around in recovery console.
She had her HDD replaced in her laptop two months ago and Hardware forgot to screw the drive in. It was only hanging on by the SATA connectors.
What baffles me was that she never called the *first* time it fell out.
I kinda did that by accident in a laptop once. Forgot to screw it back in. Whoops.
It's good to be the king, I guess.
And naturally rebooting the machine fixes it for no particularly discernible reason. Hoping forcing NetBIOS over TCP/IP to enabled was what worked.
Pretty much, it is for anyone that is connecting through AD. You can probably try getting away without any but if you got a software audit you would probably get hammered with a big fine.
Very possible. XP does some weird shit with NetBIOS and uh...crap what's the Windows one...WINS. It's better than NT at least!
Oh, it's one of these stupid ones that has its own UPS.
Ah, looks like this UPS is dead.
Let's plug it right into the regular power rail, fuck that UPS.
VVBWOP!
...
Oh, right. These rails are 220v.
¬_¬
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I love the smell of burnt power supply in the morning...
That is, unless the $300 CPU/MOBO combo decided to save the $30 power supply by blowing first. You always have that.