--- title: "There goes an hour or two" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/6/there-goes-an-hour-or-two.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/6/there-goes-an-hour-or-two.html" published: "2003-07-06T05:18:00" updated: "2003-07-06T05:18:00" tags: ["Off Topic"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "So much for a productive day. My work machine's hard disk failed, appearently during the weekend, so I get to work, and I find a nice black screen with nothing but a \"Disk Read Error\" message. Ugh. Why does that even…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # There goes an hour or two By Roy Osherove July 6, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) **Historical article** · Originally published July 6, 2003; technical details may be outdated. So much for a productive day. My work machine's hard disk failed, appearently during the weekend, so I get to work, and I find a nice black screen with nothing but a "Disk Read Error" message. Ugh. Why does that even happen in this day & age? Perhaps we should all start working like in the CIA - all terminals are actually thin clients working against a big mainframe. Did you know those terminals don;t even have Had Drives? So you won't be able to copy informaiton  (They don't have copiers for the same reason) - at least that's what I've learned watching "The Recruit" movie this weekend.  What can I say (If I may digress a litlle..) that movie sucked big time. You've got all that security, yet people still manage to sneak out information using a simple USB hard drive which they connect to their keyboad. How stupid is that? So I move to a different machine so I can continue working, and boy - what a difference a seat makes. All my settings , my favorite settings! gone like the wind! made me think of an idea for software that takes your computer settings and applies them into a different machine(like the [vs.Net add-in](http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/posts/9732.aspx) thingy only on a different scale) I'm not talking about moving entire programs, i'm just talking advanced automatic tweaking stuff - like removing the "Really delete? are you absolutely sure that you would like to delete this file you confused little user you?" dialog from the recycle bin and so on... ## More in Off Topic [All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) - Jul 7, 2003 ### [Passport identity change](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/7/passport-identity-change.html) - Jul 7, 2003 ### [Silly quote of the day](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/7/silly-quote-of-the-day.html) - Jul 4, 2003 ### [How's this for less eye strain](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/4/hows-this-for-less-eye-strain.html) - Jul 4, 2003 ### [I’ve just learned that a friend of mine is looking for a job.](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/4/ive-just-learned-that-a-friend-of-mine-is-looking-for-a-job.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/