Being a computer geek, I have a few computers at home. The one that I use the most, which I built a couple of years ago, was acting up recently. Not booting up, making funny (but not hard drive crashing style) noises, freezing at random intervals during start up, etc. This led to me dissecting the whole thing, stripping it down to the most basic pieces, and swapping those out with ones from my other machines and spare parts. At one point in this process I decided to take a spare hard drive, use my old Windows machine to format it, and then try that one. So I booted up my Windows machine, spent an hour or two going through all the security patches, virus updates, required Windows updates, etc (have I mentioned lately how much I love Linux?) and hooked up the spare drive to format. I opened up the old Computer Management window, and started formatting the drive:
Who says Windows isn't friendly?
And was reminded of one of my favorite instances of an unfortunate default column width pared with an ellipse:
The drooling frowny face of formatting
Doesn’t exactly instil confidence that this process is going to end well.