There’s a packet stuck…

Had a customer call up one of the other techs that I worked with, and explain that he could not communicate with one of their servers. He told the other tech what he had done to troubleshoot, and then declared that “I think there’s some DATA STUCK IN THE CABLE.” He was completely serious. He actually thought that there were little folders that streamed back & forth through the CAT5 like it was a hose… The worst part is that he was their Network Administrator!

All of us techs that were in the room spent the next several days thinking up methods & contraptions to clean the data out of the cable (shake it like an etch-a-sketch, blow it out with canned air, coat hanger with a q-tip, etc)

BTW, the issue actually ended up being that he had managed to destroy the TCP/IP stack on a 2k3 Server because he was using a production box as a test lab…

via: [Spiceworks Community]

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Brown Friday Deal

Here it is folks, your Brown Friday Deal of the week. This one is pretty sweet!

For sale is a HP desktop w/ all extras…. including a Wifi router and wifi connection for the desktop. Everything you need! Includes printer, monitor, CPU, mouse and keyboard. Everything is working and was used up to when I listed it. The computer was factory restored so you can set it up the way you want it. Uses Microsoft XP for software. 200 GB hardrive, 512 MB of sdram, and this computer has a dual cd/dvd burner that also has the ability to light scribe on disks. Never had a problem with this computer. Selling because we already have two laptops and do not need a third computer.

asking $400 obo, will consider reasonable trades

Put HP computer in subj heading if your interested…and
Feel free to email me with any questions.

Only $400?