A Man Named Henry
I met a guy named Henry while I was working today. I was 1/3 techs onsite (It was a Polo Ralph Lauren store), Henry was one of them. He's semi-bald, in his 40's, and he's pretty rad. We upgraded their server system and replaced...
Wired presents: 7 Videos Of A Sysadmin’s Worst Nightmares
Found this some time ago... via Wired.com.I have to say, these are definitely the stuff of nightmares as a sysadmin - heck, we had water dripping on a few servers a couple years back, and THAT was disastrous enough![youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK4iS7d2AyU][youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhlhj-_7Rrc][youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBENKXrxJZI][youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M_QTBENR1Q][youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSy1wTzWdxk] via:
“No joke.”
So one year ago I was working off-site phone-based tech support for a very large pharmaceutical company; mostly email issues, VPN stuff, "...my printer needs ink."
Anyway, last April Fools Day I got a call from a user saying there was a problem with their...
I think your friend is a troll. Just sayin.
An oldie, but since it's never been posted here...I give you more from the "Round peg, square hole" files...via:
Go Daddy gets owned: your inbox not as full as a result
Go Daddy, the ubiquitous online hosting and registration service got owned today by a person named @AnonymousOwn3r - note that there seems to be some contention whether this person is really a part of Anonymous or not.In any case, AnonymousOwn3r has not made it...
Buy this guy a beer -or- How to anger a local “computer fixit” shop
(edited) - RobI was at a restaurant, and while waiting for a table, I decided to check out the computer store located next to it. While in the store, I was messing around on an Acer Iconia 6120 (neat, but not very practical) demo...
Surely your outage has nothing to do with you unplugging equipment you don’t understand…
First off I will say that I work for a very large retail corporation who makes billions annually and has a very large IT department but only a handful work on the actual Network side of things. I'm in the Network category, all 25...
Your mailbox runneth over
The college runs a Remedy helpdesk solution. One of the deans had a problem with her computer, they created a ticket, and of course Remedy sent a copy of the ticket to her. The problem was that she had set up the out-of-office assistant...
