Oldies vs ComputersAs someone who is "good with computers" I get a lot of calls from people who've got problems. Some of them even have problems with their computers.
Back many years ago working for a telecoms company, I was called to a senior secretary who "had put a disk into the drive and couldn't get it out". She had one of the first Mac II machines with two drive slots. But only one drive.
Opening up the case revealed stacks of floppy disks that she'd been posting through the hole in the case for weeks. She'd only decided there was a problem when her boss wanted one of them back...
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chthonic, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 13:58)
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The OhFuckSecond ...Or ... the penalties of running a KVM Switch.
At work we used to run 2 SQL databases - Live and Reserve. Part of the weekly procedure was to flatten the Reserve database and rebuild it from the Live one.
Got most of the way through the checks on both databases and was on the Reserve screen when I got called away to deal with an 'on-air' issue.
Returned some minutes later to continue. Unbeknownst to me MeColleague had been in the room and worked on the Live database, which he had left on screen. Verily did I type Drop Database and had my finger on the Enter key when I noticed the green DB Connected light in the corner of the window.
Backspace backspace backspace backspace. That's the OhFuckSecond.
(, Sat 23 Sep 2006, 10:59, Reply)
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