Worst Person for the JobIn a week where it emerges that the new Health Secretary is a fan of the hocus-pocus that is homeopathy, tell us about people who are spectacularly out of their depth in a job. Have you ever found yourself wallowing in your own incompetence? Tell us. (Note: "Name of football manager/politician - nuff said" does not constitute an answer)
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 6 Sep 2012, 12:48)
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I've done better than that.In the olden days, I was admin for a Novell network. I was upgrading the main fileserver, and had to back up the system config. Novell uses a set of files called the 'bindery' files, which I suppose were roughly equivalent to the registry and used database on a Windows domain.
Anyway, I dutifully backed it up and set up the new server.
When I came to restore the bindery to the new server, I discovered I had actually restored a blank config to the original server, thus trashing the config.
In my defence, the two programs were stupidly named - bindfix for backing up, and bindrest for restoring it (if memory serves correctly, it was the best part of 20 years ago).
Took me 2 days to sort that little fuck up out.
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I'm an ex Novell EngineerI remember the pain and confusion of their command line and dodgy DOS apps to manage their servers. Back then this idea of a GUI based LAN was a pipe dream.
Aaahhh How i miss 80 floppy installs that had to be started from scratch if the driver didn't properly bind to one of the NE2000s.
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Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Wed 12 Sep 2012, 16:41,
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Frame types!Took me several hours to realise that having 802.2 instead of 802.3 in the config files of over 50 PCs was why nothing whatsoever was appearing on the network.
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