Posts by conunstradamus

COBOL

on a keypunch. Now that's quaint laddie.

Did you hear the one

about the PFY replacing a switch with a hub - in a CAD office? Shot that one was.

Or the modem line with call waiting?

Or troubleshooting network connectivity issues on a non-English desktop through a non-techie translator in a non-English environment - in the middle of the desert in the American southwest?

Or the server room with regular water fire sprinklers?

Or high (>110' F) ambient outdoor temperatures combined with a decades old, overhead copper wire plant and analog switches that rendered useless anything other than analog voice communication? A good wind in a dust storm nipped even the basic phone call.

Stimpyfication

"Most of the admins I've ever dealt with were kind of "difficult". They need to learn to think like the users do and speak the language the users speak, as anyone should do for their customers"

F*ck that.