Reply to post: Re: Happened long ago, Filippo.

Naughty sysadmins use dark magic to fix PCs for clueless users

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Re: Happened long ago, Filippo.

A personal favourite:

A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.

Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.”

Knight turned the machine off and on.

The machine worked.

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