Many moons ago a colleague phoned a small Scottish school to diagnose a problem with their dial-up modem link. Nothing obvious, so he got the woman to try a 3-pin reset... "turn the power off, count 5, then turn it back on again". She put the phone down while he waited on the phone. He suddenly went white as a sheet and swore as he heard in the distance "well the man told me to do it"... yes folks, she had gone to the consumer unit and turned off the power to the whole building... luckily it was a one-room school house and only the lights and a single PC were affected (PC just rebooted)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
