Posts by Montreal Sean

@caffeine addict

Unfriend one of your cousins then it won't be so gross.

Re: Links to resolutions, will work with any browser

@Tinslave

Not true! None of those resolutions will let me install and run IE/Edge!

And thank $deity for that!

Re: Sympathy for any employee, anywhere, since time began ...

Ah yes, experienced this recently.

It was brought up in a regional meeting that I wasn't HP Gen-9 Server certified.

When asked why, I told them that it had been decided (higher up) that it could not be justified to take me out of the field for 5 days of courses considering how few servers I repair since I am primarily a printer specialist.

Doesn't stop them sending me out on warranty repair calls for Gen-9 servers and then complaining that HP won't reimburse the labour...

Re: Annoying call or annoying field engineer?

I feel the field engineer's pain.

More than once I've been called out to a data center to replace a failed hard drive where the client's call center provided incomplete info in the ticket.

The ticket is supposed to contain the server rack location (room, row, cabinet number) as well as the server serial number.

I arrive onsite, sign in, provide my ID and ticket number, scan my iris at security, then again at the server room door.

Contact the help desk to request the missing location info and get told they don't know what the rack row and cabinet number and can I just look for the server with an amber HDD failure LED?

Sure guys I'll wander through the 1000 server racks all of which have at least two servers with failed drives in them and check serial numbers.

Not a chance. Call me back when you have the info, I don't care how irate your client is with you.

Upgraded the servers

Of course they've upgraded!

Don't you see the shiny new boxen?

Of course the internals are the same, the new internals having been pilferred by the BOFH for home use...

Re: Jukebox

I seem to recall Fonzie walked over, closed his fist and struck the song selection panel in downward motion...

Little did people know, their super cool guy was actually a very early IT guy. :)

Re: Only cracking I have done is

I recently had a locksmith out to my house to fix the mortise lock ony 100 year old front door.

While here he also took a look at my 5 year old dead bolt I had added to the door for extra security.

The dead bolt is a mechanical Weiser SmartKey (https://ca.weiserlock.com/en/deadbolts/)

He said they don't recommend them because they are pick proof so if I lose my key they would need to drill out the cylinder.

Isn't pick proof an advantage?

Re: Legitimate business interests

@Chronos

"...I have a legitimate interest in anyone trying to con me out of my personal information being force-fed a large bag of plump donkey dicks until they explode. That doesn't make it right, recommended or a reasonable path to take."

I disagree, it is a very reasonable path to take. :)

Re: At Mycho, re: mouse wheels...

@Shadow Systems

I replaced my stock mouse wheels with alloy rims made by Fast.

The traking speed really improved!

Re: More inclusive?

This would exclude my late father in law...

For him a salad had real mayonnaise, ham, potatoes, more ham, and thick cut bacon.

He didn't believe vegetables had any place in a salad.

Re: World Gin Day

Shouldn't World Hangover Day follow World Tequila Day?

Re: EU not content

Docking a cell phone in a base station...

Sounds like the Motorola Atrix, it had a keyboard/touchpad base with a laptop style screen. You docked the phone behind the LCD.

https://www.cnet.com/news/how-does-the-motorola-atrix-4g-lapdock-compare-with-a-laptop/

Re: El Reg Units

@Hot Diggity

I believe the sheep in a vacuum was the very first official El Reg standard unit of measurement.

Re: What on earth...

I'm shocked that his has gone on for so long.

Two packs of A4 side by side...

On the older LaserJet 8150 you could get this really nice 2000 sheet optional tray which if configured for 8.5x11 gave you enough room to stack unopened reams of paper next to the tray.

And people tried.

I had a call out to fix one such tray that was making grinding noises and giving an error.

Turns out they had loaded the tray with the accepted 2000 8.5x11 sheets, and stacked 4 packs of 8.5x11 paper to the left of it.

Poor motor and gears couldn't lift all that extra weight.

Billed them for a new 2000 sheet unit. User damage and all that.

FreeBSD and BIOS disabled drives

@John Brown

That almost happened to me when I was trying out PC-BSD (I think).

Fortunately I happened to notice more than one HDD got detected during then partitioning step of the install.

I quickly shut down the PC, removed the install disk, enabled the disabled HDD and booted into Windows.

Once I determined all was ok, I shut down the PC and disconnected the IDE cable for my Windows HDD before trying the BSD install again.

I really hate the support sites that pop up the instant messaging box asking if you need assistance.

I don't need a monkey reading a script, I just need the drivers for my server thank you very much.

iSocks

Never accept iSocks, they only work with iBoots and iShoes.

Re: Sounds a good idea

They also inherit the storage room in the underground garage.

The one full of quicklime, carpet rolls, shovels, and the fingerprints of bigger company's owner all over everything...

Re: Finally somebody said the truth

I wonder how they will fare on Montreal (Quebec) roads.

Our roads are so full of potholes that only drunks drive in a straight line.

If you manage to survive winter/spring without a pothole induced tire blowout, you are lucky. Last winter I hammered out two steel rims on my cars.

Will driverless cars avoid potholes or drive straight through?

Re: Isn't it time for LART to get updated?

LARTAAS of course.

Re: W**F Medical - *elus

I worked on a server that had the switches and patch panel installed in a wall mount rack above the server rack.

Said wall mount rack was very loosely mounted to the wall with a couple of small screws, with most of the support coming from the cat5 cables they had tied around a water supply pipe...

Re: Hardly a new idea

The microphone isn't on the front of all phones, most seem to be located in the bottom frame.

Maybe they'll do away with the selfie camera. Less duck face has to be good.

Re: Guilty

He's a hardened criminal!

Re: @Korev

Damn autocorrect, that should of course be Asterix.

It'll work fine

"It'll work fine. You just need the users logged out, and everything shutdown within 4 seconds. A challenge, but perfectly achievable for a true boffin!"

Bah! Users should be saving their work every 10 minutes or less.

If they didn't, too bad for them.

Ok, I may be a bit of a bastard...

Re: Hmmm

Gnomes?

Mine's running Xfce, it's mouse powered.

Re: Dabbsy, how could you forget

Domestic mouse ball with twist on cover is still available here, though it's very pricey!

http://www.memory4less.com/ibm-mouse-33f8462

Re: Need more info..

" "every cloud "privacy" policy I've ever read says that anything uploaded to it can be used by the vendor (or their "affiliates) or sold to whomever buys the company when they go tits-up."

An unfortunate/appropriate* turn of phrase, given the story's subject matter.

*delete according to mood"

Well, short of photographic evidence we don't know if they are up or down in this case...

I'll get my coat.

PFY incarnations

I'm pretty sure the current PFY is not the original PFY.

If memory serves, didn't one graduate and move to another company?

Re: Website Guide to IVR

We have a menu system for our multi purpose phone line at work.

The line is used for customers to open tickets and check progress, as well as used by our techs for support and ordering parts.

I programmed the menu numbers to get to the support/part order section (including adding the pauses) into the contact entry on my cellphone so it would do it for me. :)

Re: Once upon a time... and possibly sticky

Hopefully she wasn't studying to be a coroner... :p

Re: Balls

@Chewi

I know this is a British site, but that's not an appropriate tea bag use!

If they use it for pizza delivery...

The porn industry will need to come up with new story lines...