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  • #16
    WWeeeelll, I could tell you of the server that had been setup five times, for a three day lapse, and refused to work once and again... last day, after a final failure, the tech doing it (we knew him as the Jedi, only tech worth his salt that ever stepped on this company... ) gave up and left for home... as he was doing so, he had a few chocolates in his hand that he was taking home, and looking at the machine, with a sigh he placed one of the chocolates in top of the case, as a goodbye gift...

    The next day, he was about to try again, when he powered it, the machien booted up and started working correctly... we kept that chocolate over it as an offering for all the years that server was in production.
    I pet animals, I rescue insects, I hug trees.

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    • #17
      ......

      *Puts a piece of sugar-free chocolate on top of his tower*

      There. Be good, Bishamon!
      Now a member of that alien race called Management.

      Yeah, you see that right. Pink. Harness.

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      • #18
        Quoth RetailWorkhorse View Post
        *Puts a piece of sugar-free chocolate on top of his tower*
        Sugar free? I predict hard drive failure inside a week.

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        • #19
          Chocolate! *numnumnumnumnum*

          I didn't see nuthin.

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          • #20
            First rice, then chocolate, what's next? Steak? You gotta teach the computer who's boss!

            For example, I once kicked a computer until it worked (the most appropriate way to "reboot", just wear steel-toed shoes when you do). It was an old piece of crap on the call floor at the company where I was the IT Manager. It was throwing fits, giving all sorts of random problems, nothing consistant. There were no spare systems to swap it out with, I had taken the thing apart completely, made sure everything was plugged in how it was supposed to, reformatted it, NOTHING worked!

            The guy that had to use it called me over because it was going nuts, AGAIN! I just have him move aside and then just started kicking the thing over and over as hard as I could, even put a few dents in the case (I was wearing my steel-toed shoes ). Everybody on the call floor was at this point looking over to see what was going on. After I had kicked it about a dozen or so times, I powered it off and then back on. It never had a single problem after that and ran just fine for another year until it was replaced.

            One of the call floor supervisors later asked me what I had done to fix it:

            "I just rebooted it a few times... "

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            • #21
              Moved to Unsupportable - more appropriate here, really. Damn fine tale, though.

              Rapscallion

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              • #22
                Quoth Darkwish View Post

                One of the call floor supervisors later asked me what I had done to fix it:

                "I just rebooted it a few times... "
                In the navy we referred to that as percussive maintenance

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                • #23
                  Ah, yes, percussive maintence. Sometimes, the only thing certain parts seem to understand. :P

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                  • #24
                    That used to happen with my old CRT monitor. Towards the end of it's life it would start bowing inwards on the sides. To fix it, I would have to smack it.

                    I finally got tired of it when even that wouldn't work and bought myself the LCD which I'm using right now.

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                    • #25
                      My old CRT got the mighty fist of percussive maintenance too. It was pretty old to start with, and about halfway through the semester just started to turn off for no good reason. Click, no power, no visual. At first, I blindly shut down my computer and waited for a couple of minutes before booting back up, and that worked. But it was painfully tedious, and I lost whatever I was working on every time it happened.

                      Then, one day, I smacked the side of the monitor in frustration when it turned off. Click, visual back up. I stared dumbfounded for a while, then saved what I was doing before continuing. Some while later, it blinked out again, and I smacked it again. It came back on again.

                      I kept that up until the day there was a little pop! and the thing refused to wake up anymore. After that, my friend and I disassembled the monitor just to see what the inside looked like. (Which is also where we learned to be very careful not to crack the vaccuum tube. Scared the crap out of us.)
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                      • #26
                        I only replaced my 19 inch CRT when it went up in a shower of sparks, from a short caused by a loose connector panel. That was fun! Thankfully, it was still under warrenty, and now I have a new 22 inch widescreen LCD for free.

                        Whoo! Looks like this is now the newest comic. %D
                        Last edited by Dragon_Dreamer; 03-30-2009, 10:43 PM.

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                        • #27
                          Ahahahahaha...
                          I don't get paid enough to kiss your a**! -Groezig 5/31/08
                          Another day...another million braincells lost...-Sarlon 6/16/08
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                          • #28
                            I had a Macintosh keyboard many years ago that would overheat after about 15 minutes and quit...

                            So I took the upper frame/cover off and ran for months replacing ice cubes...

                            in a condom sitting on the brain chip.
                            I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
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                            • #29
                              Ahh, percussion maintenance... My mothers old minivan had an odd squeak under the dash, which we would fix by banging a fist on the dash above the squeak. I once scared the crap out of an SO by doing that without warning.

                              Also, as proof of point of the uselessness of the people who set up the computer system at my clinic... If you want to open the CD drive on the computer that runs the X-ray viewer, you have to push the button, wait for the tray to whurrr, then smack it. Ta da! It opens...
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