On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 13:51, Ken Schneider wrote:
It looks like you have had some fun on the job at times. Maybe frustrating when first finding the problem but then fun when the problem was solved.
A co-worker of mine was having a problem trying to find out why a server was running so slow one time, a VAX/VMS system. Turns out someone had set something on the system keyboard and the key repeat was going bonkers. The sysadmin rarely used the system keyboard.
It can be worse (not even from BOFH) College of mine was complaining that he didn't get any response anymore from a vax-780. He phoned the helpdesk several times, but they didn't observe any different system behaviour. An hour later the "problem" was found: The silly sod had pressed the "hold-screen-key" ..... Since then my favourite acronym is "pebkac" Or Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair. Hans