Hans Witvliet wrote:
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
BEFH (E=Engineer). Big system down problem in Vienna, the worldwide Tech Support guy from the States on site, thinking aloud, he said it could be a driver card or cable, he left the computer room for a few minutes, returning to see Herr Schmirder, the site Engineer, cutter in hand and a ribbon cable severed saying he was remaking the connections - swift trip to the toolbox for a hammer, he chased him out of the computer room and whenever he poked his head around the door, out came the hammer and the term schmirderized was born. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Large Computer Systems Specialist - Retired Hamradio Callsign G3VBV and Keen Private Pilot Aeroplanes, Linux, Computers and Cricket my major passions ===== LINUX USED HERE, A Microsoft-free Computing Environment ====