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The Case Of The First Problem Revisited

Posted onNovember 28, 2011

“Have you got any idea on why this stupid postscript driver for the digital printer/copier keeps spitting out the output below?” ‘Yes, the printer does Read More …

CategoriesPrinting, Psychic Troubleshooting, Stories

“I have a user on site that has over 20gig in a CSC folder in windows”

Posted onNovember 10, 2010October 16, 2020

In a Windows 7 Administration course today, I was telling this story, which my fellow students thought was hilarious.  Back in early 2007, this email Read More …

CategoriesLast Job, Stories, Windows

“I recommend we build a tracking database”

Posted onJuly 26, 2010February 26, 2021

I am always reminded of this Dilbert cartoon whenever a customer has a large complex problem at work, and some genius suggests “We’ll build a Read More …

CategoriesSoftware, Stories

“What is this ‘Furphy’ you refer to?

Posted onJuly 22, 2010July 22, 20104 Comments

Or when I stopped using Australian slang in international telephone calls. May 22, 2003. When the CA Unicenter Remote Product started up on Windows 98SE, Read More …

CategoriesStoriesTagsCA, Stories

“It is better to have and not need, than need and not have.”

Posted onJune 16, 2010January 11, 2012

As I said to the boss the other day when he asked if we wanted a final backup of the Windows 2000 Server we were Read More …

CategoriesQuotations, StoriesTagsBackup, Quotations, Stories

Ecclesiastes 1:9

Posted onFebruary 12, 20102 Comments

as I said to a co-worker, applies. The problem? We were running out of network drive space.  The network drive, where our 2000 customers store Read More …

CategoriesStoriesTagsPAWA, Security

“What do you do for a living?”

Posted onFebruary 11, 2010February 21, 2010

“Not IT, no sir-ee.  I shuffle papers for a living.  See the shine in the seat of my trousers?  Don’t leave my chair all day” Read More …

CategoriesPersonal, Stories

Backup mistakes I’ve made.

Posted onJanuary 12, 2010January 10, 2010

Confessions can be good.  Here are mine around backup mistakes I’ve made. Copy “new” backup disk over the “old” backup disk. The “new” disk was Read More …

CategoriesHow To, StoriesTagsBackup

Tape backup, reliable? Never ever!

Posted onDecember 30, 2009January 1, 20176 Comments

  Or how tape backups have failed my customers over the years, and wasted our collective time, because of customer stupidity. Melted tapes The school Read More …

CategoriesHardware, How To, StoriesTagsBackup, DAT, QIC, Tape

Leaving Geocities: “This website has won No Awards at all”

Posted onNovember 2, 2009November 15, 2009

With Geocities shutting down, I had to move the CTOS Faq site. CTOS, my friends, was an kick-ass operating system which was released in 1979, Read More …

CategoriesSoftware, StoriesTagsCTOS, Operating System, Unisys

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