Posts by Darren Radley

BOFH: Smash + grab

It's given me an idea...

After spending a day troubleshooting WINS on a crappy old NT4 network (yes, one of our customers still has it). I feel a move of equipment coming along at the datacentre.

Mine's the one with castor in the pocket....

Yes! It's the Knight Rider satnav!

Does it have....

Turbo boost? Or Autopilot?

If not, it's not really Knight Rider

Shopper connects to Jesus via Denon link cable

I'm rich I tell ya!

Hmm, 100m of Cat5e sitting in my shed. Got some RJ45's somewhere as well.

Should have my mortgage paid off after making a few of these cables and selling them on ebay....

Mine's the one with the £50 notes falling out of the pockets.

Not happy with PC World's customer service?

IT's Dead Jim

Back in the days of 33.6k dialup I had the misfortune of troubleshooting a modem a fried purchased from PCWorld. Only to find that the card was DOA. I spent 20 minutes arguing with the tech monkey. It was very much like the famous Monty Python sketch involving a customer, shop worker and a parrot!

Anyhow I still go there to have a nose around get them to demo the latest shiny toy, then walk out laughing at their lack of knowledge and buy on-line elsewhere.

EIther that or I just go in there to wind them up when I've had a crap day!