Posts by earlyjester 30 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Mar 2011
I remember from days gone by of a certain companies switch that had an issue with memory and that if it failed it was left in a state where it could answer to a poll to say it was functioning but it wasn't. This stopped the backup from taking over and all traffic being serviced.
The actual details fail me. It would be good to know the manufacturer and age of the switch.
Many many many years ago, a police force had problems booting a server with a certain very old OS (they openly admitted they had done something wrong during the install), they would not allow remote access and did not want someone going onsite due to security.
They offered to send us the server which they did. On receipt it did have a boot error, but this was different to the reported one, they had taken out the HDD with the bodged install and destroyed it.
We sent them the chassis back, they put in a new drive and installed the OS which worked fine and they were very happy with the service they received from us.
i.e. you may not want to rely on the internal expertise.....
No no no.... it doesn't just work, you have to set it up then like any operating system you have bugs, security issues, apps that crash, wifi issues, maps problems, design flaws.
This is apple marketing at its finest that I hear people quote even after they have had issues.
I would like to say no one released products that don't work but I have been in the industry to long to say silly things.
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