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Just had a nice call from a South Asian sounding man, from Virgin media support.
Apparently something is slowing down my router. He asked me to download Anydesk RemoteDesktop. Sweet. So, at that point I had to go and pick up the post in the kitchen where our postie had just left it. Anyway, then I had to go back and apologise for the delay and explain that our landline is a bit temperamental. Upon which it cut out.
The now blocked number is:- 017393319449.
…I will have to go and find the torch to look in the cupboard low down in the kitchen. The torch will flicker and then go out. No amount of shaking it will re-generate the batteries. Having replaced the batteries and bent double to get into the cupboard, piles of old bags and a half empty wine rack will need to crawled past.
Then I will discover that the smart meter is fairly new and will not need an upgrade… until it does.
Back in the late seventies I was working at a systems supplier that had a mid-range sort of machine in a glossy glass enclosed room that looked pretty slick from the outside.
On rare occasions one of the hard drive cabinets would see its disk power down for no apparent reason. As a mate pointed out, there was a reason. If you opened the front panel you could see that the rubber band had come off the disk gearing.
Power off, force rubber band back into place, power on and then run the job again.