Ah, cat hair! Loved the stuff (not). Back in the 90s I worked in a TV repair shop and found any number of items shoved into VHS machines that gummed the works, but the the funniest was the half-eaten peanut butter sandwich some tyke had crammed in.
Posts by mmlj4
6 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jun 2018
How to keep a support contract: Make the user think they solved the problem
Crims target telcos' Linux and Solaris boxes, which don't get enough infosec love
Perl Foundation faces more departures after pausing Community Affairs Team
Breaking Bad or just a bad breakpoint? That feeling when your predecessor is BASIC
Trainee techie ran away and hid after screwing up a job, literally
Friday 22nd June 2018 20:21 GMT
cable modem installer fail
I used to install cable modems for Cox, and my trainer told the story of the time he was asked to put a coax outlet in some woman's kitchen, so she could watch the soaps. He dutifully marked off where the line would be put, stripped off enough cable to be able to tie into the junction box outside and to run around the inside wall to where the outlet was to be placed, then drilled his hole through the outside wall of the house and pushed the 20 feet or so of cable into the hole. But he wasn't able to find the cable when he went inside to the kitchen. Something made him open the fridge after a few minutes of looking in cabinets and what have you, and there was his 20 feet of cable inside the fridge, sitting on top of a casserole.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
