Posts by Great White North

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Re: Bachelor of Advanced Pencil Sharpening

Where do these rank in relation to Honorary GEDs?

After we fix that, how about we also accidentally break something important?

Reminds me of of the Engineer in the corner, he did the Hydraulic design, he would do some of his work with the actual fittings, and

then toss them in the bottom drawers of his desk (usually 1/4 inch fittings).

After awhile any time there was a reorg that required a move, the 1st thing we did was book a forklift to move his desk.

Nigerian faces up to 102 years in the slammer for $1.5M phishing scam

Correction

The last paragraph "Just a few weeks ago the DoJ sentenced a Georgia resident to a decade in prison ".

The DOJ doesn't sentence anyone the Court does.

A thump with the pointy end of a screwdriver will fix this server! What could possibly go wrong?

Re: 486 DX/50

Around these parts it's know as a "Univac Wack".

Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks

Device Names

Larry, Moe & Curly (the laser printer), Harpo, Groucho, Chico & Karl (the plotter).

Seriously, boss? You want that stupid password? OK, you get that stupid password

Did he save the Company?

Or maybe he saved the Company.

The password kept the MD from mucking with system, they then had to hire someone who knew what they were doing.

You can never have too many backups. Also, you can never have too many backups

Re: Hardly on topic

40+ years later

Register

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Lapping the computer room in record time until the inevitable happens

Re: I used

20 lb bottles of CO2, that's all I am saying.

How one techie ended up paying the tab on an Apple Macintosh Plus

Re: Max file length

Then there is the cat in the microwave urban legend about

the Secretary with the shiny new MAC that used

MacPaint as a word processor.

I will not mention the person who stored their files in the Trashcan.

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How do you call support when the telephones go TITSUP*?

I worked nights for a former large international mainframe company.

When things got slow my office mate and I would play with the phone system.

One night I put together a multi hop call to him, as I recall we managed to hit London, Paris, Hong Kong & Toyko multiple times to the point that there was many seconds delay from my phone to his which was 10 feet away.

Mate, it's the '90s. You don't need to be reachable every minute of every hour. Your operating system can't cope

Ah yes 110 baud acoustical couplers, I can whistle the connect tone, great fun to walk through the computer lab and get all the not in use modems trying to connect.