Mike’s Blog

VMware gave a big yawn, and settled down to sleep. And of course when VMware goes to sleep, all his friends go to sleep too. The users’ connections were just ornaments on the hard disk. Mail and DNS services were just dolls. And apache was a carved wooden bookend in the shape [...]

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Client calls us today:
Client: I need to restart our server.
Us: Why?
C: I’ve just Hoovered it.
U: Why have you Hoovered your server?
C: Because the clean light came on.
U: We’ll get you a new cleaning tape for your tape drive.
C: Do I still need to restart the server?
U: Errr, no.
Phone down and howls of laughter. How the [...]

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I just have to share with you todays classic.
A home user customer brought their PC in with a long list of problems.
He brought along his expert friend who proceeded to educate us on
various PC problems and how to fix them. 99% of the problems were down
to the user and not the machine. However, one problem [...]

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Todays collection of priceless quotes and cock-ups from our lovely customers.
Absence makes the mail go slower:
Cust: I can’t send any emails at the moment. I wondered wether it was anything to do with the new firewall?
Us: We haven’t installed your new firewall yet!
Cust: Yes I know but I just wondered wether that might have something [...]

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Get a call from a client today strangely from a mobile. “Our phones have stopped working!” Turns out they plugged their hoover into the UPS for the phone system..

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