Locked out of the brew cabin

flowjoe · Post: # 35756Post **flowjoe** Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:31 am

Im getting 2.2 horse power on this old gas fired box of tricks.

Good mad Sean for bringing it back down to my level, thought i had logged into the wrong bloody forum for a second there.

Post: # 35757Post **seanandruby** Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:22 am

I was always taught if you are above some one in the intelligence stakes, to bring your self down to the other persons level. But there is only so far i am prepared to go :laugh:

flowjoe · Post: # 35758Post **flowjoe** Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:59 am

Post: # 35759Post **Tony McC** Sat Mar 21, 2009 10:24 am

A friend in the IT support business told me of an acronym they use at work - PICNIC. Problem's in chair, not in computer!

No offence, GB!

I've partially unblocked IP 92.*.*.* but a large chunk of that address is used by our East European chums with their phoney pharmaceuticals and ladies in need of clothing, so we might be inflicted with more of that drivel.

Post: # 35760Post **msh paving** Sat Mar 21, 2009 10:33 am

I can delete that junk prety quick........

Post: # 35766Post **seanandruby** Sat Mar 21, 2009 3:32 pm

flowjoe wrote:???

:;):

Sat Mar 21, 2009 3:48 pm

in the I.T world there is a bit of a legend called the bofh stands for b*****d operator from hell and a load of stories about him punishing people for asking for support blowing up computer etc so there is all sorts of stuff built up around him etc one is the excuse generator. we had it printed out on A0 behind duty mans desk, consists of 3 or 4 columns of words and you randomly read off one from each column and use that to explain to the user why there comp aint working. haha so you'd get something like random stack overload haha never had one questioned.

http://bofh.ntk.net/ExcuseBoard.html

haha amazing what you can get away with working for a $20 billion dollar company,

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Post: # 35771Post **Tony McC** Sat Mar 21, 2009 5:07 pm

I'm worried now because I've heard a lot of those terms over the last few weeks as I've struggled to get a NAS drive to co-operate with my network!

Sat Mar 21, 2009 5:29 pm

tony if i can be assistance let me know the bsc in computer networks should really be used now and again to justify the 12k of student debt haha, but i mainly specialise in unix and not a fan of windows haha.

flowjoe · Post: # 35776Post **flowjoe** Sat Mar 21, 2009 7:42 pm

GB_Groundworks wrote:in the I.T world there is a bit of a legend called the bofh stands for b*****d operator from hell and a load of stories about him punishing people for asking for support blowing up computer etc so there is all sorts of stuff built up around him etc one is the excuse generator. we had it printed out on A0 behind duty mans desk, consists of 3 or 4 columns of words and you randomly read off one from each column and use that to explain to the user why there comp aint working. haha so you'd get something like random stack overload haha never had one questioned.

WTF!!!!!!!

flowjoe · Post: # 35777Post **flowjoe** Sat Mar 21, 2009 7:44 pm

seanandruby wrote:
flowjoe wrote:???

:;):

Post: # 35779Post **seanandruby** Sat Mar 21, 2009 11:23 pm

flowjoe wrote:
seanandruby wrote:
flowjoe wrote:???

:;):

:p

Tommy · Post: # 35782Post **Tommy** Sun Mar 22, 2009 1:47 am

I thinks Joe, (I am quite drunk at this moment) that GB means, when he was working for such and such company, they would fob the customer help line, with random phrases, which the layman would'nt question - due to the fact they could do their duties on the Pc and nowt else.

By the way, I've used Virgin Media for a number of years, and never suffered any major problems, such as not being able to log in to sites and such. - only the occaisional slow period

Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:17 am

the reason i left bulldog was everytime there was a problem i got
" have you tried resetting your router, sir?"
lol
LLL

Sun Mar 22, 2009 12:44 pm

i wasn't customer facing, we were 2nd line support for the front line reset boys, plus it was internal support for the company. we'd fix the servers and network back bone rather than dealing with printer out of ink stuff. but still the numpties on the help desk used to pass us stuff that would be a simple user error, take 2 seconds to fix but then they'd want an answer as why they couldn't work all morning. couldn't really say that it was their fault and then the inefficiency of a big comapny meant it didn't get to me for 3 hours.

a Extraneous Logic-Subsystem Anomoly sounds a lot better haha

just to clear is wasn't fobbing them off from our office in munich we covered europe, asia, australisa, africa, everywhere apart from the states and we had to maintain a 99.998% up time which allowed us about 5 minutes downtime a year on the servers. we had some servers that hadn't been rebooted in 8 years, if your geeky they were very cool haha.

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