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So the data centre s getting a little hot – at 57°C, that s quite the understatement
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With nothing to go on, Sean ordered in nine complete sets of hardware and paid the eye-watering extra cost to get the kit delivered same day. The next morning, armed with a bulging site pack full of gear, he hopped on a train to London and set off on a voyage into the unknown.
He was at least a little familiar with the client s site and, upon arrival, headed directly to the location where the stricken devices had been installed.
They were all working perfectly. Apart from one, which just needed to be switched on.
The client turned up shortly after, wanting to know how long the job was going to take.
Practical jokes: just don t
Richard Speed Fri 23 Apr 2021 // 07:31 UTC Share
On Call Welcome to another entry in
The Register s On Call files, where we learn that the hilarious pranks of an IT joker can be enjoyed as much as millionaire actor George Clooney s fun leg-pulling. Jim returns once more to pages of On Call with a tale of poorly targeted japery and an unfunny practical joke. Is there any other sort?
We skip once more to the 1980s and the mighty IBM XT, a fleet of which Jim was tasked with supporting. Data entry had been done by punch cards back in the day, but the PC now reigned supreme. Keypunchers banged in information via keyboard, as Jim explained: Floppy disks holding the keypunch program were inserted to provide the OS, and then the other floppy in a dual system held the precious data, from which the company earned its crust.
Not quite what we meant by disk capacity
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On Call Welcome back to On Call and a timely reminder that no matter how careful and clear you think your instructions are, a user will somehow always misunderstand.
Our tale, from a reader Regomised as Keith , takes us back to simpler times: the era of the 5.25-inch floppy disk and software updates mailed out to users rather than flung out at inconvenient times by an unforgiving internet.
Keith recalled a call from a customer complaining that the update of the company s proprietary software had not worked.
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