Re: Do what I mean, not what I say.

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:55:56 +0000, Jeff Liebermann sez:
To this person, "reset the router" means punch the reset button. He
did, and for a long enough hold time to clear all the settings to
defaults. To insure maximum damage, the DSL modem has also been reset
to defaults, which required putting it back into the bridging mode.

Oh, you wanna swap stupid hardware stories? Back when I started working
for my current employer about 15 years ago, we were a small shop with
maybe a dozen 386/486 boxes hooked up on a LANtastic network. At least
once a day, the server would shut down, which, with LANtastic, meant that
any unsaved work was lost forever because the application (usually
WordPerfect) would lock up trying to access the drive on which it was
hosted.

The server was located behind the receptionist's desk under the table
where they had the fax machine. After some investigation, we discovered
the problem: One employee who didn't like to bend down when she sent a
fax would always kneel on the floor in front of the fax machine, and as
often as not her knee would bump up against the rocker switch on the
front of the server. Power off, there goes the network. She was always
good about turning it back on, but not before the damage had been done.

Then there was the time our Christmas tree lights overloaded the same
circuit our training lab was on, and I lost 15 hours of a data conversion
project that had been running overnight.

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