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Troubleshooting Bloopers or Chuckles

Troubleshooting can be most perplexing. Sometimes we talk to ourselves, and embark on bizarre journeys in these efforts. I've done some bizarre things in 'trying' to fix problems through the years only to create more chaos. Along the way I've cried, chuckled and learned.

I'd love to see COMMENTS about some other bloopers that made you chuckle, and will award the best chuckle-inducer with points. Sometimes we just need to sit back and laugh at ourselves, for example:

When first upgrading from old Windows to 95, wanted to be neat and tidy, moved all my INF files to the INF subfolder; NOT WISE, moved all my DLLs into the system folder (NOT WISE), and so on. What's yours?

BudVVeezer

Aside from the standard "cofee holder CDROM"...I think my best one was a woman who was having troubles with her modem. I asked her to check to see if the modem was plugged into the phone jack, so she set her phone down and roughly 5 minutes later she gets back on the phone and asks me "Is the phone line the grey cord or the swirly one?" LOL. Not such a bright cookie. So I had her get a colleague on the phone. That person told me there was no modem. Next coworker said yeah, there's a modem, external, with the power shut off. ;-P

~Aaron

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Asta Cu

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I laughed until tears flowed, thanks for the great chuckles. WOW, you could get lots of $s, I bet, submitting some of your experiential stuff to magazines or the like.

I'll leave open for a few days, then decide and close. Thanks a bunch for sharing these hilarious events.

mark2150

I lifted 'em off the JOKES section of my web page. Drop by and say "Hi" in the guestbook. www.cyberchute.com/rvbus/madmark.

The best thing about the storeys is that they're all *true*.

I'll give you an unrelated one.

My son is away at school and has a "local" pager. He told his ma that she couldn't page him since she was long distance...

M

Asta Cu

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Very funny stuff, thanks.

Since I've just lost all access to an internal SCSI HD, since it shared a SCSI ID with external scanner, am bummed. Needless to say, needed a laugh. Checked your link/cannot connect; perhaps server down?

mark2150

Was up earlier today. Am hosted by a buddy of mine. Dave often does maint on saturdays. It'll be back. He doesn't charge me and I'm taking over 100Mb of server space so I can't complain.

M

Asta Cu

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Well, befits the day, so to speak; at any rate, here's the block to accessing your site at 12:32PM PST.

Take care, keep smiling,

Asta

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mark2150

Just went there. Everything is fine. You can't link down from www.cyberchute.com. You have to give my full address:

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It's working just fine, I checked it and refreshed w/o error or extra delay.

M

Asta Cu

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Found it, neat.

Timing's everything.

Bookmarked to check when I can breathe, think I was counter hit 3627 or the like.... voting?

Take care,
Asta