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You need thicker cables...

That's pretty soul destroying [lusers asking "Is your server down?"], but what about when some ID10T decides to play at being sysadmin and tells you just what you're doing wrong...

A (very clued-up) cow-orker once came up to me, shaking his head:

C-O: Chris, I think I've got a user you'd like to strangle, if I don't get to him first.
Me: Another one ? Put him on the pile with all the others.
C-O: This one just told me that our NT lab is slow because of the "RS234 cables" being too thin...
Me: <mutter>Grrr.... That grey cable ain't connected to no f***in' telephone line, sonny</mutter>
C-O: ...then he went on to say that we might get faster connections if we use thicker ones.
Me: <slaps forehead> Oh, and I thought that the problem with that lab was due to having loads of fast NT boxes on a 10Mb uplink. Silly me - I shouldn't be thinking about switches, we should rip out all that nasty, slow fibre and go back to AUI !!!

Date posted: 14th March 2000

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