🚀 go-pugleaf

misc1739@csc.canterbury.ac.nz wrote:
>
>	The computers in our lab are old Sun workstations, no hard drive, and
>they are placed well under the desk in a recess, you have to get right under
>and lie on you back, and look at the ethernet leds on the back of the machine.
>It jusrt aint easy to tell if the power is on, or if they have crashed.
>	The key is that people come to expect certain constants in their
>lives, one of which may be that computers are always turned on, and it can take
>them some time to work out what is wrong. I had trouble with my modem the other
>day, and after much messing with software, realized it wasnt plugged into the
>phone line, a very unusual state that I wasnt expecting.
>
>Jon.

If my toaster doesn't seem to work, I check the plug.
If my modem doesn't seem to work, I check the plug.

Same difference.

Calling someone stupid for not checking the plug? Get a life, everyone makes mistakes.

I, too, sometimes get frustrated when other people can't seem to notice things I find 
obvious. But hey, some of us have been there and done that and others haven't.

Laurence

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