Several years back I had to install a printer

... in a classroom

... while the class was going on.

The printer had arrived late and was needed for that class.

I get this daily email newsletter called fishbait or dolphin bait or something like that. Now, when I read this column I am allowed to reply to the column, or I am allowed to reply to the replies. I made the sometimes fatal mistake of formally registering my subscription to this column. Read on to find out why I call it fatal...

dear fellow friends,

A little over two years ago we installed two digital color printers from Xerox with EFI Fiery front ends as a packaged printing solution. From the very beginning, many functions did not work as documented. Xerox basically put us off for a year by giving us work arounds and promising a fix to our problems in a coming new software release.

Do you know that you can now use your notebook sata harddrive on your desktop?

well i tried it and it worked. the notebook sata uses exactly the same connectors as that of the desktop, so i connected my sata cables to my notebook' harddrive (sata) and boot up my pc and wow, my joy when i saw that the notebook harddrive was working just as fine as my ide on the pc.

Just try it.

(Posting this one from a friend... Hope y'all dont mind)

Back in the OS/2 days the mouse driver was loaded during a graphical boot process.

For all Admin Fish:

What methods are you using to schedule outages?

I.E.; patches requiring reboot across the board or just hardware modifications to a Mail server get the same response, invariably whatever im taking down is being used RIGHT THEN. (Even on weekends and extreme after hours) "Come on guys, I have a life too."

So I'm at a trade conference when one of the local IT publications puts on a nice liquid lunch. Lovely idea, until some of the well lubricated dinner table conversation shows up, fully attributed, in that publication the following month.

Ouch.

Arriving at the hospital where we have network presence and see the satellite installer cutting a 6ft dish in half. OK, recycled metal is good...1 hour later need to take the elevator to an equip closet and it is cordoned off - Satellite guy muscling half the cut dish into the elevator.

So last friday we need to shut down computer room for building a/c repairs. Work was done off hours, I took the morning shift to finish re-starts. Re-start admin servers, all is well, need to go to another building to start listeners. Very easy startup normally, but listeners would not start, receiving error message.