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03/15/2006 20:09 #37282

cashing a bad check with Savage Henry
Category: tech support
We recently bought a couple new 4x2.5GHz G5 computers for our video department, with beefed-up nVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT graphics cards. The graphics card has 2 DVI ports; one of our video guys has 2 VGA monitors, necessitating two DVI-to-VGA adapters, conveniently supplied by Apple. Except the DVI ports are very close together on this particular card, and Apple's adapters have all this extra plastic shit around them so that they look kewtiez, so that they cannot fit together closely enough to plug into this expensive graphics card.

So the video guy - let's call him John, because that's his name - calls up Apple tech support, and explains his quandary. The tech support specialist, initially incredulous, finds a 7800GT and a couple adapters in 'the lab' and gets back on the phone.

'I see your problem,' he says. 'I think I may have a solution. Can you hold for just one more minute?'

'No problem,' says John. Then he hears the tech support specialist put the phone down, and off to the side he hears, 'Crack! Crack! CRACK!!'

Tech support gets back on the line. 'Yes, I have a solution. Um .. do you have a hammer?'

- Z

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ps. Be careful where you buy your next videophone.

03/14/2006 13:32 #37281

another service update
Category: server
The aforementioned two-bit NOC called us this morning to let us know that one of our two data lines is down. Which was very nice of them. What with the automatic failover and everything, I never would have noticed otherwise. So I said, yeah, fix it up, do what you gotta do.

So they took down our other T1.

I love these people in the way that I love Rudy Ruettiger.

- Z

03/13/2006 20:04 #37280

I hate Cyrus I hate Cyrus I hate Cyrus I
Category: server
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If you had trouble connecting to (e:strip) midmorning today it was not my fault. I blame a certain two-bit NOC who shall remain nameless. Fortunately they seemed to have taken care of it before I got all up in they grill. Unfortunately when I rebooted our server it fucked Cyrus with a weedwhacker and I spent until 7pm picking up the pieces. If you are an IT manager and your boss says: we need IMAP, you may think: Cyrus! but it is my opinion that you should choose something else. Anyone have any experience with Courier?

- Z
dragonlady7 - 03/14/06 13:04
Oh dear, honey.
paul - 03/13/06 20:09
I didn't notice any estrip downtime but I was at work from 10-7PM. I use courier IMAP and qmail and the combo seems to be great. :::link:::

03/11/2006 10:19 #37279

It's f#cking gorgeous outside.
Category: scooting
Why are you on the computer?

I've been in denial about coming down with a cold for two days now. Sore throat, phlegm, but thankfully no cough. I had planned to spend the weekend in bed in a code-fugue. I've got some pretty fly ideas that deserve to be done, but ...

Well, then the sun came out and so did the Vespa.

I hope everyone else was able to enjoy this gorgeous day in whatever way they saw fit.

- Z

zobar - 03/11/06 12:08
Narsty. I'm handcrafting a pretty good-sized bolus myself in the back of my throat. Are you feeling better, I hope?

- Z
paul - 03/11/06 11:55
I was sick for the last half of this week. It was the worst phlemmy sore throat crap but I never actually ended up getting a cough. My friend chris referred tot he illness as snotbola.

03/08/2006 12:08 #37278

fair & balanced
Category: hotel
point / counterpoint

May it never be said that we aren't fair and balanced. (-:

- Z
dcoffee - 03/08/06 14:48
PS the website looks great. I like that it resizes well, and it is easy to navigate. huge improvement.
dragonfire1024 - 03/08/06 12:14
It would have been nice if the artvoice did that during their cover story. The ArtVOice purposely interviewed those people in the last issue that were for the hotel. They In My Opinion (IMO) never made a single attempt to interview opposition.

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