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I knew a guy who was a computer tech early in his career. One of his rounds was on a military base, and they had just moved their computer room up one floor.
by mark-r 5y ago
I knew a guy who was a computer tech early in his career. One of his rounds was on a military base, and they had just moved their computer room up one floor. They started having problems with their tape drive, it would just randomly pop up an error while they were using it. He tried mightily to diagnose the problem but couldn't figure it out. Finally he took a break and walked to the nearest window and looked out. He saw a radar antenna making a sweep - and realized the error came when the antenna was pointed in their direction.
- vidarh 5y agoI sent my Commodore 64 for repairs more than once only for them to find nothing wrong until we realised it was the buildup of static electricity from being stored under our big TV - it "broke" when we didn't use it for a while but watched lots of TV. It'd be "fixed" by the time it took before the repair people got around to it. The symptom was that it started "typing" automatically.
- labster 5y agoThat’s one downside of static typing.
- MengerSponge 5y agoboooooo
- me_me_me 5y agowhat do you know about true humour? :P
- pgt 5y agoWell done
- vidarh 5y agoIt truly is well done to make a cheap joke on HN that hits just well enough not to get downvoted to oblivion.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoI had a weird 'vibration' in the monitor for my first PC (this was after I caused it to decolor it by passing a speaker too close by it); took it to the shop, no issue. Back home, issue. I believe it turned out to be a power brick that was too close to the screen or its cables.