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"The problem was fixed by turning the unit off and then on again." Good to see IT support was immediately on deck with a fix.
by taitems 15y ago
"The problem was fixed by turning the unit off and then on again."
Good to see IT support was immediately on deck with a fix.
- yason 15y agoI can't help but be reminded of this: A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked.
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- codesuela 15y agoI laughed so hard when I read this because Roy from the IT crowd came to my mind.
- mmahemoff 15y agoThread about rebooting: http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/tech_ops/read.main/263431/ http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/tech_ops/read.main/... In some cases, they say it's not so much a "reboot" as a "boot", i.e. power fluctuations cause the system to shut down. In other cases, it sounds like the power fluctuations cause hardware problems which the software didn't anticipate. And yes, they also suggest there are times when it's just a good old three-finger-salute with no identifiable cause.