Top ten computer disasters
This article on the BBC news website makes all the issues discussed on this forum a piece of cake to solve in comparison:
The top ten of worse disasters according to their piece are as follows: - Laptop shot in anger - PC thrown out the window to destroy evidence before police arrived - Laptop fell off a moped and was run over by lorry - Laptop dropped in bath while doing company accounts - Stolen PCs rescued after three weeks in a river - Red wine spilt on laptop over dinner - Server rescued after running unchecked 24/7 for years under -layers of dust and dirt (*) - Computer thrown against a wall - Latte-covered laptop rescued - Laptop left on car roof as owner drives off Well worth a read - if only to prove it could be worse...or you might sympathise with some of the comments at the end of the article. I can but I'm not telling which one I've done... amofw (*) in my previous life as a server installer for a large corp this kind of thing happened all the time, esp. in Turkey. We had one that was without keyboard, mouse or screen hidden behind a cupboard for years processing production traffic - it was discovered when the bank in question moved premises....! |
Um... i've done two :O :O (red wine and left on top of the car) and the laptop survived both. Still got it :ok:
Not sure why the long-lost server is a disaster though. I've had one of those too, just kept running and running, until one day we had a power-cut and couldn't figure out why a couple of the printers wouldn't work afterwards. Follow the cables.... ah! :) |
Not sure why the long-lost server is a disaster though. I've had one of those too, just kept running and running, until one day we had a power-cut and couldn't figure out why a couple of the printers wouldn't work afterwards. Follow the cables.... Ah, the good old days... http://www.stopstart.freeserve.co.uk/smilie/boohoo.gif |
I remember hearing one of our support guys saying on the phone to a customer:
"....and the fact that it was called the 'dump' device, and that its icon was a dustbin didn't give you a clue that it might not be the best place to put all your backups?" W |
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