Sameer wrote:

Hehe prequel to The Firewall Saga I had the Walking Dead-theme stuck in my head while reading this. Seemed fitting somehow!

Does this mean lusers can also bite you and infect you? :o

Also, I’m genuinely coorious (sic! that’s my new spelling and pronunciation of the word!) what went so horribly wrong with the Barracuda.

Luke Maciak wrote:

@ Sameer:
Like this?

Awesome as that is I meant this :)

@ MrJones2015:

Dell’s cases have always been quite shitty. Some of their designs are so terribly non-functional you have to wonder if they were designed by blind, arthritic, and developmentally delayed Bonobo Apes. My company still has few of these old desktops where the USB ports are behind a latch that lifts up, and the ports are placed at an angle facing downwards. If the computer is standing on the desk, it is merely inconvenient as you have to lean to see the ports. If it’s on the floor below your desk it is virtually impossible to plug the USB in.

@ Sameer:

Like this?

@ Lucas:

See, McGyver would be able to resolve this with some chewing gum and a paper clip.

@ Steve:

Hahah! That sound like an episode from MacGyver :D

Hehe prequel to The Firewall Saga :) I had the Walking Dead-theme stuck in my head while reading this. Seemed fitting somehow!

Gui13 wrote:

This is the power button. I was depressed.

Just reminds me of the dell computers at university. They have that superbig Dell “button”, that looks like a button, and one assumes its the power switch. It is no button, just a poorly attached crappy plastic part that is so loose one assumes its a broken power switch. But everyones getting fooled, its actually the cheap tiny button next to the the big logo that switches the pc on.

This is the power button. I was depressed.

This is an amazing story. I am impressed.

MrJones2015 wrote:

Rule 1: Never “quickly change a running system”

Especially not during business hours when people are using it. :) This lesson was learned the hard way.

Rule 1: Never “quickly change a running system”

Rule 2: “Word documents are for yourself, only hand out pdf files”

Rule 3: “Fixing is done BOFH style, always!”

; )