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199x.. a friend is working as support technician of some highly-reliable-and prohibitely-expensive boxes. One day some lady from Big-corp-xyz rings, and says that her box would restart occasionaly. Whut? Taking all the machinery for diagnostics, he goes there. Takes box out, Opens it, plugs the cables, ... a hour+ later, nothing. The thing works as expected and no amount of fiddling around would make it restart by itself. He puts it back at its place under the desk.

- You sure this.. restarts?

- Of course, happened twice today

- Huh? Can you show how it happens?

She sits on the chair, start typing some document, crosses her legs and starts shaking the upper one. And, after a while, hits the reset button with nose of her shoe.

- You see? Just restared, i could not even finish the letter..

- Ahhhh. Okay. The.. location of the box is causing some.. intereference. Moving it.

He moves the box to the other side of desk, where no legs can reach.. and that's it.



Brilliant. They could advise the highest courts and not lose his head with those kinds of moves.




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