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The Queen Mother of Stupid IT questions

Posted by bret on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 11:10 in

This is an actual "question" from a staff. Name withheld to protect the retarded.

"Hi, when you were on vacation, I went to type my password and it didn't work. Then, I typed it in again and it worked that time. Will you fix this ASAP PLEASE"

How to debug a remote server when it hangs???

Posted by bret on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 09:21 in

Here's one for you guys:

Seagate goes downhill

Posted by bret on Wed, 06/27/2007 - 09:07 in

I've always bought Seagate. Wouldn't even think of buying any of the cheaper stuff (Maxtor, WD). So, after one of my drive's in Obiwan went bad, I had to finally get off my butt and get an external HD for backups for one more level of sanity.

I bought one of the new Seagate Freeagent drives, a 500GB USB2 drive that could hold all of Obiwan.