Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is?

On 2024-10-05, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 20:47:30 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>

You know how you get summoned because some machine is acting up? And the
user swears blind that “nothing has changed”? But you pull up the
previous snapshot of the config, do a diff against the current version,
and ... “Aha! You *did* change something!”. And you change it back. And
all is well.

>
That's never, never happened.  In my experience I can remember exactly
once where a client apologized after swearing, rather literally, that
nothing had be changed on his end.

A long, long time ago now, when I worked at a Radio Shack as a "computer
specialist" for a few months (I passed their half hour lesson and test), I
would have to take calls from people with Tandy computer problems. Back
then Tandy dot matrix printers had two settings. Tandy settings and IBM
settings. These were set with dip switches.

I got a call that one of our printers wasn't printing with a Tandy computer.
The very first question I asked was, are the dip switches set for an IBM
computer ("IBM" included clones). He said, "no." We spent an 90 minutes on
the phone going over every possible issue. I finally asked again, are you
SURE the dip switches are set for Tandy and not IBM? "Oh, wait a minute...
hey it's working."

You can't make this stuff up.

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