Re: Well, that's unexpected (Speedball reboot)

On Sat, 2 Nov 2024 18:05:57 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

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Oooo.   Okay.  From my days programming and tech support for 911
Dispatch Systems.  Not a tech support call I had to handle but one
passed on to new programmers.  Client calls, reports their system is
down.  All the screens are blank, no response to anything they try to
input.  The person calling is the head of that city/county's IT
department.  On call tech tells them to go to the main server's terminal
and tell him what it says.  Caller says he's already there but can't see
anything.  Asked why.  Caller says the room has no lights, they are in
the middle of a power outage.  Wants to know how to bring the system
back up until the power comes back.  :D

Why do I suddenly imagine the client hunched over a stationary
bicycle, pedaling furiously to generate electricity while DT chants
over the phone, "Faster! Faster!"?

I never had such fun experiences. It was always the usual nonsense;
program crashes with error (but never bother to read what the error
message said), or problems caused by malware, or dead hardware.
Usually the worst was when the user fucked himself (who needs
c:\windows\system32 anyway?) but it was all pretty ordinary in its
stupidity.

Although I did get blamed for somehow not making it so the software
would still run on computers could resist having hot coffee spilled
all over them.