Oh dear, we've all been made redundant...
Larry Sheldon
larrysheldon at cox.net
Fri Mar 25 01:10:52 UTC 2016
On 3/24/2016 08:08, Casey Russell wrote:
> >>Just goes to show the vast range of technical issues that can be
> >>readily righted with little more than a good thump with a hammer.
>
> We always referred to that as "percussive maintenance"
>
> Casey Russell
> Network Engineer
> Kansas Research and Education Network
>
> 2029 Becker Drive, Suite 282
>
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>
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> crussell at kanren.net <mailto:crussell at kanren.net>
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 3:19 AM, Wayne Bouchard <web at typo.org
> <mailto:web at typo.org>> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:00:36PM -0500, Larry Sheldon wrote:
> > On 3/19/2016 18:16, Warren Kumari wrote:
> > > Found on Staple's website:
> > >http://www.staples.com/NetReset-Automated-Power-Cycler-for-Modems-and-Routers/product_1985686
> > >
> > > Fixes all issues, less downtime, less stress...
> >
> > etc...
> > .......
> > ........
> > ...and so forth
> > ................
> > .................
> > ..................and so on.
> >
> > > Resetting allows equipment to auto-correct issues
> >
> > Recalls to mind years ago in the Toll testroom where I worked, the
> > evenings equipment man (charged with and assigned to the task of
> > repairing equipment that had been "patched out" by the day shift) would,
> > when he arrived for work each day, retrieve the piece of 2 X 4 from its
> > hiding place and whack each bay of relay-rich equipment as he walked in
> > the area.
> >
> > Then, after some coffee and a cigarette, he would go through the
> > trouble-ticket collection, retest the item, mark the ticket "NTF" and
> > proceed to the next item.
>
> I love that!
>
> Just goes to show the vast range of technical issues that can be
> readily righted with little more than a good thump with a hammer.
In a later live, I worked in a computer center housing A computer (1110,
1100/80, 1100/90). The UNIVAC CEs had in their kit an tool for locating
"shock-sensitive" boards--looked like and worked like an "automatic
centerpunch" with a blunt point.
--
sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Juvenal)
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