Famous operational issues

Thu Feb 18 23:10:42 UTC 2021

On Thu, 2021-02-18 at 17:37 -0500, Warren Kumari wrote:
> Anyway, the subcontractor who made the power supplies for the vendor
> realized that they could save a few cents by not installing the
> little metal clip that held the heatsink to the MOSFET

I think it was Macchiavelli who said that one should not ascribe to
malice anything adequately explained by incompetence...

> 3: I used to work for a small ISP in Yonkers, NY.

There is actually a place called "Yonkers"?!? I always thought it was a
joke placename. We don't really need joke placenames in Oz, since we
have real ones like Woolloomooloo, Burpengary and Humpty Doo. My
favourite is Numbugga (closely followed by Wonglepong).

> I cannot remember what we used to call airport security pre-TSA...

"Useful"?

Regards, K.

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