PLUG IN THE %&$* HUB!

[technical.angel]

Okay, so I need a little sympathy/pity here.

First,

THE FRESHMEN ARE COMING! THE FRESHMEN ARE COMING!

Second, twice in two days, I've been called to offices where the luser can't log onto their computer.

What do I find (pretend you didn't read the subject line...)

THE ^&@$&^@)$&%*$Y^*@^$ HUB WAS NOT PLUGGED IN!!!!

You're not going to get internet if the hub is powerless!

ARG!!!!!! :

[Aethian]

Breath sweetie...in....out....in....out....

[Geek King]

You know, surge protectors make wonderful flails in a pinch. Just sayin'.

[LostMyMind]

Oh I dream of a new policy being created for you..... "If I have to plug it in for you, you're too stupid to go to college."

*looks for some cookies* sorry, all I could find is some beer

[technical.angel]

Oh I dream of a new policy being created for you..... "If I have to plug it in for you, you're too stupid to go to college."

*looks for some cookies* sorry, all I could find is some beer

No, that's the thing,

THESE ARE PROFESSORS!!!!!

[Gerrinson]

No, that's the thing,

THESE ARE PROFESSORS!!!!!

Well, then it makes perfect sense.

A good 2/3 of my professors were hopeless with technology, if not outright hostile towards it. I would exclude from this my IT & Sciences professors. Oh, and my accounting professor, but he was just pure awesome anyway.

[technical.angel]

One of two of our IT professors are included.

[SteeleDragon78]

just remember ta, labor day is comming, take a nice 3 day weekend and shut off your phone, pager and skip your email for those 3 days and relax. heck take that time to bake up the cookie recipe i posted in the exchange. or pm me for a copy. they wont make the idiots smarter, but it will lessen the hurting.

[technical.angel]

WoW. Nothing but WoW.

[SteeleDragon78]

WoW. Nothing but WoW.

that works too

[Bliss]

I cant do WoW anymore, I stop working, eating, sleeping, living... so I had to quit cold.

Btw King, great suggestion, I never thought of using them as flails.

Btw Tech. (was it jenny?) worse than a unplugged hub is a dead one, one of our two backbone switches gave up yesterday, had to rush out for a new one. Sigh.

[JustADude]

A good 2/3 of my professors were hopeless with technology, if not outright hostile towards it.

I have... and I swear on the Book of Gord Almighty this really happened... seen a tenured professor, with multiple PhDs, require a WRITTEN FLOW CHART to understand how Velcro works. The original explanation, the one that the professor didn't get, was as follows:

"One side has a bunch of little hooks. The other side has a bunch of fiber-loops. Press them together and the hooks grab the loops until they're pulled hard enough to come apart."

[technical.angel]

Btw Tech. (was it jenny?) worse than a unplugged hub is a dead one, one of our two backbone switches gave up yesterday, had to rush out for a new one. Sigh.

Jenni, Tech, whatever.

We are actually in the process of replacing all the networking equipment in our admin (read: buildings with classes and/or offices) buildings. Then we'll take the stuff we replace, and stick them in the res halls. Everyone'll be happy.

[Flawd]

Who uses hubs any more? Last time I saw a hub in use was at least 5 years ago, and I was replacing it with a switch.

Just curious

[Chromatix]

I still have a 10base-T hub (with a coax uplink!) that works. But I admit that it's not in use at the moment. At the very least, it makes a good backup unit, as while it's a lot slower than my other network gear, it's also in a metal case! Very solid.