Oh great! He's mucking around with that damn computer again!
Interesting or funny anecdote from my may eons as an engineer or growing up. Mostly tech related stuff, but could be other things. Posted randomly as I think of them.
In the early ’90’s I had a student job that gave me my first taste of working as a System Administrator. I was working for the Law School’s library where I was taking EE in college. The Library had the only student computer lab for the law school. It was a mixture of DOS boxes …
Fun in the late 1990’s. Everyone thought a computer bug lucking in the code of every existing computer would plunge the world in to chaos and bring about Armageddon.
I’ve been a paid UNIX or Linux geek for 1/2 my life. But I started mucking around with computers when I was only 10 years old. I’ve had predictions, some good, some not so good, some down right dumb. But, all, at least I think, are entertaining.
I once, inadvertently crashed the cash registers at a local grocery store. But, following my rule of never breaking anything I can’t fix, I also fixed them!
I once had a dream, while I slept on a train ride home. That dream, errr, nightmare actually, came true on Friday 13th!
Ha, the Stanley Cup of 1999. The worse possible nightmare for any IT guy. Major crash at the worse possible time. Sitting up all night baby sitting system till the end. And only to have a vendor deny it ever happened!
I sort of catch a sort of ‘hacker’ breaking into an early Linux box at the dawn of my career. It was a rather crazy time to be a UNIX geek, let me tel you!
