The human mind is awesome, it really is. When you consider what it actually does each day, the vast volumes of information its able to process in seconds, the amazing feats that humankind has been able to achieve through the intellect of people it really is amazing. But it doesn’t always work for us…..
Lets just get this out the way, the image here is of a Compaq server. For those of you who have been in IT for less than about 15 years you probably never came across a Compaq server. But they really did exist once, not the mythical unicorns from days of old but real servers that were seen everywhere at one point. Anyway, enough about unicorns let the monolog begin!
Life in IT is always exciting, you’ve seen the movies with all these technical folks in huge rooms with screens everywhere, lights flashing and people shouting as they track down some criminal mastermind……I mean it’s exactly like that isn’t it? No, really just no, it is NOTHING like that!
Best to get this out the way before I start; every now and then I feel compelled to write something that is bugging me in one way or another. Sometimes, its about society while others its something deep; this one’s a little deep I’m afraid so feel free to move along if you wish….completely understand 🙂
Having had a prolonged period of downtime from work during Christmas (still been dealing with things as they have come in but I’ve been working from home), my mind started to wander as it does when it has some freedom. Anyway, something came on TV about “darkness” so off the mind wandered….here’s some of the thoughts that happened. Continue reading
We had a client yesterday who still uses dot matrix printers for delivery notes, invoices etc. Anyway, they were not able to print to any of the Epson LQ590 printers. The job would be sent to the printer but it wouldn’t do anything at all, not even the famous “head shift”. This oddly coincided with a power failure the previous night which ended up with them switching to generator. As they are not a large business, the usual filters for switching to generator didn’t exist so it seemed that the issue could have been caused by a spike when the generator was switched on. Continue reading
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