Posted on 10/24/2018 10:01:09 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Ah, the OLD power cycle gag.
Must be running Windows 10.0
Occam’s Razor, proven true again...
You’re being ethnically incorrect. The tech aid should have been an Indian, not a “Native American,” who can barely speak English, let alone American English. There should also have been a stream of unprintable profanity coming out of the phone from his utterly frustrated American client.
I remember hitting my old tv to fix it. It really worked! Just smack it on the side and BINGO! it starts working correctly again. And I say that as the son of a tv repairman. Those were the good old days.
“NASA fixes Hubble gyroscope by turning it off and on again”
“I’m glad they didn’t have to try Plan B — kicking it.”
Plan B is to send up Henry Winkler to give it just the right smack on its side. On his way back, he’s going to go shark surfing.
Your alternate FR handle could be TVWhacker.
;-)
Back in 2001 I was participating in a big software go-live and I lent my DVD player to the War Room to let them watch movies while they remediated go-live bugs and issues. After 3 days of continuous use, the DVD player started to randomly freeze scenes and/or show digital snow across the movies being played. This room of suppose it geniuses were apologizing to me profusely for breaking my DVD player and I asked him if they were smart enough to unplug it. They said they hadn't and I proceeded to follow my own advice and fixed the problem. That's when I said to him “that's why make the big bucks.” mic-dropped the remote, and walked out.
Anything that runs software and has chip memory will: eventually experience memory leaks that eventually consume enough resources that it choke off the ability to run, experience an error or exception that sends t down a processing rabbit hole, or some other issue that locks it up entirely.
“I remember hitting my old tv to fix it. It really worked! Just smack it on the side and BINGO! it starts working correctly again. And I say that as the son of a tv repairman. Those were the good old days.”
One of my former jobs was as a Squadron Communications/Electronics Officer.
One particular type of radio had a problem that was fixed by hitting the front of the radio in a certain spot with the handle of a screwdriver.
The Soldiers thought I was an electronics genius.
Haha, I bet it would work to bring libs around, too!
And I say that as the son of a tv repairman.
Oops, I hadn’t seen your comment#27 yet... sorry.
Must have been designed and built by Microsoft.
Any failure, reboot and reboot often.
It was a good job while it lasted. He never made as much money in anything else he ever did. But I never wanted to do it, myself; he used to make me help him and would say things like, “Libwhacker, hold this wire, but don’t touch the red one or it’ll knock you through the wall.” Scared the heck out of me and I never wanted to follow in his footsteps.
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