[NTLUG:Discuss] Off topic.

[Fred James]

"If you can keep your head while everyone else around you is losing
theirs and..."

Steve Baker wrote:
> 
> Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> >
> > Today's groaner.....and I get paid for this!
> 
> <snip>   :-)
> 
> Like the one I had last week.  We had a *bunch* of PC's set up in a
> conference room which had only one 10baseT outlet - so we used a cheap
> 8 port hub - 7 PC's plugged into it - and one wire going off to the
> outlet on the wall which disappears into our corporate LAN.
> 
> Someone brought in an eighth PC - and seeing that there was a spare hole
> on the back of the hub, went and plugged it in - and walked away. Next time
> someone tried to fire up the system, nobody could access anything.
> 
> Of course the 8 port hub has nine sockets in the back because one of them
> has the transmit/receive lines crossed for use with an uplink - but is
> wired in parallel with one of the regular ports...so it's STILL only an
> 8 port hub!
> 
> Doh!
> 
> What made this worse was that someone called in our IS department who
> went off checking this and that, changing port connections, IP addresses
> and everything else they could think of to try to narrow down the problem.
> When I walked in and found/fixed the original problem, it still didn't work
> because of the total upheaval caused in effort to diagnose it.
> 
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