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A Little Verified Info on Possible New Ebola Patient in Dallas: "A Low Risk Event"

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance10/08/2014 2:43:48 pm PDT

re: #37 RealityBasedSteve

Today was a day. That’s about the best I can say about it. What should have been 2 hours max job turned into a comedy of tech errors. Rule of thumb, the hard drive on the target machines has to be at least as big as the computer image your sending to it. Hard ware specs exist for a reason people,!

That usually helps. I still think the funniest IT story occurred at my first major tech job. I was in charge of helping people with their desktops (as well as writing software and doing the website for the company) but the funniest was one day one of the employees came to me complaining that his AOL CD was stuck in the CD drive on his computer.

Now before I go further this was a commodities brokerage and the owner did not pay for/provide internet for anyone but me and him so if they wanted internet they had to setup their own accounts/software. But I knew for a fact that most never would because their desktops were so old they had 3.5 and 5.25 floppy drives (the commodity trading software was literally on a piece of hardware.

The guy had stuck an aol 5.0 disk in the 5.25 floppy drive and was running windows 3.0…