On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 12:31:23 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ [H]omer ] on Sunday 14 January 2007 11:29 \__
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>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> The real Microsoft lovers in IT
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | ...where there's a big problem, you have a big problem, you are
>>> | screwed because all you could get from the wild demand market of
>>> | Microsoft's system administrators are the average ones, unless you
>>> | really hit the jackpot, and this system administrators knows something
>>> | else besides being a Microsoft system administrator.
>>> |
>>> | The average system administrator has a routine of troubleshooting
>>> | problem solving, for example "web server with external Database
>>> | server":
>>> |
>>> | 1. Restart the application/service (IIS)
>>> | 2. Reboot
>>> | 3. Reboot
>>> | 4. Reboot
>>> | 5. Call a colleague
>>> | 6. The experienced colleague advice on a reboot, the guy tells him he
>>> | already rebooted, and the "wise" colleague says something like "yeah I
>>> | had this before, sometimes you need to reboot few times for it to
>>> | work".
>>> | 7. Reboot
>>> | 8. Problem was fixed, 1'st guy tells colleague he is a guru, and
>>> | happily goes home.
>>> |
>>> | Apparently the database was hammered from some stupid query ran by
>>> | someone.
>>> | Now first guy "learned" that 4 reboots solves a problem, and the
>>> | real problem was never found.
>>> ` ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>>
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>> Reboot, reinstall, reinvest. Yup, that's the Microsoft way.
>
> How to fix your Windows Application when it doesn?t work:
>
> (1) Stop and start the program
> (2) Log in and log out again
> (3) Reboot the machine
> (4) Reinstall the application again
> (5) Reinstall the operating system
> (6) Dance naked around the machine, waving a rubber chicken
> (7) "Take your machine back for servicing"
> - Chris Wedgwood
>
The 6 Rs of the MSCE:
retry, reboot, reinstall, reformat, rebuild, repeat.
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