[identity profile] gythiawulfie.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] techrecovery
I don't post here often, but this is just one of the odd things working where I work.

I work for an environmental education center, and one of our two locations is located on the eastern edge of the Everglades, well actually 4 miles INTO it. This is our Conservation Youth Camp. They have been having problems with the tower based computer out there (the two main employees now have laptops for very goooood reasons) and so I had them bring it in. I fear the worse for this machine, but, knowing the area well, the first thing I do?

De-bug. I don't mean, de-bug the software, I mean de-bug as in, crack open the case and remove the dead bugs. (You'd be surprised at how all of a sudden it cleans up annoying issues.)

Todays score reads as thus:

1- dead wolf spider, small in size
1 - dead palmetto bug
13 - dead termites
1- dead beetle.

I just cleaned it out this time last year.

Tomorrow, I will crank it up, and work on it on the software side.

So, that is a day in the life of the ONLY computer tech for these to branches. (I wonder what the guys at the university would have done if I put in a request for them to clean it up, which they would mind you, hahahahaha.)

cross posted to personal journal

Date: 2006-05-04 08:15 pm (UTC)
jecook: (Default)
From: [personal profile] jecook
Heh, this one rates right up to the "case filled with rat droppings" story that I've re-posted here a while ago.

Date: 2006-05-04 08:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sketchydave.livejournal.com
Ahh, debugging. And as most everyone here knows that term was coined when a moth got stuck behind a vaccuum tube when computers where the size of classrooms. The more things change the more they stay the same :-)

Date: 2006-05-04 08:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kingogre.livejournal.com
I just love that it still happens LOL

Least it's easier to get rid of than some of the nasty spyware!

Date: 2006-05-04 08:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aylinn.livejournal.com
all hail that great Lady, Admiral Grace Hopper!

Date: 2006-05-04 08:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fearrett.livejournal.com
I once had to run some cables under the carpet for some retarded reason i've long since blocked out, and there was about a 1 inch gap between the bottom of the moulding and the floor.

No biggie right?

Hellz no, a family of wolf spiders had decided to set up shop there. I'm peeling back carpet, nodding my head to some nice crunchy industrial music, when all of a sudden GAH JESUS ZOMBIE TITFUCKING CHRIST BIG SPIDER reactions kicked in.

I hate spiders, more than I hate children.

Date: 2006-05-04 08:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gilmoure.livejournal.com
I used to do roaming tech support in the Tampa Bay area. My favorite places were un-air conditioned warehouse/manufacturing places like t-shirt companies and print shops (Mac tech support, ya know). The machines out there would always start with a good spray of canned air, before doing anything else. Yuch!

Date: 2006-05-04 09:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arkady.livejournal.com
I used to work as a Line Controller for the District Line on London Underground. Our computer equipment was so old that whenever anything broke down, we had to raid the museum for spare parts. There was a family of mice living in my console.

When they took up the carpets to recable, they found all sorts of flora and fauna down there, including a species of cockroach entirely unknown to science.

Fun times....

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