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One of those weeks
Potholer Started conversation Jan 14, 2000
Not the best of times - off with flu last week, but came back to work this week still rather tired. With the assistance of some imperfect instructions, I managed to bugger up an upgrade to the company accounting system.
Decided to wipe the accounts and restore from backup. Then found the previous day's backup hadn't worked, nor had the previous week's. Finally got back a 3 week old version. It seems the guy we paid £800 to in December to do a day's pre-Y2K updating + checking had screwed the SCSI drivers up. Cheers mate - *I* could have done that for nothing.
Yesterday, the leased line router on our remote site blew its PSU. It's a known design fault, (the exact same thing happened to its twin here 6 months ago) so the manufacturers offer a free repair - BUT apparently it takes them an entire week to undo 5 screws and one plug, and pop in a working one. No chance of them just mailing me a new PSU to swap in. Hell, it's so damn trivial, a manager could fit it. (With supervision, even our CEO would have a fighting chance). Had to bodge in a suitable unit from my home spares box.
Now I have just have to get the accounting stuff working in time for payday....
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