Re: Bloody amusing customers

[Bill Wright]

Then came the funniest thing I have heard for ages. The customer said "I've

> just remembered something. When I swapped telephone companys I had the phone > line made into incoming only calls. You might as well "call me wanker"[1] > and get down from the ladders".

Me and an IT bloke spent ages today trying to get a DTT modulator to talk to the laptop. Eventually we discovered that the two ethernet-type sockets had each other's labels (as referred to in the instructions) next to them.

Bill

[Windmill]

Bought a cheap KVM switch on Ebay, and all ports worked well except one port which was connected to a miniature PC I knew to be a bit temperamental about USB-to-PS2 adaptors and keyboard/mouse hardware and software.

Slept on it, sometime during the night had one of those all too rare 'eureka' moments, got up next day and checked the colour coded all-in-one monitor, mouse and keyboard triple cable on the failing port.

Sure enough, the green plug on one end was connected to the purple plug on the other end!