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
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!
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