I spent 1 hour trying to jam a cat 5 cable into an RJ-45 head

>>57349322
way back when, over a decade ago, I had this NT4 machine that couldn't see anything on the network, and nothing on the network could see it. I spent three hours checking settings on both ends, reinstalling drivers, NT4 itself, and various other things.

Problem: the network cable was unplugged. I plugged it in and everything worked just fine.

>>57349379
>over a decade ago, I had this NT4 machine
more like two decades ago

>>57349688
>more like two decades ago
do you have any idea how long old shit takes to die, anon

there was an airport in France that had to turn away flights for several hours because a crucial piece of the air-traffic control system was running on a Windows 3.1 system that crashed. This was last year. 2015.

>>57349716
>Windows 3.1
>2015
Surely you jest

>>57349757
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/failed-windows-3-1-system-blamed-for-taking-out-paris-airport/

>tfw inserting your usb into the laptop ethernet port and wondering why it's not working

>>57349716
>>57349807
What in the actual fuck.

>>57349322
someone asked me if I could fix their laptop as the wifi had broken. Nothing would make that motherfucker work, so I made them buy a new wifi card. That didnt work either. Then I realised laptops have a switch at the front to turn wifi on and off. You live and learn

>>57349826
We had to send an engineer to a site after they said they inserted the USB we posted them into their domain controller. When the engineer checked they had managed to jam into into a free network port

>>57349832
99% of the world is not on a rolling-release model.

Most large financial institutions, at their very core, run on COBOL written in the late 60s and early 70s. Large health systems run on an abomination called MUMPS from the same decade. (Google it, it's horrible) Large companies that try to keep with the times often have a few NT4 virtual machines running on their monster servers, supporting some old application that never got updated. A whole school district was, as of last year, controlling all its HVAC systems with a Commodore Amiga (https://www.engadget.com/2015/06/14/amiga-controls-school-district-hvac/)

>>57349826
I do this shit all the time with my laptop because the LAN port is right next to the USB port. It still happens if I don't plug all my cables in a specific order.

>>57349941
can I make the big bucks by learning some old crap like COBOL or MUMPS and being the only one who can maintain these things?

>>57349942
Is your laptop Asus?

>>57349976
Yes, actually. Old COBOL hands are retiring fast. There's a demand for maintenance of these ancient systems, and rapidly dwindling supply of programmers able and willing to do it. If you're willing to learn ancient languages and environments and do a lot of shit work in them, you can earn a king's ransom in consulting fees.

>>57349993
HP

Linux Sys Admin here. I ran some shit like this on a client server.

for dir_del in $(find ~+ -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -name 'some-shit'); do rm -rfv ${dir_del}; done

I wanted to remove all directories except for one. I was 100% sure that code would do it as I ran it first with just printing what it returned and it returned a lot of shit but not the directory I wanted to keep so I was satisfied. I ran it with "rm -rfv" and I did not notice that along with all of the stuff I wanted to delete it returned my current working directory. Needles to say I deleted all of that niggers shit. He did not even notice so I did not get shit for it.

Bought an H87 board for my LGA 1151 Memelake processor. Didn't even notice until I got home after a two hour drive. I bought a shitty MSI PC MATE board afterwards. At least it serves it's purpose

>>57349873
Dell Latitude D640?

>>57350137
Sony Vaio

>>57349322
checking the monitor for faults, when it was just brightness/contrast turned all the way down by my assosiate.

>>57349322
samba fucking share mounted inside some home dir, which was to be deleted. share wasn't.