IT Joke of the Week
True story from a Novell NetWare System Operator*: Caller: “Hello, is this Tech Support?” Tech: “Yes, it is. How may I help you?” Caller: “The cup holder on my PC is broken and I am within my warranty period. How do I go about getting that fixed?” Tech: “I’m sorry, but did you say a cup holder?” Caller: “Yes, it’s attached to the...
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There are three engineers in a car; an electrical engineer, a chemical engineer and a Microsoft engineer. Suddenly the car stops, and the three engineers look at each other wondering what could be wrong. The electrical engineer suggests stripping down the electronics of the car and trying to trace where a fault might have occurred. The chemical engineeer suggests that maybe the fuel is becoming...
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A man was crossing a road one day when a frog called out to him and said, “If you kiss me, I’ll turn into a beautiful princess.” He bent over, picked up the frog, and put it in his pocket. The frog spoke up again and said, “If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will tell everyone how smart and brave you are and how you are my hero.” The man...
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Hi there! We’ve decided to start something new here… the IT joke of the week! Every Friday we’re going to post a funny IT-related joke. We hope that IT and non-IT folks alike will have a laugh! The IT Engineer and the Manager A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts,...
Read MoreAdventures in Software Development
It’s a pretty typical day here at Orpheum’s offices. We’re developing a processing Infrastructure-as-a-Service, um, service, and part of that requires a module for our billing and automation software so that our clients can instantly start new cloud servers, suspend them, delete them, etc. The same type of service you get from Amazon, GoGrid, OpSource, Rackspace, etc. Well,...
Read MoreNerd alert!
So we’re sitting here at Orpheum HQ when one of our technicians, busily creating network configurations and updating the underlying operating system on our servers, calls his desktop to our attention. Needless to say, we had to call “NERD ALERT!” on this one! As you can see, we’re hard at work configuring our servers, updating things, making sure everything is set for...
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