On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> I am at the moment I am endeavouring to do a telephone diagnosis to 2
> aircraft gingerbeers.
[snip]
> Guess which techs where plugging the keyboard into the PS/2 mouse port?
Reminds me when we had 3 aborted attampts to land in Hong Kong due to a
typoon and a failing computer that compensated for cross winds during
landing.
We ended up flying to Taiwan and getting assistance from engineers in
Sydney (was a Qantas flight). After about an hour on the ground the
captain anounced that they were going to shutdown all electrical systems
on the plain for 30 seconds and their would be no lights or aircon, even
the emergency strip lights on the floor would go out.
They did it and a while later we were on our way again. Needless to say
most of us had accepted the copus amounts of alchohol being offered and
were in a golly mood. There was a lot of laughter and joking with the
people around as to what the engineers were saying in Sydney,
"fscked if I know mate, just turn the thing off and turn it on again,
usually works for me".
ObLinux: Maybe the plane was running windows.
Rodos
P.S. Quite a good random quote (below) for this topic.
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