Bill Wright writes:

ARW wrote:

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 ******"[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.

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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