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STFU Awards of the week

This week: How to use a memory card reader!

Ok here we go, i was minding my work this week as a user called my cell. Thanks to caller id i knew right away who it was. So i didn't pick up to give him some time to figure it out by himself.

- Don't get me wrong, i'am not mean, i just know my users and some are just calling because it's easier then useing your own brain. That is probably the reason why we have a email and not a phone hotline.-

Anyway he could not reach me so he paged me over the intercom, which is only for emergency purposes.
To spare him a butt kicking for that i called him back.

He was so frustrated about a card reader that would not work on his laptop, but worked before and when he plugged it into one of the servers it would be recognized but the card would not work, mouse stopped working, damn Windows XP, blah, blah, blah.

So i took a walk threw the hole plant to his office. Ok first thing ... reboot. Brought the mouse back to life. Second plug in the card reader again. Nothing.
Then i tryed the card reader on my notebook. Nothing.
So i looked at the card reader and what did my eye see? a bend pin.
So i opened it and what i saw produced a sudden urge to choke some one.

Here is what i saw:




The card reader was a CF Card reader. What means the, the way you can plug in the card is keyed. So you can't plug the card in the wrong way.

But to quote Hywell:
"retared is stronger then keyed"
He not just plugged the card in the wrong way, he forced it - i think with a hammer - into it that hard that he pushed a pin all the way out of the holder. The pin broke of by the way, so i ended upbuying a new one.

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