What ever you do don’t let me near any of your critical systems. I break things just by being. In fact I don’t even need to be present as crash number 2 will show.
Crash 1: As I and my brother and some friends eat dinner the computer hick-ups and reboots. As I walk over I see that it is unable to boot, moaning about NTOSKernel.exe. I press a key on the keyboard and it reboots yet again never to awaken. No system disk is the next message shown to me. I cut power and the day after I remove the disk hook it up to my data retrieval kit which enables me to connect any ATA or SATA disk to a USB port and turn on the power. Swoosh, click, woosh, swoosh, click, woosh, … The disk spins up gives a loud click and spins down again [repeat ad inifitum]. No data retrival possible but luckily it’s still under warranty so I won’t have to buy a new disk. I request an RMA and eagerly await a mail reply.
Crash 2: Come monday morning I try to log into my webmail. No go. Checks the current status of the company hosting my mail; Hardware failure - work in progress. And guess what, a few hours later it’s says that they have had a disk failure and will be forced to restore a backup to another server. It’s now 24 hours later, my web is up but not my mail. Hope that RMA hasn’t gotten lost in the process.
Eagerly awaiting crash number 3. Where will it be? My laptop, my company’s servers, my customer’s servers, your computer (you shouldn’t have read this blog), ….?
Edit: My mail is back. Restored from a week old back up so I have no referens to mails from last week. There are no new mails with yesterdays date so I guess they got lost in the process.
Edit 2: And it is very obvious that no anti-spam software is running on the new server. ![]()