I have repaired, semi-repaired, and/or "non-repaired" just about every PC and/or every network of everyone I know in the last year. I am exhausted.

Best 'volunteer helpdesk' story
 

I did once have a friend who was working for one of the Kennedy clan who I gave some free support to. She asked me to quote a billable rate but I ended up doing it for free since it only took 5 minutes.

My best unpaid/unofficial support call was for a coworker who was also a mainframe programmer. He was on oncall support and had a laptop and modem for the first time. He called me at about 2am and woke me out of a sound sleep. I was, however, able to diagnose his problem in less than 30 seconds.

Him: Rich, it's ****. I'm trying to dial in to **** and I can't get a dial tone with the modem.
Me: Where are you?
Him: Upstairs.
Me: Where's the computer?
Him: In the room with me.
Me: Where's the phone you're using.
Him: Here in the room.
Me: How many phone jacks are in the room.
Him: One.
Me: If the phone's in the same room as the computer, what's the modem plugged into.
(click) I was left holding the phone.

We did a recreation for our company dinner.http://www.cellar.org/images/smilies/smile.gif

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I think I remember what happened there dude... I put in the new power supply and it didn't fly and so we decided it was the motherboard. ...or something?

One's a friend with privileges and the other is the guy that stores my '57 chevy for me.

I got an email from Buster saying at 7pm tonight he still can't reach the Cellar.
I think he's on dsl, but I'm not sure. :(

I was wondering why I wasn't having any troubles with accessing the cellar, even right after the move (since I have Comcrap) when it hit me -- I run my own dns. That explains it. :rolleyes: