You Know You've Been An ICT Tech' Too Long When ...

[stephenleak]

... you can input the Product ID for Office 2007 from memory.

[ninjabeaver]

....... you know every member of staff's password off by heart.

[powdarrmonkey]

Lol, I could do the windows key, ghost key and office key by memory at one point.. fell out of practice though

[krisd32]

the windows 98 cd key used to be firmly implanted in my memory. oh those were the days!

[Hightower]

... it gets to 9 o'clock and you've already boiled the kettle 13 times.

[jamin100]

. . . . . . you dont want to get up in the morning

[Domino]

.....the words "cost-effective, scalable, reliable solution" make you physically wince

[bossman]

You get great relief from taking the coat-hanger out of your mouth when you get home.
:-)

[ICT_GUY]

I could work out win 95 keys in my head*














*not so difficult really since it would work if each two consecutive numbers added up to 7.

[ICT_GUY]

...you get a smug feeling when your sever cabinets wiring is all neat and colour coded, and you get upset about why the rest of the staff refuse to come and take a look.

[tmcd35]

I could work out win 95 keys in my head*

11111-1112

(I'm admitting to nothing...)

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(edit) Oops, I think that may have been the Office'97 on, still...

[Sirbendy]

11111-1112

(I'm admitting to nothing...)

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(edit) Oops, I think that may have been the Office'97 on, still...

Surely not...wasn't 12345-6789 one as well? I haven't got my "legacy software" CD pack on me today for a test.

I can STILL recall Win95a/b/Win98/XP product keys. Shame I can never remember my damn card PIN..

I'd say you've been in the game too long when you can walk into a suite, and pick up the discord of one fan in 60 that's just starting to go unbalanced or dry.

Or when you go out to a teachers car that won't start, see the text "Please press the "Start" button", and when that does nothing grab a spanner and do the "battery disconnect for 30 seconds, reconnect" routine and reboot the onboard systems. Funny thing is that's worked nicely the last 2 times..heh.

[JJonas]

0401-11111111 was another one

[tmcd35]

FAO hackers/crackers/15yo schoolboys everywhere (but not M$ lawyers, nothing here for you see, no nothing, not at all, honest guv)...

Here are the serial numbers you need to get your software working

[rhyds]

Surely not...wasn't 12345-6789 one as well? I haven't got my "legacy software" CD pack on me today for a test.

I can STILL recall Win95a/b/Win98/XP product keys. Shame I can never remember my damn card PIN..

I'd say you've been in the game too long when you can walk into a suite, and pick up the discord of one fan in 60 that's just starting to go unbalanced or dry.

Or when you go out to a teachers car that won't start, see the text "Please press the "Start" button", and when that does nothing grab a spanner and do the "battery disconnect for 30 seconds, reconnect" routine and reboot the onboard systems. Funny thing is that's worked nicely the last 2 times..heh.

Off topic, were they newish astras by any chance?


...You know you've been a tech too long when miss the fact that the 8 PCs you have imaged and done software installs on don't have working mice because you can do everything from keyboard shortcuts...


...You know you've been a tech too long when you start working out the logic table for your dishwasher's controller unit when it doesn't work...