• Hey Guest!
    British Car Forum has been supporting enthusiasts for over 25 years by providing a great place to share our love for British cars. You can support our efforts by upgrading your membership for less than the dues of most car clubs. There are some perks with a member upgrade!

    **Upgrade Now**
    (PS: Upgraded members don't see this banner, nor will you see the Google ads that appear on the site.)
Tips
Tips

How to waste half the morning LOL

Basil

Administrator
Staff member
Boss
Offline
So the other day I sent out an email to all members regarding the issue recently discovered wherein some people were getting locked out of the server if they tried to view certain threads that had certain key words in the title.

Anyway, this morning I got a reply back from a member complaining that my emails keep going to his old Yahoo account and insisting that he had changed his email to a more recent gmail account.

Well, when I looked up the user in my admin section, it showed he still had the Yahoo account registered as his email. We went back and forth a few times and he kept insisting that he had changed his email address in his user profile. He further insisted that he had just logged in and checked it and was certain that he had his gmail account in his profile.

However, according to my "Who's Online" data, that user had not logged in in the past 24 hours! (In fact they had never logged in since they registered in 2015) I was very confused.

I asked the user to please email me the URL from his browser that points to the member page where he was seeing the gmail account.

When he sent me the link, I had to laugh! He was looking at the Austin Healey Experience web site NOT britishcarforum! Sometimes you just have to laugh!
 
Back in my network manager days, I got a telephone call from a user, saying his computer was locked up. Couldn't enter his password, couldn't log in, etc.

After the usual attempts to get details, I went to his office.

Monitor was turned off.

The guy had a PhD. Explains a lot ...

T.
 
Back in my network manager days, I got a telephone call from a user, saying his computer was locked up. Couldn't enter his password, couldn't log in, etc.

After the usual attempts to get details, I went to his office.

Monitor was turned off.

The guy had a PhD. Explains a lot ...

T.

That's when you just smack your forehead and say D'Oh!
 
Hooboi. Those are similar to the experiences I've had over the years and I always flash to the BOFH website. Been an avid fan of that since its beginning.
 
Back
Top