mirrorbird(17:33:06)
oh i was in some dashboard and i noticed that my client had an old expired subscription to the service, as well as their live one:
Stinsen(17:32:32)
yeah birdie... talking about switching things off... they had a "scream test" the other day, turned off a server used by 500+ people... imagine my screaming
mirrorbird(17:32:14)
when you coming over for Stinsen? with your fat wallet
mirrorbird(17:31:43)
so that's the trick -- except it doesn't work in IT, you can tell a support nerd that you know the exact problem, and tell them about DNS 'A' records or whatever, and they will still keep asking if you've switched it off and on
Spiral(17:31:18)
I am originally from Hisingen (Länsmansgården) myself.
mirrorbird(17:31:06)
and as soon as i said something half technical they put me through to the very noisy boiler room (haha, pun?) where a rough old cockney started asking me about pipe (not you)
mirrorbird(17:30:39)
yeah support would be rather dire. i had to call about my boiler last year and i had done the bare-bones online research for the nature of the issue,