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Funny Chat Session on ICQ

This actually has nothing to do with system administration, but I’m gonna post it anyways.

One day when I got home from work I turned on the laptop, while the wife was making dinner. At that time I was still on ICQ but were getting tired of all the spam messages. Suddenly someone not in my contact list types “hi” and I’m thinking this is a spam bot and I just wanna check how good it is and sends some replies. I realise that this isn’t a spam bot but an actual person who thinks I’m someone else (event though she can see my nickname). I decided to mess with her a bit ;) .

05-06-2009 17:53:10 her: oh...i wasn't..DTM was so amazing..i hope you liked it too
05-06-2009 17:53:31 me : no i hated it
05-06-2009 17:53:38 her: really?
05-06-2009 17:53:47 her: oh why didn't you tell me?
05-06-2009 17:54:01 me : because i thought you would get mad
05-06-2009 17:54:12 her: we could have gone somewhere else
05-06-2009 17:54:23 me : really... .maybe to a strip club?
05-06-2009 17:54:35 her: where to??
05-06-2009 17:54:40 me : a strip club
05-06-2009 17:54:47 her: what would your pierre say to me then...
05-06-2009 17:55:16 her: i hope you remember me correctly..
05-06-2009 17:55:31 me : of course i do
05-06-2009 17:55:36 her: oh nice nice..
05-06-2009 17:55:54 her: cause i was afraid that i have written down the wrong icq-number
05-06-2009 17:56:05 her: it was all so fast..
05-06-2009 17:56:20 me : how's your boyfriend
05-06-2009 17:56:45 her: my boyfriend?i've told you i'm single for 3 years..
05-06-2009 17:56:50 her: you forgot...ok :-)
05-06-2009 17:56:59 me : no sorry... for someone else
05-06-2009 17:57:10 her: ok, no problem
05-06-2009 17:57:33 her: so you are not coming to lemans next weekend?
05-06-2009 17:57:45 me : would you meet me there?
05-06-2009 17:58:13 her: you said you maybe would come with TC-fan club, didn't u?
05-06-2009 17:58:27 me : maybe you could wear a hot bikini
05-06-2009 17:58:43 her: me??stina??
05-06-2009 17:59:03 me : yes yes
05-06-2009 17:59:07 her: you know how i am..
05-06-2009 17:59:13 me : how are you
05-06-2009 17:59:25 her: i'm not a kind of a "paddock girl"
05-06-2009 17:59:44 her: i take it serious, i'm a journalist
05-06-2009 18:00:12 her: so i can't walk in the paddock in bikini, my god..
05-06-2009 18:00:48 her: how was your german exam then?
05-06-2009 18:01:30 me : not good... didn't pass but i kissed the teacher
05-06-2009 18:01:54 her: =-O what??you kissed him??
05-06-2009 18:01:58 me : yes
05-06-2009 18:02:13 her: oh my god...is he young then?i think you didn't tell me
05-06-2009 18:02:23 me : yes, he's 21
05-06-2009 18:02:30 her: 21??the TEACHER?
05-06-2009 18:02:32 me : a little hottie
05-06-2009 18:02:34 me : yes
05-06-2009 18:02:45 her: younger than you?my god...
05-06-2009 18:03:00 me : yeah, he's a little hottie... you should try it some time
05-06-2009 18:03:05 me : how old are you ... i forgot
05-06-2009 18:03:10 her: my teachers are all over 35..
05-06-2009 18:03:24 her: i'm 24 stina...you forgot quite much
05-06-2009 18:03:49 me : at least i remember you'r blond
05-06-2009 18:03:52 her: i only hope you really do know who i am still
05-06-2009 18:03:59 her: blond :-@
05-06-2009 18:04:04 her: i'm black
05-06-2009 18:04:19 her: stina??is it really you?
05-06-2009 18:04:20 me : sorry, just messing with you
05-06-2009 18:04:49 her: i hope i don't have the wrong number
05-06-2009 18:05:15 me : actually you have
05-06-2009 18:05:24 her: =-O

After that she actually laughed at it and said I seemed like a nice guy despite of what I just did. I found out that she was actually in a fan club of the Dane Tom Kristensen and she was given my ICQ number from some Danish woman (since I’m also Danish she keept thinking I was that woman), who was also in this fan club. It was a bit hectic when they seperated, so guess she didn’t write down the correct number.

Exchange migration influences on Internet Connection Speed in Branch Office

OK, here’s the first funny story I want to publish.

In the summer 2009 I had prepared two new, great servers – HP DL380 G6 with 2 Xeon E5520 @ 2.26GHz, 32GB RAM and disk enclosure filled with 146GB 15K SAS disks for each server. They were going to run Exchange 2007 in a CCR configuration for high availability. Since the old configuration was a 32 bit environment with 2 DL380 G4 servers in an old Veritas cluster configuration I was expecting outstanding performance and that’s what I got but one of my users wasn’t so satisfied.

I spent more than 14 hours (no sleep) on migrating data and were quite satisfied when it was over. I didn’t get any errors or ran into any unexpected problems. Of course I instructed my users to contact me directly if they were experiencing any problems that would be related to the recent migration. Of course I got a few calls because OWA had changed etc., nothing big. However after a day or two a not so satisified user called me. Here’s the conversation.

User: Hi. Since you made those changes to our system my Internet is very slow.
Me: What changes are you referring to (surely he couldn’t be referring to the exchange migration).
User: Well, you made those changes to the e-mail system the other day. www.krak.dk is taking more than 7 minutes to load on my computer.
Me: OK, that sounds strange.
User: Yeah, it started right after you made the change so I’d like you to change it back as this is unacceptable.
Me: I’m pretty sure this has nothing to do with the changes I made to the e-mail system.
User (insisting): Well, I’m pretty sure that it has. You must admit that it is strange this happens right after you have made those changes.
Me: Yeah, you know what. I’m gonna have to look into this and we’ll call you back within the hour. OK?
User: OK, thank you.

I asked a supporter to call back and let him know the background of the call. We had a good laugh, but how should the user know any better? :) . I didn’t hear from the user again, so I guess they figured it out.