official - I am the world's dumbest person

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All the time my networking problems and trying to sort out why I couldnt access my laptop from my unix machine, and the cable was not plugged into the router.

How thick can a person be :?:

The router is up against a wall, ports facing the wall, so it wasn't till tonight when something fell down the back of my desk that I noticed this.

What a major t^t I am

But it gets worse.

Now I could connect to my router, but not to the net.Couldn't underastand this.

Took me an hour to realise I had unplugged the the modem from the phone line earlier, for a reason I cannot remember

Anyway I finally managed net access and just ahd to elt you know that know matter how dumb you sometimes may feel when not able to figure something out, you'll never be quite as gormless as I

PS: I wrote a majorly long brilliantly funny post about this, but mozilla shut down right at the end, thus losing it all, and having to start again.You missed a treat, oh well nevermind.

 

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welcome to the club

I remember a time (this was after recently passing my CCIE Written exam) I was having a LAN round my house, and i couldnt access a share, so out game the big guns, nmap scans, tcpdumps, etc, after 5 mins my friend said 'oops' i look over and he picked up the end of the cable, not plugged into the network!
how we felt gormless!

remember, it could always be a physical problem not an MS one!! :P

 

This happened to me once before, so I always said to myself always always always check the simplest things first.

In a book I read it said the same thing.

I ahd this ingrained in my daily philosophy, but it obviously escaped me on this sad day.

Some people may not post something like this, but it can happen to anyone I suppose, so if we learn a lesson here today, then my is worth it.

 

lol it only seems to get worse mate
the more you work with the stuff, the more you learn, the more you forget about the simple things 'naw it could never be a cable, im not that lame'
40 mins later
oh yep i am

 

I call these OSI Layer 0 errors. A layer 0 (zero) error is just one of forgetfulness...human error...in my case, a "senior moment"...in my daughter's case, a "blonde moment" (and I'm glad she can't see this post). No worries, flex. We all have them. It's only bad when it happens in front of a client or the boss.

 

Yup, I'm with the rest of you Guys - top marks for holding yer hands up in public Flex

I've spent the obligatory full day troubleshooting why my newtork was completely goosed, only to discover that the power lead into my hub had worked loose. Ahem.

 

Just have to at you all. All making such silly c0ck-ups. I would never be THAT silly, Nooo, not me. Hang about, why can't I connect to the internet, why can't I get a dial up connection??

Oh, look, the cable is plugged into the wrong port

Seriously though, in this complicated hi tech world of ours its easy to overlook the simple things.