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The lighter side of IT
My boss was working at a client for 2 weeks solid trying to setup a server there. There was some email/fax software that was involved and even the software developers where there trying to solve the problem. One day my boss asked me to go round the client's place and configure the system before he and the developers could continue that day. So I went round configured the server and reinstalled the software. I wasn't given any real info on the product or what the actual problem was, so I wasn't completely sure of what I was configuring when I installed this fax/email software. Somehow it was also linked to an AS/400 system. (I am clueless when it comes to AS/400's) Anyway I sent some test faxes through just to check I'd set it up alright, when suddenly the CEO came charging through demanding to know what happened. Confused, I told him I just sent some test faxes through. This is when I discovered that I had, by accident, solved the problem my boss and the developers where trying to fix for 2 weeks.
Even though I admitted that I actually didn't know what I did to fix it, I became the "guru" of AS/400's and this software, both of which I knew and still know nothing about.