""One day I was sent to a school to carry out some work on the head teacher's laptop, which wasn't connecting to the network," he told On Call. When Mike arrived, he plugged in an Ethernet cable and quickly realized the network port in the head teacher's office wasn't live. "He walked in as I was about to leave, and insisted that the point was indeed live, which he proceeded to demonstrate by showing that he could check for new email," Mike told On Call."
"The teacher's email client, Outlook Express, promptly produced a message complaining that no internet connection could be found. "He insisted the real problem was a full inbox," Mike told On Call. "And to be fair, that did happen in those days." The teacher's next attempt to prove Mike wrong was to open a browser and show him that web pages would load. That didn't work either, and the teacher told Mike that was because he had "too much stuff on his desktop.""
A traveling engineer for a local education authority in the UK Midlands drove across the region visiting schools to fix IT problems. One visit involved the head teacher's laptop failing to connect to the network. Plugging in an Ethernet cable showed the office network port was not live. The head teacher insisted the point was live and attempted to demonstrate by checking email and opening web pages. Outlook Express reported no internet connection, and web pages did not load. The head teacher blamed a full inbox and "too much stuff on his desktop." A network engineer later got the point working and another engineer completed the original task.
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