Beware the Sysadmin
  
  
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    I don’t usually get excited by xkcd web comics but I thought this one was particularly appropriate (thanks Anthony Burke)
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          Ahhhhh printers, I am convinced life would be better without them (I don’t even have one at home).
        
        
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          The other week I had a request for a list of all email addresses of staff for use with a legacy VOIP system.
        
        
      Removing a printer while the print spooler is not running
        
        
  
  
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          Many sysadmins have probably encountered a situation where due to a nasty print driver (& associated printer) the Print Spooler service stops and upon starting it up again manually decides to stop again.
        
        
       
         
  
  
  