I remember reading a book by Peter Norton about troubleshooting a ram upgrade on a PC from over ten years ago. He couldn't do one thing until he figured out a problem with another. It went on and on until he had to do around ten things before he could get it to work. I thought to myself that I could never understand computers as well as he did to figure all that out. Now it happens all the time.
That was what my Friday was like with a server we were installing. I got the call from two of...