[IT Humor] Unhelpful HELP

[furrbear]

From the good folks at The DailyWTF:

"I came across a device on the network running on our old IP range," Landy Bible writes, "since we are still trying to migrate things, I decided to try and figure out what was. After running NMAP, I discovered that telnet was open. I opened up a telnet session hoping to find clues as to what the device was. Following is the output from that session."

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  - IBM Network Card for Fast Ethernet 10/100BaseTX AppleTalk/NetWare/TCP Printer Server -

                      Copyright IBM Corp. 1995 - 1998.
                            All Rights Reserved.

  -------------------------------------------------------------------------

  Welcome to IBM Network Card for Fast Ethernet 10/100BaseTX

  Enter username, or HELP> help

  Enter username, or HELP> HELP

  Enter username, or HELP> admin

  Server> HELP

  Please refer to your User Manual

  Server>

Comments

[allanh.livejournal.com]

This space intentionally left blank.

[sultmhoor.livejournal.com]

lol. Though, the recent joke with IBM docos is instruction sheets that on one side say "printed in Japan" and on the opposite side say "printed in China."

[allanh.livejournal.com]

The license plate frame on the back of my car also says, "This space intentionally left blank."

I get many approving honks and thumbs-up from other drivers on 101 in Silicon Valley.

[grizzlyzone.livejournal.com]

They'll never guess THAT one.

[cubziz.livejournal.com]

That is so awesome! *snicker*

And IBM wonders how it lost the market it did.