Rule number one when dealing with large corporations:

Never trust them.

After whining over phone and mail for a pretty long while, I finally received the replacement hard disk from Fujitsu-Siemens' repair guys. It had taken them long enough, and it only arrived right now because I received a mail address of some manager somewhere (and mailed the guy, too), but it's finally there, wrapped in a square box of 15cm at each side. (so that it won't sustain any damage). Which is nice; I was happy as a child.

Until I opened the box

When I sent it, I had only a standard-sized screwdriver handy. The hard disk, however, was mounted in a frame, as is usually the case; and that frame required the use of a smaller-sized screwdriver. Since I didn't have one, and since the screwdriver I did have nearby didn't fit, I sent it along, trusting they'd send it back with the replacement hard disk.

Surely you can guess what happened.

Let's hope they don't need as much time to send the frame as they needed to send the hard disk, or I'll get really angry.

Apart from that, the coffee pot is almost empty. That means I've been drinking almost a litre of coffee in just over an hour. Dunno how that's possible, I'm not doing any sysadminning...