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Tech Stories Archives - July 2004
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Who says romance is dead (non-tech)
As you all may or may not know I have (finally!) gotten myself a steady girl. The last five months have been really great. I was lucky (fated?) to find a woman who shares my political and moral philosophies as well as a bitingly sarcastic wit. Here are some gems culled from our nightly phone calls (I'm out of town on business) from the past week:
Me: Can I wear a kilt to our wedding?
MyGirl: You have no right to contemplate what you are going to wear to our supposed wedding until you fucking ask me and put a ring on my goddamned finger.
Me: I find your humor refreshing.
MyGirl: Like a douche?
Me: You hate me.
MyGirl: I don't hate you, I just hate the things you like.
It's love I tell you. LOVE![By: Bioguy / 2004-07-01]
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Wow. Congrats! I like her already! *stumbles off, muttering "Where's my stupid boyfriend?? I want a stupid ring too!"* - snowcrash
Some people just don't get enough Abuse @ Work -satanstech
ROFL @ satanstech...I agree completely. -redevil34
Hmmm.... keeping a steady girlfriend for more than a couple weeks.... what a radical idea, I may hafta try that. -TekkGeek
a gf ?? -Deadagent
That sounds so much like the conversations me and fuzzyom have it's truely funny. I am so glad you have found a woman of wit and intelligence to match yours. Does she like Young Frankenstein too? -CommanderData
Sounds like a match to me. <g> Bioguy, we cannot allow your girlfriend and my wife to get together. You and I would be hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned. Hell, I'm outnumbered even when I'm by myself. :~} -RiffRaff
congrats Bioguy, sounds like a perfect match. (wanders off muttering "one of these days i'll find my wolfprincess) -wolfprince
Hey Riff - the true lethal combination = Bioguy's girlfriend, Magenta and CD...add in Snowcrash as well, she's nicer than me. -CommanderData
"...a GIRL robot." -thx1138
Sounds like a keeper to me! -Hawk
Yep, sounds like true love. If you propose to each other while one is playing Diablo 2 and the other is coding....well, it worked for me, and I've been married between 2 and 3 years. ^_^ -Dragones
They must have cloned my wife! Oh, and Bucky Katt rules! -Flexo
Waste no time, you need this woman chained to your side! :) -Mushroom
Congrats on finding a compatible lady! That's not easy. Hang on to her. -sassicatz
"You mean a 3-dimensional girlfriend?" </antitrust> -Bynar
You mean the fairer sex come in a format other than jpg? -garwain
Good for You! Reminds me of Mrs. TechOgre and me when we were younger and had no kids. Sigh. Don't get me wrong, I would gut every one of you for this kid, but some days... 8-) -TechOgre
Crap! Another one off the market. It sounds like you got a keeper. If there’s any justice, I’ll find a woman just like me…. And that’s what I’m afraid of. -scooby111
A hint,,, They always hate the things we do... Congrats! I wish you, and the <hehe> little woman the best :)
-Hellion
man, thats familiar:) excpet we can also argue over freebsd v linux- the joys of a geek husband are many:))) -timelady
Is she related to this person in Idaho ?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040701/ap_on_re_us/brf_non_criminal_kiss -Necros
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I'm lucky it fixed itself . . .
So, my website is down. Chat with T/S - they say submit a ticket. OK, submitted ticket. Now, at that point it was not pingable (by domain or IP) and couldn't surf to it by domain or IP. Site's back up when I get home from work - GREAT! Check e-mail, get the reply from the ticket - the agent kindly informs me that I need to register my domain, because it is not registered . . . WTF!!!! First, it's up now, and I have done no such thing. Second, my registration is through YOU, third, I COULDN'T SURF OR PING BY IP, EITHER!!! It was working for three months, registration contract's good for another 9 months. . . *sigh* Yeah, REAL lucky it fixed itself.[By: valkyrja / 2004-07-01]
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Sounds like its time to got into "Customer Mode" on someone's complaint department -satanstech
I'm with Satanstech on this one. Sometimes the starfish bites you, and sometimes, you bite the starfish - especially when the starfish is tech support for you. ;) I used to live for larting useless tech types. -devzero
Tech rule #2) If you don't know, just make some shit up. The fishies won't know the difference anyway. -scooby111
<wakes up reads monitor> urm... Interface Down... Node Down... Opps. <brakes out hammer> Probably find something very similar just happened, or some minor flunky was mucking around with a firewall/router config and had packets going around in circles. -fearmyroot
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New computer
Me: "Egor, fetch me a brain!" Egor: "766mhz celeron?" Me: "No fool! The new one!" Egor: *quivers in fear* "The pentium?" Me: "Not just 'the pentium' ... the Pentium 4 3.2ghz! Have some respect!" Egor: "Yes master, sorry... here's the chip that gives you an erection to think about." Me: "There... all in place. Egor, throw that switch!" *Egor throws switch and most of the gulf coast loses power in a massive energy surge* It's moving.... It's moving.... IT'S ALIVE!!! I'll never lag again, I will ownzor bitches! (got my new computer up and running today, 3.2ghz, 800mhz fsb, 2gb ddr ram, 250gb hd, just thought I'd share this with everyone else)[By: TekkGeek / 2004-07-01]
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mmmm. . . 800 MHz frontside bus *drool* </Homer> Have a pentium 3.02 on a 533 FSB with a gig of RAM and a puny 80 Gig hard drive . . . *sigh* just got it - less than a month ago, and already feel inferior. Cool maschine! -valkyrja
MWAHAHAHAHA: I Got 3.20E Prescott; also 800MHz FSB, but a 1MB L2 Cache. sadly only 0.5GB DDR400 RAM (to become 1GB next paycheck). And my hdd is a suckey ATA100 150GB. to become 200GB SATA *someday*. WELCOME TO THE POWER! -Dj
Only 1 HDD? I'm currently runnig 4 - 2 x 80GB set as a RAID 1 set, another 60GB system drive & another 45 scratch drive.
Got sick of tape backups that either didn't work, the hardware failed or ran out of capacity. I like to keep my stuff & I've I've seen too many "irreplaceable" files go west 'cos some bottom feeder didn't listen when we said to "put it on a network drive as they are the ones that get backed up". Let's just call it "practice what you preach". -lineswine
oh great! a brag post! I got nothing to brag about! (wanders off mumbling to himsef) ;-) -wolfprince
Neither have I - my PC at work is a P120 and my one at home goes at about 750mhz...sigh. -CommanderData
For backups, I have found the new Maxtor USB external drives make a nice place to keep Ghost images. Disconnect when not needed and it's safe from surges as well as malicious code. -virtualchoirboy
You need a chip to get an erection? :) -Mushroom
Ok, ok Try a AMD64 FX (64bit 3400 = 3.4MHZ) 1GB DDR-ECC RAM, IDE 80HDD+ SATA 160GB HDD + Pocketec USB 30 GB HDD (backup) and a Radeon 9700pro
:-) -AniMaL
Drooling at the specs!
In other news look at this.http://www.dilbert.com/wash/pcnpixel/index.html -atomicbill
Thanks but the $ HURT! -AniMaL
That comic is so true! -DerangedHermit
My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks --
But it was obsolete before I opened the box --
You say you've had your desktop for over a week? --
Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique --
Your laptop is a month old? Well that's great --
If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight <weird al> -scooby111
I'm glad for all the extra comments. I thought I was a loner. I actually 'have' an Asus K-7 AMD but my proc is an Intel 2.4 sooo...I'm having to use and E-machine board with my proc for now and I only have 128 DDR. Poor me! -Zayda
House server is a recycled Dell Precision 210 upgraded to dual P3/, 1.2 TB of drives. Personal desk box is Athlon XP 2600+, 1.5GB RAM, 450GB of drives. -Grue
goofy-ass HTML parser...it omitted the 600 after the P3/ -Grue
i ust got my new shiny toy - athlon 2600+, 512 ddr, 40gb hdd, dvd/cd-rewrite, 15" tft, 64mb agp. ok, not as grunty as those listed, but i love my hal! -timelady
You beat me in RAM, but not horsepower :) AMD 64 3400 (non-FX version), running Windows for 64bit Beta and Gentoo :) -fearmyroot
My hard drive is..... an old PIII 800 running Windows 2000 server and 4 120 GB hard drives in a RAID 5 configuration. Thats all it does (apart from crunching SETI units) and it gives me 360 GB of high speed failover storage. Nice ;-) -Smegger68
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It should have been a pentium
There was a customer complaining about the speed of his computer. He tells me on the phone that someone told him the Celeron chips were slow and he should have got a Pentium to make it faster. All he was doing was Microsoft Office stuff. Just Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and some Outlook mail. I thought I'd have a quick look, delete his temp files some defragging and done. Anyway when I look at it, there's nothing wrong with it. So I get him to show me what is slow about it. First thing he opens outlook and I can see about 500 messages in the inbox and a tree of folders down the left hand side that disappears off the screen (and the scroll bar is this little dot at the top of the screen). So then he opens two spreadsheets and minimises them, a word document, Internet Explorer, two Access applications (TWO of them) and the computer starts swapping its heart out. The hard drive light is on solid red. He turns to me and says, 'SEE! It should have been a Pentium' So I try to convince him to archive some email. Can't do it. I try to tell him that he should stop opening all of those programs. Nope. He needs every one of them open at all times. Fortunately I'm good friends with his manager and the neeping and noping stop a few days later (DAYS!) after his manager has a serious conversation with him. Phew.[By: Gerund / 2004-07-01]
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For old Windows machines (P3 and earlier), having more than 160M makes all the difference in the world when running multiple apps. It can be a quick and easy way to stop the neeping. -virtualchoirboy
So can larting a starfish -samurai
It's all about the Pentiums! </Weird Al> -Mushroom
It's also all about useless e-mail. Here we only allow messages to be saved for 60 days, and no PST files. If people want to save messages, they have to move them to their home directory as MSG files. -sassicatz
I've got a (l)user who thinks he needs to archive every message. His account is currently at 1.5GB according to exchange. -garwain
Bwwwwwhahahahah. I’ve got one user with 2.4GB (10,000 messages), another with 2.3GB (47,000 messages), one with 1.4GB (10,000 messages), and another with 1.8GB (10,000 messages all in his inbox). The same users use 17GB, 13GB, 1GB, and 1.3GB on the file server. Any guesses as to what they do for the company? -scooby111
Oh, oh, I know this one, Scooby: they do absolutely nothing. -Jebus
To be honest all of my machines have 1Gb of RAM in them, perhaps gross overkill but... look ma' no swap file <wobble wobble> -fearmyroot
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A T3 for $400/Month!!!! OMFG!!!
Atleast that is what this cheap@$$ customer thought they deserved. Evidently one of our sales contractors may have made a typo on the custs contract saying 1.5MB rather than 1.5Mb. Ofcourse they don't even want to hear that we don't offer T3 circuits, or that the same contract stipulates that this *is* in fact a T1 circuit multiple times. Well, we end up going around like this for 15 minutes or so (@ 11pm) before we get to the real issue. Seems that during business hours the T1 is slow. Luckily the previous day techs had already: 1) determined that there were only 8 machines on his LAN w/the T1 (even though the customer *demanded* his 29 static IPs (why?)), & 2) that the throughput was @ 1.3Mb (within our 80% guarantee) when a single known good machine was connected. :: So here comes *another* 1/2 hour of why it has to be an internal problem (Gee, it works fine w/1 machine but sucks w/8? *Maybe* there is a hosed piece of hardware? *Maybe* your shouldn't have wired your LAN w/cables that were crimped by blind paraplegics?!) The customer tech ignores the previous speedtest & is adamant about "how it could not be his network as he had built it himself" (and was the customer's brother, of course). Even dared test the until now benevolent & kind objekt404 as to the difference between a switch & hub. Last straw Palamino! 180 degrees & 2 minutes later he's off my phone doing what he was told to do 8 hours (& 3 calls previous): Configure the PCs one-by-one & speedtest until you see the bottom fall out & fix that machine (lather, rinse, repeat)...[By: objekt404
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Idiots are bad enough. Idiots with attitudes need to be checked. Although he might have wanted 29 addresses for future expansion? -RiffRaff
'cables that were crimped by blind paraplegics' you know where these guys work? i have several bones to pick with them... -DedSysOp
If he was wanting room for future expansion, he would have gotten 32 or 64 addresses, or another round number of addresses. (You know you've been programming too long when 32 and 64 are round numbers in your world.) -ThirdOfFive
ThirdOfFive: 20 and 40 are perfectly round numbers... <g> -virtualchoirboy
Atleast for us, a block of 29 is acutally a block of 32 (from ARIN) w/3 reserved for gateway, network & broadcast (1 each, of course)... -objekt404
Actually, the only real round number I know of is 0, -garwain
objekt404 is right - 29 addresses is the right amount left over from a /27. That's the largest we allocate to DSL customers, too. -namor
personally I like 3.14159.... as a round number -McSmiley
So, did they use the 586A, 586B, or 586Redneck standard? -TechOgre
Yea, I forgot about the network and broadcast addresses. <LARTs self> -ThirdOfFive
You just give them addresses? We make our customers justify why they need that many IP's. -scooby111
The answer is 42. </HGTTG> -Jenzkind
Can we say "NAT" (network address translation)? -cecil36
For round numbers, I kinda like 39-28-38. Nicely rounded, but not too much so. -Captain Trips
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The 10 min one hour...
Lart me. I have to help one of my elderly clients to install his new ADSL modem. The ISP supply everything needed for a self install. Connect the modem and when the PC boots, it's looking for the drivers. Now before I started, I asked for the driver disk, but there was nothing in the box besides the modem ( got box and seperate starter cd+booklet) . So its of to the web we go and 20 min later we have drivers for the modem, but what is this ? It's update drivers and the install is looking for original drivers else it craps out. So ....it's of to the web we go and I get the drivers, While this is downloading 80% done, I have another look at the CD the ISP supplied and decide just maybe the drivers are on there. Autorun starts, install starts - 5 min after a few nexts all is done. 1 hour wasted...uggh ( Its made easier for the starfish, but I make it more difficult) Sry if I sound long winded,but I feel like the dog's tit dragging in the mud, so I can 't think straight....I'm having a Heine to help me think better. Ish almosht working :-D[By: CSurfer / 2004-07-01]
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Heh, one of the traps to avoid is thinking that, since you are more technically savvy, then any problem *you* encounter must have a more complex fix. It happens, and the most common example of this are the people who go through monstrous amounts of software troubleshooting before checking the wires. Luckily, we're techs, so we learn quickly. -Splunge
Elderly + DSL = disaster. Never get an Internet connection faster than you are. -Mushroom
I've got an elderly customer who claims she's on the basic DSL package, which is the same speed as dialup, but doesn't tie up the phone line. It took me about 10 service calls, and at least as many hours to convince her that it's actually her computer that slowing everything else down. you know it's bad when you have to wait for 2 minutes for IE to OPEN on a fresh install... -garwain
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clickety click, click...
I'm sure all the TS people have had these calls, but I just had to share mine...
me: ok lets open "my computer"......
sf: your computer?......
me: no, the my computer icon on your desktop......
sf: my computer?......
me: yes......
sf: left click?......
me: yes click twice on the "my computer" icon......
sf: left click?......
me: yes......
sf: ok......
me: ok, now we want to get into the install cd, so right click on the ISP cd.......
sf: right click?......
me: yes......
sf: ok, I have the startup on my screen now.......
me: did you right click or left click on the cd?......
sf: I clicked twice on the cd and it started the install......
me: no? I asked that you right click on the cd.......
sf: right click?......
me: yes......
sf: ok, I'm back at my computer, what do you want me to do?......
me: right click on the ISP cd......
sf: right click?......
ARRRGGG!!!!! and it goes on and on and on....*sigh*[By: imawreque / 2004-07-01]
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OOOOHHHH! you mean WRITE CLICK!!!!!! o.k., let me get my sharpie out. -wolfprince
Just don't Wrong click! -Flexo
I am SO glad we use remote access software here. But it doesn't help when the fish can't push the caps lock button so her password goes in correctly. -Starfury
Ctrl+shift+right-click+drag into the proper folder. <I give up this guy's unteachable.> -scooby111
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CD's moral dilemma
Woman in our company phoned in one day sick over a month ago straight after she found out that due to the reorganisation she'd have to find another job within the company (there were loads she could do). Was never heard from again. She didn't respond to any letters or phone calls from HR or send in any doctor's certificates or any communication at all.
So, reluctantly, the company send her a letter stating that unless she contacted them in a week they would put her down as having 'walked out' of her job and her pay would cease as of date (just before payday). No communication was recieved so the company terminated her contract and stopped her pay.
Skip forward to today - just past payday, almost 2 months since she walked out, she hasn't been paid and guess who phones up at last? She cannot provide any doctor's notes for her 2 month absence, nor was there any family reasons, she was just 'staying off work till you people found me another job'.
The thing is, she's actually a nice woman and I have liked working with her in the past so should I feel sorry for her losing her job (she has kids to support) or not? [By: CommanderData / 2004-07-01]
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She may be a nice person, but she brought this on herself. She could have done a little work to find herself another job within the company, but she expected them to do it for her. The no response for 2 months is pretty damning in my opinion. -DreadPirate
Hell no! That's her own damn fault. -modeski
Nope. That's the dumbest excuse I've ever heard, especially when she hasn't responded to attempts to contact her. The company far beyond its obligations, as far as I'm concerned. -RiffRaff
I hope you were kidding hwen you asked if you should feel sorry for her. She's a perfect example of slackerism in my book. -ewspy87
...not only would I not feel sorry for her, I'd probably point and laugh (of course...I'm a cold, heartless bastard) -leonine
Dilemma? No... even if you like her, she still did something really dumb. This is classic starfish behaviour. -teivrann
Sadly, no. Did she never think to get direction from her supervisor? I don't know any workplace that lets you make up your own rules, not inform anyone of said rules & then get pissy when no one follows them. -Tekkie
Thanks guys. I was feeling like the most heartless bitch in the multiverse for not feeling any sympathy for her. I'm not now. -CommanderData
Even starfish can be nice people. Stupid and clueless, but nice. -virtualchoirboy
You can go on liking her, but don't feel sorry for her. She should have atleast answered the mail or phone. Her problem, not yours. -ecoli
Let's see... feeling sorry for someone's blatant stupidity, or feeling humor at someone's blatant stupidity... sorrow... humor... ummm, I think I'll take humor! -duckhead
Frankly, I'm glad you don't feel sorry for her, nor should you. Reminds me of a bloke in high school who "boycotted" an exam because the teacher writing it had a different style of teaching then his teacher in the same subject, and was "shocked" when he failed the course and couldn't graduate with the rest of his class. He, literally, through a temper tantrum! -Dragones
I'm currently helping my lady-friend deal with some nasty legal issues. She had to take a couple sick days the first week on a new job (nasty neck injury, had doctors note and everything). Her boss fired her for not showing up for 2 days (she did try to call but got no answer). Now, she finally got her paid, but was paid cash, with money removed because she was "not a model employee". We are both glad she's out of that company seeing how they treet people, but since the job market really sucks for people without any real experaince or training we are persuing the legal options (wrongful dismissal, failing to meet contract obligations, FRAUD!) -garwain
My exfiancee's mother pulled a Peter (hehehe)... she decided she didn't want to work anymore, but didn't bother telling anyone at her state job. I have no idea how long it was before they realized she wasn't coming to work and stopped paying her, but it was by no means immediate. If your company didn't consider her a nonemployee two hours or the next day after she didn't show up or make contact, you work for some really great liberal folk. -Mushroom
You have to tell a friend when they have done something stupid. I never do anything wrong(if you believe that...), but if I did I would want my friends to give me their honest opinion. -Flexo
May I fly in the face of general opinion and say that it might be a stress related break-down? If she couldn't face coming in to work for two months a doctor would have given her a sick note. If she couldn't admit to the doctor that she had a problem then she was sicker than that. Not answering the phone or mail is not normal behaviour; it sounds very much that she had a significant problem that she was in denial about. -rurwin
We still have someone on the employee roster that no one has heard from in almost 2 *years*! She went out on a 7-day disability and no one ever heard from her again despite several attempts by HR to contact her. This despite the fact that 3 days of not showing up without contacting your supervisor is grounds for termination. BUT, since she went out on disability they can't fire her. (In California you can't fire or lay off someone out on disability, I'm told.)I doubt they're actually paying her, but this is just silly. -sassicatz
You should feel no guilt at all. After one day with a no-call/no-show/no-note she should have been fired. The only exception is if some catastrophic emergency happened. The company was extremeny graceful in even sending her a note and giving her a second chance. In the face of a reorg they even put things on hold for her. I have sympathy for her children, not her. -scooby111
It's sad, but, nice doesn't always coincide with smart. -Hellion
what is WITH this woman? responsibility to my children comes first! and what about common manners? or trying to resolve the issue - blind stubbornness and ignorance abounds there. actually, i gotta say, i think she has problems beyond anything mere larting could fix. -timelady
CD - this is nothing to feel bad about at all. To steal from one of my favorite bumper stickers: "BAD Starfish - No Sympathy." -Grue
Sympathy? Perhaps. Feeling sorry for her? No way. Two months? Why didn't she call in earlier, at least to ask, "well, have you found me another job yet?" Stupidity is its own reward. -Captain Trips
My apologies, but this woman is a victicrat to the nth degree. ..."until you people found me another job?" Yes, ma'am, we'll do that, and Ed McMahon will be coming to your house later, with the winning lottery tickets from all 50 states. Is there any way her children could run away from home? -StarfishArthur
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Elevators (nt)
Not tech related, but Dragones' story about elevators made me think of this. A month or two ago I was at the local hospital on my way up to dialysis for an exciting three hour period of blood filtration. This is on the fifth floor. A great deal of other people also entered the elevator, and all floors, 2-6, had their respective buttons pressed. - The elevator stopped on 2, and a woman with her two children got on, and she pressed the button marked "1." The doors closed, and the elevator began to rise on its trip to the third floor, when she said "Noooo! I wanted to go down!" and pressed the "1" button a few more times, in some vain and slightly retarded hope that the elevator would stop what it was doing and go back down, just for her. She then proceeded to sigh heavily each time the elevator stopped, making this tremendous inconvenience obvious to everyone. Obviously she and her children needed to go somewhere right away, and she had no time to notice the GIANT GREEN ARROW POINTING UP right next to the elevator when she entered. I'm not usually too confrontational, so I didn't mention anything, but much eye-rolling was exchanged on the elevator in silence. Seems to me that if she was that inconvenienced by having to wait for the elevator to make its rounds, she could have gotten off at three and taken the stairs, or something. -- I hope the kids have some chance of growing up okay, despite their (assumed) mother's "Everything should revolve around me" attitude. It was amazing, almost like she was oblivious to the other six people in the elevator.[By: innacsai / 2004-07-01]
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i've noticed some people act very annoyed or angry to cover up their stupidity. Just my observation. -ewspy87
I disagree. Most stupid people aren't smart enough to recognize the fact that they're stupid. No, the anger/annoyance comes from that ever popular and increasingly prevalent "Me first and fuck everybody else" attitude. -RiffRaff
That reminds me of something a friend of mine said while talking about starfish... "if I were that stupid, I'd be pissed too" -leonine
Being a country boy, I'd probably make that mistake of taking the first elevator, but then I'd have an excuse, and I'd live with my mistake. Actually, for 1 floor, I'd have taken the stairs anyway... Why do people drive 2 blocks to the gym, take the elevator up, and then excercise for 10 minutes? Why not jog to the gym, run up the stairs, and then turn around and go home, saving your money? -garwain
And they called my generation the "Me Generation"! -sassicatz
Stupidity's not inherited. It’s taught. The flickering images that spackle themselves to the grey matter of the trodding masses we collectively call our society act as an acid that eats away reason and replaces it with feelings of self confidence and self worth. We teach it from birth. Every child learns from an early age that their effort counts more than their results. They learn that having a positive self image is more important than accomplishing anything of worth. When they get older, we teach them that their actions have no consequences and that their failures aren’t their fault, there’s the fault of their “oppressors”. Big corporations, rich people, the government, and even their own parents are handy scapegoats. -scooby111
Then of course you have incidents where there's nobody on the elevator (other than yourself), and you press every floor before you get off. Actually did that once in the dorm I lived in while in college (12 floors). -cecil36
I want a new planet! this ones full of starfish and they out number us! <takes the stairs from 2nd floor to first> and as usual - beat the elevator. -Harm
you are much too nice. I would have pressed the button for every other floor in the building before I was getting off, and then I would have walked off laughing at her. <bfeg> yes, I have done that too, in a similar situation. -JH
See, I would have done something like that, but all the floors were already pressed. There were only six. If I didn't have to be anywhere at the time, I'd have waited until six, pressed all the buttons again, then got out. -innacsai
See earlier post's comment about elevator overrides - I'd have tried to "express" that elevator to 6, then gotten off and let her discuss it with the others in the elevator on the way back down...while taking the stairs to whatever floor I actually needed. -Grue
Grue - I'll have to try that tomorrow and see if it works on these elevators. -innacsai
I would have called a co-worker to meet me at the elevator on floor 2 on the way back down, ridden up to 6, pressed the 2 thru 5 buttons, then ridden it to 2 and stood with my foot in the door (keeping it from closing) and talked to my friend for 10 minutes. Of course, I'm a total jerk too. :) -maciarc
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Uneccessary info
Half way through troubleshooting this old guys euipment. The bloke would talk for England. During a break in instructions as software was installed, the chap began to talk about a lady across the road, whom he could see from out of his window. He then went in to fairly graphic anecdotes of how he was almost on 'knickers terms' with this woman.
Now why did he feel I needed to know this?[By: jarralad / 2004-07-01]
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A pathetic belief that he's not an un-important lump of random chromosomes? -scooby111
Baby's first expense. Broken condom. So if its a mistake, whose mistake is it? -MaskedMarauder
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I was just wondering...
I was just wondering...
If all of our tension / frustration / pure living hell on earth feelings, always come from starfish... they why are we using a star??? Shouldn't we have a star w/ a bullethole in it...
What do ya'll think?[By: duckhead / 2004-07-01]
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Well, it is a cockeyed star... -LaserGuru
It's a trophy. You know, like there dear heads on walls and stuff (finds a gun and goes hunting) -pmillipede
Not that I have one yet, but if it's a trophy, perhaps Hawk could let you keep a count of the stars you've purchased on your profile page. Line them up just like a trophy room. -virtualchoirboy
I think different colored stars indicating number of years as a star member would be kind of cool, myself. -RiffRaff
I'll second the motion for a list of all stars we have purchased... Oh, what? We don't actually have a vote in that matter? Dang. Hope the wonderful dictator in his infinite wisdom will like the idea... -garwain
Yep, I'm with Riffy & Garwain on this one....any thoughts on this, Hawk? -lineswine
The star here was created before the starfish term... Hawk had no way of knowing. :-P -Mushroom
Y'awwl got nothing better to do than bug a sleep deprived man up to his elbows in disposable nappies?....GET BACK ON THE PHONES! <eg> -Digital Dogcow
I've been LARTed by DD... i'm not sure if my life is complete, or if I should just crawll under a rock.... <wanders off pondering> -duckhead
I like coloured stars for length of membership, but howabout a whole row of things you can buy for fairly random prices. You have to get a star first, then you can buy anything you fancy: a gun is $5, a mushroom cloud is $10, a sports car is $20, etc, etc... and if you've got them all you can then buy the kitchen sink for $50. -rurwin
I think it’d be pretty neat to have an additional star for every one you’ve purchased. If you really wanted to get nifty, you could have the last star turn color every month until you renew. And yes DD, I have nothing better to do. I figure I’ll prod him until my t-shirt arrives. -scooby111
LOL @ DD. -sassicatz
Does anyone know where the tearm "Starfish" came from? -AniMaL
You'll get my STAR when you pry it from my cold dead fingers! -Hellion
...And someone wants to make it complicated... I think it's fine as it is!!!!!!!!! -Hellion
and while we're talking about troubling a poor sleep deprived man, i sent him an email tuesday (now it's thursday) about where to send a M.O. for star membership, and havn't heard anything back yet......I WANNA NEW STAR!!!!! (sorry, had to say it) -wolfprince
You would prefer perhaps a red swingline? -maciarc
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NOTE TO SELF: Ask the obvious question
So I spend 20 minutes T/Sing cable modem connection, modem's up, but no computer behind it. Check to make sure correct lights are on, that the NIC is installed, all the proper stuff is setup in network connections, cust. says the IP repairs ok, but with an invalid IP address. He mentions that Local Area Connection is disabled but WILL NOT enable. I'm a little puzzled by all this, ask the customer to reboot, about ready to rip and restore TCP/IP as a last resort, when the guy asks the OBVIOUS question: EU: Does it matter that the computer won't reboot normally? ME: What do you mean? Error messages? EU: Well, I can't get it to do anything but go into safe mode. Does that make a difference? ME: Umm, yeah. Turns out, someone loaded a bogus copy of WinXP on it and it quit working normally about 6 months after that. He'll be bringing his computer and getting an official OS on it soon - if he wants to get on the internet. [By: MamaTech / 2004-07-01]
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I’m not sure I’d consider that obvious. I mean it’s easy to miss the multitude of error messages that farking pop up in your face and make you click on them before they go away. These are customers, not detectives. -scooby111
i got some w2k computers that you cannot edit the tcp/ip properties, so you say rip out tcp/ip protocol...wont do it either....end up wiping it. -SGTARKyTEK
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Happy day
My calandar is indicating that today is Canada Day so just want to wish a Happy Canada Day to all of the Canadians out there.[By: Rabbitt / 2004-07-01]
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Canada Day kicks ass, I love the stat pay.... especially when I get 4 hours overtime! -samurai
I assume Canada Day is equivalent to our 4th of July here in the States? -RiffRaff
Yes, Canada Day is our equivalent to Independance Day. yay for 2.5x pay for the first 8 hours! -Bynar
Thanks bunny-boy. And yeah, Riff, it's pretty much the exact same thing. -Dragones
And then we get monday off anyways. YAY! -DracoSuave
According to Uncle John’s Almanac; On July 1, 1867 the British North America Act united the British colonies of Upper Canada, Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia into “one dominion under the name of Canada.” July 1 was known as Dominion Day until October 27, 1982, when it was officially changed to Canada Day. The name “Canada” derives from kanata, the Iroquois word for “village”. -Rabbitt
Happy Canada Day to our northern friends! Have a safe & happy celebration! -Tekkie
Happy Canada day to our 51st state. <BFEG> -ewspy87
Happy Canada Day, eh! BTW I think we have a few million of your geese. -Flexo
Happy Canada Day, eh! BTW I think we have a few million of your geese. -Flexo
I don't get any holidays off any more. I was making an appointment with a doctor's office and they told me they were closed "on Thursday" (today) and I was thinking "Geez, what a stupid day to close.." :) Then again, I get triple-time for all hours I work tonight, so I'm cool about it :) -Jay911
Canada's north? <reworks mental map> What the fark is that country next to Venezula then? -scooby111
Happy Cananaday.. Canenindin... Candorien... Happy Your Day!!! -duckhead
Not so happy here. The idiots that make up most of the population of Quebec decided that having Friday off, for a long weekend was a better idea, but last week for St. John Baptist day, the whole province shut down, then everyone was too hung over on friday... So I'm stuck here in the office today reading TSC and watching for the boss to fark off so I can slip out... -garwain
ROTFL @ Rabbitt's sig. And Happy Canada Day to all our Canadian friends. -sassicatz
We still have Shatner! -LaserGuru
At least I'm getting paid time and a 1/2 to be here and I get to stay off the phones... don't get to enjoy the fireworks, but here they suck ass anyways. -GeekGirl
I was volunteering for half a day at our Canada Day celebration. Why parents feel the need to force a crying child onto a ride I have no idea. I know I hated that. If they're crying, maybe they JUST DON'T WANT TO GO! They're babies, what do you expect? (No, I'm not like that with the children ;) -Mango
Damn it, I had to work on Canada Day. :( But the time-and-a-half was worth ten hours of torture. ;) -Torinir
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Thanks Everyone
I want to thank everyone for being so responsive to my request for opinions regarding the AG's Fax.com press conference this afternoon. There were a lot of valid points, and Magenta and I discussed them pretty thoroughly. I also contacted my parole officer for her opinion (she is very familiar with my ex-wife, and understands the situation). What she told me echoed what some of you said in your comments (paraphrased, because I don't remember her exact words):
"If it weren't for your ex-wife, would you attend the press conference?"
"Yes."
"Then live your life the way you want to. Life is too short and you need to stop living in fear of your ex. Also, your history is your personal business, and it has nothing to do with what you're doing now, so you don't need to say anything unless they ask you first. You've done a good thing here, so get out and enjoy it."
Then she congratulated me and said she'd watch for me on the news. A wise, wise woman, my P.O. is, as is most everyone here. So, the verdict is I will be attending the press conference this afternoon and enjoying my little moment in the spotlight. Those of you in Indiana might want to catch the local evening news tonight, and I'm sure it will be in the Indianapolis Star tomorrow. For everyone else, I will be posting any relevant links here as soon as they become available.
Thanks again for all of your comments, support, and karma. Magenta and I really do appreciate it. More to come later...
[By: RiffRaff / 2004-07-01]
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Didn't get a chance to respond to you the first time (trying to figure out how to word it right), but I'm glad you've decided to do it. Good luck! -Dragones
Good luck! I'll be watching the news tonight! :) -Jenzkind
You are a brave, good-hearted man. I am sending the best thoughts I can manage your way. Bless you and your lovely bride for standing up for what's right and a plague of biting flies on those who oppose you! -Tekkie
Go get 'em!! -ewspy87
Knock 'em dead, Riff. *BEG* -kman52000
Sounds like your P.O. is very wise. (Since she gave almost the exact same advise as I did.) ;) Good luck and have fun! -scooby111
Good luck, Riff. I'll be looking for you in the Star tomorrow. -Jebus
Damn the torpedos! Full steam ahead! -WinterWolf
Ya know for a twenty spot and a cold 6 pack I can permently resolve the X problem. -burrkiss
Wadaya proposing to do, Burkiss? Marry her and drive her insane? -CyBear
Yoda is your PO? -LaserGuru
see? i told ya you make good decisions (BEFG). Congrats Riff, wish i could see the Indy news from central OH. -wolfprince
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Sorry for link
Current link of the day is too damned funny to hijack, but...
How many of us have seen ourselves in this position exactly? (oh and the woman in the comic just got laid off from a tech support job, so that's why I find it relevant.)
http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20040630.html[By: Dragones / 2004-07-01]
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Really eclectic and appropriate music she has. :) -Mushroom
there are a few in the archives of Kestral doing her tech job, some of those are down right hilarious too, i love QoW -rhiannon
It's in my regular morning lineup of online comics to read. Really funny. -scooby111
Damn! I was going to post that link. And, unfortunately, it is all too true! -Wraith556
I like the interviewer's name. -maciarc
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Request for Karma
Well after three months of intense job searching I have finally gotten contacted by a company for an initial phone screening. Please send some karma my way as I hate living off unemployment.Thanks.[By: TheSingingTech / 2004-07-01]
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Karmatron set to "stun". Luck with that. -Dj
Flying Fickle Fedora of Fate freshly filled with karma and best wishes, and is on it's way. -StylinTechie
Good luck! -Jenzkind
Best of luck! We can't have you singing the blues! -Tekkie
<cranks up Karma-O-Matic> k, here ya' go..... Karma on the way -duckhead
Unlike Tekkie, I enjoy the blues. But I'll send you karma anyway. -Jebus
<grabs puppy, stuffs full of karma and places in mouth and spits toward TST> Watch out, I think I singed the hairs a little. -DragonMageWTF
<Sacrifices chicken on Altar of the Tech Gods in basement> Dammit, I just cleaned this place up for the BBQ, too! Good luck! -RiffRaff
<taps Keg-O-Karma and pours SingingTech a tall one> Here ya go! Drink up, there's more where that came from! -ecoli
Best of luck! Hope to hear you singing the Hallelujah chorus sooon! -sassicatz
<grabs co-workers> <throws them on wood-chipper> <strains karma from remains> Here ya go. <Ignore the chunks> -scooby111
<dons a black hooded robe, grabs a few sharp bladed objectes> Karma's on its way. < lets see who's next .. ah yes> -Harm
<whips out the Cleavers of Karma, slices, dices, mashes, purees, pickles, fries, marinates and roasts several dozen starfish, and throws the lot in the Karma Volcano> Ve be zending you ze Gooden Lucken! -SwedishChef
<skins up another bakers dozen KarmaKritters™, tans the skins in X-tra K™ karma concentrated tanning solution, slaps a shipping lable on them, grabs the currier by the throat, "DELIVER THEESE BY SUNSET TODAY!!!"> there ya go! -wolfprince
Yeah, Right, I send you some Karma, then you get the Job I'm trying for. Good Luck! -satanstech
<checks cannon on A-10, performs touch-and go> SingingTech, this is Panther1, please relay coordinates for Karma strike, over... -hkypipe
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This is a little scary...
I also didn't want to kill the funny Ubersquirrel, but thought this was something you guys and gals would be interested in....
"Interception of E-Mail Raises Questions"
http://tinyurl.com/3xlf8
Will corporate greed and corruption ever end??
[By: Jenzkind / 2004-07-01]
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Somehow that's not unusual. HTML emails routinely put hidden graphics in mails as counters, thus your IP is recorded when you read it. -Mushroom
Yes, when the Vogons arrive. Be patient. -Digital Dogcow
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