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Tech Stories Archives - October 2006
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Barbecue Wrap up
Was good, got four tsc members and two techs who haven't learned where to find thier fellows. Many hamburgers met thier doom, stories of starfish bested were exchanged and the peasents rejoiced. Everyone seemed to get along and have a good time, consensus seemed to be doing it again would be a good idea, maybe with a little more prioer planning next time. Matrixmole and LSM? have the photos, also turns out me and matrix know some of the same people and have worked for the same company.
Wish more of you could have made it, maybe next time more games, etc.[By: knothere / 2006-10-01]
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PHX BBQ Website
So what does a real tech do with nothing to do? well, being the super geek I am I went and created a quick forwarding sub domain on my company's domain. Why? Cause I can. and it has one pic of the bbq from a blind man's perspective.
its 4:51AM I got home at 2:15 AM, went to sleep and for some reason woke up and my server was kapoodled. didn't even respond to ssh requests. so after cursing I go reboot it, and then type in:
tsc.theblindtechsnetwork.com
and what dowe get? Go Look!
http://tsc.theblindtechsnetwork.com
oh, and
http://hamster.theblindtechsnetwork.com is a funny forward also. hamster.theblindtechsnetwork.com
Enjoy!
More pics to come and more comentary! I swear I'm either still drunk or starting a hang over, I feel like shit![By: blindtech / 2006-10-01]
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I feel like a major starfish at the moment. Two buttons under mac filtering on my router, Allow these MACS and Prohibit these MACS. Guess which one I hit? - knothere
Thats a lot of booze in the background. -burrkiss
Nyah that's hardly anything. You should see me pack for an SCA event. -knothere
Oh dear god... NOOOOO!!! The dancing hamsters are EEE-VIL!! Every damn brainless ditz of a receptionist, personal assistant, or secretary had those horrible offspring-eating vermin on their work computers when I worked as a courier. I considered it part of a litmus test: does the ditz have (1) Dancing hamsters in an open browser window? (2) Are there three or more plush toys on her desk? (3) Does she giggle at the end of every sentence? (4) Does her breath smell like her boss's genitalia? If the answer to these was "YES", I knew that --- somehow, in some manner --- an extra ten minutes of my day was going to be wasted needlessly. ("Umm... A package to be picked up? (*giggle*) Um, I think somebody left something up here a few minutes ago. Are you from UPS? (*giggle*)") -MeanDean
MeanDean - And just HOW did you know what her boss's genitalia smells like? -Divinar
It's a reasonably good picture of me in my purple shirt. God, I remind myself of that awful purple dinosaur. Matrixmole is to my left rear. Blindtech couldn't tell that he posted the picture in mirror image. The Pepsi cans tell the tale. The guy to my right front is a potential member and cow-orker of knothere, who isn't in the pic. Mike. -MSimmons777
how do you accidently mirror an image? j/k For a blind guy, great job on the pic.
-drachen
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Taking my lumps again...
Computer Stupidities updated a couple of days back. http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/ - SFW, and not terribly funny, though a couple of the stories are worth a smile anyway.
I don't think I'm allowed back in the LART shelter yet, am I? [By: chazz
/ 2006-10-02 ]
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If you go around the side, move the dumpster aside, you will see the 'sub-lart shelter tunnel' entrance. While it isn't as roomy (or bright) as the shelter, it is almost as safe. p.s. watch out for rats, scorpions and the occasional fer-de-lance! -TieDyedDinosaur
You have entered a dark passageway. It is dark. You will likely be eaten by a Grue. (?) -ShujinTribble
And don't forget that my loyal minions like to lurk in the rafters. -TechnoVampire
You have come to a crossroad. To your left you can see far, far away the LART-shelter, and to your right you see a dark tunnelleading downwards. Which way shalt thou take? -Dr Jerkyl
... given the alternatives, I think I'm probably better off just standing out here in the open and taking my LARTing like a man. -chazz
xyzzy -Captain Trips
Just watch out for snakes in the sub-lart shelter. *Hands chazz a wicker cage with a bird inside it* -LinuXtreme
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PHX BBQ News
I mentioned at the BBQ that Grouchy Old Cripple in Atlanta had posted on his blog a version of Pachelbel's Canon in D that was for Rock Guitarists. GOC is a member of TSC, although I haven't seen him post recently. Here is the link to his September 2006 Blog Archive, http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/archives/2006_09.html, the section to listen/look at is from September 4 and is called 'Work Out'. Think how much support You Tube has to have to support videos like this.[By: MSimmons777 / 2006-10-02]
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Looks like you have to link to the main blog, http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/ and go to the September archives. -MSimmons777
I see what happened. The comma got caught in the http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/archives/2006_09.html and FireFox (my browser of choice) didn't like it. -MSimmons777
some pics on the site make this link NSFW - just a warning -h3x0n1c
dude! SWEET! and other stereotypical outbursts -Tarantulus
I forgot about his NSFW content. His TSC username is GOCinAtlanta, and according to the database, he has never posted. He may be a lurker and a commenter, but apparently not a poster. -MSimmons777
Rude, crude and socially unacceptable, but I couldn't help but laugh at "German Engineering vs Arab Technology" from Sept. 26... -virtualchoirboy
'Cept it's the third movement of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #3, not the Pachelbel Canon in D. -sassicatz
sassi - Los Romeros is indeed playing the Brandenburg Concerto, but farther down the page on 9/4 you'll see the two guitarists separately doing Pachelbel's Canon in D. -MSimmons777
I looked and didn't find it. Guess I'll have to look again. Regardless, those guys are fabulous! -sassicatz
*sigh*, it is ok, as long as you don't mind wading through the "nuke everywhere East of Turkey" neo-con BS. -lineswine
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Ooops. Boss, that's not what you meant!
Our story today concerns the weekly torture of the conference call. A vision of boredom and 15 people talking all at once for about an hour whilst yours truely props her eyelids open. Standard business fare really. Now today, our boss decides that he's going to go through our status reports on the phone, making us read out what we've done in the last week etc. One of our techies is a little slow this morning and doesn't get her file open, so in a fit of annoyance our boss shouts down the line: Come on, get them open, I want to see what you've got! Cue 14 of us hammering the mute buttons and 14 keyboards destroyed due to beverage spillage.. [By: CommanderData / 2006-10-02]
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Why did you bother with the mute button? -smellystudent
The boss has a serious lack of sense of humour. NOT a good thing if you manage me to be honest... -CommanderData
Aaaaaaaand HERE comes the referee to make the call on the play... after he stops laughing milk out his nose. -ShujinTribble
Almost had a 15th keyboard casualty in the count *snorfs coffee* Damn good thing I'm the only one here... -Dreamstalker
(in best Clevon Little) 'scuse me while I whip this out' -persephone
Sounds like you need more coffee. Although eating the third bowl can get tiresome </Red Dwarf>. -Wraith556
You know CD, there are a few here that are thinking the exact same thing <BFG> -deskmonkey
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Props to Adobe
Here I was all geared up for a fight. I had chugged 6 Red Bulls and was actually paying attention to the crappy hold music on the customer support line when the Rep. picked up. "I bought the Photoshop CS2 upgrade from Amazon.com that claims to upgrade from any version but it asks for version 5.5 and I only have 5.0.", says I, bracing for the denial. Imagine my surprise when the Rep. on the line actually tells me how to bypass that. Darn it! I came here for an argument![By: edventure / 2006-10-02]
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Don't you just hate that! You get a good head of steam up, You are 'RIGHT, DAMMIT', and then they just roll over and give up! Where's the sweet victory? -TieDyedDinosaur
I see. Well, do you want to have just one argument, or were you thinking of taking a course? -TubPorsche
well...we have been trying to beat the drool-monkeys about the head and shoulders to actually "try" to fix cust issues. -3p0ch
even if you had paid for a five minute argument at least he could have argued on his own time for a bit -LunaticFringe
Not only did he speak English as a primary language, but he was helpful. Ruined my whole day. At least until I started playing with CS2. The Healing Brush rules!! Oh well, I'll have to sign up for abuse next time. -edventure
"Oh, I'm sorry, this is Abuse. You want Room 12A, just next door." -AmazingKreskin
so...it's abuse you want eh? try playing around with ANY of the SDKs. that'll learn ya. -3p0ch
"YOU want to complain? Just look at these shoes, I've hardly had them a week and already they're worn clean through! And I'm sick and tired of this bloody office." -Captain Trips
Well, stop hunting the mail-boy and the office won;t be bloody anymore. DUH! -ShujinTribble
You chugged 6 Red Bull... and they understood *you*? -namor
Have you seen "Over The The Hedge"? funny movie, with a nutso squirrel. -srteach
"No, that's next door. This is being hit on the head lessons in here." -MeanDean
ANY version? CS2 is version 12, fuhpetessake! <I hate, Hate, HATE CS/CS2. Adobe's multi-layered vectoring blows a 300dpi file about 4 times it's size in resolustion and disk space. "You need to either 'export' (or 'save as', depending on if it's Illustrator or Photoshop AND CS or CS2) to "Legacy - version 8." "I CAN'T FIND THAT!!!" <And these are supposed to be experienced graphic designers... I hate Mondaze...> -MadJack
dammit, now i have a hankering to shoot people in cs2:source... -trs998
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"I'm calling about your Wireless Dildo."
You know the caller - outbound telemarketer for your $Wireless_Dildo_Company (*COUGH*horizon*COUGH*).
The poor, poor girl. She didn't stand a chance.....
"I'm calling from $Wireless_Dildo_Company about your calling plan... Just to start off, do you have a picture phone?"
(Ok, I would expect that thier own network system should be able to tell what phone I have... But I figure, Ok... why not...)
"No. No I do not."
(Insert quick mental double-take since, apparently, she had listed that I did.)
"Well, acording to our records we show you as sending and recieving an average of 26 text messages a month, and we'd like to see if you'd be interested in (blah-blah) 500 text messages (blah-blah) only $10 a month.
(Ok, now here's my chance! Strech that brain! Let's go! Hup-hup-HUP-hup... scribble-scribble)
Ok... and so that we're on the same page, here... that roughly 30 messages - that translates out into roughly how much money?
"Roughly.... Two dollars."
(Smirk)
So... If I were to go for this plan you're offering, wouldn't that seem to be an eight-dollar-a-month waste for me?
(C'mon... lessee what you've got...)
NEEP-noop.. If you don't like the plan (Emo-sniffle) you don't have to take it. (Built-in translator comes back with: You don't have to take it, but don't make me upset about it or make me work at this!)
Well, I figured I'd see where you were going and give you a chance to see if you'd like to offer me a different plan - something closer to what I'm already paying a la carte.
(C'mon... Don't give up on me now. I'm having fun!)
(Insert half-hearted attempt to offer me a five-dollar-a-month package instead)
Well, right now, I think that'll be fine that I'll only pay the two-dollars extra for now. But thank you for your attention to my account. Buh-bye!
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So.. you guys at $horizon Wireless....
Come ON! You have all the data about my account and you send out a badly-trained chuhahua out to do the job of a well-trained Boxer?
Puh-LEASE! Have some DIGNETY, fer cryin' out loud!
You just got PWNED by a guy who lost his wife 18 months ago, STILL doesn't have his mental faculties anywhere NEAR optimal, has been in a blue funk for about, oh, EIGHTEEN MONTHS! -AND- has been actively hurting his heart by sorting through some of her stuff again for the last week....
Dudes.... Sad. just sad.
On the bright side... W00H00! Shujin: 1 | Everyone Else: 0
[By: ShujinTribble / 2006-10-02]
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go team! -3p0ch
0WNZd! fragg the noobs! FRAGG 'EM! -Harm
Pwned. -56Kdaytrader
If you were spending more a la carte then you would with a plan such as they were offering, would they offer it? Of course not. That is why they offered the plan. -bewaretech
Once the "its the network" crap wears thin, I propose "we suck less". Honesty in advertising. How refreshing. -gemachte
Unfortunatly I "chose" this comp due to coverage at my house- they're the only comp with reliable service up here next door to Dick Cheney's Safehouse -ShujinTribble
At least they dropped the "can you hear me now" campaign -- because I have their service, but not at my desk at work! ("Can you hear me now?" "NO" "Good!") -Captain Trips
B E A utiful! Go Shujin! And I'm sure Fujin is smiling too! -TheMage18
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Will Work For...
...Just about anyone,right now. I found out at about 3pm that they are not extending my contract,or picking me up. I'm a bummin' techie right now. The pisser is, they hired a couple of half-assed nit wits. Helldesk is telling me that I was overqualified for the job...ummm...right now, don't care, it's an income. So, if you see anything in the area, please toss it my way. [By: persephone / 2006-10-02]
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I hate that. You really just need a job and they tell you that you can't haveone because you know too much. I suppose they mean that you won't stay in their low paid and overworked establishment if you find something better. -Gerund
That is exactly it -- they won't keep you because they are too afraid that you won't stick, and they'd rather hire a couple of morons that they feel they can keep, rather than keep one person who might walk when they need her most. And yes, it's a bitch. Much karma headed your way... unfortunately I'm not in the area, or I'd put out a few feelers. -chazz
http://indiana.mybrighthouse.com/indybhn/careers.asp - cant hurt to apply. -Harm
karma C-130 wing loaded and wheels up. -Harm
Nitwits, yes... But they're gullible and like to wear scoop-neck blouses. -MeanDean
I'm doin that right now. I'm over-qualed and underpaid, but it's tech and better then nothing. But I see the light... -computerdoc
We can all recount experiences like that... I don't think I've shot off all my good job karma, lemme run down and check the magazines... -MadJack
Sorry, hun... Right now, I'm actually owed some karma from somewhere... I think. It's hard to tell from way down here in the dumps. -ShujinTribble
In 2002-2003, 'overqualified' was a word I learned to hate with a passion. "I'm overqualified for a Help Desk position? That's why you're not hiring me? How overqualified do you think I am to flip burgers?" -AmazingKreskin
Aw, crap. Sorry to hear that! Good luck on finding something to at least pay the bills, while you look for a better job! -Grue
damned if you do damned if you don't, either over-qualified to do the job or need more experience to get the job but can't get hired either way. -halitech
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Microsoft made a funny
Here I am, posting from VISTA. I am trying to get drivers loaded, and it's a crap shoot. I feel like I'm trying to load Winmodems in Win 98. It picked up everything except a few Nforce things, in which Windows update actually got everything except the Promise 376 controller. I went out to Nvidia, and got the beta driver pack. I am trying to install some things, and came across this gem....""While attempting to copy the first file, a warning message will appear warning
you that you will need administrator privileges to perform the copy operation into
this system folder. To avoid seeing this message in the future, click the box that
says “Repeat my answer each time this occurs (119 times).” I'm not bashing windows, I am cross-platform myself, Mac, Win, and even Linux. It's just funny![By: computerdoc / 2006-10-02]
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Dude.. 119 times to click, "OK" / "Yes" / "Copy All"... dude, that's just.... MANIC! -ShujinTribble
"are you sure you want to do this?...really sure?...seriously, if you click ok this will happen....are you positive?...maybe you should sleep on it?...fine, but im not kidding this time...?...ok lets do it, you ready?" heheh one way to keep users from installing crap. -xtc46
...a way which, as any tech could tell you, never works. -TechnoCat
Winmodems in Win 98? Wash your mouth out with soap! You are giving me flashbacks, and I can't afford the rum to make them go away. -56Kdaytrader
Sorry 56Kdaytrader. <hands over a spare keg o'rum> It's just what it felt like. Or the time a buddy says, I just installed ME, and now nothing works. I spent 2 days with driverguide.com looking up FCC ID's. Bleeehh! -computerdoc
I'm about to load the Vista R.C.1 version on my home rig. Just thought I'd catch up on my reading here first, in case I get FUBARed in the process. -ThinTheHerd
our policy on winmodems was "if not intewl chipset, insert in dustbin, charge customer for new modem+fitting (15+VAT)" - as at 25/hour labour rates it's cheaper than finding drivers for the damn things... -trs998
I did a fresh install of XP on my daughters PC last night, and the last thing to do was a Windows Update for the perfectly fine wireless NIC. After that it was another 15 minutes getting it to work again. Too bad it's not spec'ed for Vista, I could lose the rest of my hair. -Jeckler
You're NOT bashing Windows? [*scratches head*] Haven't been here long, have you? -MeanDean
Jeckler, I stopped doing windows updates for hardware when it took a working sound card and NIC and made them useless with the winblows drivers and forced me to drive 25 miles to the nearest known location that I could find with a working net connection so I could get back online -halitech
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Day 1 in the books...
Had my first day as helpdesker today. A lot to take in, was told I wouldn't be bored and they were right. I moved between all 3 buildings we support today. Got a lot of new things to learn, but overall it went well and I'm not freaked out (yet anyway lol) I'm definitley looking forward to getting this phone that we use though it's pretty sweet. http://onlinestorez.cingular.com/cell-phone-service/cell-phones/cell-phones.jsp?RFlow=A&source=INC230056&zip=32746&q_deviceId=cdsku9870111&WT.svl=mod
Thanks again to all for the good wishes by the way :)[By: SirBSOD / 2006-10-02]
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The Cingular 8125 Pocket PC is the phone it looks like that link just takes u to the store... -SirBSOD
Tmobile MDA is the same phone with some cosmetic difference... it's a SWEET phone -DedSysOp
The only thing that will freak you out on desktop is how stupid people are and how much they lie. -sassicatz
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Mystery call? Or just clueless? U decide
<Back story to "attachment' EUPOTDs>
She called back AGAIN. I'd SWEAR it was the same one who called last week; but there were no existing logs under her 'name'. Our e-mail support group sent her a file she'd requested to use for a design she wished to order. She has NO clue how to open an attachment, and wants someone to baby-step her step-by-step through the entire process from saving the attachments to completing the order, or better yet, do it for her. She has no one to assist her locally, and by the sound of her has no business being in the vicinity of anything electronic. "How do I save it? I don't under-stAHHHAAAANNDD!!!" she nasally whines. My mind boggles at the concept that there is one, let alone MORE than one, person who has no earthly clue how to do something so basic as to click on an attachment. SF do this to invite viruses from their e-mails every day. I'm rendered speechless. How do I say to her "If you can't even understand the concept of 'click to open' (she uses Hotmail, so I found out later... MUCH later...) She thinks the call dropped and hangs up in disgust. Two of them in less than a week....[By: MadJack / 2006-10-02]
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There *really* is more than one person who "doesn't know how to open an attachment". I got a call other day from one of our satellite offices inquiring who is the idiot that answers our phones. A big wig was in our office and needed a document. It was emailed to the idiot we call a receptionist who whined she didn't know how to open and print an attachment. Did she forward the call to someone who could have helped, or even ask for instruction? NOOO. The big wig's assistant called me back to ask me to take care of it. F'in incompetents, I tell you. -FixitWench
<TINK!><TINK!><TINK!>..... -vacuumtubes
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U Decide.... Part 2.
The first call was before lunch.
The second time.... she called back about an hour b4 end of shift. Same woman. Same problem. Same WHIIIINNNE.... "I DON'T UNDERSTAAAHHHAAAANDDD!!!!" $DIETY HELP ME, I can feel the brain cells dying like the citizens of Alderaan... I try to focus on speaking to her level to assist her as best I can... and find some way to deflect her... (both times, I hear the clicking of the keyboard in the background... yellow alert sirens going off in my head... what do you usually think of when you hear that on the other end of the phone?)
Somehow, I manage to talk her through opening the attachment and saving the image to her hdd. "Lemme rename this, I don't like the name 'untitled' they gave it. I was supposed to get two! I told then I need both sides!" Shit. Another thing before I can walk her through uploading and explain to her how simple it is. I can see the call lasting the rest of my shift. I try to get her to open the file...[By: MadJack / 2006-10-02]
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U Decide.... Part 3
So, I try to get her to copy the file. "I don't understaaahhaaandd!! Why is this so difficult!!" (The cry of the computer illiterate faced with something so simple a 2 year old can do it.) "Right click and choose 'copy'." "There's no 'copy'." No copy? You just can't do it right. I get her to open it and do 'Save as'. "There's no 'Save As'. WTF? "What happens when you click on 'File'?" "When I click on the file, it opens?" Not THE file, 'FILE'! AAAArrrrrrrrgggggghhhh.....[By: MadJack / 2006-10-02]
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U Decide.... Part 4
Sorry for the long and broken story, no star powers... (should renew them onea thse daze....)
"Go to the menu bar, where it says 'File/Edit/View'."
"OOOOHHH!!! FILE!!!" "That's right. Now. What happens when you click on 'File'?" "The file closes."
Inept... incompetent... I'm trying my damnedest to keep my patience w/o my condescendence showing. "Click on 'File'." Another round of her clicking on THE file, not 'File'. "Double click on the icon with the name <file>." "Okay." "Now. Click on 'File', next to 'Edit'. "I'm clicking 'Edit'." <Cue Daffy: "No, NOOO!!!"> "Please click on the command 'File'." "Got it." (I do website support. Why am I doing basic Windoze usage support for this person?")[By: MadJack / 2006-10-02]
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For the record - we (Little_Local_ISP) do *NOT* support "How Do I xxx With Program xxx" except for a few key items: Prox, mail account setup, news account setup, mail filter setup (Though, to be fair, all the info on how to do it is in our web-help too). Far as we're concerned, we're a pipe, not a school. (Leave the snyd "pipe" comments out of it, guys and gals) -ShujinTribble
My guess is she was clicking the File menu on a window behind Picture and Fax Viewer. The window in question was taking focus, and she couldn't see her file any more, so assumed it had closed. I feel your pain :( -Mango
ShujinTribble > It's "tubes" not "pipes". -Stryker One
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U Decide.... Part 5
I get her to finally click on 'File'. (All this to copy something. Yeagaahhdzzzzzzz!!!1) "What happens when you click on 'file'?" "It closes again." W...T...F. "What program is it opening in?" "What? Program? What are you talking about?" (Much like when I first asked her what e-mail she used. "E-mail? I don't understand!") "What's the name on the blue bar at the top of the screen?" "Windows Picture and Fax Viwewer." Windows P/F Viewer DOESN'T HAVE 'File/Edit/View'! Red Alert sirens are going off in my head. Clicking on 'File' my ass, LIAR!!! Finally, I convince her the best thing to do is to send her request to have her <item> designed for her, and sent back for her to approve before she orders it. "But I e-mailed them this morning, and they haven't answered yet!" Somehow, patiently, I explain our turnaround on e-mail contact. She FINALLY goes quietly into 'that good night' of the almighty Dial Tone.
[By: MadJack / 2006-10-02]
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"I don't underSTAND!" "Then go take a class or read a book. There are TWO-year-olds who can manage this, and my job does not include doing your thinking for you." -Geminii
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Time for U to decide....
So. Enter the fact that the client on who's contract I work is NOTORIOUS for not just test calling us (much like Cox's 'Mystery Calls'. (Been there, done that, got the t-shirt that says "I Got Game!" to prove I kicked ass.) but for pushing our buttons, to see how far they can press us in the name of serving their customers. <Hey, corporate, your own people have your gomers bitching about hold times, you gotta waste our time with this, DELIBERATELY trying to provoke us into doing something you can fire us for? Keep it up, that kinda thing's ACTIONABLE...> Theur 'test' callers are SUPPOSED to identify themselves as with the client, and say the call was a test call. ('SUPPOSED to' being the key words....)
So....
Ya think my boss'll have an e-mail that I was 'supe-called' twice yesterday (whadda coincidence, twice in the same day by the same person, and we don't have direct extensions)? Or....
<Blink..... blink.... It hurst... It HURTS....>
Or is she REALLY that stupid?
I'll know when my boss gets (or doesn't get) the e-mail....
And it's only Monday....
[By: MadJack / 2006-10-02]
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i believe in the power of human stupidity.
-illiterate
A whole new breed of stupidity is born every 20 seconds I guess. -MarkerMage
"Now we know the speed of stupid."</roseanne> -AmazingKreskin
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity." Or: Yes, yes I do think she's that stupid. You should see some of the users I've come across. -Captain Trips
You're all right. Boss told me no e-mails re sup calls on me yesterday. Ye gods... God help me if she's ever queued to my phone again... -MadJack
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GGGGGRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!! POSTMAN MAD!!!
we have a new way of going about things here, i now have to talk a new group of people, the engineers (dum dum dum), so also along with the clients getting angry, calls getting wrongly referred, and now it we have engineers who dont know jack.
engineers think we are taking to long to sort out ip streams and open security doors for them and then hang up, we have only started actually doing this stuff today after 10 minutes of training on it.......
i cant help b ut think to myself what would happen if they actually trained airline -pilots in taht time, or chemists or doctors.
i am so angry it is unreal.[By: postmankyle / 2006-10-03]
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uh, oh.... HIDE ALL THE GUNS! -Tarantulus
Here's your computer and access to stuff we wont tell you about. You have 10min before the calls start. Have fun! -neuman1812
I think they've already trained a few airline pilots. http://gallery.ksilebo.com/d/6054-2/mill19.JPG http://gallery.ksilebo.com/d/6057-2/mill20.JPG http://gallery.ksilebo.com/d/6060-2/mill21.JPG and http://gallery.ksilebo.com/d/6051-2/mill17.JPG -MarkerMage
i swear to *insert religious icon here* that i will hurt someone, and yes it is a good idea to hide the guns 'coz i will go postal..... -postmankyle
"I talk to the god damned customers so the engineers don't have to, ..."</obligatory OfficeSpace quote> -deskmonkey
Pat, I'd like to solve the puzzle, please. Hulk. Smash. -vacuumtubes
Tell them that no-one has been trained yet, and there's no indication that anyone ever WILL get trained. Maybe they'll get angry enough to have their managers rip your managers a new one. -Geminii
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Virii
Daughter's laptop blue screened.
*sardonic wit attempt ahead!*
Gee, I thought the BSOD didn't happen in XP
* end sardonic wit*
So, I boot into the alternate XP I setup on the other partition and begin diagnostics.
Oh gee, only 9 virii!!!
I really enjoyed the one titled, "THEMATRIXHASYOU".
Well I have gotten her back to the point where the OS comes back, and fixing the disabling of the auto protect, changed some services back to automatic, fixed IE start page, deleted registry crud, restored overlaid OS files, and corrected other "minor" issues.
But the one thing that has me somewhat pissed off is that I can't get the laptop to recognize the fact that I hooked it up to the printer.
Since the print spool service was disabled, I get the feeling that I've missed some other fixes required from this attack of the killer virii. I've grown to LOVE computers! They always offer such interesting problems and even more interesting fixes. And of course, she "didn't do anything to have caused these problems." Yes Darling, Daddy is dumb. It has nothing to do with all the pron sites you've visited. Of course not. Those are SAFE SITES!
SIGH.[By: gemachte / 2006-10-03]
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Is it a USB or parallel printer? If USB yank all of the Host controllers in device mangler then do a refresh. It should force everything USB to re-enumerate itself and be detected. If it's parallel I email you some suggestions. Good luck -Olorin
USB. Tried pulling all the USB stuff out of device mangler and it complained something to the effect of "This device is required to boot this POS." Perhaps I'll remove what will remove and see what it does. At least she got her homework done. Appreciate the advice. Will post my successful failures! -gemachte
On an unrelated but similar note, but work latop BSOD's all the time...... on purpose. Sysinternals had a screensaver that plugs into the BSOD code to APPEAR as if the machine is stuck in a BSOD/Reboot cycle. Pretty funny the first few times geeks see it: "Aww bummer man - sorry about your laptop..." -virtualchoirboy
I actually had that one for a while -- it bugged me because there was a typo in it. "Block size: 16834 bytes." Umm... that's 16384, innit? -chazz
<da> Well, confusing block size would tend to make some drivers blue screen, chazz. And we know Microsoft has NEVER made an error in such a simple tpyo. </da> -ralphp1024
Check the dependancies of the print spooler service. If the service it's now dependant on is not starting, then that's your issue. I just had that happen to me the other day (thanks Lexmark, you bastards).. and as a side note, I haven't had my lexmark printer attached in almost 8 months. -Bynar
Waitaminit -- did you say IE?!?!?! Get this girl running on FIREFOX! (Even protects against most p()rn site viruses.) -Captain Trips
Wait... daughter... pr0n... yep! Is she married? Is she old enough to be? -maciarc
Firefox is on my list of the many things that need to be done to the lappy. As far as married or old enough... Send your resume and wait in line! -gemachte
As an addition to what Bynar said, had the same issue myself with Lexmark. The service for Remote Procedure Call gets killed too. You have to restart it and reset the startup type. I think it defaults it back to manual. -FixitWench
Thank you for the insights. -gemachte
seems Lexmark is as liked here as on the ubuntu forums (curse them and their closed source drivers) anyone want an X2350? -halitech
Old Lexmark installs (for reasons that weren't explained to me in my "massive" 2 week course on HP digital imaging support) are always problematic when switching brands. -ThinTheHerd
throws in her hatred of lexmark print spooler (check for any service that starts with LEX or has lex in the name somewhere - you're stuck with it until you do an ffr). -frprinterwiz
I'll try to look up a tech doc from MS about how to fix the OS when USB devices don't install. The docs at the office, though... -CTYankee
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