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Bone-Headed IT Mistakes

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the throw-yours-into-the-mix dept.

snydeq writes "PCs preconfigured with stone-age malware, backups without recovery, Social Security numbers stored in plain view of high school students — Andy Brandt gives InfoWorld's Stupid Users series a new IT admin twist. Call it fratricide if you will, but getting paid to know better is no guarantee against IT idiocy, as these stories attest."

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  1. Is this some new trend? by FSWKU · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is InfoWorld trying to start a new trend of making the printer-friendly version so damned annoying to read that people are more likely to choose the regular one? With AdBlock installed, I see just the article, but the article becomes all of one paragraph per page, for 10 pages or so. I switch to the printer-friendly version, and everything just seems to run together; text ads crammed in and looking like section headers, section headers not clearly defined from the previous, using the same spacing between different sections as between headers and the content... Forget boneheaded IT mistakes, whatabout being a clownshoes webmaster?

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  2. Re:Don't forget the all too common: Giving yoursel by DRAGONWEEZEL · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Haha...Yeah.

    Aparrently my boss didn't have the same fetishs I do. (I think he might be gay...)

    Oh well, work is plentiful these days.

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    How much is your data worth? Back it up now.
  3. Re:The number 1 story is almost what you want. by Achromatic1978 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Ahhh, Twitter, how pleasant your life must be to wile away your days with such utter drivel, made only worse by the fact that you pay for subscriptions on at least one of your many many accounts.

    You do quite probably hold a record though, I can't think of any other paying subscriber who posts at -1 by default. Kudos to you, kudos!

  4. Re:The number 1 story is almost what you want. by tzanger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have to ask.

    What do you get from posting about twitter's use of slashdot? Honestly, I can't tell if it's just you, or if there are a dozen people just like you who crap up the articles I read here. I don't even notice twitter's postings, but you guys, the twitter whingers, drive me insane. I'm about a half a minute away from foe-ing every single last one of you.

    It's you people who are crapping up slashdot, not twitter.

  5. Re:My bigest boneheaded move by dotancohen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When Googling UNIX-specific stuff, especially with terms as generic as something like "df", it often helps to insert the word "man" as an additional search term: "man df" Little tip'o'the day.

    Man, I know people who talk like that!
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