Same here, we are going to run these Dell Optiplexs with XP until they die a natural death. There is simply no business reason to switch the desktop OS. I for one am sick of giving Microsoft a huge chunk of money every few years. I mean usually the new OS sucks anyway. Let me list them purely from memory and y'all tell me which ones sucked a root.
Dos - Various flavours.
Windows 1
Windows 2
Windows 3
Windows 95
Windows NT
Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows XP - Sitting comfortably right here for the foreseeable future.
Windows 7
Windows 8 slated for delivery in 2012?
Amen brother, Amen. Users and employees can be like puppies. I mean that in a nice way.:) You can train them if you watch what you are doing. If you dont help a user until they start screaming you just trained that user to scream when they want help.
Well, as one of those A-hole Americans I can state truthfully that our government is not capable of working even one issue at a time. Unless that issue is how to get more money into their personal bank accounts.
And to the rest of the world reading this, America is full of A-holes. It was not always like this but common decency among these people has gone right out the window. So, if you see an American and you're not in America. That American is probably rich and even more of an A-hole than the rest of us who don't have enough money to travel abroad.
I wish you could come over here and meet some of the normal people. I promise you that it would change your opinion.
My father was an auto and large truck mechanic, pretty good one too. He had three questions you can ask to begin diags on pretty much any system with humans involved.
1) Did it ever work? 2) When did it quit? 3) What have you done to it lately?
Pretty much the foundation of my IT Career right there.
I say let them run with cell phones blaring and text messages flying. When they cause the inevitable crashes maybe some of em will get weeded out of the gene pool. I mean it is mostly teens which maybe have not bred yet. Except for those Mississippi teens, they drop offspring like hunting dogs drop fleas. Our species is getting dumber and dumber all the time. We need some sort of higher level predator or some way to clean out the stupid among us. I say leave the cell phones alone and also start cloning velociraptors and turn them lose.
Yes, I know I am trolling and inflammatory this morning. Please forgive me but it's true.
Ouch, sounds like you are out in the real wild and woolly. Luckily, I have spent my IT career behind decent firewalls and clean loads of Windows. Corporate Symantec AV dont hurt along with Altiris Deployment Server for clean OS installs. I can agree with you about the IE users. If they don't even know that other browsers exist then they are probably not that savvy on the web. Not saying they are dumb, just blissfully ignorant. "Iz_Not_Viruz_Iz_Rootkit" Click here dummy. Come on, click me, you know you want to.;)
Ok, I searched for "conan o'brien push the envelope" and all I got was hits on gay marriage. Whatcha trying to do here? Misslead us like the media. Seriously thought I would like to see Conan showing that clip. Got a link for it handy?
Yeah, people who wonder why we don't use wave power probably don't own boats. I love time on the water and have a nice little boat but when compared to any land based machine boats are pretty much maintenance nightmares.
Me thinks it might have been an OK system and is now f'ed up. I mean if you really did all that work and it is still a pile of junk then who is to blame?
Uh, no you dont. Have you ever activated an Iphone? You used to but now you dont. I just did some the other week and I did not have to use a PC or MAC.
Yeah forget Humble whatevers,... They should bring back Interplay's Descent. Put it on the HUD in my car and let me play while trying to commute to work.
It is way past time to turn this post into a list of stupid user jokes. Please limit it to actual true cases.
I had a user write click on her desktop. I asked her to right-click on the desktop and then choose properties. She said nothing happened. After a few repetitions of this I walked down to accounting and there was the work CLICK written on her physical desk top. I invested in remote control and imaging software every place I have worked since that one.
You: I can't let you use the normal Dropbox because SOX made it illegal, but I can give you an account on our internal encrypted fileserver so you can share documents easily with your coworkers.
I submit to you the possibility of a third kind of person, a competent individual simply chasing money. Yes dear, mercenaries do exist on modern day Earth.
Slashdot Mirror
You talking bout Yoda? Gollum? Oh, and all the aliens were blue in Avatar.
Same here, we are going to run these Dell Optiplexs with XP until they die a natural death. There is simply no business reason to switch the desktop OS. I for one am sick of giving Microsoft a huge chunk of money every few years. I mean usually the new OS sucks anyway. Let me list them purely from memory and y'all tell me which ones sucked a root.
Dos - Various flavours.
Windows 1
Windows 2
Windows 3
Windows 95
Windows NT
Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows XP - Sitting comfortably right here for the foreseeable future.
Windows 7
Windows 8 slated for delivery in 2012?
Yeah, and not to mention that we are paying about 50% of our income to taxes over here.
Amen brother, Amen. Users and employees can be like puppies. I mean that in a nice way. :) You can train them if you watch what you are doing. If you dont help a user until they start screaming you just trained that user to scream when they want help.
Well, as one of those A-hole Americans I can state truthfully that our government is not capable of working even one issue at a time. Unless that issue is how to get more money into their personal bank accounts.
And to the rest of the world reading this, America is full of A-holes. It was not always like this but common decency among these people has gone right out the window. So, if you see an American and you're not in America. That American is probably rich and even more of an A-hole than the rest of us who don't have enough money to travel abroad.
I wish you could come over here and meet some of the normal people. I promise you that it would change your opinion.
Maybe his l key is sticky? I wont go into any valid reasons for sticky keys,...
My father was an auto and large truck mechanic, pretty good one too. He had three questions you can ask to begin diags on pretty much any system with humans involved.
1) Did it ever work?
2) When did it quit?
3) What have you done to it lately?
Pretty much the foundation of my IT Career right there.
I say let them run with cell phones blaring and text messages flying. When they cause the inevitable crashes maybe some of em will get weeded out of the gene pool. I mean it is mostly teens which maybe have not bred yet. Except for those Mississippi teens, they drop offspring like hunting dogs drop fleas. Our species is getting dumber and dumber all the time. We need some sort of higher level predator or some way to clean out the stupid among us. I say leave the cell phones alone and also start cloning velociraptors and turn them lose.
Yes, I know I am trolling and inflammatory this morning. Please forgive me but it's true.
Cell Phone Jammer
He's a crowdsourcer. Probably wont get paid for that submission.
Your momma is so fat, when she sits around the house, she sits around the house.
Ouch, sounds like you are out in the real wild and woolly. Luckily, I have spent my IT career behind decent firewalls and clean loads of Windows. Corporate Symantec AV dont hurt along with Altiris Deployment Server for clean OS installs. I can agree with you about the IE users. If they don't even know that other browsers exist then they are probably not that savvy on the web. Not saying they are dumb, just blissfully ignorant. ;)
"Iz_Not_Viruz_Iz_Rootkit" Click here dummy. Come on, click me, you know you want to.
Ok, I searched for "conan o'brien push the envelope" and all I got was hits on gay marriage. Whatcha trying to do here? Misslead us like the media. Seriously thought I would like to see Conan showing that clip. Got a link for it handy?
Yeah, people who wonder why we don't use wave power probably don't own boats. I love time on the water and have a nice little boat but when compared to any land based machine boats are pretty much maintenance nightmares.
Lower your standards and you will have a much happier existence.
And that is the problem. Most people are below average, ;) Place your product where it takes a smart person to use it and you're doomed.
So true, so true. You just described my whole career. I'm gonna go cry now.
I see dead servers.
Me thinks it might have been an OK system and is now f'ed up. I mean if you really did all that work and it is still a pile of junk then who is to blame?
Uh, no you dont. Have you ever activated an Iphone? You used to but now you dont. I just did some the other week and I did not have to use a PC or MAC.
Yeah forget Humble whatevers,... They should bring back Interplay's Descent. Put it on the HUD in my car and let me play while trying to commute to work.
Or Radar off of MASH.
It is way past time to turn this post into a list of stupid user jokes. Please limit it to actual true cases. I had a user write click on her desktop. I asked her to right-click on the desktop and then choose properties. She said nothing happened. After a few repetitions of this I walked down to accounting and there was the work CLICK written on her physical desk top. I invested in remote control and imaging software every place I have worked since that one.
Good IT
User: I need Dropbox!
You: I can't let you use the normal Dropbox because SOX made it illegal, but I can give you an account on our internal encrypted fileserver so you can share documents easily with your coworkers.
User: Obstructive bastard.
There FTFY.
I submit to you the possibility of a third kind of person, a competent individual simply chasing money. Yes dear, mercenaries do exist on modern day Earth.