My mode stopped working. When I called in I was told an act of God had killed the modem. Acts of God were not covered by my warranty.
My wife went to work and was told her new computer was ready for her. There was only a monitor. When she tried to explain to her boss she didn't have a computer the boss said, "yes you do, it's right there." Finally my wife asked her boss to insert a floppy disk.
Just to make life hard for some people I like to play this little trick.
Wait until they leave. Close the all the applications. Open the Calculator, or Solitary, or what ever. hit "print screen", then set that picture as the background. The user gets really confused when they can't get the calculator to close, or move, or calculate. I also went on a run of putting "Richard Simons" background on other peoples computers. My boss couldn't stop laughing as he told me to stop waisting company time.
I absolutely agree. I should know better, but I still just put the mouse on that "next" button and start clicking until the dialog boxes go away.
However, once somebody's computer starts to have pornographic popup windows show up every 5 minutes, and their computer reboot every 15 minutes, it's not to hard to get them to pay more attention anytime the firewall dialog box shows up.
P.S. I've also heard that zonealarm is a good firewall.
For Windows I'm using a free firewall by Agnitum. You can get it here:
http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/
I love it. I've installed it on any machine that the owner asks for help with. It most basic use can be mastered by any user. Anytime something new tries to come in or go out a windows pops up and asks what you want to do.
It has some more advanced features to. Perfect for that non-computer-science persoon you know who uses a computer.
Plus, it's been almost a year since I passed the A+ exam [insert required lie about how I scored really high] and I haven't received any paperwork from CompTIA. My emails and phone call go unanswered.
My suggestion is to try and get some experience by tinkering with something, then put that on your resume. In all my interviews nobody has ever carried about the A+ or i-net+ certificates. They just want to know what experience I have.
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Ya, I think the answer is the Sims. A friend of mine thinks he figured out why girls like the sims: "They like telling people what to do".
Of course my wife doesn't think it's funny, but that doesn't stop me from repeating it.
My mode stopped working. When I called in I was told an act of God had killed the modem. Acts of God were not covered by my warranty.
My wife went to work and was told her new computer was ready for her. There was only a monitor. When she tried to explain to her boss she didn't have a computer the boss said, "yes you do, it's right there." Finally my wife asked her boss to insert a floppy disk.
Just to make life hard for some people I like to play this little trick.
Wait until they leave. Close the all the applications. Open the Calculator, or Solitary, or what ever. hit "print screen", then set that picture as the background. The user gets really confused when they can't get the calculator to close, or move, or calculate. I also went on a run of putting "Richard Simons" background on other peoples computers. My boss couldn't stop laughing as he told me to stop waisting company time.
I absolutely agree. I should know better, but I still just put the mouse on that "next" button and start clicking until the dialog boxes go away.
However, once somebody's computer starts to have pornographic popup windows show up every 5 minutes, and their computer reboot every 15 minutes, it's not to hard to get them to pay more attention anytime the firewall dialog box shows up.
P.S. I've also heard that zonealarm is a good firewall.
For Windows I'm using a free firewall by Agnitum. You can get it here:
http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/
I love it. I've installed it on any machine that the owner asks for help with. It most basic use can be mastered by any user. Anytime something new tries to come in or go out a windows pops up and asks what you want to do.
It has some more advanced features to. Perfect for that non-computer-science persoon you know who uses a computer.
I agree.
Plus, it's been almost a year since I passed the A+ exam [insert required lie about how I scored really high] and I haven't received any paperwork from CompTIA. My emails and phone call go unanswered.
My suggestion is to try and get some experience by tinkering with something, then put that on your resume. In all my interviews nobody has ever carried about the A+ or i-net+ certificates. They just want to know what experience I have.