*pulls mask off the ghost*
Everyone shouts: "Vice President Cheney!"
And he replies: "And I would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for you meddling kids!"
I have infinite respect for help desk phone agents who can walk a customer through describing a problem over the phone and managing to interpret what they're saying compared to what's being displayed on the screen. And on top of that, so many of them have language challenges seeing as how they're in Manila or Bangalore or East Bug Burp or wherever these jobs are being outsourced these days.
But the desk side people? No way! You actually have to *see* the customer. And they can see you. And ask a billion questions, like "well, since you're here, how do I fix the 12:00 that's blinking on my VCR?". And YOU CANT ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE HANG UP ON THEM! That's the worst job in the IT world!
What happens when the virus is in there from the factory software build? (It's coming from inside your house!) And no, the Windows operating system is not a virus.
There's was so much crap and adware on someone's new Dell (I heard about), it took an hour to get it all off so I could install my pirated version of Microsoft Office. (err... at least, that's what my friend told me.)
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We also need to send pallets of Silly Putty for training Iraqi militas to fingerprint insurgents and cases of sugar-free Trident for detecting bubbles of mass destruction.
Get a stone tablet and a chisel. Those will also translate Word documents as well as make handy weapons for when your Microsoft Account Manager pops into your office.
Does stealing my neighbor's unsecured wireless AP count as a redundant connection, if he's on Comcast cable and my primary connection is BellSouth DSL?
I used to have a manager who sent all his e-mails with read receipts, even low priority messages like status reports and "there's cake at the secretary's desk" messages. Rather than mark them read, I used to move them all (in their unread state) to a subfolder. Once a month or so, I would do a "Select All" and then "Mark Read", flooding his Inbox with dozens and dozens of read receipts. It took a couple of months of this passive agression, but he stopped using the read receipts by default.
In the last couple versions of Microsoft Exchange as well as the current one, this is a very simple feature to implement, called "journaling." A copy of every message sent to or from the targeted mailboxes is copied to another mailbox, or even an external recipient! It doesn't matter if you immediately delete the e-mail upon receipt, it's still journaled to that other place.
> why haven't we been overrun by tourists from the future?
This happened to me. Some tourists folks from the late 90's stopped by and visited me in the 70's. I took pictures and copied their clothing. Then in the 90's, bell bottoms and platform shoes were called "retro", when in fact it was the first time it had been worn!
Also, those folks at Chevy that built the PT Cruiser and that pickup truck? Same.
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I was a Cancer before and now I'm an AIDS. WTF?
I love you too. Now get back to work.
*pulls mask off the ghost* Everyone shouts: "Vice President Cheney!" And he replies: "And I would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for you meddling kids!"
Maybe Google blurred out his article...
Wouldn't "I'm in yr DNS, takin yr domains" or "all your gambling are belong to me" be more appropriate?
Proly something along the lines of bollock juggling, ala http://www.joe-ks.com/British_Complaint.htm
I have infinite respect for help desk phone agents who can walk a customer through describing a problem over the phone and managing to interpret what they're saying compared to what's being displayed on the screen. And on top of that, so many of them have language challenges seeing as how they're in Manila or Bangalore or East Bug Burp or wherever these jobs are being outsourced these days. But the desk side people? No way! You actually have to *see* the customer. And they can see you. And ask a billion questions, like "well, since you're here, how do I fix the 12:00 that's blinking on my VCR?". And YOU CANT ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE HANG UP ON THEM! That's the worst job in the IT world!
Microsoft Novista. Forget the pretty green hills in XP. Now it's snow, ice and birch trees.
Maybe you should send me your userid, password and that table and I'll let you know if it's secure.
Reboot, Deny, Deny works well.
*Admin reboots server*
User: I'm getting an Outlook error.
Admin: Reboot your computer.
User: Okay, it's working now.
Admin: Must have been your workstation.
*Click*
There's was so much crap and adware on someone's new Dell (I heard about), it took an hour to get it all off so I could install my pirated version of Microsoft Office. (err... at least, that's what my friend told me.)
This sucks.
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We also need to send pallets of Silly Putty for training Iraqi militas to fingerprint insurgents and cases of sugar-free Trident for detecting bubbles of mass destruction.
I'm validating the throughput and bandwidth of the network and at the same time stress testing the video drivers on my workstation!
Get a stone tablet and a chisel. Those will also translate Word documents as well as make handy weapons for when your Microsoft Account Manager pops into your office.
Maybe Benjamin Curtis, the "Dude, you're getting a Dell" guy is available?
Does stealing my neighbor's unsecured wireless AP count as a redundant connection, if he's on Comcast cable and my primary connection is BellSouth DSL?
We tried to replace the guy who made the decision, but he was redundant and we ended up with his fail-over IT guy who thought the same thing.
I used to have a manager who sent all his e-mails with read receipts, even low priority messages like status reports and "there's cake at the secretary's desk" messages. Rather than mark them read, I used to move them all (in their unread state) to a subfolder. Once a month or so, I would do a "Select All" and then "Mark Read", flooding his Inbox with dozens and dozens of read receipts. It took a couple of months of this passive agression, but he stopped using the read receipts by default.
Next on Star Trek... A "very special episode" as Kirk and Spock Jump the Shark.
WTF is the Chewbacca defense?
In the last couple versions of Microsoft Exchange as well as the current one, this is a very simple feature to implement, called "journaling." A copy of every message sent to or from the targeted mailboxes is copied to another mailbox, or even an external recipient! It doesn't matter if you immediately delete the e-mail upon receipt, it's still journaled to that other place.
Maybe the opening and scanning got outsourced to India?
> why haven't we been overrun by tourists from the future? This happened to me. Some tourists folks from the late 90's stopped by and visited me in the 70's. I took pictures and copied their clothing. Then in the 90's, bell bottoms and platform shoes were called "retro", when in fact it was the first time it had been worn! Also, those folks at Chevy that built the PT Cruiser and that pickup truck? Same.