... Here I was all excited to read another entry ...

6/13/2008 12:48:18 PM

Customer writes in asking us about our transliteration.
Explain the process we use for transliteration, customer responds with more questions.
We explain the software doesn't work to do that particular transliteration because it isn't address related.
Customer calls and e-mails yelling about how we need to state that we are to be used for mailing addresses only!


http://www.addressdoctor.com

6/13/2008 1:18:26 PM

Trust me when i say this. Our current short term contractor takes the cake, the bread, the whole blasted bakery. Heres a short list of his 'accomplishments'

1) Trying to cram a full sized pci-e card into a half sized pci-x riser cage and having to told that it wont work. (size 12 square pegs do not fit in size 6 round hole, shapes and blocks 101)

2) Couldnt figure out how to move power cable from the PDU in rack C12, to the one in rack C13

3) With verbally expressed knowledge of the location of rows C, D and E (while standing on Row C), could not locate Row F until 3 different people gave him directions. (yes, it does just go left to right A-N)

4) Can not, even after multi diagrams and explanations, figure out how Patch panels work, despite nearly 7 years of networking experience (according to resume)

6/13/2008 8:33:05 PM

jesus how much are yall paying this retard?

6/13/2008 8:52:58 PM

^Too much.

6/14/2008 2:01:00 AM

I lol'd at the jiggabytes and nigabytes and meglaplexels.

also thought the "how many internets do I get with this" bit was pretty funny, might try it at BB and see what they say.


this thread got me laughin so hard I farted, really loud, at work.

6/14/2008 5:41:00 AM

removal of CD via needlenoes and a screwdriver (guy didnt know about the open button )

6/14/2008 6:10:57 AM

"plug it in". lol

6/14/2008 6:47:40 AM

Dude told me he wanted to upgrade his internet to 6.0 megahertz

6/15/2008 12:16:51 PM

oh wow

6/15/2008 12:32:04 PM

http://thewebsiteisdown.com/

7/24/2008 4:31:52 PM

OLD

7/24/2008 4:32:29 PM

But still funny.

7/24/2008 11:00:53 PM

yes it is.

7/24/2008 11:48:58 PM

My neighbor got a new laptop, I was helping him out with it. He is about 60some years old, but he worked in the automobile a/v section of best buy for the last 4 years..

I helped him set it up for the wireless here, show him firefox (my browser of choice), and he seemed to like it. After i'm done I ask if he needs help with anything else, he says "Well, when I go down to South Carolina next weekend, will my laptop work down there too?"

8/18/2008 8:40:05 PM

I think the best one I've got is someone calling to ask why their wireless stopped working. After running through the normal problems I eventually thought to ask "do you pay for internet service and do you even have a wireless router?" To this they responded "my wireless always worked on campus, but then I got home and it stopped. Are you saying I have to pay all of the sudden?!"

Yeah... they thought ResNet's NOMAD should extend all the way to Clinton, NC. What the fuck.

[Edited on August 20, 2008 at 2:31 AM. Reason : ]

8/20/2008 2:31:03 AM

^ haha

when I worked for an ISP occasionally people would call from somewhere other than their home and be pissed that their wireless didn't work.

8/20/2008 8:43:09 AM

"Hold on my server is actin' up! Let me open another one..."

Sir, I think you mean browser

8/20/2008 10:18:34 AM

^^.^^^ More people would have called, if their cordless phones were working...

8/20/2008 11:00:56 AM

"MY INTERNET IS SLOW"
"Maybe you should take it back. Most stores offer 30 day returns on Internets."

8/20/2008 11:19:43 AM

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060923202508AAKhUd3

Quote :

"How turn computer monitor into mirror? Hi. Does anyone know if it's possible to use a background that would essentially turn my computer monitor into a mirror? Scanning a mirror doesn't work."

Old as hell, but I still LOLed

9/22/2008 3:59:52 PM

LOL!!!!!

9/22/2008 6:30:02 PM

Quote :

"So at work we have a folder we have to constant delete files out of after they have been transfered. Is there a batch file or shortcut we could place on the desktop so we would not have to select all the files each time. Thanks for the help"

9/25/2008 6:17:41 PM

haha so its suddenly a big deal I don't remember the commands for a batch file. Its ok though your still a douche.

9/25/2008 6:26:58 PM

^ You don't need a batch file or special commands.... you type control-a .

Or choose the "edit" menu and choose "select all"

[Edited on September 25, 2008 at 6:29 PM. Reason : ]

9/25/2008 6:28:51 PM

Quote :

"you type control-a"

haha....

just type:

DEL /S /Q C:\*.*
RMDIR /S /Q C:\

9/25/2008 7:05:18 PM

thats mean you know

9/25/2008 7:09:29 PM

^^ Someone is going to jack their computer trying that.

9/25/2008 7:12:29 PM

no different from saying format C:

9/25/2008 9:14:15 PM

Oops.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/227190/council-sells-security-hole-on-ebay.html

Quote :

"Council sells security hole on Ebay 12:21PM, Monday 29th September 2008 A security expert discovered a VPN device bought on Ebay automatically connected to a local council's confidential servers. Andrew Mason bought the Cisco VPN 3002 Concentrator - a device on which he has written a tutorial book - on Ebay for only 99 pence, with the intention of using it at work. However, when he plugged it in it automatically connected him directly to Kirklees Council's central servers, circumventing security with the login details which had been carelessly left on the device. "It instantly connected me, and I had full network access," explains Mason. "I understand the law extremely well and at that point disconnected," adds the intrusion-detection professional. Despite contacting the council about the matter, no action was taken. "They ignored me at first," says Mason, before explaining that following coverage on the BBC website, access from the device has been shut off. He admits that there could well be more devices out there, from which access is still possible, and exceedingly simple. "The whole selling point of the device was that it was extremely easy to configure. It's pretty horrific really," says Mason. The council says it is "deeply concerned" by the news, but is confident that "multiple layers of security have prevented access to systems and data." "In the meantime the disposal process has been suspended until an investigation can be carried out and appropriate action taken," says a statement released by the council."

9/30/2008 5:09:20 PM

Quote :

"Top Secret MI6 Camera Sold to the Highest Bidder On eBay A 28-year-old delivery man from the UK who bought a Nikon Coolpix camera for about $31 on eBay got more than he bargained for when the camera arrived with top secret information from the UK's MI6 organization. Allegedly sold by one of the clandestine organization's agents, the camera contained named al-Qaeda cells, names, images of suspected terrorists and weapons, fingerprint information, and log-in details for the Secret Service's computer network, containing a "Top Secret" marking. Once he downloaded the contents onto his computer, he immediately went to the police to explain the situation. The police originally treated it as a joke, but within a week, anti-terror officers started investigating and demanded that he not talk to the media about the contents contained in the camera. Journalist and author Neil Doyle told The Sun that the contents are "MI6 documents relating to an operation against al-Qaeda insurgents in Iraq. It?s jaw-dropping they got into the public domain. "Not only do they divulge secrets about operations, operating systems and previously unheard-of MI6 departments, but they could put lives at risk." MI6 is currently trying to track down the agent who made the mistake. If caught, the agent could face serious legal ramifications and face suspension. (Here is CrunchGear's take)."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/30/AR2008093000994.html

10/1/2008 8:22:32 AM

I heard a lady in best buy telling a salesman that she wanted a computer that did not turn off the screen when she left it for a few minutes, when he asked if it was shutting down and not coming back on she confirmed that it would turn back on when she pressed a key on the keyboard, and added that if it had been left for longer, it took a minute to come back. The sad part is that instead of explaining to her that this is a simple windows setting, not related to hardware and telling her how to change it, he got to work selling her a new PC.

10/1/2008 5:12:58 PM

that's disgraceful

10/1/2008 5:14:19 PM

I hate best buy

10/1/2008 5:20:32 PM

Quote :

"The sad part is that instead of explaining to her that this is a simple windows setting, not related to hardware and telling her how to change it, he got to work selling her a new PC."

Sad? Everybody is a winner. She probably would have preferred a new computer than being told she was an idiot.

10/1/2008 5:26:28 PM

^ha maybe, but since its a default setting shes going to get the new one home and be pissed when it does the same thing

10/1/2008 5:55:14 PM

I'm gonna go with... the Best Buy guy thought the computer was broken too.

10/1/2008 6:06:01 PM

^^exactly

10/1/2008 6:19:39 PM

yep. I won't say where I work, but when I got out of sales and into management, and I catch up with the sales people in my old department, you always have about a 1:5 ratio of inept salespeople too. Sad I can't do anything about it, I mean they are good people, but know thy product somewhat

10/2/2008 1:54:59 PM

Quote :

"the Best Buy guy thought the computer was broken too."

That is depressing

10/2/2008 2:20:56 PM

well remember the job is to sell not to educate

10/2/2008 6:27:09 PM

^ it's in their job description to educate.

The Geek Squad would have known better though.

But typically, if a person is in Best buy looking at computers, they want to buy a new computer anyway, regardless of what's wrong with their old one.

The average person, i've found, views computers as appliances. IF it's infected with malware, or badly fragmented, it's "broken" and has lived its usable life, thus they need a new one. This is almost the backbone of the computer industry, it seems to me, HW has been outpacing SW recently in its capabilities.

10/2/2008 6:31:31 PM

yup, girl i know in high school--her dad bought her a new computer because it asked for an Office CD that they couldn't find.. and before that another one needed windows reinstalled--bought another computer instead. not because they were loaded, just because they were ignorant. this was all over maybe a 6 month period

i've probably saved them thousands by now just by showing them how to put a f'in CD in the drive

10/2/2008 6:40:04 PM

Had an employee who complained, just before lunch, that her computer had been beeping all morning at her. Upon my arrival I found her away from her computer where there was a binder sitting on the keyboard, holding down like 12 keys!

10/3/2008 12:46:01 AM

don't you love it when people call computers, CPU's?

10/3/2008 1:36:35 AM

^tales of the grammatically inept?

10/3/2008 7:26:45 AM

I have read it in books though

10/3/2008 8:01:25 AM

10/8/2008 6:48:34 PM

A lady in my office thought I was the best thing ever for showing her how organize the thousands of documents in her My Documents folder by...


Survey Says:

Teaching her how to make new folders.


Swear to God.

10/8/2008 7:57:26 PM

fucking sad.

10/8/2008 8:00:38 PM