just delete some of them - you didn't buy all those mp3s anyway.

10/28/2009 12:15:18 AM

ok, I get it, you dont really want to help, you only want to throw out jokes, awesome

10/28/2009 12:18:01 AM

But seriously... GET AN EXTERNAL DRIVE.

10/28/2009 12:39:37 AM

chit chatting motherfuckers

10/28/2009 12:39:57 AM

yea itunes won't freak too bad about missing songs..i THINK it only messes with files that are being added to your ipod or whatever..it doesn't just go through and check for every file everytime you hit sync or anything.

soo yea, just move some shit you don't listen to often over to an external drive and be done with it. or delete some shit. no way in hell you have 200gigs of shit with nothing you can't get rid of

10/28/2009 8:10:01 AM

I have an external Seagate 1.5TB and I highly recommend it. The Seagate manager app has backup and synchronization utilities built-in. It makes it really easy for me to dump files on my root, have them automatically transfer over to my external (Sync config), and then promptly shift+delete that shit off my root. It helps to keep things cleaner.

[Edited on October 28, 2009 at 8:29 AM. Reason : -]

10/28/2009 8:22:23 AM

^^^You deserve to be in this thread.

10/28/2009 10:04:35 AM

Quote :

"ok... here is a question from one of the inept ones... my C drive is 220ish gigs, 203 of which are being used my D drive is 9 gigs, 3 of which are being used (recovery files) I need 20 gigs free on C drive. Is there anyway to move over some of the gigs from D to C without totally repartitioning my HD (which I assume would make me lose the recovery files)"

find a copy of acronis disk director
boot to it
take free space from d: and move it to c:
let acronis do the work
done.

10/30/2009 9:26:45 AM

WTF, everyone here sucks at math.

if you have 17GB free and need 20GB free, you just need to move 3GB of data from C: to D: since D: has 6GB free.

it's called COPY/PASTE

10/30/2009 12:22:36 PM

more like cut/paste amirite?

10/30/2009 12:26:37 PM

^^ tales of the technically inept, that post.

10/30/2009 12:27:58 PM

I had to explain zip files to my coworker today. And doubleclicking to open a program. And what to do when something says "'press return to continue"...

I feel like I've opened up my own tech support hotline at work.

When did people completely give up on reading?

11/2/2009 8:13:27 PM

Some people just give up on even trying to do things for themselves when they discover other people that will do everything for them. Why read instructions when you're already in the habit of being intimidated and asking for help on every little thing.

11/2/2009 9:31:16 PM

i remember in middle school, girls especially, that would freak the fuck out if they got any kind of error message and just start pounding escape and going psycho. i mean, the god damn message says "click ok or cancel"..not pound the fucking escape key until it breaks

11/2/2009 9:32:41 PM

A good one from another coworker:

Quote :

"For every command we asked the customer to execute he told us the command was not recognized. When we asked for a show version and the response from the customer was again that the command was not recognized we got suspicious and went for a webex. It turned out that the commands were being entered in a DOS prompt..."

11/3/2009 3:42:23 PM

lol, d'oh

11/3/2009 3:44:13 PM

common items... but still (and im no techie):

"Shit ive seen/heard @ work"

- "server" = internet/wireless router setup
- any program errors/freezing must be attributed to a virus
- confusion over internet email access from any computer

11/4/2009 4:20:50 PM

" ______ went home and I saved her information and than closed out of the excel program so how is she going to get into it thurs theres no icon on her computer for her to click on to get into it"


She saved it in my my documents, she was looking on her desktop...

11/4/2009 6:45:08 PM

^^ around here, ftp is just any way of transferring files w/o email. the server is also anything to do with the internet, in house or from the provider. the server is the router, modem, and data storage. people like to call windows 7, windows veesta 7. an [MS] office document is a word doc.

oh and somehow no one can understand that to make a PDF, just go to Print > Adobe PDF. they think it's some sort of voodoo magic that only i can do.

11/5/2009 10:43:52 AM

Common sense isn't all that common.

11/5/2009 10:51:16 AM

Quote :

"oh and somehow no one can understand that to make a PDF, just go to Print > Adobe PDF. they think it's some sort of voodoo magic that only i can do."

That is what we refer to in the IT industry as "job security".
As much as I bitch, it is people's very ineptness that keeps diapers on my kid.

11/6/2009 12:58:01 PM

dell just quoted me for some ram:

me: how much is 2x2GB of 667MHz?
Agent: The 1 2GB Dell Memory cost $1,280.95

LOL

11/10/2009 1:40:13 PM

It's diamond-encrusted.

11/10/2009 1:49:18 PM

lol. I just gave up on them and closed the chat session.

11/10/2009 4:14:10 PM

Maybe they're buying it from Apple.

11/10/2009 5:33:46 PM

Quote :

"So this morning there are 20 emails about the same topic. The chain goes like this: A: Blah blah blah scheduled job failed blah blah blah A: Woops, please disregard previous message B: Please take me off distribution list A: Disregard the message... C: Please take me off the list D: STOP REPLYING ALL E: Please take me off this distribution list F: STOP REPLYING ALL G: Please take me off this distribution list H: STOP REPLYING ALL I: Please take me off this distribution list J: Please take me off this distribution list"

This shit happened AGAIN yesterday morning. I had 35 fucking irrelevant emails in my inbox within an hour. In between idiots asking to be taken off a list you CAN'T BE TAKEN OFF all because of one mistaken email, there are other people trying to explain the 'reply' and 'reply all' features, even going so far as adding screenshots.

I wanted to jump in and say ARE YOU FUCKERS ILLITERATE, but I didn't feel like losing my job.

11/10/2009 8:57:22 PM

Quote :

"A Tennessee state trooper who accidentally sent an e-mail proclaiming white pride to 787 state employees has been suspended for 15 days without pay and will have to attend diversity training. The e-mail from Trooper Brent Gobbell states, in part, "You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us. But, when a white police officer shoots a black gang member ... you call him a racist." It also includes a list of racist epithets. The state Department of Safety says Gobbell sent the e-mail to himself so he could print a copy. He did not realize he had also sent it to hundreds of state employees. An investigation revealed that Gobbell later deleted his responses to the original e-mail and attempted to delete the original too. Gobbell has apologized."

11/14/2009 9:19:45 AM

^"I sent it to you at packer@dundlermifflin.com....packaging@dundermifflin.com?"

11/14/2009 10:59:29 PM

Quote :

"A: Blah blah blah scheduled job failed blah blah blah A: Woops, please disregard previous message B: Please take me off distribution list A: Disregard the message... C: Please take me off the list D: STOP REPLYING ALL E: Please take me off this distribution list F: STOP REPLYING ALL G: Please take me off this distribution list H: STOP REPLYING ALL I: Please take me off this distribution list J: Please take me off this distribution list"

so, i know someone who works at a VERY large engineering firm and said that the entire email system of one division was shutdown b/c some guy somehow sent a company wide email about some charity thing at his church and half the people decided to reply all to be removed or to tell others not to reply all

11/14/2009 11:31:48 PM

yeah, we have at least 2 or 3 of those that get viral at cisco each year.

After the third or so email, those of us who know how to use email just create a filter to trash it all, while the rest of the company gets their panties wadded up about it, and of course replies all to let everyone know how they feel.

11/14/2009 11:51:22 PM

i think those emails are funny to read... I only act outraged because that's my role :-)

11/15/2009 1:21:57 AM

What's this Foxfire thing?
http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/11/linux-contractor-fired-for-using.html

11/16/2009 1:19:11 PM

I fucking hate IBM

11/16/2009 2:10:46 PM

woman at work has had a spreadsheet open since 8:15 this morning and hasn't saved it yet. she even went to lunch without saving it

i just don't understand this.

11/16/2009 2:49:51 PM

Whenever a computer starts acting up, my supervisor asks, "Did you download your computer?"

me- You mean restart it?
her- That's what I asked. Did you download it?
me- Downloading is when you are transferingretrieving a file from a server.
her- No, I asked if you shut the computer DOWN, then LOADed it up again. That's DOWNLOAD.
me-
her- So did you download it?
me- Yes, I've rebooted it and it's fine now.


^No incremental auto-saving every 15 minutes?

[Edited on November 16, 2009 at 3:17 PM. Reason : .]

[Edited on November 16, 2009 at 3:27 PM. Reason : wording]

11/16/2009 3:16:43 PM

Did you power cycle it?

11/16/2009 3:18:02 PM

^^i love it when people say that they got something offline...?? how did you get it if you were offline?

11/16/2009 3:35:02 PM

while not quite as bad, ppl where i work can't seem to grasp the difference between a file and a folder. theyre like "put that in the file on the server" im like..how do you put a file in a file?

then upload vs download is a complete mind blower

and yea, the offline thing is common here too

11/16/2009 3:40:43 PM

Files and folders are really just abstract semantics.

Foxfire was a very successful series of magazines and books that recorded folk traditions and taught readers how to do things the old fashioned way: how to churn butter, the proper use of woodworking handtools, etc. It's excellent reading and will be valuable knowledge when the technological apocalypse comes. So anyone of that age can be forgiven for referring to the browser as such. I did the same when the browser was new.

[Edited on November 16, 2009 at 4:48 PM. Reason : .]

11/16/2009 4:42:45 PM

^folders are a huge waste of government spending though...

11/16/2009 4:43:40 PM

Quote :

" i love it when people say that they got something offline...?? how did you get it if you were offline?"

Now I dunno the context behind this, but I know that people have been saying 'offline' before the internet became popular.Like when you're in a meeting and someone asks a question and they say 'I'll get with you offline about that,' meaning 'I'll talk with you later, when we're not fucking up the flow of this meeting.'

11/16/2009 7:54:04 PM

There's a lot of foolish stuff like this happening where now I work.

We had a nice "reply to all" series of spam emails about pot at work. It was loltastic.

The terminology people use as technobabble around the office makes me want to bang my head into a wall. I just want to know how they learned to associate that word with that string of actions. Also, when my coworker didn't know that the mouse wheel was the third mouse button and had no concept of how to scroll around an autocad drawing, part of me died. When the guy assigning me work (a level above me) closed an open word document and MS word before opening word again to open another doc file (going through the menu), part of me died. When I watch some of my coworkers try to type with one or two fingers, part of me dies. When I hear people complain that their computers are slow because they got a lot of mail that day, part of me dies.

When I see engineers my age have trouble with simple, painfully explicit instructions on how to write down a bunch of numbers and then transfer them to an .xls file, part of me thinks that I need to consider working somewhere else down the road. The other part of me dies (of course ). The guy ended up going through the trouble of copying some other random xls file in the directory, deleting the numbers already in the file, then going through and manually entering in the data, manually adding up the subtotal and total cells in the spreadsheet, and then reporting back as if he had done a great thing.

I just don't get it. How did these people ever graduate from college? How do people like this continue to pull off living each day? It's enough to make a fella turn to eugenics.

I also kinda cringe when people start asking me questions about computers as well. "Well, I've already made sure there are zero viruses or trojans or batmans on my computerwebs, but I still have *problem that only happens when you go to porn sites and install the shit it tells you to install*." Ah, well gee that sounds like a virus problem but if it's clean and *problem doesn't happen in other situations* then maybe you should take it up with *completely innocent party that is not me that will prove an acceptable distraction*. I just don't want to go down that road with a coworker.

There's other damned idiot problems at work as well. People don't know how to use drawing scales. People don't know the difference between an XLS spreadsheet and a table in MS word. People act like you've accomplished something great when you search for and attach a printer to your computer that's located in a different part of the building.

I've also had people argue with me for two hours (TWO HOURS) that I should set up an email like so:

Blah                     Blahblahblah                          Blahityblah
1                         Drugs are                             This is seriously going to.
                           bad mmkay.                          fucking suck in a second.
2                         Honestly why am I                 Don't you realize that if this is viewed
                           writing this like this.               on a smaller monitor that it will become
3                         completely and utterly            Seriously, what the fuck, man?
                           illegible?

11/16/2009 8:41:41 PM

Quote :

"What's this Foxfire thing? http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/11/linux-contractor-fired-for-using.html"

I see both sides of this. I definitely think it looks like IBM overreacted....

HOWEVER, if I were in the contractor's position - I certainly would not have rocked the boat. They were shipping him a new computer, but he had to be the "smart guy" and go behind their back - wasting additional IBM tech support resources to try to fix the problem his way.

The simple fact is this - if you're an established full time employee, you can pull shit like this and probably piss some people off, but if you're a badass you can get away with it.

If you're applying for a damn job then you're just an idiot for pulling this stunt! I know that once I had applied for my job, I did everything they told me to do, exactly how they told me to do it, until I had gotten my first paycheck.

They may have deduced that if he was this much of a trouble-maker even before he had the job, god only knows how bad he would rock the boat once he had a signed contract. I'm sure we've all worked with pricks like this before who can't leave well enough alone and think they need to solve every single problem they see.... What they fail to realize is that sometimes those problems are the lesser of two evils and they're not doing anyone any favors by stirring shit up.

11/16/2009 9:21:58 PM

Sit down. Shut up. Run out the clock. That's the American way.

11/16/2009 10:30:02 PM

^ that's obviously not what i'm saying... but he had no place trying to solve their problems for them before he was even on the payroll

and particularly not when they were sending him a laptop so he could workaround the issue!

[Edited on November 16, 2009 at 10:36 PM. Reason : s]

11/16/2009 10:31:05 PM

In a lot of places that would be considered as being proactive, going above and beyond, etc.

IBM is obviously a different place, but that kind of thing would definitely get you hired at a place like Cisco, and even more so at smaller outfits. That sort of drive to solve problems is valued, not discouraged.

11/16/2009 10:53:24 PM

I'm saying that I agree that IBM over-reacted, but I'm also saying that guy is a dumbass for rocking the boat before anything was signed.

And you're telling me that there are no egos at Cisco that wouldn't look too kindly on some random-ass contractor who isn't even hired that highlights a problem with something that they own? I don't believe that shit for one minute.


[Edited on November 16, 2009 at 11:07 PM. Reason : s]

11/16/2009 11:05:42 PM

there's also probably more to the story than what was written. There always is.

11/16/2009 11:07:18 PM

I mean, I don't even have that much of a work ego, but if some random schmuck started highlighting my baggage after I had already sent him a free laptop to workaround the problem, yea... I would be pissed off too.

Quote :

"there's also probably more to the story than what was written. There always is."

I totally agree. The fact that he is now blackballed from IBM is a pretty good indication that there's more to the story... Also the fact that he's the type to burn bridges publically and ruin his reputation with other companies is also an indication of the type of personality that we're dealing with here.... Again, like I said... The "rock the boat" for no good reason type.

[Edited on November 16, 2009 at 11:10 PM. Reason : s]

11/16/2009 11:08:39 PM

Quote :

"woman at work has had a spreadsheet open since 8:15 this morning and hasn't saved it yet. she even went to lunch without saving it i just don't understand this."

Now, I'm an extremely casual user of word processors and spreadsheets and the like, but hasn't Office had an autosaving feature included in it for... oh about the last 15 years or so?

11/17/2009 3:23:50 AM