Guy calls in asking what the problem with our website is, and why he can't log-in..
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yukichigai
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I just find the, "that's not a drink holder, that's a CD drive," idea hilarious. Has anybody actually gotten that call, or is it for all intensive purposes an urban legend?
Typical dolts. People love to b!tch and moan about things to anyone who will listen. I've heard years of it in a couple of past jobs.
I just "fixed" a guy's network connection by taking his ethernet cable out of the voice jack, and putting it into the data jack, and vice versa for his fax machine. Now, the jacks are of the same size (the phone jacks accepts a RJ45), but right above each of them is either the word "DATA" or "VOICE" in caps.
INTENTS AND PURPOSES, D@MNIT!
Anyway, now that I feel better, the specific story you hear about it may be untrue, but I figure there are a lot of people who think AOL = the Internet, their Hard Drive = the big gray box on the floor, etc. Someone, somewhere has to have handled a call with a CD tray being used as a cupholder.
Having had tried to convince the guy who runs my schools engineering labs that I could not FTP a file at 88MBit/sec (tested throughput) over his network connection if it was, as he insisted, broken, trust me: people really are that retarded.
yukichigai
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"Intensive" means "marked by a full and thorough application of resources," or, "with emphasis added". I figured in this context it meant "non-casual or formal". Meh.
Don't blame me, blame the people who taught it to me. 'cept I can't remember who that was.
Bah, we used to get people that would call up and say something like "my email won't work" so we'd spend 45mins to an hour troubleshooting the problem, are the dns servers set correctly, can you ping internall or externally, etc etc only to find out that their computer is not ON not even on it isn't plugged in and they call to say that email is not working, btw this is not a joke, this actually happened it was days like that that made you go down a 6 pack on your lunch break.
How can you all get on his case for 'intensive purposes' when half of you can't even distinguish between your and you're?
He just said when he went to our website, and tried to type in his log-in name and all nothing came up..but ebay, yahoo mail, etc., worked..so I initially didn't know what the problem was..though it turned out he was just clicking on his shortcuts.
Then I told him to check up on this website, and as he goes to type it in, he says now his IE won't let him type anything..which then lead me to believe his keyboard was the problem.
Wait, you answered a question posed in a thread that you started!? Who are you and what did you do to the real Syringer? Are you actually the spider?
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