Isn't it AMAZING!!!... [rant]

[JoLLyRoGer]

This just gets me every time...

Have any of you have ever experienced this mystical, magical, ghost that just seems to go around f@cking up network and printer settings on the workstations. Just ask the users, they'll tell you all about it. What pisses me off the most is when you ask someone what was the last thing they did on their machine; not to get anyone into trouble, just to gain a better perspective of the problem, and they blatantly lie and say, "Uh, well... I didn't do anything.? OH, Right, Nothing... So the sh!t just magically disappeared. "Uh..Yeah". Ok, maybe I'm just blowing up for no reason, but I'm sick of people crying to me every day with: My e-mail doesn't work, I can't print. And then they're not even willing to help me fix the problem by telling my what they did last. It's always the same story. "Well I didn't do anything..., It just started doing this on it's own." Ok, I'm not buying it. A computer is a machine. It only does what YOU tell it to. There aren't any little magical elves running around inside your machine changing the settings around.

It's not the fact that someone jacked up his or her workstation that gets me. Hell I've crashed a few HARD before. What gets me is the audacity that some people have to just sit there and insult my intelligence by acting like they weren?t a contributing factor to the reason thier computer's not working right.

?Yawn??I think I?ll just get around to fixing the next machine sometime when I?m not so busy posting on AnandTech forums? ?Yawn? ?

No, I don't suppose that would help solve anything. Guess I'll just deal with it as always.:|:|

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

welcome to tech support my son.


late.

TDP

 

[DAM]

dude use something like policy editor or something to lock down their computer, so they can only run email, and notepad or somethinglike that.





dam()

 

[Hanpan]

What chokes me up the most is when i install something it works. A month later i come back it still works. Then 2 months down the road i get balmed for something saying it never worked or went wrong when i installed something new. Even thouhg it's been 3 months. :|

 

[Windogg]

Welcome to the club JoLLyRoGer

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

Hell, we're running NT, it's not like it's that easy for a regular user to botch up a machine. I'm trying to figure out how the guy I just got done dealing with was able to remove his printer settings.

 

[TheDennis]

What I really hate is when those damn little trolls tear something up in my computer, and I get blamed for it.

 

[ArkAoss]

hmm these tales of IT fun make me wanna take up ditch digging

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

Yeah, there's not much involved in troubleshooting a shovel!!

 

[Gunbuster]

I love when the printer at work runs out of toner. What do the people do? they hit print again, and again and................

The freeking laserjet says replace toner on the LCD

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

Yep and then you get that cute little error message.

Unable to print. Insufficient memory.
And guess who gets to clean it all up....

 

[teknoid]

To follow is my observations on being the "Net Admin / Support Guy"

Whether it is network related or not, everything is the fault of the network administrator.

There are always 1.5 cables for every available port.

The fact that a report printed fine yesterday does not necessarily mean it will print at all today.

Users will ask the same questions over and over and over?

The average user can remember no less than 26 birth dates, 44 telephone numbers, 15 addresses but can not seem to remember a 5 character password.

Any given run of Cat-5 cable will be exactly 4? too short.

If you have 6? patch cables in stock you?ll need 8? cables, if you have 8? patch cables in stock you?ll need 10? cables, if you have?

An idiot with a pair of wire cutters is a recipe for a network disaster.

In spite of what Microsoft says, R.A.S. really stands ?Really Ambiguous Stuff?

The ?CAPS LOCK? key spontaneously turns itself on when users aren?t looking.

The ?NUM LOCK? key spontaneously turns itself off when users aren?t looking.

Nobody is quite sure what the ?SCROLL LOCK? key does.

In spite of what most users believe, turning off the monitor is NOT the same thing as logging off.

If a given print job did not print the first twelve times a user sends it, it will most likely not print the next twelve times that it is sent.

Regardless of hard disk capacity it?s never quite enough to hold all of the user?s data.

Regardless of tape drive capacity it?s never quite enough to back up the full capacity of the hard disk(s).

The fact that it plugs into the wall does NOT make it the responsibility of the network administrator.

In spite of what Microsoft says, NT really stands ?Not Today?.

In spite of what Novell says, NW really stands ?Now What??.

Punch-Down tools have a ?designed-in? affinity for creating holes in the installers? fingers.

NEVER?EVER? buy a ?cheap? crimp tool and expect it to work properly.

Any given network design will require 1.5 times the cable specified by the designer.

Drive mappings don?t, firewalls won?t, security isn?t, proxy servers can?t, personal settings aren?t.

Design a foolproof system and only a fool can effectively use it.

A creative idiot can circumvent even the best security.

A network can be (a) Fast (b) Secure (c) Simple (d) Cheap. Pick three.

There?s always a ?cracker? out there with (a) more time than you, (b) more brains than you, and (c) more caffeine than you.

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

ROFL . That's just too funny. I've had experience with those pesky punch down tools too. They suck!!

<highlights teknoid's post, right clicks, copies and pastes in word and saves for future refrence>

Well, close of business has finally come. I'm gettin while the gettin's good.

Hasta Ma&ntilde;ana!!