Just thought I would introduce myself

[Spec8472]

And as part helldesk/part IT staff, may I say? "HEY!"

No, you may not.

n00bs

The phone rings.

"The Screen on my PC is blank!!!"

"It's the power cord" I say

"No, I checked that. When I switch it on, it does nothing!"

"It's the power cord" I say

"No, I checked and it's all plugged in properly. There's no lights on the keyboard or anything"

"It's the power cord" I say

"Oh Hey! I just noticed, the cord's not plugged in properly!"

"The power cord?" I ask

"Yes... Woopsy"

"No worries at all" I say "Is it all working well now?"

"Yes, I think so. I'm sorry, you WERE right all along"

"Yes, we're getting a lot of this, it's due to the current Global Warming problem. It causes random thermal expansion and contraction resulting in temperature induced movement of friction based holding mechanisms.."

I listen carefully. Nothing. In other words, ...

"You can fix it permanently tho'" I say

"Really? How?"

"Well it's all to do with lowering salt deposits on the metal contacts"

"Oh!" (Dummy mode irrevocably engaged)

"All you need to do is just take the power plug out deposit some dilute mineral salts on it. Do you have some dilute mineral salts on you?"

"Uh... no?"

"Ok, no worries, just stick it in your mouth drool into it. But make sure you wipe the plug first to get rid of any germs, and TURN THE SWITCH OFF ON THE MONITOR before you do - we don't want a nasty accident!

"Oh. Ok!"

>Fzzzt< >clunk!<

I hang up as the receiver hits the floor. Disk space is too good for them.

[dadrago]

LMAO !!!

good post spec.

i can just imagine some user's following that and doing it.

i'm also in IT, but looking for work in my field.

i've sense gotten a somewhat general laborer job that takes almost no thought. although it seems that too much of that no thought is really going around seeing how some of the boxes are packed. i'm really serious. any intellegence over a 4th grader know's u can't put several small things in a box that's not taped yet unless u don't care if they fall out. children's books are small and unless they are bundled together don't carry much weight, and quite often i'd get a box where all of the items are under the bottom level of support flaps.

later,
drago

[Phantom]

Help, I keep getting this error message!

What message?

USER ERROR: Replace user and press any key to continue.

Now if i could just Find that damn "any" key on a Keyborad somewhere


Phantom

[Phantom]

And as part helldesk/part IT staff, may I say? "HEY!"

No, you may not.
n00bs

The phone rings.
"The Screen on my PC is blank!!!"
"It's the power cord" I say
"No, I checked that. When I switch it on, it does nothing!"
"It's the power cord" I say
"No, I checked and it's all plugged in properly. There's no lights on the keyboard or anything"
"It's the power cord" I say
"Oh Hey! I just noticed, the cord's not plugged in properly!"
"The power cord?" I ask
"Yes... Woopsy"
"No worries at all" I say "Is it all working well now?"
"Yes, I think so. I'm sorry, you WERE right all along"
"Yes, we're getting a lot of this, it's due to the current Global Warming problem. It causes random thermal expansion and contraction resulting in temperature induced movement of friction based holding mechanisms.."
I listen carefully. Nothing. In other words, ...
"You can fix it permanently tho'" I say
"Really? How?"
"Well it's all to do with lowering salt deposits on the metal contacts"
"Oh!" (Dummy mode irrevocably engaged)
"All you need to do is just take the power plug out deposit some dilute mineral salts on it. Do you have some dilute mineral salts on you?"
"Uh... no?"
"Ok, no worries, just stick it in your mouth drool into it. But make sure you wipe the plug first to get rid of any germs, and TURN THE SWITCH OFF ON THE MONITOR before you do - we don't want a nasty accident!
"Oh. Ok!"
>Fzzzt< >clunk!<
I hang up as the receiver hits the floor. Disk space is too good for them.

Damn it now i have to Clean the Coke Spit off the Moniter and Keyboard....How am i going to find that Any key like this ....


You know i used to Work for a Telecom and After hearing the Customers Questions and general Statements they would make to the CS guys

I missed my Calling I should have Been a Cult Leader....With people like that out there Hell I could Serve them Koolaide every 6 months and pick up a new batch before the last ones even Cooled off.

<shakes head> and thats just the ones in management too





Phantom

[michaelsuave]

I worked IT and MIS for a couple different companies and a university, I have to say the university was the worst. You would think that "educated" people would be, well, um, educated... But you would be wrong. I had more UI problems (user incompetence problems) than at any of my other jobs. Damn I hated working with people who didn't know how to switch on a machine but thought that their Phd enabled them to tell you about the latest greatest computer tool called "defrag". Well there is my vent.

If you want some good IT humor, there was an IT comedy group who I believe were called "two dead trolls in a baggy." They did a comedy routine at an electronics convention in Chicago and it was hilarious. I think you can still find it on the web...

~Michael

[Spec8472]

If you want some good IT humor, there was an IT comedy group who I believe were called "two dead trolls in a baggy."

Three. Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie.

But, yeah, quite funny

[Journeywoman]

I worked IT and MIS for a couple different companies and a university, I have to say the university was the worst. You would think that "educated" people would be, well, um, educated... But you would be wrong. I had more UI problems (user incompetence problems) than at any of my other jobs. Damn I hated working with people who didn't know how to switch on a machine but thought that their Phd enabled them to tell you about the latest greatest computer tool called "defrag". Well there is my vent.
~Michael

I work for a university and I don't find it too bad. Then again most of what I do is password changes and basic troubleshooting for undergrads and they tend to have a reasonable amount of tech savvy. But then again I must admit there are a few who don't know anything but they seem to be a minority.

[Fiferguy]

I worked IT and MIS for a couple different companies and a university, I have to say the university was the worst. You would think that "educated" people would be, well, um, educated... But you would be wrong. I had more UI problems (user incompetence problems) than at any of my other jobs. Damn I hated working with people who didn't know how to switch on a machine but thought that their Phd enabled them to tell you about the latest greatest computer tool called "defrag". Well there is my vent.
~Michael

I work for a university and I don't find it too bad. Then again most of what I do is password changes and basic troubleshooting for undergrads and they tend to have a reasonable amount of tech savvy. But then again I must admit there are a few who don't know anything but they seem to be a minority.

I would, however, like to disagree. I used to work for an IT support line for a university, and our Freshman were not tech savvy. They were the ones most likely to do something stupid.

[Fawks]

I graduated with a BS in Computer Information Systems in May of 2000. Ooops. While I was going to college, there was a Dr of C. I. S. who was not allowed to open up the case on his computers. Cuz, after he worked on it, the computer REALLY needed to be repaired.

[Priapus]

erm, yeah, like the topic subject says, I'd thought I'd introduce myself. So HI!

And Fel, you are one heck of a writer, you shoulld get this published, just so the blind people can read it in breal (sp?) and trust me they would publish in breal. WOW is all i got to say.

[michaelsuave]

erm, yeah, like the topic subject says, I'd thought I'd introduce myself. So HI!

And Fel, you are one heck of a writer, you shoulld get this published, just so the blind people can read it in breal (sp?) and trust me they would publish in breal. WOW is all i got to say.

Welcome to the crazy house priapus, yeah, we are after Fel to publish all the time. If you can convince him, then more power to you.

~Michael

[afrigeek]

and oe of the most interesting errors that persists to this day:

" system error: No keyboard present: Press F1 to continue"

One wonders where F1 is found when there is no keyboard present.

[dadrago]

and oe of the most interesting errors that persists to this day:

" system error: No keyboard present: Press F1 to continue"

One wonders where F1 is found when there is no keyboard present.

unfortunately that's somewhat of a mis-nomer. if your using ps2 keyboards and mice then you have to reset the system to clear the ps2 queue. otherwise if your using a usb keyboard then it's probably setup wrong in the system bios. so in other words you gotta hook up a 'ancient' ps2 keyboard and get into the bios on startup. then you can set where it searches for your keyboard. although most of the time if your able to finish loading whatever OS your using then you can change what it looks for in a keyboard.

although older versions of WinBLOWS i'm sure don't support usb keyboards. and of course DOS doesn't either. but linux, sun ?, and win xp support usb keyboards as far as i know. and possibly older versions of sun's solarius won't recognize the usb. solarius if your build it on an intel chipset, atleast one released after 2002 (last time i checked the specs actually), will have usb support. although good luck finding support for your intel sun box cause most of the time for me i'd re-build it into a linux box cause driver's for a lot of stuff will be able to be built in linux but not solarius for some reason. (quite possibly, their wasn't one made yet for solarius though.)

so I'd have to say any OS published or released before 1998 or so when the usb 1.1 standard was emplemented will not have usb support at all.


later,
drago