Hrm?

[ethereal-dusk.livejournal.com]

I've been rewriting some of the processes in our KB and ran across this gem. Every time I read it it became more and more amusing on so many different levels. I mean, just.... ???

“If the screen display is sideways or horizontal, this indicates that the screen is probably set horizontally."

0_o

Comments

[kuang.livejournal.com]

..this being the case, settest thou the screen to the opposite of horizontal. Vertical shall be the direction of the screen and the direction of the screen shall be... vertical. Settest thou not the screen to horizontal unless thou passest on via rotation until vertical.

This done, and the display now being vertical, lobbest the screen at the person who wrote the bloody manual, and proceed to drown thyself in beer until the horror subsides.

[ethereal-dusk.livejournal.com]

If we could drink beer at work... now we're talking.

[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

Awards +5 Beer for gratuitous improvised Python skit.

[wibbble]

I hope that someone just put that in because they were bored. I'd hate to think that it was added as a result of an actual case...

[ethereal-dusk.livejournal.com]

Actually, the video cards used by our clients have that ability. If you press CTRL+ALT+up arrow, you can rotate the screen in all four directions. People do it as a joke to others, and then they call us to fix it. That is actually what it says before the fix. Just doesn't make a lick of sense. If the screen is set horizontally, who cares? And if it is set sideways, has is is set horizontally? Did someone say something about beer...

[ethereal-dusk.livejournal.com]

That should so read "how is it set horizontally?" Wow, the idiotcy! It's rubbing off on me! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! LOL

[wibbble]

See, when I read that, I took 'set' to mean 'physically set'. That is, 'if your screen display is sideways, your monitor's on its side'.

Current versions of Mac OS X support rotating the display. It's an obvious practical joke, which I couldn't resist when visiting my mother at Christmas. ;o)

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

*tries this* Oooooooh, cool, it works! Time to mess with my manager's head muahahaha!

[canray.livejournal.com]

Do not attempt to adjust the picture.

We are controlling transmission.

If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume.

If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper.

We can reduce the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity.

We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical.

[fixerkitty.livejournal.com]

For the next hour, we will control all that you see and hear.

Yay Outer Limits...

[mogaribue.livejournal.com]

Eons ago, I was a PC Tech. We kept getting tickets from the help desk of users complaining that their screen was flipped over. I wrote an email to the management of the Help Desk saying 'here's how to fix this in 2 seconds over the phone, but this in your KB'. Of course, they have no KB. So the tickets persisted.

Eventually I got one of our VB ninjas to write a script which disabled it in the registry. I'm sure there was a point to this story, somewhere.

[thudthwacker.livejournal.com]

While we're off on a tangent, there was an admin where I work who had a small pile of joke programs lying around in case someone didn't secure the X server on their workstation properly. Occasionally, he'd flip your screen upside down. Other times, he'd mirror-image it. Making all your windows appear to melt and drip down the monitor was left for special occasions.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Horizontal cat is horizontal.