Dumbass customer quote of the day

[linguafranca.livejournal.com]

"I downloaded my whole computer this morning."
~First sentence on a call taken by nyquilusa

More customer e-mail

[linguafranca.livejournal.com]

Do I have spyware on my machine if initials appear in the upper left hand corner when I open a site? How do I get rid of it?

(no subject)

[boredevilperson.livejournal.com]

Ok I'm paging through CPU (Computer Power User) magazine (Not a bad read) and notice an ad for the new AMD Athlon 64 FX.

It shows a guy sitting in front of a computer looking very very serious.

( See the ad )

Now I have a tendency to pick apart ads on occasion. So I notice that he has a command prompt window open on Windows XP. It looks like he was doing a lot of work on the command line. So the thought crosses my mind "What would someone even do on the command line for Windows XP? I only do very basic stuff at a Windows command prompt because everything else has a nice graphical interface that I've grown used to . . ." So I look closer.

Apparantly the guy in this ad is a big idiot or his kid was messing with his PC because this is what the screen reads if you look close:

C:\ fa
'fa' is not recognized blah blah blah
C:\
C:\
C:\
C:\asdf
'asdf' is not recognized blah blah blah

C:\df
'df' is not recognized blah blah blah

( See close up of screen )

It's always fun to find stuff like that. I'll bet AMD's advertising staff must not have realized it would be that clear.

Anyway on another note, how are AMD's latest offerings? I have an Athlon 700 that I'm thinking about replacing in the coming months and I've been pretty happy with it overall. My only complaint is it'll heat up a room like crazy. Do they still do that?

Happiness is:

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

Firefoxing an entire company.

They said they wanted a "Final solution for all the crap that keeps getting on these things"

2 calls....

[naggy.livejournal.com]

I had 2 calls today that were surreal. They happened one after the other.

Call #1:
Them: "I added this person who's 20 years old, but the system is telling me they're 17."
Me: "What's the DOB?"
Them: "It's in '86."
Me: "Yeah, that would make them 17 or 18."
Them: "Hold on...what year is it?"

Call #2:
"Hello, I'm X. I work for Beavis."

I learned a moment later that Beavis is really BVIS - Blind and Visually Impaired Services...but it's still not an acronym I'd use. :)

Do their recruiting brochures say, "I love you...come to BVIS!"