There ain't no justice

[harry-whodunnit.livejournal.com]

Goddammit. The PABX is refusing updates, so the call centre have generously been given permission to transfer users to my personal line.

It took me six weeks and wore down my shiny new LART to stop them doing that.

Can't log in...

[gotica.livejournal.com]

I don't understand why most users don't take a second to register the error message before calling. Its fairly frustrating, especially when the message they get pretty much says "You must change your password on first log on."

How is that not being able to log on? Its more "Yay you've logged in for the first time, how awesome!! Lets get you a new password so no other idiot can log in as you!"

Maybe we should have essays for user errors and the ok button changes position every single time so they have to read and pay attention.

Oh no.. news just in.. some guy can't get hyperlinks to work when using word as his email editor....

*whimper*

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[marihelen.livejournal.com]

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[vxo.livejournal.com]

Later, this got even better...

A potential employer seems to want A+ certification... I was looking into what the exam entails, and was rather disappointed to find out that a lot of it covers versions of Windows back to 95.

This made me think for a while about that wonderful piece of crap, which was totally responsible for my permanent switch to Linux...

Here are my thoughts on Windows.

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Windows 95 is not an operating system. Windows 95 is a warning of what is to come.

Windows 95 is when your mother decides to volunteer your services for repairing a friend's computer sight unseen.

Windows 95 is what's on the computer when you get there, and feel a very strong sense of disgust and disappointment.

Windows 95 is on that old yellowed beige plastic IBM Aptiva from 1994 that's buried on that desk covered in papers and trinkets in a room whose stale air and dust makes your nose burn and your eyes water.

Windows 95 is what tries to boot when you press the power button, to be greeted by the sound of the ground up remains of two fans and a screaming hard drive bearing.

Windows 95 is what takes ten minutes to start up to the point that it shows someone's horrible pixellated wallpaper on the 256 color video card and out-of-focus hand-me-down monitor.

Windows 95 is what you are going to be stuck with wading through when the computer's owner demands that you make it capable of doing impossible tasks, like connecting to the Internet, and running very modern versions of common software.

Windows 95 is buried in ten years worth of accumulated viruses.

Windows 95 is what you see and pretend to have an important appointment somewhere else before running from the house screaming.

That, friends, is Windows 95.

After 5 days off....I come back to this.

[darkblade1.livejournal.com]

Asshat: "I just reformatted my system, and my Num Lock light is on. All of my keys are locked, I can't push anything, what do I do? "

Oh god, put me back on vacation.

He keeps referring to Windows as "Windows XP 2400" and he asked me about Vista and how he wanted to install it.

Do us all a favor, and take your computer to the Grand Canyon and throw it in there.

Thank you.