Teh stoopid is strong with the customers today.

[ladynisa.livejournal.com]

I had to explain to a woman how to click the 'back' button earlier today. She threw a hissy fit because she didn't want to do that. I *really* wanted to tell her that it was time to put on her big girl underwear and suck it up... but I actually like having a job. Instead, I told her if she didn't, she'd be suck at the wrong page forever. She hung up. :D Mission accomplished.

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[ghostdandp.livejournal.com]

Vista sucks.
I warned you vista sucks
I told you to order a computer either online or by calling the manufacturer so you could get XP.
You went to big box retailer
You got Vista
DO NOT demand that I come over and show you how the computer works, make your 5 year old printer without vista drivers run, and configure the desktop to 'look like my old one' for free, because "You told me to get this Vista thingy"
I will laugh at you, and I will show you the invoice where I tell you you should try to get a computer with XP.

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[brotherflounder]

Just got this email from the University of South Carolina's engineering department:

"The network problems that we had Tuesday night have replayed themselves 90-fold this afternoon starting at about 1:30pm. There was again extreme slowness on the College network causing an outage. It was traced to a network bridging loop in a different research lab this time. We disabled the connection to the lab and rebooted the router to restore the network to working order. The network was up and down while we were tracing the problem down. It has been up for about 1.5 hours now, and appears stable.

Again, please be extremely careful when using mini-switches in your offices and labs. One of these devices improperly connected can bring down our entire network. If you are not sure how to set up a mini-switch, contact your departmental IT administrator for help."

Oy vey. I shudder to think what kind of loops these professors put into their research.