Who said you had to actually still BE in Tech Support to have to deal with the Clueless Luser?

[swwinchester.livejournal.com]

Let's do some quick background info here - I am a great fan of anime, and have a LARGE volume of Fansubbed anime on my systems here. I will frequently toss friends an ep here, and ep there that they need, it's cool, after all, they toss me good stuff too.

And then I get this lovely request from a friend of mine ... who, incidentally, has never contributed ANYTHING (worthwhile) to my fansub pool ...

"Can you transfer me a few eps of fansub?"
"Sure, what did you need?"
"The first 34 episodes of _____."
"That's ... 5.7 gigabytes of data."
"Oh, we're both on cablemodem, that should go fairly fast. Maybe an hour or two, tops?"

... right. I'm one of 6 computers sharing a DSL line. I'm NOT going to do that to my fellow users here in the house. She KNOWS that.

*shakes head* And it was impossible to explain to her why what she was asking for was impossible, especially when it takes me an hour or three to send a SINGLE damn ep of fansub somewhere ... -_-

I mean, hell, it would be FASTER for her to drive the two hours over here, snag the eps off of my network directly, do some shopping in the local malls, have dinner, and go back HOME than to have me throw this stuff to her. Of course, that's 'not workable'.

My AMV Archive for a Cluebat right about now ........

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[tmercenary.livejournal.com]

because that would require putting on clothes and leaving the house?

[swwinchester.livejournal.com]

... I really don't need that mental image.

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

It's like my friend who emailed me to ask what I thought of lost... then followed it up with "How many dvd's will I need to send you to get copies of it?"

That was a couple weeks ago. Strangely, I haven't responded to him.

[swwinchester.livejournal.com]

Mmm. This person knows where I live. She's gotten things by the direct method several times now. She actually USES my hardware to do data backups when systems of hers are acting up.

... and the reason she needs these eps is because she deleted them AFTER getting them directly from my network right here. Her laptop has a burner, why she didn't think to burn them to disc is still beyond me.


In your friend's defense, he DID offer to send the blank media. I mean, points for that. This girl can't even be bothered to make the trip. No investment on her part. ^_^

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she wins hands down for inconsiderate!

I probably wouldn't mind so much if this guy contacted me for anything other than "do you have this tv show i can copy off you?" or "how do I do this with the computer?" :P

[swwinchester.livejournal.com]

Ahh, now, see, this is the key thing. That is not a friend. That is a leech. This girl at least does things OTHER than snag media from me.

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

He used to be good, we'd go out for lunch reasonably often. Now though *shakes head*

Ooooh, I just remembered who recommended this community to me, too *blushes*

[snoopyh42.livejournal.com]

Hm, my Cluebat is in the shop. Can I interest you in the Clue-By-Four?

[swwinchester.livejournal.com]

Actually, with how excessively dumb this person has been lately, I think that a Clue Caber is a more appropriate instrument ...

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

when in doubt -

Clue By Galaxy Class Starship usually works. especially since it has so may integral delivery methods.

[swwinchester.livejournal.com]

... yeah, but I'm looking to Clue with Real World Object. Things like Clue Trebuchet, Clue Caber, Clue Bat, Clue 155mm Howitzer ...

[perspexavenger.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, due to an incident involving a large frozen readymeal, a blunt knife, and a dead hard drive I found out that HDD's make rather good hammers, and it's quite satisfying too...
Alas, I'm no longer in the trenches so I shan't be able to explore the possibilies with an (ab)user, but it's something I'll bear in mind if I ever go back...

[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

i had a couple users at one of the places I work for emailing documents to each other. 20 meg documents. From one desk in the quality office to another desk in the quality office.

When the building was connected to the mail server by a 56k point to point link...

I started buying people cd burners after that.

[jecook]

yeah. I had a clueless user doing that as well.

Fortunately, it was pretty recent, so it was over a DSL/768 fractioanl T-1 link, but still...

[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

this was only about a year or two ago, it was 2500 a month for two 56k links.. we finally got a t1 in there for the same price.