On the lighter side of things....

[achernow.livejournal.com]

Here at Marquette all of the IT Services students (and some of the staff) get "back to school" t-shirts. Our support services intern is handleing the shirts and he put out an e-mail asking us for slogans...

These are the top 5

1) There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't



2) There's no place like 127.0.0.1



3) Don't blame me, it's a manufacturer problem



4) MU IT Services: busting you for copyright infringement since [ITS starting year]



5) Will work for bandwidth

If anyone has any suggestions, i'll pass them to him.

AC

Comments

hmm

[synthe.livejournal.com]

I don't know whether it's a bad thing that you're using those phrases, or a good thing. You might want to check out www.thinkgeek.com or www.jinxhackwear.com, they already make shirts with most of those phrases (so they may be copyrighted). If they aren't, or you aren't worried, they'd be a good source of "inspiration".

Re: hmm

[achernow.livejournal.com]

thanks... I thought some of them looked familiar. Like I said, I'm not doing this but I'll mention something to the guy who is.

AC

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

5) Will work for bandwidth

Had that on my licence plate frame. It is so funny reading peoples lips as they read it, shrug and shake their heads.

Still true though, I moved to the country side and would kill for dsl

[achernow.livejournal.com]

>>Still true though, I moved to the country side and would kill for dsl<<

I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that you are stuck w/ crap ass dial up? (Please tell me that it's at least not AOL!)

Btw.. Is there any real benefit to DSL over cable? I have cable right now (mainly because I get a really, really nice discount through the school(yay student discount)). However, my mom has Comcrap cable and they're jacking the price up AGAIN on her (she's had a cable modem there since Media One cable first offered it way back in '97 (At least I think it was '97)).

AC

Re:

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

AOL?? Bite your tounge, a pox on aol. Please I am not a user for gawds sake!!!

Depends on where you are at... how many people on your block you live have cable. DSL is technically faster but by a hair. Hardly noticable from what I am told. Course I was 300 ft and 600 feet from the box when I had it and had super fast ass speeds. Shouldn't pay more than $50 for dsl or cable, if you do you are getting ripped

And that ends our q&a portion at this time

[achernow.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how many people are on the cable modem on the block (I do know that it has exploded in the last few years, though). I also don't know how far from the box we are to get DSL (SBC was offering a deal on it which is why my mom asked).

Anyway.. I will admit that I WAS an AOL user.. Back when AOL did more than just provide internet at outrageous (sp?) prices... We dumped it right after it went unlimited in favor of one of the local ISPs... (We had that until we got a cable modem)

Although, AOL has bailed me out a few times since I have been at school (in other words, the week between when I moved into my apartment and when time-warner installed my roadrunner) but otherwise I try to avoid it like the plauge.

AC

[fnordx.livejournal.com]

Giving I.T. to you on the desktop.

[vandalous.livejournal.com]

My favorite is still "No, I will not fix your computer."

When I was a sysadmin for a local non-profit, I was inundated with tech support questions for home issues. It was alright until about the 50th time I heard "I opened this email and got a virus. What do I do?"

Another good site for computer shirts is www.computergear.com (http://www.computergear.com/tech-tees---ties.html).

[achernow.livejournal.com]

I am on the help desk for MU and got that question frequently (until we moved to the new exchange server w/ virus filtering on it (only good thing I can say about exchange.. the rest of it blows.)) Anyway, now all the calls are like "I got this e-mail and it says "Virus Removed" Does that mean I have a virus now?"

AC

P.S. I can't tell you the number of times that my mom has called me because she infected her system w/ a virus e-mail.

[wildkard.livejournal.com]

let me also just make a plug for http://www.techcomedy.com/store/ - I just love the T-shirt marked "Morons" ;)

[achernow.livejournal.com]

Lol.. I might have to get me one of those.. (It describes some of the people at MU very well...)

AC

[akage.livejournal.com]

I like number #2. It has the added potential humor of watching people think it's some uber-secret tech support site from whence we get our mystical knowledge of all things digital. And then watching them try to go there.