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[sid-dslaci.livejournal.com]

[10:23:58] [jon] anyone know how to get a win98 machine to quit trying to connect to a domain?
[10:24:24] [chris] well
[10:24:36] [chris] there's always the full-can-of-coke approach
[10:24:37] [Talbot] you throw a rock at it
[10:24:45] [jon] i hate you guys
[10:24:46] [Pip] call a catholic priest?
[10:24:58] [Talbot] pray?
[10:25:22] [chris] I feel it's my responsibility as a knowledgeable tech rep to provide the most prudent information I have available to me

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[sid-dslaci.livejournal.com]

11 days, tick tock...

[darkblade1.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to say:

"I'm sorry sir/madam, we don't support that. Microsoft doesn't either!"

[spacebird.livejournal.com]

We'll still be supporting it anyway. God damn upper management. *grumble*

[darkblade1.livejournal.com]

Not us. I laugh at your misfortune.

Haha.

Ok, I'm done now. :)

[sid-dslaci.livejournal.com]

We will too, but I'm lucky enough to work software support in a cozy startup where I have the leeway to give customers best-practice pointers on support calls. I point out the looming EOL date as, "for the safety of your data, you need to be aware that Microsoft is going to let the internet eat your computer sometime in the 1 to 90 days following July 11". My customers, at least, are suprisingly amenable to being told (basically) "get your ass in gear".