Useless Conversation

[Ingmar]

file->options->general

uncheck "Open email attachments and other uneditable files in reading view"

(assuming it's in the same place as it is in 2010 that is)

[Merusk]

The internet:  A thing that used to give away for free what companies want to charge you for from 1994 through 2014.



Shit.. I've been on the internet 20 years.

[Ironwood]

My home server just blew up.

Arg.

 

[Abagadro]

My boy told me today that 8-bit games were "much cooler than what we have now." 

[Father mike]

Load up Stella and let him experience 4-bit games.  By his logic, they'll be twice as good as 8-bit.

[Sjofn]

I feel like mentioning this:

Yesterday we had a kendo tournament, and for the FIRST TIME EVER, I won one of my matches! Even our sensei (I love our sensei) seemed pleased I won one so "soon." Apparently a victory by your third tournament is exciting!

(Ingmar, who is an overachiever, won TWO matches in his FIRST tournament, so I don't think he was as impressed.)

[Engels]

Grats! I expect you will soon be shopping for superhero spandex uniforms.

[Signe]

I feel like mentioning this:

Yesterday we had a kendo tournament, and for the FIRST TIME EVER, I won one of my matches! Even our sensei (I love our sensei) seemed pleased I won one so "soon." Apparently a victory by your third tournament is exciting!

(Ingmar, who is an overachiever, won TWO matches in his FIRST tournament, so I don't think he was as impressed.)

Wow!  Gratz!  And such a coincidence, too.  Last night I watched Kung Fu Hustle (yes wrong country)... TWICE!  And for the hundredth time, at least.  Kendo is more awesome, though, because of the outrageously cool clothes and sticks.  I hope you become a movie star.  I am also convinced that one day someone in my family, nearly all of which have black belts in Taekwondo, will accidentally kill me with their feet.  Probably my nephew.  He's a show off.  I'd rather be killed by a stick than feet.

[HaemishM]

<snip explanation of fixing my Word 2013 problem>

Thank you. That was SO FUCKING ANNOYING.

[Hawkbit]

When compairing/contrasting the differences between MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-3, it's best not to Google "hash types". That's my pro-tip for the day.

[Yegolev]

My boy told me today that 8-bit games were "much cooler than what we have now." 

[Hawkbit]

I cannot fucking stand providing support to iPad users.  At best I get a report that provides 1/3 of the information I need, all in broken auto-corrected text.  The worst are "does not work".  I literally get 5+ of those per day. 

The Internet needs an ability test to use.  If you can't formulate a sentence or paragraph to explain the problem, gtfo.

[Merusk]

Now stretch that out to the same mindset and technical skills, but using professional tools like Adobe Creative Suite and AutoDesk Design Suite.

Welcome to my world. 

We have three users who, when filling out a ticket, will put "Vice President" or "Senior Professional" in the "title" field.  To be fair it should say subject but... really?

[Nevermore]

Those critical thinking abilities are why they make the big bucks.

[Yegolev]

Focus on self over all other issues at hand.  Delicious.

[Phildo]

I had to deal with "none of my emails are working" yesterday.  What she meant to say was "One of my emails isn't working."  And this wasn't a typo, she really thought because one email bounced back, her server was broken.

[Yegolev]

You guys make me so happy that I don't deal with end lusers.

Not that I don't talk to clients, but client PMs and client IT people are usually OK.  Haven't had any screamers so far.

[Sky]

I regularly get "x isn't working." My standard answer is, "yes, it is." And then I proceed to show them.

[Chimpy]

In less than three weeks I will not have to deal with end users directly unless it is escalated.

[Sky]

But you lose the respect of the hipster slacker crowd by dressing like an adult.

 

[Yegolev]

Fuck those losers.

[Bunk]

In less than three weeks I will not have to deal with end users directly unless it is escalated.

Congrats - Your promotion means that newer, less experienced folk will be dealing with end users. Now you will spend most of your time trying talk those below you off of the ledge that really stupid customers drive them to.

[Yegolev]

You make that sound worse.  It totally isn't.

[Khaldun]

I had a headache when I came in this morning to try and do all my end of the academic year reports and finish grading. I just had the most  discussion with a student ever who isn't even MY student or in my department who wanted my opinion about what a colleague is giving him as a grade. I've never even met the guy: he looked up something I wrote years ago about something or other and decided I would be sympathetic to him. I wasn't. But it was the most facepalmy thing pretty much EVAR. So now I have a worse headache.

[schild]

People in academia don't have bitching rights (love you, nebu).

[Nebu]

People in academia don't have bitching rights (love you, nebu).

[Salamok]

I had to deal with "none of my emails are working" yesterday.  What she meant to say was "One of my emails isn't working."  And this wasn't a typo, she really thought because one email bounced back, her server was broken.

For me it was always "The mail server is down NO ONE is able to send email" this would usually resolve out to that end user was attempting to send to an invalid email address.

I regularly get "x isn't working." My standard answer is, "yes, it is." And then I proceed to show them.

Then it went according to their plan, some end users seem to think that going all chicken little and making 1 tiny self induced issue sound like an entire system is failing is the proper way to escalate a help desk ticket. 

[Numtini]

This morning "this computer is old and slow doesn't work for anything" was actually narrowed down to "she can't get her personal email on the comcast site."

[Merusk]

We have laptop users who constantly bitch that their drives are missing and shortcuts don't work.

We are almost to the point of having a form response for, "You can't just take it off the dock and walk away. You can't just close it at home and drop it on the dock at work.  There's login things that need to happen which is why we say shut it down don't just put it to sleep."

Ignoring, of course, the Mac users who give the "Adobe is slow" ticket but haven't rebooted in 12 days when working on GB+ .PSP and .AI files.

[Miasma]

I know people who surf the internet and play games all day but still don't know how print screen works.

[Ironwood]

Why would you if you've never felt the need to print the screen ?

[WayAbvPar]

I wouldn't even bother...my printer doesn't work.

[Phildo]

Go watch the "Kids react to old computers" video in the Useless Videos Thread (it's the most recent link as of this post).  Watching them try to puzzle out why they need to type in Print at the command prompt to do something other than send to the printer is hilarious.

[Sky]

If you're going to wear full headphones and expect me to tell you something without taking them off or turning your music down, I'm not fucking repeating it.

[Ironwood]

Yup, that's fairly fucking ignorant mate.