comp stupidities

[nolawi]

http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_os.shtml

i thought this was so funny, so i'm sharing

[Grykat]

Thanks for the chuckle. Our school district is a PC district, and gets all our boxes from Dell. About 3 years ago Dell switched from the putty colored towers (GX100s and 110s) to black towers. You'd be amazed how many tech workorders I see come in that say their workstation model is a 'black Dell' (mind you, we have GX150s, GX240s, GX260s and GX270s, all 'black Dells'). Also, since we have remote management over a network, teachers are supposed to put the workstation's network identification name so we can login and fix software problems remotely. To a man (woman) they will all tell me their machine name is 'Dell'....sigh!!!

[Albert_chu]

i remember one case when i was working for a computer technician company...a guy called up saying he didnt know how to install a mouse driver....and i told him to open a window...and he ended up going around his house opening up all his windows...he came back asking "what has this got to do with my computer?"..no joke! how stupid can you get?

[the tree]

The head IT technician comes up the head of teaching IT in front of a class of fairly bright students who are suposedly getting along with thier work and not evesdropping.

The head techie says "we were thinking that there needs to be some encyrption of passwords and such like over the network, [...] I'm having a hard time convincing {one of techies} that it isn't already there."
"Why would he think that?"
"Because as the passwords are typed, they get replaced with astrixes"

[Grykat]

I really wish Novell would change their login screen to have an option for 'standalone only' - right now its option says 'workstation only' - I can't tell you how many emails I get per week from teachers who say that their network drives have disappeared, and what is wrong is that when they logged on, they reasoned 'I want to use my workstation' so they checked that box. Presto! no network drives! - that one is only 50% user error - I figure it's about 50% poor planning on Novell's part.

[wh666-666]

lol nolawi ive actually got the same site saved in favorites ... i find the call centre pages funny Call centre stupidity (http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_comeagain.shtml) as ive worked in a few before ... and you'd never believe how stupid people can be (my desk used to have a head mark from where i banged it while sobbing) .. lol but very funny nolawi ... one of my favorite sites

[bathurst_guy]

Our server went down about a month ago now, since then we had all students and teachers using generic Internet accounts. Anyway, day before yesterday we restored the individual user accounts so we provided a quick notice on the Intranet. We included in the notice a screen shot of the login prompt of WinXP and an example of how they should type in domain\username.

We received, no joke, a total of 30 emails/calls from STAFF complaining that they would keep clicking cancel on the popup and it wasn't going away. We went and visited a couple to see what the problem might be and we both just bursted out laughing to find it was the screen shot they were trying to click. We changed the image to include a hugh EXAMPLE across it.

[Grykat]

We get in trouble for our sloppy language sometimes, too. With one particularly non-techie HR administrator we were trying to explain how to use an onscreen application. We told him to 'move your mouse to that check box in the center of the screen and click', and I swear on a stack of Bibles that he picked up his mouse, held it up against the center of the monitor screen, and clicked!!!

[Mr Initial Man]

One of my favorite stories was of a guy who got a computer, and bought all the bells and whistles with it. Scanner, printer, webcam, mic, mouse, you name it. Then he discovered he had no idea how to plug it all in. I came over to help him out. His problem was easy to figure out; what I couldn't figure out was where he'd gotten a Commodore 64. :rolleyes:

[Sunny G]

I had to explain to my dad that Firefox was not an operating system.
He had never heard of another browser before.

And my friends think that when they play computer games, their save files are saved directly to the CD, so they can install the game elsewhere and take the save files with them (and these are games I gave them). *bangs head on the wall*.