I went to work at a site the other day that was on Bliss Spillar Road.
Every time someone said they address, it came out “Bliss Pillar.”
Yes, I laughed my ass off every time someone said that, because that’s a funny name for a penis.
There’s another road named “Frate Barker,” which my dyslexic self read as “Fate Breaker.” Fate Breaker sounds like a cool attack in an anime, and would make a great name for a band.
…or a fighting game.
I want to create a fighting game but I still need a name. I’m SO going to keep this in mind… unless someone beats me to it.
Apparently it’s the name of an indie MMO.
So I got paid $55 today to tell an IT guy that he’s a dumbass.
One of his site’s computers was in a restart loop. He called us in after clearing the CMOS and flashing the bios.
Um. Restart loop. Windows problem, not a hardware problem. Pop in a Windows Recovery Disc. Type “fixmbr” and then “fixboot.” Done.
That’s fine, I showed up, so I still got paid anyway.
Duckie tell me if you’ve ever had this happen to you, or heard of it happening.
> Installing a new video card
> accidentally bump card just before you screw it in
> computer blue screens
>Entire hard drive corrupted
This shit happened to me during my final lab exam last semester.
well…that escalated quickly
lololololol…im sorry for laughing but that sucks SO BAD n i cant resist.
It’s never happened to me, but I can see HOW that would happen. I hate that it happened, but I hope you learned not to turn on a computer before you secured any add-on cards you just put in.
Why was the computer on?
Seems silly to have it on while installing a new card.
I can understand how it happened. He probably plugged in the card, turned the computer on to see that it worked, and then secured it.
Unfortunately he learned that that’s something that you should never ever do. He should have turned his computer off and then secured it, but hey… hindsight’s always 20.
Yeah that’s exactly what happened. There’s just a pile of parts for us to fix our computer with. Some are good and some are bad. I didn’t want to waste time screwing in a bad video card so I just held it in place while I booted it. It worked and I accidentally hit it with the screwdriver. If only I had turned it off first. Luckily I didn’t get any points deducted, because a video card error wiping the HDD clean was new to my professor too.
EDIT: Actually it wasnt new to him. He just never told us that can happen under that specific circumstance.
yo, Duckie. you ever had to deal with a Luddite?
i’ve been fighting with this dude’s dial up connection for the past 3 days :mad:
he “mysteriously” can’t connect to the internet to get his emails. so i went over there. old XP machine (of course). modem seems to be fine. it makes the “squeals” and connects to the isp but right as it gets to the password verification step, it pauses until it times out. he calls the isp and they tell him “it’s your computer. it’s broken. get a new modem.” he went to the store and bought a usb modem and had me set it up. same problem. i can dial out fine with this one as well. he gets on the phone with his isp. they tell him it’s a driver issue and to update all his drivers. i’m shaking my head the whole time. he says he needs to go down the street to send a fax, i tell him not to because there is no problem with this modem. he leaves anyway. isp support is still on the phone, so i talk to the guy; techie to techie
“so, he tells me this problem happened on December 31 exactly after office hours ended so he couldn’t call… are you guys fazing out dial up services?”
“uhh… we have begun fazing out dial up services in various areas…”
“ok, thanks.” and hung up on him.
Luddite comes back complaining about spending 3 dollars to fax something. i told him his fax machine works. he doesn’t believe me. i told him to send a fax. it goes through. "BUT WHY CAN’T I GET MY EMAILS THEN?!"
“here’s the thing, there could be something wrong with their stuff, but i’m pretty sure they don’t want you as a customer anymore. i don’t know why they won’t tell you that. to be honest, most people don’t use dial up around here if they don’t have to.”
“let me tell you something. 60% of **all **small businesses in America use dial up. i read that.” he’s told me this about 8 times since i’ve first met him. he wears that like a badge. so i finally explain to him why that is.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_002683.html?ref
he still wants to stay with this company. so tomorrow morning, guess what i’m doing? i’m bringing a laptop up to his office to see if it can login to isp’s dial up box that’s probably been completely disconnected from everything. he pays $15 a month for dial up and refuses to upgrade because it’s going to cost him (he says) “$80 a month, plus fees” i’m thinking i might try to get him connected to JUNO (which is free dial up), but even if he wanted to upgrade i just found he can get AT&T DSL for $15 a month. will he go for either option? dun dun DUNNNNNNNNNN!
i’ll probably start yelling at him tomrorrow. 
All the time. It’s one of the reasons I refuse to do residential calls. Well, that and the fact that I witnessed what quite likely was three drug deals and then later had a shotgun pointed at me.
I just look at it like this: I’m there to fix what they have, not to sell them new shit. If they need something better, it’s their fault for not wanting to change and not my responsibility to convince them they need it.
when did u have a shotgun pointed at u? did i miss something or r u keeping stories from us? “wags finger at duckie”
It’s actually at the top of this page.
ah, so its me
Okay, so I just spent two days doing hardly anything, for which I’m not complaining in the least because I got paid an insane rate for it.
I was part of a project where we were rolling out a massive tech upgrade for nursing homes all over the state. Things went fubar quickly and I spent the better part of two days waiting for the client to fix it. I have zero problems with that, as I have several eBooks ready to go for just such an occasion.
I did get bored though, so I started fandangling with the problematic systems and ended up resolving several issues that they had, a thing that my client and their client were insanely thrilled at.
The biggest one though was something that happened while I was screwing around while on the phone with the new provider. We were trying to gain access to a thin client that had held us up for several hours. To entertain myself I started typing in random usernames and passwords, trying to see how long it would take for me to get locked out.
Well, during this I decided to try to figure out the name of the admin account by typing in dummy names with crap passwords to see what the error message said. If it said it was the wrong password, then I know the account name is good. Administrator turned out to be the admin name, which I thought was suspect.
Then I had a weird thought: They couldn’t be stupid enough to leave the password field blank, could they?
Yes, Virginia… they were that fucking stupid. Support said they could hear me banging my head against the desk from all the way in Dallas. Hell, it probably measured on the richter scale in California.
So if your house shook yesterday, I sincerely apologize.
Oh so that was YOU. I thought it was just another of the hundred of earthquakes we measure every year.
That one was my head. The other hundred or so were from when my dick hit the floor.
Moving on…
Hey Duckie, I wanted to get into Network Engineering, and have been trying to get into Help Desk as my first step for the past half year, but have been unsuccessful in getting any interviews.
Should I just be studying Network + at this point and give up on entry level?