I now pronounce this community active again. Post away gents!

DAMN I miss this community. I just went back and read all my own entries. Fun. :)

Oh yeah, I miss working, too. Although you'd never know it from what I wrote in here. lol

User: Hey AL, quick question. If I deleted a file by mistake, can I get it back?

Me: Was it a file on your hard drive or an email?

User: It was a file. In my My Documents folder.

Me: Did you look in the Recycle Bin?

User: Uuuuuh, no.

Me: Well just double-click the Recy...

User: Well I'm driving in my car right now.

murderdeathkill ( Read more... )

Yeah, I know, this isn't a customer - but this is even more stupid than my customers.

Amature Pubescant Coders decided that storing username and password pairs was best done in.... plain text - I don't care that it is stored locally on an EEPROM that nobody has access to, you still don't store them in plaintext, you always use a one way hash ( Read more... )

Don't think M$ is a threat to national security? How about to our economic security ( Read more... )

Outlook, not Outlook Express, Outlook, this must be the single most retarded application that Microshit has developed. Well wait, that's Windows in general ( Read more... )

From: "Loretta User"
Subject: Addition
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:41:55 -0500
To:

Hello

Can you please add my name to the distribution list asap? Thank you.

luser@employer.dom

Loretta User
Senior Account Manager
XXX-YYY-ZZZZ
Fax PPP-QQQ-RRRR
luser@employer.dom
That's it. That's all ( Read more... )

Some people just make me want to smash things ( Read more... )

I was just told I have more Help Desk incidents in the can than anyone in my department with 547 since January 1st. Since I habitually decline to bother creating/closing help desk tickets for every incident, the number is more like 1500+, including calls, emails, and personal visits. Holy shit. And I am in the REMOTE OFFICE. The others are in ( Read more... )

Associate: I'm having a hard time changing my password here today. It keeps telling me my attempt to change it has failed. Please try again.

Me: Ok, that just means there's something about your new password that the system doesn't like. Do you know the password rules?

Associate: I change it every month and this the first time it's done this to me ( Read more... )