I've made that mistake more times than you can count - I hate how mobo manufacturers always put the onboard NIC right on top of the USB ports - I fvcked up the nVidia NIC on my A7n8x Deluxe with a USB plug once. I don't blind-plug anymore.
Originally posted by: gistech1978
ive posted this one before
but none the less
a woman at work complained her internet wasnt working at home.
so i run over there, turned out she had a usb cable plugged into her NIC. they sort of fit...USB is about as wide as a RJ45...i did not know that.
i guess matching shapes is too hard for a 45 yr old woman.
Originally posted by: rh71
I betcha they know more than you do about something else ...
Originally posted by: aircooled
Don't feel too bad. I have a user that thinks when he turns his monitor off he is turning the entire computer off. I asked him to reboot and he just turned his monitor off and back on again.
Originally posted by: Sketcher
Mundane, but you know how it goes...
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User: I can?t log into my computer this morning.
Me: Have you changed passwords recently?
User: Yes, and CAPS Lock is not on.
Me: My log shows either your username and/or password is not correct and that multiple attempts were transacted with incorrect information. I?ll reset your password and you?ll be prompted to create a new password the next time you log in.
User: OK, it works now but what could cause this problem?
Me: You repeatedly entered in incorrect information so the system locks you out to make sure you don?t gain unauthorized access.
User: Well, someone else must have been trying to get into my computer then because I didn?t do anything wrong!
Me: Relax, forgetting or typing in your password wrong happens to everyone. No big deal I reset it and you?re good to go.
User: I didn?t do anything wrong, I didn?t forget my password! I didn?t type the password in wrong. Someone else must have been trying to access my computer!
Me: The security system shows only you and one other person having entered the building at the time your network login failed.
User: That must be who tried getting into my computer then! I?m going to call HR and have them look into it, who was it!? I?m going to get to the bottom of this!
Me: Me.
User: You!?
Me: Yes, I was the only other person in the building at that time.
User: What were you doing using my computer!?
Me: Sigh?.
Originally posted by: FFactory0x
ive got a commador 64 you can have for her. Ill carve my name and number in the case and she can thank me for it over the phone. LOL
Originally posted by: Mookow
from the last "stupid users" thread:
there is a woman working at my university, lets call her "brenda". Brenda is a secretary. Brenda has a P4 2.2 with 256MB RAM, running Win2K. Brenda's computer is "too slow". Again, lets repeat, Brenda is a secretary. The most CPU intensive program she needs to be able to run is PowerPoint. So, why is Brenda's computer too slow? Let me make a short list of the stuff you can see at the bottom right corner of her screen:
-Gator
-weatherbug
-webshots
-realplayer
-Kazaa
-Morpheus
-computer date/time accurizer (not the actual name, but close)
-etc
Basically, she has ~15-20 items hogging up memory. We remove them. Her computer gets a lot, lot faster. A week later, her computer is slow again...
Also, her computer "loses" files. Usually when she copies them from the network, or her floppy drive. She knows her computer is defective and needs replacing, because it says "the file xxxxx.xxx points to cannot be found"... because after "copying" it, she deleted the original.
And lets not forget the classic "I need a new computer because mine messed up a print job". She had 30 pages that needed printing, her computer tried to print 1200, the last 1170 of which were blank. Want to guess why? Because she had a document with, you guessed it, 30 pages of text followed by 1170 blank pages.
We get weekly, if not more frequent, calls from her, all of which conclude with "I need a new, faster PC". We are almost ready to cave and give her a new PC, just as soon as we can get our hands on a 286.
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Okay, so I'm standing here, posting on ATOT. I've got a new video editing station (Dell GX270) right next to me. It looks exactly like the GX150 that we use for Internet access (Which I'm on). Someone comes over, turns it on, completely IGNORES the bootscreen saying, in large white text on a black background "THIS MACHINE IS NOT FINISHED. IF YOU TRY TO LOG ON, TONY WILL BEAT YOU WITH A BASEBALL BAT."
Then the logon screen pops up with the prompt "I told you - don't even bother trying. This computer is worthless to you. Go away."
Captain Smelly then proceeds to type the login/pass for the Internet machine. By this point, I'm staring at him like a moron. It keeps denying his logon until the prompt locks out, and then he turns to me and goes "What's wrong with this thing?"
So I tell him that that computer isn't working yet, and run down the policies regarding normal student Internet access (No chats, no Flash, no forums, no games) and he ignores me and when I'm done, he just says "So make it work. I want to go on Newgrounds."
You did warn him about the baesball bat. Tomorrow, bring one in.
I could kill him.