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ditch
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
1466 Posts |
 Posted - 2004-07-09 : 10:54:05
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Hey Well done Jim.Sorry for the belated congrats Duane. |
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X002548
Not Just a Number
15586 Posts |
Posted - 2004-07-09 : 11:14:11
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Congrats!I was gonna try and find some Ranger jokes...but figured I'd get my A$$ kicked.... How's the work going...users still taking their morning stupid pills?Brett8-) |
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Seventhnight
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
2878 Posts |
Posted - 2004-07-09 : 11:20:04
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| Congrats JimCorey |
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JimL
SQL Slinging Yak Ranger
1537 Posts |
Posted - 2004-07-09 : 11:29:20
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| Thanks.Affirmative on the stupid pills! Example: I Did turn it off.... I pulled out the Plug. Why wont the laptop work after I put it on top of my car and drove away..... I found it at the first stopLight... it only has one crack in it.(8" Long)Whats new.....Just Installing Visual Studio .net on my new Application server. Now All I have to do is learn it!!!!JimUsers <> Logic |
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drymchaser
Aged Yak Warrior
552 Posts |
Posted - 2004-07-09 : 12:32:08
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| CONGRATS ON THE BIGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOJim x 10 |
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Kristen
Test
22859 Posts |
Posted - 2004-07-09 : 12:56:13
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| Congratulations!Ah, the joys of the stupid pills. Of course we had much better Stupid Pills back in the '70s at the dawn of Micro Computers ..."Can you send me a copy of that floppy?" "Sure" ... next day a photocopy of the disk arrivesSo we got wise to that one. "Can you send me THAT disk?" "Sure" ... they carefully removed the floppy disk from its cover and stapled it to a covering letter ..."Can you copy that file to a floppy and send it to me?" "Sure, but I think there's some stuff on the disk that I don't need" "No problem, we'll format it ... type in "F O R M A T space A collon" "It says 'Are you sure?'""Press Y then ENTER""OK""Type C O P Y space C collon start dot star space A collon""It says 'No files found'"at this point I break out into a cold sweat ... it turns out that User had heard me say "a-collon" rather than "letter-A collon" and had typed "FORMAT :" and DOS had obligingly formatted her C drive ...Kristen |
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Seventhnight
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
2878 Posts |
Posted - 2004-07-09 : 14:11:59
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| I'm to young to have stories like that, but I always enjoyed:"My cup-holder broke, can you fix it?""Cup-holder?""Yeah, you know they thing that slides out of the computer.""Ahhh! You mean the CD Drive?" (***much sniggering***)Corey |
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Kristen
Test
22859 Posts |
Posted - 2004-07-09 : 14:20:05
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| You're accentuating my age has caused me to remember another ...In those days Kyocera laser printers came with separate toner and selenium drum (well they still do, but in those days the drum as completely exposed). The instructions had dire warnings about not exposing the drum to daylight when changing it, and not to get any finger prints on it (unless you wanted finger-marks instead of water-marks on your printout!)So we impressed upon our users the importance of this.So I arrive one day to find a user casually dangling and swinging a selenium drum as they walked through the office ..."What on earth are you doing?""Oh, one of those cheap labels got stuck to the drum. Happens all the time, we just run it under the hot tap until it comes off ..."Kristen |
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Kristen
Test
22859 Posts |
Posted - 2004-07-09 : 14:23:43
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| buggerit, now I've thought of another ...Client's IT folk had set up their tape backup (all under DOS, some sort of BATch files I expect).Backup or Restore?Daily or Weekly?Password?Ready?So one day the user accidentally pressed RESTORE instead of BACKUP and guess what? The questions and screens for RESTORE were identical to BACKUP. So that day a RESTORE was done instead of a BACKUP.They had two weeks worth of tapes, and their Records Data was slow changing and it was a month or so before anyone realised and put 2+2 together. So a fortnight's data entry by about 6 data entry crew all disappeared. And all the paperwork neatly stored in their respective files. Oh dear!Kristen |
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ditch
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
1466 Posts |
Posted - 2004-07-09 : 14:32:14
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| The Stupid Pills.My users don't understand why when printing an adobe acrobat document that they are prompted for a file name and the report does not go to the printer......So i ask them to click File/Print and then ask them if there is a Tick next to Print to file, They respond yes! So i ask them what they think is going to happen if that is checked, The response........ wait for it..........................................They say - "I dont Know"Makes me want to shoot myself in the head.Duane. |
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Seventhnight
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
2878 Posts |
Posted - 2004-07-09 : 14:36:27
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| You know I don't mean to spoil the fun, I love these stories but we should probably move to the 'test' thread. Especially if we are going for the longest thread. Keep em comin!Sorry JimL!!! Din't mean to set Kristen's reminiscing on your congrats thread!Corey |
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graz
Chief SQLTeam Crack Dealer
4149 Posts |
Posted - 2004-07-09 : 14:39:21
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| Congrats! And thanks for visiting the site. And thanks for posting! ===============================================Creating tomorrow's legacy systems today.One crisis at a time. |
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JimL
SQL Slinging Yak Ranger
1537 Posts |
Posted - 2004-07-09 : 15:54:24
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Sorry JimL!!! Din't mean to set Kristen's reminiscing on your congrats thread!Corey
nothing to be sorry about, after all I started it.JimUsers <> Logic |
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess
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derrickleggett
Pointy Haired Yak DBA
4184 Posts |
Posted - 2004-07-09 : 23:09:59
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| Congrats Jim. I'm a little late. By now everyone should be used to that though. :) I can think of a lot of stupid computer jokes, but they all involve my boss so I'll just keep my fingers off the keys on this one. :)MeanOldDBAderrickleggett@hotmail.comWhen life gives you a lemon, fire the DBA. |
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Wanderer
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
1168 Posts |
Posted - 2004-07-12 : 12:09:22
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Congrat's Jim ( ... and this is by no means a shameless post just to get closer to 500 )... Jim nightmare has helped many of us realize that this grass is sometimes brown and dead on the other side  *##* *##* *##* *##* Chaos, Disorder and Panic ... my work is done here! |
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JimL Reaches 500 Mark
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