shit, my hard drive's measured in niggabytes

12/29/2007 10:15:37 AM

Quote :

"Megaplexel."

Wasn't that the little guy with the purple hat that kept giving Superman a hard time?

12/29/2007 12:00:35 PM

Mxlptlyk?

12/29/2007 10:35:35 PM

http://thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080103/NEWS01/801030409

what's worse is he works for a tech company

1/4/2008 9:45:58 AM

drugs, and lots of them


thats the only reasonable explanation

1/4/2008 10:19:19 AM

Quote :

"Brucker added, "He tried to stop the train by waving his arms, which apparently was not totally effective in slowing the train.""

lol

1/4/2008 10:21:22 AM

isn't that exactly what michael scott did on the office, except into a pond instead of onto train tracks?

god people are dumb

1/4/2008 10:27:02 AM

Hahaha. If he hasn't seen that episode of The Office, he will soon.

1/4/2008 11:38:44 AM

why do my coworkers call anything javascript-related ajax

1/18/2008 10:00:37 AM

hahahaha they learned a new term!

they probably think HTML is a programming language too?

[Edited on January 18, 2008 at 10:36 AM. Reason : /]

1/18/2008 10:36:33 AM

I wrote a physics engine in HTML. Wait, I didn't?

1/18/2008 11:13:26 AM

Quote :

"Jigabyte. Ghetto term for gigabyte"

Technically, it is acceptable to pronounce the prefix giga- with either a soft or hard G. You certainly understood what this guy was saying.

Making fun of it is a bit like making fun of the british for saying things like 'harass or con'troversy instead of the more american ha'rass and 'controversy. It's arbitrary and petty, like most of this thread.

1/18/2008 2:15:05 PM

^ sounds like somebody's taking this a little personally

1/18/2008 2:15:54 PM

^^i don't care how many excuses you come up with. Its not a jigabyte or a nigabyte. its GIGAbyte

1/18/2008 2:23:59 PM

lulz nigabyte

1/18/2008 2:24:35 PM

I've heard about 15 different ways people pronounce McAfee... ranging from "mick-ae-phee" to "Mick Caffee"

What's the right way to say it?

1/18/2008 2:50:01 PM

http://www.resellerratings.com/forum/showpost.php?p=441161&postcount=32

Quote :

" Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:15:18 -0800 (PST) From: "n-McAfee Parental Controls 1" <IS5069_8246@is.instantservice.com> To: sixf00t4@******* Subject: How do you pronounce McAfee?-#43002753155#- Dear Josh, It is pronounced, "Mac - uh - fee" with the emphasis on the Mac. Did you have any specific questions about McAfee Parental Controls? We are here to assist you. Regards, Kelly M. McAfee Technical Support "

1/18/2008 3:13:18 PM

Mack-a-fee
Mick-Afee (this is how i pronounce it)

guess i was wrong

^i lawled at the 6 pages on that thread

Quote :

"Why would Mc be pronounced Mic? There’s no vowel there, so why insist on inserting an ‘i’? Why not ‘o’ or ‘u’? Mc, in Irish and Scottish names, is not a pronounceable combination of letters and was never intended to be. It’s a symbol that means “Mac”, which means “son of”. The confusion comes when the Mc is an unaccented syllable, as in McDonald. It’s hard to say Mac as an unaccented syllable, so it sounds sort of like Mic, when most people say it. But now we’ve reached the point where I’m hearing (young) people Mc as Mic on an *accented* syllable – pronouncing McIntosh as MicIntosh. Until recently Mc was traditionally written with a double line under the c, indicating that was, in fact, a special symbol. My last name is McAbee and we have always written it that way. And, by the way, it’s pronounced MAC a Bee."

[Edited on January 18, 2008 at 3:19 PM. Reason : .]

1/18/2008 3:17:10 PM

I was always pronounced it "mah-calf-ee"... something like that, i'm bad at explaining annunciations

1/18/2008 3:28:27 PM

http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12355-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=31199&messageID=579806&start=43

Quote :

"You are kidding arent you ? Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ? That sounds preposterous to me. If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this. Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft. Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible. I think you need to re-examine your assumptions."

This reminds me of when Earl posted in tech talk

[Edited on January 21, 2008 at 9:19 AM. Reason : adfs]

1/21/2008 9:17:42 AM

holy crap that's a lot of n00b

1/21/2008 9:27:59 AM

Quote :

"the Linux"

Maybe he posted that from the Iraq.

1/21/2008 2:06:29 PM

ROFL @ http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12355-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=31199&messageID=579066&start=0

Quote :

"Linux is a marvellous operating system in its own right, and even comes in several different flavours. However, as good as these flavours are, they first need Microsoft Windows to load the services prior to use. In Linux, the open office might be the default for editing your wordfiles, and you might prefer ubuntu brown over the grassy knoll of the windows desktop, but mark my words young man - without the windows drivers sitting below the visible surface, allowing the linus to talk to the hardware, it is without worth. And so, by choosing your linux as an alternative to windows on the desktop, you still need a windows licence to run this operating system through the windows drivers to talk to the hardware. Linux is only a code, it cannot perform the low level function. "

1/21/2008 3:46:30 PM

Quote :

"finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft. "

hahahha, wow that's a bunch of stupid

1/21/2008 3:48:53 PM

^^dowhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

that one wins it

1/21/2008 4:50:10 PM

Quote :

"windows drivers to talk to the hardware"

Hardware: Hey buddy.
Windows: FUCK YOU.
Hardware:

1/21/2008 5:12:16 PM

Quote :

"Hardware: Hey buddy. Vista x64: FUCK YOU. Hardware: "

1/21/2008 5:17:27 PM

zing

1/21/2008 5:21:49 PM

lol

1/24/2008 3:03:30 PM

that guy's a master troll

1/24/2008 3:19:05 PM

that guy's a master troll

1/24/2008 7:13:29 PM

I called our hosting provider today because our SSL certificate expired and no one bothered to renew it. I sent detailed instructions on what the certificate should be for. Twenty minutes later I get a phone call asking if they want me to create the subdomain that the certificate is for. I told them no, it already exists and has existed for 2 years.

Technician: "I can't find it."
Me: "It's there, I promise."
Technician: "It's not in the list."
Me: "Type the url in your browser, and then you will see the one year old expired certificate."
Technician: "Oh.... We'll ok then, I'll get this certificate ready and email it to you so you can install it."

At this point I realized I should have done it myself, because I'm basically doing it myself, so I just say "OK" and he said it would be about 20 minutes to get it published and sent to me.

That was 3 hours ago. Still waiting.

1/30/2008 3:30:20 PM

http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=512384

1/30/2008 11:26:37 PM

customer: my password isn't working, can you check and see what it is? I think it's "teddy bear", like the toy.
me: yup it's teddybear, all one word.
customer: hmm, it still isn't working, it says the password is invalid.
me: alright, how are you spelling that?
customer: t-e-d-d-y-b-a-r, teddybear.
me: *carl face*

her daughter also has a teddybar email address too

1/31/2008 4:34:37 PM

LOL

1/31/2008 5:07:30 PM

^^shouldn't passwords be encrypted so that can't happen security wise? don't they just ask for personal info to confirm your identity then just reset it to something random?

1/31/2008 5:33:55 PM

^ i think any place that allows passwords like teddybear isn't all that concerned about security

1/31/2008 5:51:30 PM

My employer writes and sells IT training courseware that is used globally. Over 50% of my clients are outside of the US. This one is training center from Mexico.....

Quote :

"Hi there!! We will make groups for 6 person (at less 3 to open), we will program at the beginning from 2 or 3 courses, in the future more I expected. I have a dude, when you talk about course duration, you publish it in days, the course day have 8 hours? Regards, Augusto"

2/1/2008 5:20:58 PM

Some old guy was looking at pictures at my work, but he would close the picture he was viewing and opening up a new one...all he had to do was hit the right arrow and it would go to the next pic. Not a big deal, but kind of funny.

2/24/2008 5:48:06 AM

http://www.jerryleecooper.com

internet guru

2/24/2008 6:03:57 AM

Quote :

"I have a dude,"

2/24/2008 11:39:57 AM

omg linux cannot run without windows

Microsoft should seek this guy out and get him for commercials

"HI! Even other computers NEED Windows! Buy it!"

$Gates

2/24/2008 6:36:43 PM

Quote :

""Hi there!! We will make groups for 6 person (at less 3 to open), we will program at the beginning from 2 or 3 courses, in the future more I expected. I have a dude, when you talk about course duration, you publish it in days, the course day have 8 hours? Regards, Augusto""

Apparently "question" translates to "dude" in Spanish

Quote :

"Hi there! I atach a order for one course, and one dude, how much time will take to arrive to my home ? . Regards, Augusto "

2/27/2008 10:34:22 AM

Did Esgargs author any of these ITT?

2/27/2008 10:43:40 AM

I am an idiot....

Got a new router... so I unhook my old router and replace it with the new one. I put in the setup disc that it came with and go through the prompts. It asked for my TWC password???? Which I had never heard of. So I called TWC to find out my password, they say that there are no passwords. So I call the router company, this Indian chick keeps me on the phone for ~40 mins going through these prompts on her computer - Not understanding when I say that I did what she asked me to.

ie:
Her: "I need you to go to the router settings"
Me: "Ok, I'm there"
Her: "To get there, type in 192.#.#.#. in the url bar in internet explorer"
Me: "Yeah I am there"
Her: "Hit enter and it will bring you to the router settings"
Me: "Imma choke you"


Anyway she had me reset the MAC address and reset the router about 10 times, I was pretty much laughing the whole time. It was annoyingly funny to me. I just needed to know wtf I was supposed to do about a password I never heard of...

The ending: I hung up with her and called TWC back and spoke to a tech guy, First thing he said was unplug your modem... I wanted to kick myself in the ass... I completely forgot to just unplug the modem and the router, then plug the modem back in then the router. Bad part is I have done this countless times for family and friends when they setup a new network. The password thing just threw me off, I should of never even put in the setup disc - I suck and that Indian lady sucks.


About 1.5 hours wasted because I overlooked the simplest shit.

[Edited on February 27, 2008 at 11:20 AM. Reason : fme]

2/27/2008 11:10:53 AM

but why did it ask for a password?

2/27/2008 11:29:52 AM

DSL uses PPPoE which needs user/pass

dunno why TWC would need it...

[Edited on February 27, 2008 at 11:31 AM. Reason : .]

2/27/2008 11:31:20 AM

Quote :

"never even put in the setup disc"

I wish routers would stop shipping those things, all they do is confuse people.

2/27/2008 11:35:32 AM

teacher the other day said she was use to ie, and if you right click it says "save target as"

well in class she was in firefox and could not figure out for like 3 minutes how to right click and save in firefox.....after that i told myself they shouldnt let women use computers

ps i would suspend the user below me if i were a mod

2/27/2008 11:43:05 AM

I am often amazed that you can use a computer.

2/27/2008 11:46:52 AM