After reading the 'Cotton Buds' thread http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4693 I thought I'd relate an amusing incident I was witness too. Now where Cottons Bud Boy can be forgiven becuase of their age this female can not. As not only was she an adult but also has a career (ha ha) in IT consultancy. I was sat at my desk doing my best to avoid actual work, when I start to hear a grinding noise from this lasses desk. It only lasted about 30seconds then a few moments later would start up again. After about 3 times of this, I turned and stared at what she was doing. Now I thought the time she complained that her PC was running slow was bad after I found out she thought you needed to run several instances of Word if you wanted 4 documents open at the same time. But this is better She was trying to load a floppy disk with a file she had been sent via the cd-rom drive! At least only the floppy disk was the only thing to suffer. But you got to ask yourself. Would you pay this person £25,000+ a year? Fortunately recognising the talent that had started to be recruited I quickly left.
Oh Jebus thats funny. Reminds me of one time ten years ago with those old Macs that didnt have an eject button on the floppy drives...this one girl in my class was told not to put our new boot disks into the comps because they were not set up yet...naturally she does, and is like "oh dont worry I can just hit ejec...oh damn". Teacher was so pissed. I couldnt stop laughing. Cheers all.
hehehe i got one... Dern librarians at my school think we are all stooopit when it comes to comps SO i first hacked Novell and gave myself extra space on the network to save stuff. I then downloaded AIM and ICQ so i talk to peoiple while in study hall. BUt anyways.. back to the stupid people jokes. (well not jokes as they are real) Well i had a presentation for one of my classes and i required the laptop and projector to show my presentation to every one. Well i start hooking everything up and the librarian runs over... "HEY YOU! You dont know what you're doing!" she yells, "Let me do this you kids dont know how to hook all of this expensive equipment up and run the laptop!" At this point I look over the "expensive equipment" and see a 150 dollar laptop that is so old it barely runs windows 98 She then proceeds to grab the CAT5 cable and try to insert it into a USB drive (OK so it is a newer laptop but but soo cheap that its friggin HUGE!!) well needless to say they werent a perfect fit. Time to put some elbw grease on this one! Her face got all red as she strained to put the cable into the USB slot. wellll she bent the hwell outta the slot and popped it right off the mobo along with a chuink of the mobo still attached to it. hmmm "Cheap networking drive..." she mutters. Now she tries it with the next USB slot and same result. Finaly she finds the network card and the right slot to connect the CAT5 to. She tries to turn on the laptop but alas, the mobo is f000ked. I start laughing my ass off and get sent to the assistant principal's office and recieve a saturday detention for "insubordinatio" Apparently i was laughing soooo hard i couldnt hear my techer telling me to stop it and sit back down in my seat. Stupid librarians.
<sigh> reminds me of the days in school when i would hack the novell admin account.. used to be the teachers assistant.. i got really tired of her not knowing jack crap.. so i one day decided i was gonna take down the network.. one floppy full of virii later and both servers down they decided to PAY someone to come fix everything, as I was b.s.'in with the repairman i realized all he was using was a shareware copy of mcaffee virusscan.. -scoob cdrom? you mean my cupholder??
Very funny so far! Hm, talking about teachers: We had one who was big into energy saving, and so he thought it was a waste letting the server on all the time. So, one friday afternoon, he switched it of. At the power switch. During the weekly backup. It took them over a week to get everything up again!
My friend ripped the **** out of a cd I lent him by trying to play it on his turn table. He didnt have a cd player, this was about 10 years ago. ride
During High school freinds and I would Q3 over the school network. With freinds in other classes and use IRC just to waste time.
Bad boy (man, I wish my school had a network ). This one lady, was new at the office (now, this is a long time ago), and was crusing the HD dir file, just for lack of something to do. She saw that one persons file exceded 4 meg (ok, this joke is ancient), that is 3.5 megs over the persons file limit. She deletes this directory, and restarts the computer, it refuses to boot. THe computer people came in and asked her what she'd done. "All I did was deleded Del'O Saund's persolal dir (DOS), because it was too big! There are several, like the guy over technical support. TS guy: Ok insert disk 2 Other guy: Just a minute, I'm having difficulty, there. TS guy: Ok, press continue. Other guy: Ok. Other guy: Alright, completed, now what. TS guy: insert disk 3 Other guy: Now, wait just a minute, you can't expect me to fit 3 cdroms in one drive? Signing out...
hehe Ok, they're good but this one takes the biscuit. Few years back in science class our teacher comes in with his new government paid Psion(RIP) and proceeds to show it off to the class. So far so good. Anyway this stooopid big mouth that knows exactly ****-all bout computers and palmtops starts rambling on about how he knows soooo much about computers and the likes (you know the ones, where you have to bite your tounge to reframe yourself from laughing). He then begins to tell the teacher about how he has so much experience from working his dad's shop till that there is little he doesn't know about computers (the teacher being a complete idiot totally believes him). Here comes the fun part. The big month then points out that the little strip between the screen and keypad is actually a solar recharger. I ofcorse knowing that it was infact a LED strip ( ), kept my mouth shut (Hey, what can i say? i wanted to see some fireworks!). Lunch time hit and the teacher thought it would be a good time to leave his Psion recharging. So he found the best place for direct sunlight and left it there for 2 hours. We all enter back into the room and start laughing as the teacher grabed his brand new Psion with a HUGE crack running down the middle of the screen with this liquid stuff leaking (ofcorse the manual has DO NOT LEAVE IN DIRECT SUNLIGHT writen all over it). Boy did that kid look like a foul for a long time afterwards (But nowhere near as much as the teacher). That memory has kept me entertained for many a'lonely nights, that has. Anyway that day had me wondering about 4 things for a very long time: 1. Are there people really this stupid? 2. Should i have intervined (i have lately decided no for that question )? 3. Shouldn't a science teacher know what a solar panel looks like? 4. Are there people really this stupid? Thats All Folks!
LOL. ppl who front knowledge they dont have. always creases me up. Never enlighten them it spoils the fun! I sat and watched my computer science teacher surfing the web every page he wanted he would go to File, then open and type the url. Not realising that the address bar he passed on the way was stairing him in the face! ride
I was sitting in a public library, watching this lady trying to stuff a zip disk into a 3.5" floppy drive, once. She must have tried for 15 min before giving up! Then, the same lady, goes to a computer, oviously to browse the web. The default page is set to google. Google loads, and she proceeds to tupe in he domain she wants to visit. Google comes up dry, and she finaly, after typing it several times, gets us, and leaves, remarking on the way out that "These newfangled things, they are supposed to help!" The funny thing was, that each time several people (inccluding myelf) offered help, and she refused Signing out...
The classic was turning off peoples moniters in IT class when they had gone to print their coursework, then they think its turned itself off and hit th power button im so evil.
Re: hehe refrain from laughing? i have to refrain from hitting them they are so annoying ! yes a science teacher should, its as bad as them thinking creationist theory has anything to do with science but morphine... your story r0x0r... i wouldn't have been able to stop laughing for weeks if i'd seen that
muwahahahaha. never done that one, honest reminds me of the time a kid was printing off his pron colection with the colleges network. so, we whopped out a copy of netbus (all the machines had the trojan on, we made sure of that ) and sent him an error message saying: we have noticed that you are using the collage network for illegal purposes, and have notified the proper authorities. ok cancel etc. the look on the kids face when he say this, he went as white as a sheet and just ran, leaving his coat, books and bag behind!! i still laf now!
Lol all those rock but i got some of my own. Here goes, Our IT teacher says all porn is bolcked out by the really clever blocking program, what was the first thing all the lads did? They went on porn with no problem. Aparently the server checks all floppies when you put them in and disposes of any virus. Yep I went and got one on with no problem trough the CD drive 'Advanced' anti virus can't be that advanced. Oh yeah and he got right annoyed when the 'expensive' laser printer wouldnt print, it took about 10 mins for someone to tell him that the paper had ran out (idiot!).
somepeople actually phone up microsoft to complain that windows is asking them to press "any key" but their keyboard doesn't have an "any key". The fools.
