• Keith (unregistered)

    I guess the OP did know that the HMRC one is a phishing scam, not actually from HMRC? If it was genuine the typo about addressing people as "madame" is probably worse.

  • gnasher729 (unregistered) in reply to Tim
    Tim:
    GWO:
    Dwayne really is confused: pythons are constrictors, not venomous.

    Not to mention that Python the programming language is not named for the snake (though have integrated them into the icon).

    Perhaps Dwayne should be informed on the religious bent of all contributors to technology that he uses. Then he and his family can crawl into a cave and huddle shivering (no fire for you!) in the secure knowledge that technology is evil.

    Instead of assuming that Dwayne is stupid, you might assume that Dwayne and a bunch of friends have been writing funny emails to various companies and are eagerly waiting for equally funny answers. Appearing on thedailywtf probably made their day.

  • gnasher729 (unregistered) in reply to anonymous
    anonymous:
    How tech savvy do you need to be to follow these simple instructions: Right-click the "My Computer" icon on the desktop and select Properties; select the "Computer Name" tab, and highlight and copy the text shown for "Full computer name". Paste it in an e-mail. It's really not difficult.
    In most companies, there are plenty of highly intelligent people who are doing the job they are paid for extremely well, who contribute a lot more than you do to the company's success, and who are not "computer savvy". "Computer savvy" is not in their job description. On the other hand, your instructions to get the computer name are worthless and completely wrong. To get the computer name, you click on "System Preferences" in the "Apple" menu, then enter "Computer Name" in the search box and hit the "Return" key. Maybe you just made some unjustified assumptions here, and when you said "Tech savvy" you actually meant "using Windows and Windows savvy"?

    All that aside, the tech person apparently managed to get most computer names, but not all, just by sending out an email, which I would claim to be a success. That tech person might also not want to know what computer names his users actually have, but what they think they have, so if a user reports problems with "Joe Smith's Laptop" the tech person knows wich computer it is, even though that is not the computer name.

    From the user's point of view, the response may have been a failure, but WTF stands for "worse than failure". The user did very clearly communicate that he was not able to find out the name of his computer. That's a failure which is easily fixed. "WTF" would be intentionally telling the tech person the wrong information, and if asked whether you followed the instructions lying about it.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to gnasher729
    gnasher729:
    On the other hand, your instructions to get the computer name are worthless and completely wrong. To get the computer name, you click on "System Preferences" in the "Apple" menu, then enter "Computer Name" in the search box and hit the "Return" key. Maybe you just made some unjustified assumptions here, and when you said "Tech savvy" you actually meant "using Windows and Windows savvy"?
    Calling someone wrong because they made a different assumption than you on some information that wasn't given is retarded. Yes, I assumed Windows. Yes, I could've just as easily assumed Mac OS. No, it makes no difference, because the instructions are simple either way, even if they're not identical for both scenarios.
  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Aigarius
    Aigarius:
    Also, didn't he say he needed computer names?

    Why in this day and age one would care what a computer calls itself? If you are setting up a network - base it on a MAC address, preferably linked to the physical port on the switch that the computer is supposed to be plugged into. If you want some kind of uniform host name - then you should be communicating it to user and not the other way around. There should be NO scenario in which a network admin would need to ask users or computers for their hostnames. It's a nickname. Use real data.

    Implying that the MAC address is in any way reliable and cannot be changed.

  • (cs)

    TRWTF is that in France, there really is a tax on data storage. It's supposed to "compensate" copyright holders.

  • Stuart (unregistered)

    The comments have more WTF's than the article. I think all of the commenters are still a bit slow/hungover/pissed/whatever from the Christmas cheer and that, or all the people with double figure IQ's are on holiday still and don't check the site from home.

    Most hilarious read I've had for a while.

  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Stuart
    Stuart:
    The comments have more WTF's than the article. I think all of the commenters are still a bit slow/hungover/pissed/whatever from the Christmas cheer and that, or all the people with double figure IQ's are on holiday still and don't check the site from home.
    I know for a fact that when I've eaten enough turkey my IQ drops by about twenty points.

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