• Carl (unregistered)

    nslookup who-is-an-f-ing-idiot.com

    name: localhost.localdomain
    server: 127.0.0.1

  • (cs)

    For once, we can't blame Microsoft for a gross problem in their software.  Although if it had Google like intelligence, maybe you would get something like "Did you mean to type nslookup webservices.initech-global.com in a command shell?"

  • (cs) in reply to Carl

    How about that... nslookup who-is-an-f-ing-idiot.com resolves to the same site that houses the world's largest porn collection!

  • (cs)

    I hope they get this fixed so I can get my TPS reports.

  • (cs)

    <FONT face=Tahoma>I Bet this network admin was the same guy that wanted some one to donwload the Internet to a floppy !</FONT>

     

    "The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
    - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

  • Carl (unregistered) in reply to sinistral
    sinistral:
    How about that... nslookup who-is-an-f-ing-idiot.com resolves to the same site that houses the world's largest porn collection!


    not quite the biggest but definitely the most "used"...
  • (cs) in reply to Carl

    Anonymous:
    nslookup who-is-an-f-ing-idiot.com

    name: localhost.localdomain
    server: 127.0.0.1

    LMAO! [Y]

  • (cs) in reply to Carl

    Anonymous:
    nslookup who-is-an-f-ing-idiot.com

    name: localhost.localdomain
    server: 127.0.0.1

    [:D]  Me Likes!

    Whoever did this was either drunk or too high to realize what the fu*k they were doing.  Most all network admins have used nslookup at one time or another. I bet he was a NT4 MCSE too. [:P]  Sheesh, that network admin needs a good bi*ch slaping.

  • Fregas (unregistered) in reply to sinistral

    sinistral:
    How about that... nslookup who-is-an-f-ing-idiot.com resolves to the same site that houses the world's largest porn collection!

     

    as someone with a large porn collection, I resent that remark.

  • (cs)

    Wow! sounds like the "sysadmins" at the place I work... er...

    Frank, is that you?

    Hehehe :)

        dZ.

  • spacey (unregistered) in reply to DZ-Jay

    HAHA! I used to work for morons like this!! (first job out of college -- what a fool Ii was)

    anyways, I told my boss that I studied programming for 4 years in Java -- he says, "Thats great! But we use VBScript here".....

    ^o)

    what a douche.


  • James Schend (unregistered)

    This site <a href="http://schend.net/images/funky.jpg>looks really good in Firefox with those big screenshots.

  • (cs) in reply to James Schend

    Thanks for saving me the trouble of posting a screenshot...I had to expand Firefox to cover most of two screens to see this thread.

    I'm like "WTF, I can't see the WTF?!!!!????"

  • (cs) in reply to JimNtexas

    I'm running w/e the current version of Firefox, and it renders quite fine.  I dunno why everyone else seems to have issues with the fox;  I haven't had a single one that I always hear people complaining about.  I do have an issue though.. I can't use the emoticon panel.  Aside from that, replies work, quotes work, etc, etc.

  • StarLite (unregistered) in reply to James Schend

    Anonymous:
    This site <a href="http://schend.net/images/funky.jpg>looks really good in Firefox with those big screenshots.

    Real people run real resolutions, 1024x768 is soooooo 1998 [and so is the teletubbie XP-theme btw  ;) ] ;)

  • (cs) in reply to JThelen
    JThelen:
    I'm running w/e the current version of Firefox, and it renders quite fine.  I dunno why everyone else seems to have issues with the fox;  I haven't had a single one that I always hear people complaining about.  I do have an issue though.. I can't use the emoticon panel.  Aside from that, replies work, quotes work, etc, etc.


    Same here, although I've never tried the emoticon thingies. It's not Firefox that's the problem, it's teeny-tiny screens. At 1024X768, running Firefox or IE6 maximized, you have to scroll right very slightly to see the whole image. At 1280X1024, it all fits. At 800X600, I'd imagine the image would take a bit o' scrollin'.
  • (cs) in reply to Stan Rogers

    I like how IE offers to check availability of the domain name. [:)]

  • (cs)

    I (unfortunately) am stuck dealing with tech support for one of our subcontrators who has...shall we say...less than competent understanding of computers. She wonders why her files disappear when she ejects her CD (hint: the files she's looking at are currently on the CD, which is no longer in the drive).

    She regularly sends me screenshots of error messages she gets. She emails me an attachment that is a 24-bit BMP image of her dual-monitor system. I love getting to work in the morning to find an 7.5 MB email from this lady. There was one time where her computer freaked out and it sent the email 10 times. That's 75 MB. My mailbox is limited to 60 MB, which means for the next several hours, all incoming mail was bounced back. Bitch.

  • (cs)

    This is what you get for hiring part-time teenagers on summer vacation.

  • (cs) in reply to James Schend

    Hi,

    Whenever I get text overlapped with a screenshot, I find a forced redraw will fix things real purdy like. ;)


  • SCG (unregistered) in reply to icelava

    icelava:
    This is what you get for hiring part-time teenagers on summer vacation.

    No, I think part-time teenagers are usually better than this.  I'm betting on project managers who'd claimed for extended periods of time to the business community that they were "technical"  or even "developers" (that's what they do here!), and then were caught flat-footed when all the people they turned to for the real answers left the company in complete and utter disgust.

    Forgive my bitterness...

  • (cs)

    Are you kidding me? And people keep saying that there's a shortage of IT jobs out there. Maybe if all the MORONS lost their jobs the rest of us would have great job security, 4X the current pay and some well earned respect. No wonder so many jobs are being shipped overseas: why not get a foreign idiot for 1/8 the price of a domestic idiot? Yikes! [:|]

  • (cs) in reply to sinistral
    sinistral:
    For once, we can't blame Microsoft for a gross problem in their software.  Although if it had Google like intelligence, maybe you would get something like "Did you mean to type nslookup webservices.initech-global.com in a command shell?"


    The problem is google would be too polite about it.  I think an error message like "You meant to type that in a command shell.  Perhaps you should consider not breeding." would be more appropriate. 

    And I can't wait to see what the WTF apologists come up with on this one. 
  • Marty Thompson (unregistered) in reply to tiro
    And I can't wait to see what the WTF apologists come up with on this one.


    Well this is quite obviously a lack of proper documentation.  If the company developing the web service had stated it plainly that nslookup must be used in the command shell, there wouldn't have been this problem.

    Now what is the sarcasm markup tag again? :P

    Seriously though, I've dealt with this many times.  Although usually when I've dealt with it, it's been a brain-dead non-technical person doing it, not a brain-dead  "IT Professional".  In fact, a techie who makes a mistake like this should get a new description.  I like "Fired".
  • (cs)

    OMG ... HOW can you be a network techie if you don't even know what nslookup is!

    I can understand dig tripping up an un-experienced techie but HOW can you possibly manage a network that uses DNS without being able to look up what is mapped to what in some way?

  • (cs) in reply to JimNtexas
    JimNtexas:
    Thanks for saving me the trouble of posting a screenshot...I had to expand Firefox to cover most of two screens to see this thread.

    I'm like "WTF, I can't see the WTF?!!!!????"


    I was thinking the same but then I had the brain storm to quote the first post and then I could actually read it!
  • StuP (unregistered)

    <sarcasm>

    The MSN website could have used JavaScript to redirect the query to a local invocation of nslookup in a command shell... that would be a very Micro$oft solution, wouldn't it?

    </sarcasm>

  • (cs)

    MSN is clearly at fault here. Since Microsoft wrote nslookup, why don't they just recognise the executable in the search term, execute the program and return the results? Idiots.

  • (cs) in reply to clockwise
    clockwise:
    MSN is clearly at fault here. Since Microsoft wrote nslookup, why don't they just recognise the executable in the search term, execute the program and return the results? Idiots.


    I realize that you have hidden sarcasm tags there, but I had a thought that it might not be a bad thing for them to do.  Well, OK, running executables from a web browser is a bad thing.  Maybe as the number one search result in their MSN search.  That could be helpful...
  • (cs) in reply to clockwise
    clockwise:
    MSN is clearly at fault here. Since Microsoft wrote nslookup, why don't they just recognise the executable in the search term, execute the program and return the results? Idiots.


    I wish they would do this, so I can't start linking to "format c:" from my webpage...
  • (cs) in reply to clockwise

    clockwise:
    MSN is clearly at fault here. Since Microsoft wrote nslookup, why don't they just recognise the executable in the search term, execute the program and return the results? Idiots.

    I wonder if ms really wrote nslookup. Then ms has infiltrated my linux machine! Oh noooooooo!

    [:'(]

    Oh, i think i understand why the guys at the other end didn't understand. If you read the first few lines on http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/nslookup.mspx you will find the reason too. They are simply not familiar with how DNS works. [:'(]

    Drak

  • Joseph Ryan (unregistered) in reply to clockwise

    Well, not quite. Microsoft didn't write nslookup any more than they wrote traceroute (tracert on NT)

  • (cs)

    The biggest WTF here is that the person was using Microsoft Idiot Exploiter.

  • (cs) in reply to Tom

    Tom:
    The biggest WTF here is that the person was using Microsoft Idiot Exploiter.

    I find that comment offensve to us idiots...

  • (cs)

    I think the biggest WTF here is that even though you thought he was an experienced network admin you told him what to type. Not only that but you didn't tell him what he needed to actually type* :

    [enter] means : press the enter key
    ctrl- means press the ctrl key and while still pressing it press the key listed after the -
    alt- means the same as above but with the left Alt key

    ctrl-esc
    alt-r
    cmd[enter]
    nslookup webservices.initech-global.com[enter]


    If you actually believed him to be a network admin you should have said : "what does your DNS report as the IP address for     webservices.initech-global.com?"
    Then, when he said "how do I do that?" you would know the level of competence you were faced with.


    A friend of mine who knows what I do will still say to me 'start .. control panel ... networks' etc. because he's used to supporting lusers !


    • I'm doing that from memory, no Windows box to try it on.

  • deepspace (unregistered)

    What I like best about this is the "more usefull every day" quote in the tile bar ;)

  • Gerben Rampaart (unregistered)

    This didn't happen, it's out of the question. I, will not, shall not, ever, believe this actually happened.

    It just didn't.

    I must not think about this think any more. It never happened, so why should I?

  • AC (unregistered) in reply to Fregas

    someidiot@machine:~> nslookup who-is-a-f-ing-idiot.com
    Server:         192.168.0.1
    Address:        192.168.0.1#53

    ** server can't find who-is-a-f-ing-idiot.com: NXDOMAIN

  • (cs) in reply to Gerben Rampaart
    Anonymous:

    This didn't happen, it's out of the question. I, will not, shall not, ever, believe this actually happened.

    It just didn't.

    I must not think about this think any more. It never happened, so why should I?



    It did.

    And in the immortal, dissembodied words of the AOL announcer...

    WELCOME!

    To the High-Tech America.  Check your brain at the door.

        -dZ.
  • (cs)

    "initech"

    wasn't that the company in Office Space?

  • mkb (unregistered) in reply to icelava

    Hey now, I used to work with a lot of part-time teenagers on summer vacation, and they were never this dumb!

  • (cs) in reply to kengray

    kengray:
    "initech"

    wasn't that the company in Office Space?

    Yes, it's a joke, not the actual domain name.

  • zooleire (unregistered) in reply to kengray

    kengray:
    "initech"

    wasn't that the company in Office Space?

     

    alex inserts office space references to cover up company identities

     

  • (cs) in reply to tiro
    tiro:


    The problem is google would be too polite about it.  I think an error message like "You meant to type that in a command shell.  Perhaps you should consider not breeding." would be more appropriate. 

    And I can't wait to see what the WTF apologists come up with on this one. 


    Hmmm...I wouldn't dare say that this is excusable, but I can see how it might be more the management's fault than this particular network guy's fault.

    Where I work, I wouldn't find it at all hard to believe that some newbie programmer could get promoted to Network Specialist Level II just because the competent Network Specialist Level II left the company; management decides that the newbie programmer is good at all that "techy stuff" and so he would be a "perfect fit."  And since they didn't have to "waste" HR resources finding a replacement, they get to look good.  Everybody wins!

    So this is still very unexcusable, but I assuming the possibility that the network guy didn't send in a resume that said, essentially, "I am the I AM of network administration.  I willl make your network better than sex," but rather was appointed to a job for which he didn't have the proper experience because the management was ignorant.  Either way, though, I wouldn't want knowingly to do business with such a company.
  • Hank Miller (unregistered) in reply to clockwise
    clockwise:
    MSN is clearly at fault here. Since Microsoft wrote nslookup, why don't they just recognise the executable in the search term, execute the program and return the results? Idiots.


    It is highly unlikely that MS wrote nslookup.   More likely they ported the version written by the University of California Berkley at the same time they ported the rest of the BSD tcp/ip to NT. 

    Linux is the only OS I know of that doesn't use the BSD code for TCP/IP.   (Or at least the onlly one that has any popularity at all)   It makes not sense for someone to write their own when the BSD code is free and debugged.  


  • (cs) in reply to Hank Miller

    Anonymous:
    It is highly unlikely that MS wrote nslookup.   More likely they ported the version written by the University of California Berkley at the same time they ported the rest of the BSD tcp/ip to NT. 

    Sure enough.  This is the only copyright listed in the EXE:

    Copyright (c) 1985,1989 Regents of the University of California.
     All rights reserved.

  • (cs) in reply to kengray

    kengray:
    "initech"

    wasn't that the company in Office Space?

    No.  It was OfficeTech.

     

  • (cs) in reply to loneprogrammer

    Frickin' Hilareous - this made my day!

  • Rich (unregistered) in reply to Hank Miller

    Linux is the only OS I know of that doesn't use the BSD code for TCP/IP. (Or at least the onlly one that has any popularity at all) It makes not sense for someone to write their own when the BSD code is free and debugged.

    Makes you wonder why Linux developers rolled their own. (Answer: NIH)

  • (cs) in reply to Rich

    Anonymous:
    Makes you wonder why Linux developers rolled their own. (Answer: NIH)

    No.  The short answer is that the BSD license is different from the GPL license.  Also, BSD sucks.

     

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