• (cs) in reply to 3WTF
    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:

    The best part about this WTF is the picture of the little boy.

     

    What is THAT? 

    It looks like he's seeing goatse for the first time... 



    If thats his reaction to his FIRST viewing of goatse I feel that we should have him strung up and shot now.

    A normal reaction to the first viewing of goatse is not to point and giggle, its more akin to finding pungee sticks embedded in your loafers.
  • Some parent (unregistered) in reply to SagetFan

    My son's school finished a week before the one where my wife worked. My other sons were still at school, I was at work. After a couple of days of this, I was seized by a sudden inspiration and had a look at the browser logs. I found what I thought I might found: every parent with net access has been there. I waited till an appropriate moment when everyone else was away and started:

    "Andrew (not his real name) - please don't visit any more anime porn sites." And then, to avoid any confusion, I added: "In fact, please don't visit any more porn sites at all."

    And I expected "it wasn't me" / "my brother did it" / "I clicked on it by accident" / etc but was unprepared for the actual response:

    "OK"

    And that was it! Haven't had any more trouble - well, not from him, anyway.

    But on the one hand, there's the oh, no, what shall I do, he's leading a depraved life. And on the other hand, there's hey, here's real evidence that he's growing up to be a normal person, with the same inquisitiveness and drives that make our world great.

    And to take us back to the old days again, the captcha is zork.
     

  • chocobot (unregistered) in reply to Some parent
    Anonymous:

    And that was it! Haven't had any more trouble - well, not from him, anyway.

     

    Or he's being a  lot more careful...

  • phs3 (unregistered)

    Heh.  Several jobs ago, I was working on a project over near IT; we actually had GOOD IT (it does happen).  The junior member of the team, a young lady, was working on what turned out to be the laptop belonging to the VP of Sales (middle-aged, married, etc.).  All of a sudden I hear, "O. My. God.", so I wander over to see what's what.

    She shows me his browser cache, which is full of porn sites of all flavors (straight, gay, hamstersex...).  "What should I do???" she asks me.

     
    I barely managed to suppress my reflex answer, which was, "Congratulations!  You're the proud owner of a Vice President!", and instead suggested she delete it all and not say anything.  Probably would have been more fun the other way...

    ...phsiii

    Captcha: "enterprisey" (You say that like it's a negative thing..."
     

  • Abraham (unregistered)

    Hah, the best wtf so far indeed ! My personal WTFis : "Dan [...] simply told his boss that the infestation was a result of some rather prurient web surfing and hoped she might figure it out."

    Ok, anyone of you geeks would tell the innocent woman it was her [son, mother, mother in law] who really did it ? Wouldn't you rather say, yeah, dammn windows, it happens to everybody all the time ;-) ?

  • Brillant Guy (unregistered)

    When turning on your computer, you will be prompted if you want to run "Windows XP" or "Windows XP 2." It is essential that you run "Windows XP 2" -- the first choice will not work.

     

    No Quack!!!! *Spy* Ware? Ninjas? Desktop Support guy? Call 007!!!

  • (cs)

    Luckily, the ninjas in my neighborhood are veritable connoisseurs of porn.  They have excellent taste!

  • ssprencel (unregistered) in reply to Some parent
    Anonymous:

    My son's school finished a week before the one where my wife worked. My other sons were still at school, I was at work. After a couple of days of this, I was seized by a sudden inspiration and had a look at the browser logs. I found what I thought I might found: every parent with net access has been there. I waited till an appropriate moment when everyone else was away and started:

    "Andrew (not his real name) - please don't visit any more anime porn sites." And then, to avoid any confusion, I added: "In fact, please don't visit any more porn sites at all."

    And I expected "it wasn't me" / "my brother did it" / "I clicked on it by accident" / etc but was unprepared for the actual response:

    "OK"

    And that was it! Haven't had any more trouble - well, not from him, anyway.

    But on the one hand, there's the oh, no, what shall I do, he's leading a depraved life. And on the other hand, there's hey, here's real evidence that he's growing up to be a normal person, with the same inquisitiveness and drives that make our world great.

    And to take us back to the old days again, the captcha is zork.
     

    Actually what's going through his mind is;

    "OK"

    Whew that was a close one.  Well, dad caught me here and I don't know how he did it, so it looks like I'll have to go to <insert one of many boys his age>'s house for now on.

    Also, browser logs are easy to change.  If he's as smart as you think he is, he might just be deleting the logs.  You might want to set up a log on the router.

     

    PS 

    Wow that beanbag girl is hot!

  • mouseover (unregistered) in reply to phx (who forgot to login)
    phx (who forgot to login):

    Anonymous:
    Killing and reenabling System Restore erases all the files most hacker trojans push onto the machine. These are files that can't be deleted manually. You have to modify several desktop.ini files even to be able to see them.

     ...?

     Whiskey *ksssshk* Tango *ksssssshk* Foxtrot *kssshk* Over.

    Documented in *ksssshk* MSDN *ksssssshk* KB *kssshk* Over and out.
     

  • Gidget (unregistered) in reply to wyz

    Editing boot.ini to choose the second XP installation because you're too incompetent to install XP properly in the first place is a WTF in itself.  Look, they've already lost all of the documents and settings on the machine.  The very least they could provide would be a clean installation of XP.

  • (cs) in reply to phs3

    Back when I worked on computer support, it was before the internet was common at companies.  Mostly workstations and shared minicomputers were used.  I hooked up a connection to USENET, which can take up a whole lot of space if you subscribe to everything, so I only subscribed to technical related groups.

    One user kept asking that I subscribe to "alt.sex.bondage", and I kept refusing.  "This is a work environment" I'd say, "and it's inappropriate, and it takes up space and lots of download time which was better spent on useful stuff."   He'd also insist that I could just buy an expensive high speed modem (there was no way I was going to ask higher ups for money just so we could supply pr0n).  Besides this was a defense contractor and I was nervous that they'd declare this store-and-forward dial up modem to be a "network" and shut it down for security reasons (other outside networks were forbidden).  But this user kept insisting, with no hint of embarassment, and I kept refusing, and it eventually just turned into a standard greeting between us.

    After I left that job, I heard that he had also left and started his own company.  His company was one of the first and largest ISPs in silicon valley.  I can only imagine that my refusal to provide alt.sex.bondage to this person was what prompted him to create the ISP in the first place, and that this was one of the sparks that drove the mass popularization of the internet.  For that, I apologize.

  • NZ'er (unregistered) in reply to Quincy5
    Anonymous:

    Anonymous:
    He should have known better than to merely bandaid the damages caused by the evil porn ninjas, and consulted the proper guide to solving this problem: http://www.askaninja.com/news/2006/03/24/ask-a-ninja-question-16-how-to-kill-a-ninja

    Just to warn everyone: this link crashed my Firefox pretty badly (it was locked up for five minutes before I could shut it down). Works fine in IE though... I wonder what WTFery on that site causes this.

     On-topic: I am surprised at the bad quality of so many help desks.
     

     

    The site opened up fine in my Firefox (1.5.0.8), Hmmmm maybe you have some spyware :-) ? 

  • nFec (unregistered)

    Well sorry but that is hardly a WTF!

    Incompetent Tech-Support? Juniors surfing for porn? Unsecure browser?

    That's everyday's stuff...

  • (cs) in reply to Rotary Jihad
    Rotary Jihad:
    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:

    The best part about this WTF is the picture of the little boy.

     

    What is THAT? 

    It looks like he's seeing goatse for the first time... 



    If thats his reaction to his FIRST viewing of goatse I feel that we should have him strung up and shot now.

    A normal reaction to the first viewing of goatse is not to point and giggle, its more akin to finding pungee sticks embedded in your loafers.

     

    I'm not sure that's giggling.  I think he just threw up in his mouth a little.

     

  • Dark (unregistered)

    I think it's rather naive to think that the only way to get a porn infestation is by deliberately browsing porn sites. On  the average wildly insecure Windows laptop, just getting the wrong spam will do it. Then there's popup spam from badly filtered blogs, etc. The presence of porn on the system isn't evidence of anything.

  • anon (unregistered) in reply to 3WTF

    If he is seeing goatse for the first time, then the image is a candidate for the firstgoatse group on Flickr:

    http://www.flickr.com/groups/firstgoatse/ 

  • dpritchard (unregistered)

    The real moral of the story is: if you want your computer fixing, do it yourself.

  • TimmyT (unregistered) in reply to phs3

    I was once hired by a small company to make some sense of the files on the hard drive of the president who had died in a car accident and his wife was now running the company. They wanted me to get all of his relevant documents, Quickbooks files, etc. over to her machine (they had no server) so she could continue to operate the business. You'll never guess what I found...porn! I decided to do the right thing and just delete it all, then gave her the files she wanted. She never did find out that her dead husband was a naughty boy.

     captcha: photogenic (see Beanbag Girl)

  • Brendan (unregistered)

    There's three morals to this store.

    1. never look at porn, with a windows OS (use a UNIX variant).
    2. Never rely on the IT department.
    3. never run as administrator to begin with (definitely not for day to day use).

  • (cs)

    Typical response:

    "Don't know where all this porn came from!"

    Of course the format solution isn't necessary at all, but you'll have to agree that if you tell these kind of things to your clients, they will be somewhat more careful about where they leave their laptops open. ;)

  • Bill (unregistered) in reply to Sixtus Freebyte
    Sixtus Freebyte:
    Anonymous:

    Once malware has run on a machine as an Administrator the only safe thing to do is reinstall.
    Unless, of course, you know every bit of your kernel code.

    Its usually enough to know what the malware is doing. A virtualization software with XP (or W2K, whatever was infected), an undo function and knowledge of "how stuff works" helps in analysis and prevents from reinstalling everything after each "harmless" infection.

    If you don't have the knowledge, reinstall. But you have to reinstall every Windows machine in your network to be sure that there are no leftovers.

    Here is a classic WTF - How can you even BEGIN to know what the malware is doing... The joy of a good rootkit is just that - you can not trust the operating system any more.  Trust me - some of these rootkits are very good at lying to the operating system.

     What were you planning on analysing anyway - the raw disk tracks ??? Once you are down at that level - yeah, a lot easier to just reinstall and learn how to protect yourself in the first place
     

  • Tei (unregistered) in reply to Bill

    He!, theres nothing wrong with porn!.

    Is honesty forbiden by law or something?  

    Of course, having your computer exposed to public can be embarrasing. But thats why is personal computer and not public computer.  

  • Olddog (unregistered) in reply to Bill

    An effective course of action  - is to re-image all machines periodically, and maintain an up-to-date hosts file. Another defense is to interrogate all machines on your LAN daily ( via WMI or other tools ). Look for un-qualified applications and user accounts and disable Client for Microsoft Networks.

  • (cs) in reply to phs3
    Anonymous:

    Heh.  Several jobs ago, I was working on a project over near IT; we actually had GOOD IT (it does happen).  The junior member of the team, a young lady, was working on what turned out to be the laptop belonging to the VP of Sales (middle-aged, married, etc.).  All of a sudden I hear, "O. My. God.", so I wander over to see what's what.

    She shows me his browser cache, which is full of porn sites of all flavors (straight, gay, hamstersex...).  "What should I do???" she asks me.

     
    I barely managed to suppress my reflex answer, which was, "Congratulations!  You're the proud owner of a Vice President!", and instead suggested she delete it all and not say anything.  Probably would have been more fun the other way...

    <font size="+1">M</font>y reflex answer is, "Ask for a raise."

     

  • ITTechFH (unregistered) in reply to Saladin

    Haha i remember at a customer site i did not have enought space to make a backup of all of one customer files before reinstalling his laptop because he had like 10 Go of Kazaa porn :D

    Now, would you : 1- ask the guy (CEO) in front of his employee if he would like to backup his porn 2- pretend i did not see them and not backup them (would be fun if the guy come complain afterward) 3- put them on the Public share in the fileserver in folder name CEO-porn-backup

    Perfect occasion to improve your BOFHfu haha

  • (cs) in reply to mouseover
    Anonymous:
    phx (who forgot to login):

    Anonymous:
    Killing and reenabling System Restore erases all the files most hacker trojans push onto the machine. These are files that can't be deleted manually. You have to modify several desktop.ini files even to be able to see them.

     ...?

     Whiskey *ksssshk* Tango *ksssssshk* Foxtrot *kssshk* Over.

    Documented in *ksssshk* MSDN *ksssssshk* KB *kssshk* Over and out.
     

    Got a KB# for us?

    Besides, just because something is documented on MSDN doesn't mean it's accurate, or even works.  I've seen a few things running from the Temporary Internet Files (i.e. the IE cache), but never anything in System Restore.  Almost all spyware/trojans/etc. that I've seen copy themselves elsewhere, like windows\system32, or \program files, or some random folder therein.  Clearing System Restore and the Temporary Internet Files isn't going to clean these up.  Hell, Microsoft Antispyware and the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool don't clean up half of the nastier stuff.  For every well known trick there's five more ways of sneaking in (and I've seen some beauties).

  • (cs)

    1) Boss gets spyware from porn surfing son.

    Or ninja. :)

     

    As an aside, fixing infected computers was a daily occurrence for us in IT at my college.  Nothing but stupid undergrads that click every banner saying "will you be my friend?  Click here!" that they ever see and wonder why their machines have viruses and spyware on them.

    If only those sites led to anti-spyware.

     

    You'd think people would do something creative on the internet. But apparently "creative" these days can be bad.
     

  • Anonymous Twerp (unregistered) in reply to RevEng
    RevEng:
    Anonymous:
    phx (who forgot to login):

    Anonymous:
    Killing and reenabling System Restore erases all the files most hacker trojans push onto the machine. These are files that can't be deleted manually. You have to modify several desktop.ini files even to be able to see them.

     ...?

     Whiskey *ksssshk* Tango *ksssssshk* Foxtrot *kssshk* Over.

    Documented in *ksssshk* MSDN *ksssssshk* KB *kssshk* Over and out.
     

    Got a KB# for us?

    Besides, just because something is documented on MSDN doesn't mean it's accurate, or even works.  I've seen a few things running from the Temporary Internet Files (i.e. the IE cache), but never anything in System Restore.  Almost all spyware/trojans/etc. that I've seen copy themselves elsewhere, like windows\system32, or \program files, or some random folder therein.  Clearing System Restore and the Temporary Internet Files isn't going to clean these up.  Hell, Microsoft Antispyware and the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool don't clean up half of the nastier stuff.  For every well known trick there's five more ways of sneaking in (and I've seen some beauties).

    As an AV Engineer, I have yet to find a piece of malware/spyware that can be killed by a cache / system restore refresh.  It's only a precaution so that you don't accidentally bring the bugger back.
     

  • Ade (unregistered) in reply to Saladin
    Saladin:

    As someone who worked in IT throughout school and college, it's more common than you'd think to see the straight-laced professor with porn in his browsing history.  Like, a lot of it.  The less computer-savvy ones don't even know how to cover their tracks either.  Granted, the fact that this was a woman with a 14-year-old son makes it less likely that it was her but I've seen stranger things.

    Whilst trying to get onto a different proxy from the computer labs at university once, I came across the site access logs for the staff proxy. The top hits were all porn sites, with over 2tb of porn downloaded over the proxy. Crazyness :p
     

  • anon (unregistered)

    Reinstall? Norton Ghost anyone?

     

  • disaster (unregistered) in reply to TimmyT

    It's a good thing she didn't ring you six months later "I can't seem to find all the expensive adult material my late husband used to keep on that computer. It's been a long time since he went and I'm feeling kind of lonely ... "

     

    captcha: paula 

  • disaster (unregistered) in reply to disaster
    Anonymous:

    It's a good thing she didn't ring you six months later "I can't seem to find all the expensive adult material my late husband used to keep on that computer. It's been a long time since he went and I'm feeling kind of lonely ... "

     

    captcha: paula 

    Dammit. That was a followup to TimmyT, of course. 

     

  • noname (unregistered) in reply to 3WTF
    Anonymous:

    Wow, a triple WTF!  Or as I have dubbed it: the 3WTF (like 3DES...).

    1) Boss gets spyware from porn surfing son.

    2) Help desk doesn't know what spyware is.

    3) Help desk fudges reinstallation of windows so the boot loader thinks there are 2 OSes installed.

    Brillant! 

     

    Son surfing for porn? Been there, done that (ok, for me it was in pre-web days, but that just made me ner...cooler yeah, way cooler).

    DesktopSupport does not know about spyware. I am not surprised.

     Support completely incompetent. It just figures.

     F*****g rude, superior attitude when they are complete f****ps, pisses me off. It shouldn't, but these people always make go 'wtf?".

     
    I have worked in support where it was done well and competently (at a university of course). People used to whine about our service, the network, everything. Until they went somewhere else and realised how good they had it with us. Sadly when I left a new manager was talking about making the helpdesk more 'profesional'. That meant no more CompSci student who may know what they are doing (yes they do exist). Instead it would have to be 1 or 2 full time employees with a trade school diploma. Because the users apreciate a profesional level of service (meaning incompetent as far as I'm concerned). Point being, I know how it should be done, and I know full well why it isn't done.  And I still don't understand it. I'm too smart to understand stupidity. Not that you need to be smart for that.

     



     

     

  • (cs) in reply to mrprogguy

    mrprogguy:
    The clear moral of the story is this: only surf prOn sites that don't install spyware.

     You could also use a decent browser, or hafway decent OS...

  • Jay (unregistered)

    It has been said in this thread and I will say it again:

    The probability that something like this will happen on a Windows PC that

    - regular users don't log into under a privileged account (ie they are not members of the "Administrators" group)
    - doesn't have IE configured as the default browser and offers an up to date reasonable alternative (like Firefox)
    - has all the latest updates and patches for OS and standard applications installed (ie all Microsoft service packs and hotfixes)
    - runs a non-crappy software product to protect against known malware threats that is frequently updated

    is rather low. All this implies of course that the IT guys know what they are doing which it seems too often isn't the case. Still I'm suprised at the many "I see this regularly" posts in this thread. I administer a campus network at a private university with a lot of PCs that are used by many (more than ten times the number of PCs) completely clueless users and this kind of problem never happens. And should it ever happen, we will just reinstall OS and apps from a disk image. All the personal data and settings of the users are stored on the network and backed up regularly (and thus will easily survive the workstation reinstall).

    Bottom line is that the situation described in this WTF will never come up at a shop where IT knows even the most basic thing about system administration. But then, proving this was probably the whole point in the first place...

  • WTF ? (unregistered)

    Something that I don't get is : why would you need to reinstall drivers after removing spyware ? O_o

  • Marc (unregistered)

    Alex Papadimoulis:
    they actually had to reinstall Windows *twice* to make sure the spyware was completely gone

     

    =D I'll remember that one 

  • Kiss me, I'm Polish (unregistered) in reply to voodooless

    Yeah. Great suggestion. Use another OS, just because you want to surf for porn. On a company laptop.

    Forget all the business software that runs only on Windows. It should be ported to the other OS. It's not? Too bad. Downloading porn is more important.

    And we're talking about incompetent people who patronize others.

     

  • Juifeng (unregistered) in reply to Some parent

    Anonymous:

    "Andrew (not his real name) - please don't visit any more anime porn sites." And then, to avoid any confusion, I added: "In fact, please don't visit any more porn sites at all."

    And I expected "it wasn't me" / "my brother did it" / "I clicked on it by accident" / etc but was unprepared for the actual response:

    "OK"

    And that was it! Haven't had any more trouble - well, not from him, anyway.

     

    Why? I don't think your son watching porn could be considered "trouble". And I don't see why you ask your son to stop doing it. 

  • (cs) in reply to noname
    Anonymous:

    Son surfing for porn? Been there, done that (ok, for me it was in pre-web days, but that just made me ner...cooler yeah, way cooler).

    Ah!  I also recall the Good Old Days when internet porn meant stitching together blocks of text and using UUDECODE.  Somehow, the anticipation of waiting for the files to transfer via Kermit onto a box with graphic capability made it all the more special.

     

    PS - I used to work with a young woman - Angela - who looked a lot like Bean Bag Girl.  She was actually a runner up Miss Oklahoma.  And she was a solid Java/J2EE developer!
     

  • (cs)

    I had a sales guy ask me to fix his laptop once at one of my old jobs, he was fired that day   for wasting developer time!

  • J Random Hacker (unregistered) in reply to Quincy5
    Anonymous:

     On-topic: I am surprised at the bad quality of so many help desks.

     They generally:

    1. Pay badly.
    2. Don't have great job satisfaction.

     

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to WTF ?

    Anonymous:
    Something that I don't get is : why would you need to reinstall drivers after removing spyware ? O_o

    Allow me to offer a recent example:   http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1992128,00.asp

    Then again, once spyware gets that level of access on your PC, chances are your box has been rooted and the only safe option is a full reinstall anyway.

  • (cs)

    OK Two things right away:

    1. strongly typed password, i.e. 8 characters, 3 of the 4 of these: numeric 0-9, special character @!~#$%^&*(), Uppercase A-Z, Lowercase a-z.

    2. delete all other accounts from laptop.

  • noname (unregistered) in reply to J Random Hacker
    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:

     On-topic: I am surprised at the bad quality of so many help desks.

     They generally:

    1. Pay badly.
    2. Don't have great job satisfaction.

    In my experience helpdesks aren't meant to actually help people but to maximalize the amount of tickets resolved. Thus why hire competent support staff, who will only insist on having time to help people, and instead hire high-school drop outs, senior citizens or anyone else without any qualification who will quickly scare off any callers. Seriously, managers are concerned with statistics not actual results. Ok, not all managers, but way too many. Customer relation courses teach you to never say no to a customer but do it in a way where they leave asap without undue anger. Basically you confuse them, blame someone else, make promises that guarantee nothing... I know people who have been fired for actually trying to help people (ok, that wasn't the given reason, but its what it came down to).

    I've been told vy friends that they had instructions to say "We can't help you..." or "We can't fix..." when the real answer was "We won't....".  Seriously, if a company doesn't want to fix a problem, even if they could, they don't want to admit it.  

    The good helpdesk are usually found at companies which provide a good basic service so that the helpdesk isn't bothered by questions along the lines of "why doesn't this work the way it is supposed to?".
     

  • newby (unregistered)

    I worked at a new formed medical company, and they were in need of an it person because the MIS manager was a Nurse (no shit, I'm not kidding).  They would not hire me because 1) they didn't want to create inter-departmental strife (MIS manager hated my manager and vice versa), and 2) I hadn't completed my degree yet (I had another 2 semesters or so).  So I got to get a good laugh, on a day to day basis, reading the memos the MIS manager would post on the company bulletin board.  Things like:

     Associates, please do not set the start menu to auto-hide itself; as it makes it makes your fellow associates unable to perform their duties.

    or, 

    Associates, please do not move the start menu to the top or sides of the screen; as it makes...

    or, 

    Associates, please do not change the size of the start menu ...  (the craptastic program they used would not resize itself to fit the available screen and parts of it would end up behind the start menu, making it impossible to click some of the buttons)

    or,  

    Associates, please do not move the icons around on the desktop ...

     

    I inquired later, and found out that the MIS manager was getting, literally, hundreds of emails per day about these types of stupid little things.  She had no idea that she could, let alone how to, lock those things down so that no one could change them.  I told them I could help her out and fix all those "problems" with the machines if they'd put me in the position.  They would, so I just would have a ball each day reading the memos.

  • (cs) in reply to NZ'er
    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:

    Anonymous:
    He should have known better than to merely bandaid the damages caused by the evil porn ninjas, and consulted the proper guide to solving this problem: http://www.askaninja.com/news/2006/03/24/ask-a-ninja-question-16-how-to-kill-a-ninja

    Just to warn everyone: this link crashed my Firefox pretty badly (it was locked up for five minutes before I could shut it down). Works fine in IE though... I wonder what WTFery on that site causes this.

     On-topic: I am surprised at the bad quality of so many help desks.
     

     

    The site opened up fine in my Firefox (1.5.0.8), Hmmmm maybe you have some spyware :-) ? 

    you should upgrade to 2.0, then try the site! Shockwave crashed mine. 

  • (cs) in reply to RevMike
    RevMike:
    Anonymous:

    Son surfing for porn? Been there, done that (ok, for me it was in pre-web days, but that just made me ner...cooler yeah, way cooler).

    Ah!  I also recall the Good Old Days when internet porn meant stitching together blocks of text and using UUDECODE.  Somehow, the anticipation of waiting for the files to transfer via Kermit onto a box with graphic capability made it all the more special.

    You can still use this kind of technique for overcoming some firewalls that will allow you to transfer only text files. One method that is generally available for anyone with Windows is to zip everything you want into a .zip file, pull the .zip file into a Word document then save the word document in .rtf format. You might also with to change its extension to .txt and possibly remove the opening brace.

    PS - I used to work with a young woman - Angela - who looked a lot like Bean Bag Girl.  She was actually a runner up Miss Oklahoma.  And she was a solid Java/J2EE developer!

    Why are there not more attractive intelligent women working as developers?

     

  • (cs) in reply to ~kate
    ~kate:

     

    Here is an idea go and buy a external HD copy all of your music, pics,ect… Then take the time and install the O.S. properly.  Because one day your O.S. is going to shit out on you and then you can kiss your pics goodbye. 

    Fortunately, for those of us who know a little bit about what we're doing, the OS "shitting out" on us does not usually mean our data is lost forever; even Windows is long past the days when it would randomly corrupt partition tables and/or bits of disk. Hell, even DOS was better behaved than that (usually). Since the poster you helpfully "advised" was experimenting with Linux, it's quite likely they are in that group - in which case, ramshackle and haphazard as their boot arrangement might sound, I'd lay money on their installation of Windows being in a rather better state than yours is.

    Yes, there is still the risk of the drive itself going south - but that's just as likely to happen with an external hard drive. If not more so, because they tend to be in snug little boxes without decent cooling... or sat on a shelf doing nothing (if you don't know you can read your backups, you don't have backups).

  • Anonymouse (unregistered) in reply to Earl Purple

    Earl Purple:

    PS - I used to work with a young woman - Angela - who looked a lot like Bean Bag Girl.  She was actually a runner up Miss Oklahoma.  And she was a solid Java/J2EE developer!

    Why are there not more attractive intelligent women working as developers?

     

     

    They are too smart?

     

    Captcha = Photogenic (yes, beanbag girl is)

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