• Edward Royce (unregistered)

    Hmmmm.

    Pardon me but why are you fondling my laptop?

  • Edward Royce (unregistered) in reply to Larry
    Larry:
    by:
    P:
    Will my PC stop freezing if I install a heater?
    No, but it will stop heating if you install a freezer.

    TRWTF is computers without AC compressors built-in.

    Hmmm.

    Yeah!

    Because that would make laptops really .....

  • CAPTCHA: vereor (unregistered) in reply to Michael J Swart
    Michael J Swart:
    Without ... introduction, Bob was informed ... "Hi this is Sally Brumbaker,..."

    Sounds like an introduction to me.

    I think that was Bob's 3rd sarcastic comment

    The Article:
    "Sir," Bob said, "I took that call, Sally didn't identify herself."
  • (cs) in reply to Skawt
    Skawt:
    How much cream did he put in his coffee?

    View source and find out.

  • The Nerve (unregistered)

    Sally's Resume:

    Plenty of hands-on experience with computers.

  • (cs) in reply to Michael J Swart
    Michael J Swart:
    Without ... introduction, Bob was informed ... "Hi this is Sally Brumbaker,..."

    Sounds like an introduction to me.

    In the IT world, that's more than an introduction. It's damn near a proposal for marriage.

  • Optimus Prime (unregistered)

    The article: it's changing!

  • Kevin (unregistered) in reply to Michael J Swart
    Michael J Swart:
    Without ... introduction, Bob was informed ... "Hi this is Sally Brumbaker,..."

    Sounds like an introduction to me.

    A introduction would be more along the lines of “This is Sally Brumbaker from Plainston-Princeboro Teaching Hospital” or “This is Sally Brumbaker, Head of HR at PPTH.”

  • Lou (unregistered)

    I was wondering who would have been silly enough to hire Dr House. It must have been Sally!

  • (cs)

    In Sally's defense, I did once work on a project where, after joking for months about monitoring a multi-day job to make sure it didn't "run too hot" (meaning tie up too many system resources to get other work done), the great weekend came and they had to pause everything because it was running hot. It took a couple of cycles of explanation before I caught on that the mainframe had literally gone thermal for an unrelated reason.

  • Skilldrick (unregistered) in reply to Borken
    Borken:
    Anonymous:
    Oh Mark, you've Bowytz'd another article. That's what you get for editing HTML in Word. We're supposed to be IT professionals, we don't edit HTML in Word!

    As for today's WTF... meh, it was a cute story.

    Right, I edit all of my HTML pages in ed.

    Come on, real content writers use M-x butterfly.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to JamesQMurphy
    JamesQMurphy:
    Michael J Swart:
    Without ... introduction, Bob was informed ... "Hi this is Sally Brumbaker,..."

    Sounds like an introduction to me.

    In the IT world, that's more than an introduction. It's damn near a proposal for marriage.

    she introduced herself using her full name she wants to f***
  • (cs) in reply to Optimus Prime
    The Article:
    "Oh, ok. There is goes." and that...
    Double WTF.
  • Generic name (unregistered)

    smb1985. Assuming that's a birthdate, as years in usernames tend to be, the HR director is 25 years old. Hooray for nepotism.

  • (cs) in reply to Alex
    Alex:
    Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital

    Good place. I went there to get my lupus treated.

    Did they freeze it?

  • PITA (unregistered)

    Can you go check to see if the fridge is running?

  • Rexaceous (unregistered)

    You may have been had here, Plainston-Princeboro appears to be a spoonerism of Princeton-Plainsborough, the (fictional) teaching hospital where Dr. House works. A google search turns up nothing, sounds pretty fake to me!

  • (cs) in reply to Mark Bowytz
    Mark Bowytz:
    Behind the scenes dropping in an article is more like copy-paste from Word...

    Mark, if you're going to do something that mind-numbingly idiotic, for the love of all that is holy, don't admit to it on a forum full of snobby tech people.

    If you'd just blamed it on Community Server, everyone would have believed you.

  • The Nerve (unregistered)
    Hear a Blog Log - We are currently narrating this post. Subscribe to get notified when ready.

    So, when the narrators read one of these things, do they read it as-is, or do they work around the missing words and changed genders?

  • Rob (unregistered)

    When I saw the title, and read in the first few sentences that Bob was selling is company, I thought I was about to read one of the most depressing "no backups" stories ever written.

    Reading about a woman feeling up her computers was somehow both a relief and a letdown.

  • pallen (unregistered) in reply to Borken
    Borken:
    Anonymous:
    Oh Mark, you've Bowytz'd another article. That's what you get for editing HTML in Word. We're supposed to be IT professionals, we don't edit HTML in Word!

    As for today's WTF... meh, it was a cute story.

    Right, I edit all of my HTML pages in ed.

    Ed! Ed! Ed is the standard! TEXT EDITOR.

  • Wilson. (unregistered) in reply to by

    Poorly Anonymized. We all know it's Lisa Cuddy at Princeton-Plainsboro, and I think House blew her Sarcasm Detector.

  • wtf (unregistered) in reply to Borken
    Borken:

    Right, I edit all of my HTML pages in ed.

    Is it a WTF that you felt the need to cite Wikipedia when you mentioned ed - on a tech site?

  • Borken (unregistered) in reply to wtf
    wtf:
    Borken:

    Right, I edit all of my HTML pages in ed.

    Is it a WTF that you felt the need to cite Wikipedia when you mentioned ed - on a tech site?

    Considering how ignorant everyone here is of Linux, yes. Out of compassion, I linked so the clueless wouldn't go off searching for erectile dysfunction medication.

  • Larry (unregistered) in reply to Borken
    Borken:
    wtf:
    Borken:

    Right, I edit all of my HTML pages in ed.

    Is it a WTF that you felt the need to cite Wikipedia when you mentioned ed - on a tech site?

    Considering how ignorant everyone here is of Linux, yes. Out of compassion, I linked so the clueless wouldn't go off searching for erectile dysfunction medication.

    TRWTF is that use of Linux has been proven to CAUSE ed.

  • So... (unregistered)

    Was she also the one that hired doctor house?

  • pallen (unregistered) in reply to Larry
    Larry:
    Borken:
    wtf:
    Borken:

    Right, I edit all of my HTML pages in ed.

    Is it a WTF that you felt the need to cite Wikipedia when you mentioned ed - on a tech site?

    Considering how ignorant everyone here is of Linux, yes. Out of compassion, I linked so the clueless wouldn't go off searching for erectile dysfunction medication.

    TRWTF is that use of Linux has been proven to CAUSE ed.

    This comment reminds me of the xkcd about python. Although xkcd is funny, you seem to be more on the obtuse side.

  • W Klink (unregistered) in reply to wtf
    wtf:
    Borken:

    Right, I edit all of my HTML pages in ed.

    Is it a WTF that you felt the need to cite Wikipedia when you mentioned ed - on a tech site?

    Yes. The correct link is here.

  • TechSupportVet (unregistered) in reply to Kevin

    I agree, she gave her name AND she even gave a userid. It isn't her fault it was early and Bob was feeling like being sarcastic that morning.

  • sinodeo (unregistered) in reply to the beholder
    the beholder:
    by:
    dkf:
    Markp:
    Summary fail.
    Paragraph usage fail. And there's confusion between “Bob” and “I”. In short, total editor fail.

    Yeah, but this seems like a work of fine literature compared to that last disaster by Remy Martin.

    It's ironic to read this when you remember that Bowitz even got be a verb for some time here. "The article has been Bowitz'ed" meant that it was stripped of all fun and chopped to uncomprehensionness.

    And don't forget that the first couple of articles by Remy have been praised for being well-written.

    It's "bowytzed", with a hard tz sound, as in Bowytz botched it. AGAIN.

  • Bill Ulater (unregistered)
    "Hi this is Sally Brumbaker, my user id is smb1985. My computer's frozen."
    Hi Sally, no problem, just give me your password and I'll unfreeze it for you.
  • Jeff (unregistered)

    FIRST!

    Well, I would have been, but my computer was frozen, so I held a blowtorch up to the side, but then I think maybe I overdid it a little. Anyway, after drilling into the power supply to let the extra electrons out, everything is improving.

  • Noel (unregistered) in reply to Jeff
    Jeff:
    FIRST!

    Well, I would have been, but my computer was frozen, so I held a blowtorch up to the side, but then I think maybe I overdid it a little. Anyway, after drilling into the power supply to let the extra electrons out, everything is improving.

    Do you know what you are doing? I will tell you what you are doing. You are drilling into the box marked "uninterruptible power supply" rendering it quite interruptible.

    That's enough of that for one day.

  • Mad Adder (unregistered) in reply to Optimus Prime
    Optimus Prime:
    The article: it's changing!
    It's a transformer!

    What? Someone had to say it!

    Oh, and this computer's gone from suck to blow.

  • face (unregistered) in reply to Matt
    Matt:
    TRWTF is the article HTML source code O_o
    ZOMG! I've never noticed that before!! Now I have to go back and look at the source!! O.o
  • sarcasm (unregistered) in reply to by
    by:
    Sally doesn't have a broken computer, Sally has a broken sarcasm detector.

    is your computer running? Better go catch it!

  • (cs) in reply to face
    face:
    Matt:
    TRWTF is the article HTML source code O_o
    ZOMG! I've never noticed that before!! Now I have to go back and look at the source!! O.o
    The creamer stuff could use line breaks. With two monitors I still would have needed to scroll.
  • Larry (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that Bob didn't route customer support through India.

  • yb (unregistered)

    Mark,

    How should I read this?

    The Article:
    "Oh, I see," the person informed Bob. "We’ll, just be more careful, next time,” and with that, hung up the phone.

    We will be more careful next time about calling you? Well, I'll let it slide this time, but I'm on to you.

  • ÃÆâ€â„ (unregistered) in reply to The Nerve
    The Nerve:
    Sally's Resume:

    Plenty of hands-on experience with computers.

    Hahaha...

  • BrianK (unregistered) in reply to Hasteur

    Princeton-Plainsborro Teaching Hospital

    Isn't that where HOUSE works? Are you sure it wasn't Cutty impersonating a man?

    My laptop is always burning hot. How come it still freezes?

  • luctus (unregistered) in reply to by
    by:
    You're doing it wrong:
    1. Edit story in Word.
    2. Print out the document and place it on a clean, preferably wooden table.
    3. Take a digital picture of the story.
    4. Load the photo into your computer.
    5. Add story as an image link.
    He didn't do anything wrong. Embedded Word documents do not have access to wooden tables.
  • Candice (unregistered)

    Why is Bob's bed in the living room?

  • esse (unregistered) in reply to Generic name
    Generic name:
    smb1985. Assuming that's a birthdate, as years in usernames tend to be, the HR director is 25 years old. Hooray for nepotism.
    Of course, she could be using her child's birth year, which would make her middle-aged.
  • atbell (unregistered)

    Plainston-Princeboro Teaching Hospital?

    Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital

    You just took the name of the hospital in House, which incidentally is also not a real place, and switched the first parts of the name.

  • . (unregistered)

    I need to speak to someone in charge of technical support for these forums.

  • Zapp Brannigan (unregistered) in reply to Gary
    Gary:
    OK, let's actually take this seriously. A frozen (e.g., blue-screened/deadlocked) computer would in fact cool down, while a computer that slowed down because of some cpu-intensive process would stay warm, right?
    Not necessarily. When my Dell XPS locks up, the cooling fan no longer adjusts to the cpu temperature and it basically cooks itself. What is really nice is that it turns on by itself, locks up and bake until I notice it when I come home. I no longer leave it plugged, that way it only cooks as long the battery lasts. Vista & Dell.
  • by (unregistered)

    Did you or someone working for you tell Bert So-And-So that he could get demonstrate his frozen insides by hurting their feelings?

  • Larry (unregistered) in reply to Zapp Brannigan
    Zapp Brannigan:
    Gary:
    OK, let's actually take this seriously. A frozen (e.g., blue-screened/deadlocked) computer would in fact cool down, while a computer that slowed down because of some cpu-intensive process would stay warm, right?
    Not necessarily. When my Dell XPS locks up, the cooling fan no longer adjusts to the cpu temperature and it basically cooks itself. What is really nice is that it turns on by itself, locks up and bake until I notice it when I come home. I no longer leave it plugged, that way it only cooks as long the battery lasts. Vista & Dell.
    TRWTF is that this is a hardware feature and would have nothing to do with Vista or Dell and everything to do with your motherboard.

    Let me guess: you've got to be Mr. Cool and overclock your PC?

  • Borken (unregistered) in reply to Zapp Brannigan
    Zapp Brannigan:
    Gary:
    OK, let's actually take this seriously. A frozen (e.g., blue-screened/deadlocked) computer would in fact cool down, while a computer that slowed down because of some cpu-intensive process would stay warm, right?
    Not necessarily. When my Dell XPS locks up, the cooling fan no longer adjusts to the cpu temperature and it basically cooks itself. What is really nice is that it turns on by itself, locks up and bake until I notice it when I come home. I no longer leave it plugged, that way it only cooks as long the battery lasts. Vista & Dell.
    Go ahead and install Ubuntu. It's free and will take about 10 minutes to install. In the end, you'll have a computer that is a quantum leap into the future and will never lock up.

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