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Henceforth, winipcfg shall be known as winpig whenever I use it. Which is never.
Please learn the difference between 'less' and 'fewer'. rereads for instance of Muphry's Law
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second? No one cares. Really.
A friend of mine once told someone their network was down because all the 1's got stuck in the cable. He got them to unhook all the wires and straighten all the kinks out. Meanwhile he reset the router. When they turned their computer back it everything worked fine.
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In Germany "KiGa" is the abbreviation of kindergarten, well ... I think they have some who bite there. :)
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Thank god I'm not the only one who thinks WinPig is a kick-ass name for an application.
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"maybe he's one of those types – you know what I mean."
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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WinPig is fine, just whatever you do don't use WinBearPig.
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Back in the days of apps distributed on floppy disk (about 1997) I was supporting a diary/appointment/patient notes app specialised for Physiotherapists. I got a call from an elderly Scotish lady who was trying to install the software. She informed me that she had an error message on the screen and when I asked what it said she replied "Insert Disk 2". I explained that she had to find the disk labled "Disk 2 of 4" and then put that one in the disk drive. To which she replied "Do I have to take Disk 1 out first?". She really was a nice lady so I resisted the urge to tell her she could try leaving it in there to see what happened!
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Did Jan tell Kelly to put some "hip" into it while shaking the laptop?
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ah yes, the eternal challenge of deciphering "user-ese". And putting technical stuff into terms they can understand. And trying to get them to perform actions that are second nature to most techs, but not most users. My wife is a talented physical therapist that can go into great detail about bones, muscles, and treatments but could not tell you the difference between a log off and a reboot.
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I'm guessing most people who read this site know about these anyway, but, if you like tech support stupidities I recommend http://rinkworks.com/stupid/ and http://chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/
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WinPig is already a product, for swine herd management. See this link. It's also the naame of a program "for communication with the Studsvik Neutron Monitor 2222A DigiPig via RS-232" (according to this .doc user manual). Lastly, http://www.winpig.com is apparently a pay-to-surf domain (and therefore blocked by the overzealous "security" goons at my orkplace).
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Look up Muphry's Law on wikipedia, it's quite real.
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Yes, the good times trying to explain to a user that turning on their monitor is, in fact, actually different than turning on their computer.
Or trying to explain that a reboot doesn't mean hitting the power button on your monitor.
Or trying to explain to someone that when their monitor says "No Signal" it usually doesn't mean that it's broken, just that it's either unplugged or the computer is off. In one specific case I spent about an hour on the phone with a lady getting her to resolve this problem by actually hitting the power button on the server rather than the toggle button on the LCD on the front of the server (yes I'm aware that having non-technical people turning servers on and off is far from ideal, but there's really no other solution sometimes)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muprhy's_Law
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Oh the irony.
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Half Windows ... half Bear ... and half Pig.
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In "Shake It, Baby" TRWTF is that the IT guy didn't just fix the damn mail system.
Even if he couldn't (no budget, whatever), IT people are hired specifically to support the needs of the staff. If all the staff were computer savvy, then the geek wouldn't have a job and mark my words, if he'd done that to a member of my team (who was obviously only trying to do the right thing by calling), he would lose said job on the spot.
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Marty McFly : What's the hell's a kiggabit?
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One of the most impressive feats I have seen recently is when our infrastructure manager got a non-techie in a remote location (6 hours away) to completely configure a linksys router from scratch. Unfortunately, she had been told to do a "reboot" that turned out to be factory reset. He got her connected to it, and got the configuration set to re-establish their access...all over the phone. I would have bet my own money against this working.
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When transferring support calls from one rep to another, it can be easy to distinguish the sophistication of the user by telling the other rep that they are dealing with a code "ID10t" (pronounced: "eye dee ten tea"). In which case, the user could get the old: TBSS STandBY (Too Bad So Sad Sucks To Be You).
Back in the "good ol' days" I recall offering to develop an application to balance out the data on a floppy because it wasn't reading correctly ("too much data on one half of the disk")
And there was that time I almost got that sales rep to return the "home mouse" he had purchased. I told him that it wasn't built for the all-day abuse that the "work mouse" is built for.
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Right, but if you are calling about the same issue 47 times a day, I mean come on. Is there any realistic chance that budget money came through since you last called an hour ago? I admit that giving a solution that could result in damaged equipment should result in a reprimand, but firing them on the spot seems a tad much.
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Neat!!!11! Keep this up, it might draw out a fractal.
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The real WTF in "Double-click..." is not the user who interpreted the sentence correctly, is that Microsoft named that object "My Computer", probably while trying to think of the best way to make tech's lives more frustrating. I think Apple named (and still does?) the comptuer "Macintosh HD"... when I've done support on those, there's far less ambiguity.
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Sounds like you shook it too hard and the bits fell out of the drive after the head crashed and you knocked them loose. We all start somewhere, right?
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"Will it ever stop? Yo, I don't know."
Nice Vanilla Ice reference.
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And learn to spell 'criticise'.
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There's a thin line between a clever troll and a stupid pedant. Therefore, trolls, even clever ones, are dumber than pedants.
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Murphy's Law being fairly common, Muphry's law being uncommon, and transposition of characters whose QWERTY keys are on different sides of the keyboard being one of the most common typos around, I think you're being a little hard on the guy.
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The byte shaking reminded me of a time when someone at the helpdesk I was working was trying to get remote users to re-plug network cables into a VPN appliance or modem.
He eventually told them that the packets get clogged up in one end of the network cable. The fix for this was to disconnect the cable, hold one end of the cable and start to spin it around to get those packets unclogged. We'd hear the whoosh whoosh whoosh of the cable on the other end of the phone and tell them to plug the cable back up. Problem solved.
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crit⋅i⋅cize /ˈkrɪtəˌsaɪz/ [krit-uh-sahyz] Show IPA Pronunciation verb, -cized, -ciz⋅ing. –verb (used with object)
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What is the correct usage of quotations and punctuation?
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My apologies to both Murphy and Muphry.
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It isn't necessarily even your computer -- the computer could belong to your company or be a shared computer.
As I said, it's probably just me. Let the abuse begin.
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Did anyone else think of System Shock 2's GamePig when they read WinPig?
[image]Nobody mentioned the slight reference to Ice Ice Baby yet, either.
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You lose. Please Leave
Captcha: Esse - Please leave now, Esse
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No, definitely not just you. I fully agree, and it has always annoyed me... along with My Documents, My Music (ha, the RIAA must hate that too), My Videos etc etc. I think Windows 2008 Server does away with some of that nonsense, and hopefully 7 will continue this trend. I know they are moving away from the "documents and settings" folder to the "users" or "user" folder. Far be it from me to say something good about microsoft, but I kinda like where this is going...
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The best part about playing the GamePig? The rest of the game doesn't actually freakin' pause. You can look up from the GamePig and be staring a zombie right in the face.
"They see youuuuu. Ruuuun...ruuuuuun!!!!"
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How is the IT guy supposed to upgrade the mail system with no budget? And what would you do to your team member for calling IT 4 times a day for the same problem? You think the IT guys don't want to fix things or something?
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