• (cs)
    It was someone from ICU (Intensive Care Unit) with the usual problem description “PMS is not working."

    There are cases of PMS that have to be treated in IC? OUCH.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Keyper

    This is one of the funniest things I have read. I have long enough fingers to reach leftCtrl + F8, but I can see someone with small hands puzzling how to press this combination!

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Keyper
    Keyper:
    Hah, that's nothing. Any Intel based computer (sorry Apple oldtimers) will go into a special diagnostic mode if you simultaneously hold the left control key, the right enter key (on the numeric pad) and press F8. It bypasses all file system permissions and lets you log on even when you forgot your password.

    This combination has proven useful on countless support calls!

    This is one of the funniest things I have read. I have long enough fingers to reach leftCtrl + F8, but I can see someone with small hands puzzling how to press this combination!

  • AC (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous

    aha, I didn't get it at all until I read your comment.

    I have the num pad on the left side of the keyboard so the num enter is right next to the left ctrl.

  • SeySayux (unregistered)

    AZERTY keyboards + hardcoded WASD keys for movement in games = TRWTF.

    I think many French and Belgian people concur with me on this.

    Even if it's not hardcoded it's a PITA to remap those keys every time, in every game.

    Still worse, games where you have to type things, but they were "friendly" enough to hardcode the keyboard layout to US Intl, even if you have to use one of those dreaded Azerty keyboards.

    </rant>
  • boing boing (unregistered) in reply to Keyper
    Keyper:
    epsalon:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
    Hah, that's nothing. Any Intel based computer (sorry Apple oldtimers) will go into a special diagnostic mode if you simultaneously hold the left control key, the right enter key (on the numeric pad) and press F8. It bypasses all file system permissions and lets you log on even when you forgot your password.

    This combination has proven useful on countless support calls!

    Then you must be Chopin re-incarnated

  • random Plus Zero (unregistered) in reply to Max
    Max:
    SeySayux:
    Anonymous:
    I've never understood why some people are unable to distinguish between their browser window and the content therein. They all have TVs so it's hardly an alien concept. If they saw a shot of some broken glass in a TV program, would they ring up their local repairman to get their "smashed screen" fixed? How do they even know they own a TV if they can't tell what part is the content and what part is the TV?
    That is because for 90% of the people their higher level cortex shuts down as soon as you put them behind a computer.

    The other 10% ends up in IT.

    Keeping in mind that 20% work in IT.

    You know who I'm talking about.

    You made me spit out my lunch... bravo.

  • disown (unregistered)

    Was is Bubba Rubb?

  • calloatti (unregistered) in reply to GalacticCowboy
    GalacticCowboy:
    Anon:
    PRT SC key

    Well there's your problem. My keyboard has a key that is clearly marked "Print Scrn", but my laptop has "prt sc" (all lower case). I don't have a "PRT SC" key!

    Mine says

    Prnt Scrn SysRq

    Whatever that means...

    And mine says:

    Imp Pant PetSis

    I am afraid to ask what a PetSis is.

  • NH (unregistered)

    As for the "New thing support" - that's why it often pays off to take a walk to the customer instead of just trying to resolve the problem over phone.

    But when helpdesk functions are outsourced to remote locations that isn't possible anymore.

  • Seven (unregistered) in reply to calloatti
    calloatti:
    GalacticCowboy:
    Anon:
    PRT SC key

    Well there's your problem. My keyboard has a key that is clearly marked "Print Scrn", but my laptop has "prt sc" (all lower case). I don't have a "PRT SC" key!

    Mine says

    Prnt Scrn SysRq

    Whatever that means...

    And mine says:

    Imp Pant PetSis

    I am afraid to ask what a PetSis is.

    You must be using a Spanish keyboard.

    Imp Pant = Imprimir Pantalla = Print Screen PetSis = Petición de Sistema = System Request = SysReq

  • SeySayux (unregistered) in reply to Seven
    GalacticCowboy:
    Anon:
    PRT SC key

    Well there's your problem. My keyboard has a key that is clearly marked "Print Scrn", but my laptop has "prt sc" (all lower case). I don't have a "PRT SC" key!

    Mine says

    Prnt Scrn SysRq

    Whatever that means...

    Mine clearly says ⌘⇧4

  • joe (unregistered)

    Good stuff

  • Chris (unregistered)

    Hey... a chance for oldies to tell some Reality stories.

    That had a built in debugger that if you managed to hit the right keys at the right time in the login sequence let you skip right over the password check!

  • AnonKeyboardPlayer (unregistered) in reply to calloatti
    calloatti:
    GalacticCowboy:
    Anon:
    PRT SC key

    Well there's your problem. My keyboard has a key that is clearly marked "Print Scrn", but my laptop has "prt sc" (all lower case). I don't have a "PRT SC" key!

    Mine says

    Prnt Scrn SysRq

    Whatever that means...

    And mine says:

    Imp Pant PetSis

    I am afraid to ask what a PetSis is.

    Why do you think that would be related to PRT SC?

    I have keys labeled

    Pause Untbr

    or

    Rollen ↓

    or

    Druck S-Abf

    and others showing symbols that I can't easily type here.

    But no keys that have anything like {prt|prnt} {sc|scr|scrn} or SysReq.

    I even have a US keyboard, but there isn't anything similar either - and the counterparts to the above-mentioned keys say "F16", "F15", "F14" ...

    Captcha: "uxor" - is there supposed to be a "wife" key?

  • CodeCotopus (unregistered) in reply to re:me
    re:me:
    Evil Code Monkey:
    Knux2:
    GalacticCowboy:
    Anon:
    PRT SC key

    Well there's your problem. My keyboard has a key that is clearly marked "Print Scrn", but my laptop has "prt sc" (all lower case). I don't have a "PRT SC" key!

    Mine says

    Prnt Scrn SysRq

    Whatever that means...

    I win. Mine actually says "Print Screen" right on the button.

    Captcha: transverbero - a Spanish word that changes spelling based on the gender of the person/thing performing the action

    And mine says:

    PrtScn SysRq Insert

    Good luck getting it to even do a screenshot if you've hit the F Lock button at some point. Makes me wonder if the "F" in F Lock is for a censored word that you say when you realize that it's responsible for not getting the screenshot?

    my "F" lock says "Func Loc". better than Tone Loc i guess.

    Mine says :

    Impr Pant

    PetSis

    Is that bad?

    CAPTCHA: "odio" - I hate in spanish. Ex: yo odio mi teclado.

  • Spoc42 (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous

    Oh yes we do, at least here in Switzerland, where the @ and # keys, as well as ¬, |, ¢, ´, ~, , [, ], {, } and € are not available any other way.

    I mean, you lose half your ability to swear....

  • Spoc42 (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    GalacticCowboy:
    Mine says

    Prnt Scrn SysRq

    Whatever that means...

    Hard to believe that the system request key is almost 40 years old. Our keyboards are showing their age. Pretty sure we don't need that alternate graphic key anymore either.

    Let's try again!

    Oh yes we do, at least here in Switzerland, where the @ and # keys, as well as ¬, |, ¢, ´, ~, , [, ], {, } and € are not available any other way.

    I mean, you lose half your ability to swear....

  • Spoc42 (unregistered) in reply to Keyper
    Keyper:
    epsalon:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
    Hah, that's nothing. Any Intel based computer (sorry Apple oldtimers) will go into a special diagnostic mode if you simultaneously hold the left control key, the right enter key (on the numeric pad) and press F8. It bypasses all file system permissions and lets you log on even when you forgot your password.

    This combination has proven useful on countless support calls!

    OK, tell me what you used to press the F8 key! Or was it one of those ancient systems that had the F-keys down the lefthand side?

  • Scott (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    I've never understood why some people are unable to distinguish between their browser window and the content therein. They all have TVs so it's hardly an alien concept. If they saw a shot of some broken glass in a TV program, would they ring up their local repairman to get their "smashed screen" fixed? How do they even know they own a TV if they can't tell what part is the content and what part is the TV?

    I present EXHIBIT A: [image]

  • (cs) in reply to Rick
    Rick:
    SR:
    I'd love to have supported Reality. The punnage would be endless.

    I worked on a competing product to Reality, called UniVerse. When it crashed, its message was 'Fatal termination of UniVerse". No, really. Honest. Both products were versions of the Pick System, named after Dick Pick. No, really. Look it up in Wikipedia.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system

    See.

    I believe you, friend. I worked on another competing product called Revelation. Ran on AIX. When it started up, it would display messages saying "The daemon is awake!". Scared the snot out of our more evangelical users.

  • (cs)

    reads Magic SysRq key article on Wikipedia Raising Elephants Is So Utterly Boring? We've gone full circle it seems.

    btw, the relevant key on my keyboard is as follows: Print Screen

    SysRq

    (though there's not actually any gap between the word Screen and the line) (It's a Dell keyboard) (and I don't expect anyone to care actually) [edit] Speaking of elephants, the game Achievement Unlocked is pretty funny, on a meta level.

  • Donlassini (unregistered) in reply to Peter

    As in the movie "Clear and Present Danger", Jack Ryan gains access to a The Bad Guy's folder on a server, and starts reading documents about illegal actions. Wanting proof, he frantically hits "print screen" (or "prt scn" or whatever the button was named on his keyboard) several times, but alas - the printer runs out of paper and he only gets a single sheet. I wonder if buffers were invented then....

    (And for some of you younglings:) That being said, I remember a time when in text mode (i.e. in the old DOS days, before GUI's were everywhere) if you hit "print screen" the current screen's contents would be sent to the printer. So actually the button's name isn't that inappropriate compared to its original function....

  • anonymous (unregistered)

    We use these http://www.directpacket.com/ipccontroller.php

    for H.323 Video-Conf. traffic to traverse firewalls that don't properly support h323 (aka cisco)

    One of the errors in a previous firmware was "Universe has ended", "Universe would be deleted" or something similar.

    Tech support was stumped and later found out it was programmed into the error table and was never supposed to be seen (since it did not correlate to an actual error) but somehow displayed when the actual error code could not be found due to corruption and overflowed into the next description field.

  • Reow (unregistered)

    TRWTF is Paint. Paste direct into email.

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