|
I wish I'd thought of that at the time .
One day I aspire to having a signature.
|
|
|
|
|
I've had a few of these. If I'm not busy I tell them I don't really understand computers and ask them if they can tell me what operating system I have (I was told Windows 10 a few years ago by one caller).
They usually end up asking me to open the Windows event log (where they'll show me some normal logs but try and explain that they're a sign of a virus/problem), so I get them to explain it step by step...
Them: Click on the Start Button
Me: What's a "Start Button"?
Them: It's at the bottom left of your screen
Me: No, I can't see anything there, are you sure it's supposed to be there?
...10-15 minutes later...
Them: What make is your computer?
Me: Apple
Them: -- Gone --
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
|
|
|
|
|
A mate and I pulled almost the same ruse a couple of months back, pretending to understand very little about computers. Nearing the end of the call, we told them that we just had a picture of a penguin.
The best part was just after we hung up on them, his brother walked back in. Not a minute later, the phone starts ringing again. We told him not to pick it up - we knew exactly who it would be, but didn't tell him. Knowing better, he picked it up anyway. Cue: 10 minutes of laughing like hyenas on our part and a very confused Glenn.
We've since setup a virgin box for the next ones. It's got nothing on it other than a freshly installed copy of linux, virtual-box with a copy of XP and a copy of team-viewer. The idea is that when we get another call, we'll connect using the team-viewer in the virtual machine, find-out their IP and then smash their network with the other 6 computers sitting in the office, hoping to really elephant-up their day. A quick ip-renew and then we'll duck back underground like the gophers in Caddy-Shack.
(yes, we're probably putting too much effort into having a laugh)
|
|
|
|
|
*taking accurate notes for the future*
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
|
|
|
|
|
DavidSherwood wrote: they know my Microsoft license number So ask them to read it out to you. The only good reason for them to refuse is because they don't know it.
They just go through phone books. Just about everyone has a computer, and just about all computers are Windows (when you look at the numbers, apple and Linux are almost trivial), so most people fit their target profile.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Really?
In that case, it's time to burn your hard drive and fit a new one. The only way they could have got that is if they already had access to the device.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
When I get these kind of calls, I pretend that they are a pizza company and they are calling me to repeat my order. I think the call only lasts like a minute or two, but it is worth the laughs.
These people are criminals and deserve to get butt f***ed by an elephant with herpes.
|
|
|
|
|
I haven't had one yet, but I can imagine saying:
"OK, I've powered up my terminal and I have the login prompt and blinking cursor..."
|
|
|
|
|
|
I have been an active member of this great site and sort of a CP addict. Yesterday we had Winner announcement for IoT Tutorial Contest. Being named as the winner is an honor I can't express with words.
I am posting this to personally thank Peter Hanlon who encouraged, supported and inspired me at every junction of difficult times in my career in last two years.Pete, Your motivating support so so crucial for me to start competing again after some bad experiences with results in some of the contests.
I also want to thank Adam Hill, another developer who stood beside me like a friend and critic for best part of last two years.
I want to also thank Kevin for his relentless effort and support all through the contest. Be it answering silly questions to answering silly doubts, he has done it all.
I would also want to thank the Author's whose works I referred during the course of the contests. Those evergreen articles and codes remain a treasure of reference.
During early phase of the contest, one of the site bugs wiped of my one of completed articles, which I could not recover. I had to rewrite the whole stuff from scratch again. Chris was relentless in testing and correcting the site bug. Thank you Chris for caring about every member of community and keeping such a great site.
Finally I would like to thank each and every member of this great community for helping, motivating, encouraging, criticizing us, helping us with suggestions, tips, giving us the satisfaction with your +5s .
I hope to keep contributing in CP and remain and active member of the site.
http://www.codeproject.com/Competitions/772/Internet-of-Things-Tutorial-Contest.aspx[^]
|
|
|
|
|
Congrats, hard work does pay off.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
|
|
|
|
|
Thanks Mike. Yes it does. Indeed.
|
|
|
|
|
Congratulations! Keep up the great work.
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
|
|
|
|
|
Thanks Agent_007. Trying hard to improve quality of code and writing.
|
|
|
|
|
Hey Congratulations..!
That's awesome...
Thanks,
Milind
|
|
|
|
|
Thank you MT_ .
|
|
|
|
|
There's nothing I do on this site that gives me as much pleasure as seeing someone I've been able to help achieve great things. Congratulations are thoroughly deserved. Well done.
|
|
|
|
|
I just set up a new VM for private use on my work laptop.
I wanted to download VS2013 Community Edition, but then I noticed an alternative: VS Online.
As far as I can see it's free for my personal use. I'm looking to do some hobby coding. Does it have the same features as VS2013 CE? What about database access? Would I also need a (free) Azure account?
I'm looking for some experiences and recommendations. Go Online or stick to VS2013 CE?
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
|
|
|
|
|
When you publish a website to Azure, you can use Visual Studio online to edit the HTML/CSS/Javascript. You can't touch the server side stuff with it though (the models/controllers and so on).
I mainly use it if I need to urgently something in production without going through the whole publish process, don't find it overly useful.
|
|
|
|
|
Ask yourself... Do you trust your code to the cloud?
I don't... I'll stick with CE at home.
|
|
|
|
|
It's just some hobby stuff, so privacy isn't really an issue.
I wouldn't use it for any production work.
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
|
|
|
|
|
Visual Studio Online[^] is the repository not an IDE. You can use it WITH VS2013 CE but not INSTEAD.
--
"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
|
|
|
|
|
Oooooooohhhhhh... That's not what I understood from that exact same website, but perhaps I was biased into believing it was!
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
|
|
|
|
|
Yep, very confusing name for otherwise good product
--
"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
|
|
|
|