28 April 2003

Submitted by eve on Mon, 04/28/2003 - 4:06pm. Funny

"'And that's how I learned to use iMovie,' he said. And I'm all 'Ohmygod. His poor iMac.'"
--A girl on the bus

Posted by Anne Onymous on Mon, 05/05/2003 - 1:33pm.

Archived comment by Jon:
Yeah, and those are even smaller than floppies, and hold more. Onward and upward!

Posted by Anne Onymous on Mon, 05/05/2003 - 1:27pm.

Archived comment by hypoxic:
The compact flash things are starting to become more available, especially with the usb readers.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Mon, 05/05/2003 - 1:10pm.

Archived comment by ParU:
I agree with you marinerd. The other day we were looking for (and found) a computer around here that had a 5.25" floppy to get some old programs off of a disk.

Interesting side point, the 3.25" floppy was specifically designed by Steve Jobs (or was it the Woz?) to fit in a mans breast shirt pocket. So it's strange that Apple would remove the drive. Not everyone has access to the web, etc. and you're correct - floppys are still the best way to move small files around. I use them all the time to take files home.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Mon, 05/05/2003 - 1:06pm.

Archived comment by marinerd:
I wouldn't have a computer without a floppy drive. It's still the easiest way to carry one or two small files from one computer to another if email isn't possible. With CDs, you still have to burn information onto them. It's a waste if you only have one little file or two to copy.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Mon, 05/05/2003 - 10:59am.

Archived comment by ParU:
Kris -- I was referring to HP Printers - I don't even know if Compaq makes printers. I know their servers are OK, but that, just to be obstinate or difficult, they made them with different mounting racks so that they don't work in the industry standard size. Sorta like, you can only use our racks for our servers. And once you buy their rack, you might as well continue to buy their brand of servers. A real pain...IMHO.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Mon, 05/05/2003 - 10:49am.

Archived comment by Kris the Girl:
I love my HP printer! I concur.
Unless you meant that Compaq was the best. In which case, I can never trust your judgement again. And that would be sad.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Mon, 05/05/2003 - 8:56am.

Archived comment by ParU:
Matt - slight correction - HP took over Compaq, not the other way around. And their PCs have generally, always been pieces of sh**t.

Their printers, however, IMHO, are the industry standard and I wouldn't buy any other brand

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Sun, 05/04/2003 - 4:21pm.

Archived comment by Jon:
Not all of Dell's standard models, true. If you recall, however, Apple removed floppy drives from iMacs only, at first; some critics ridiculed the move. They began phasing floppy drives from other models after that.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Sun, 05/04/2003 - 2:06am.

Archived comment by Matt:
Hey! My Dell is less than six months old and it has a floppy drive. I dunno what you're talking about, Jon. Maybe there are a few base models without them, but I sure haven't heard about it.

HP's computers went straight into the crapper when Compaq took them over.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Sat, 05/03/2003 - 9:33am.

Archived comment by Jon:
Right. And when Dell, HP and the rest got around to removing floppy drives from their standard models, was there an uproar? Not exactly. By that time, CD drives had become nearly ubiquitous, and people were becoming less comfortable using a floppy to carry around information.
When companies actually innovate, instead of Micro$oft's version (embrace and extend), people complain. When a big company takes the idea and makes money, people think it's suddenly a great idea.
/end rant

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Sat, 05/03/2003 - 8:54am.

Archived comment by Matt:
Denial? Really? And all this time I thought you were in Oklahoma!

On a more topical note, a couple of years ago a classmate came in to class on the day a paper was due, full of contrition, but without a paper. She'd typed it at the last minute on a friend's laptop, intending to print it out at one of the campus computer centers. But when she pulled out her blank floppy to transfer it, she found the laptop didn't have a floppy drive! Why? Because it was an iBook. Dumbass Apple Computers.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Sat, 05/03/2003 - 7:12am.

Archived comment by Kris the Girl:
Hee...
No sniping landmarks for me. Not usually, anyway. I still don't think I landmark post anymore than other people. But I could be in denial.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 05/02/2003 - 9:40pm.

Archived comment by Roy:
I can hardly believe that it's been seven hours and no further posts have been added ... I figured once Kris got beat to the century post, she'd at least try to snag the dalmation post.

I spit on computers! ... but love math, by golly!

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 05/02/2003 - 2:50pm.

Archived comment by Apple:
100!!

*grin*

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 05/02/2003 - 2:47pm.

Archived comment by someguyintexas:
My co worker must have been intixicated last night at the Ted Nugent concert. She was all excited about going and then all she could say today was 'It's true, if it's too loud, you're too old'. She told me she could smell the, umm, smoke, but didn't inhale when they passed it around.

She ended up with a hangover and didn't even know why.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 05/02/2003 - 1:54pm.

Archived comment by steff:
er... we're NOT supposed to wonder what "intixicated" means, then?

...just asking. *grin*

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 05/02/2003 - 12:46pm.

Archived comment by Jon:
Drunk with power, maybe?
I'm just joshing. Though you do seem to have the market on milestone posts. : )

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 05/02/2003 - 12:35pm.

Archived comment by Kris the Girl:
I got that Apple's link off my screen by cornering the stupid thing.
I'm Goldilocks intixicated--juuuust enough.
*grin*

*fails to mention that she hasn't touched the devil alcohol in months so couldn't possibly actually be drunk*

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 05/02/2003 - 12:33pm.

Archived comment by Arvid:
Damn misplaced enter key. Try this namelink instead.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 05/02/2003 - 12:32pm.

Archived comment by Arvid:
I personally found that the alt-f4 does wonders for that one. If you want real user annoyance try this one [namelink]. It twitches the mouse every couple of seconds. Just to be evil and get myself started on the road to BOFH-dom I added it to the login script on our network one day and then came in a hour late.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 05/02/2003 - 11:52am.

Archived comment by Matt:
That's hilarious, Apple. You want to give the secret termination code for that one, or shall we wait a while?

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 05/02/2003 - 11:46am.

Archived comment by Apple:
Yes, Matt, my mom thought it was a cupholder. Didn't help that one of my brothers sent this. Silly brother!

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 05/02/2003 - 11:40am.

Archived comment by Apple:
"Grandma's gonna take you to school!" An octagenarian woman at WalMart today.

This wouldn't have been so odd had she not been yelling it at a college-age guy and playing one of the arcade games.

Made me smile, anyway.

*grin*

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 05/02/2003 - 11:39am.

Archived comment by Matt:
Apple, your family actually had a "cup holder" incident? Ohmigod. That is the funniest tech support call I ever read.

See, but here's the thing. My boss is smart enough to realize he doesn't know much about computers, so if prompted, he won't even install his own software. He doesn't know how to burn CDs, but he can do a few things in Photoshop and he can kinda browse the web. I've got Norton Antivirus, Norton Utilities, and Ad Aware on all the workstations, and I check them at least four times a week for problems. So it's not as bad as it seems.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 05/02/2003 - 10:58am.

Archived comment by Intelligirly:
Ooh! Are we doing random quote day then? Cause here's one Steff and I particularly enjoyed.

"If I ever get rid of Tammy, I'd get me one of them Filipino girls."

--a *ahem* friend of NIP Matt's family...regarding his wife.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 05/02/2003 - 7:31am.

Archived comment by natalie:
''you will be die''
old man iutside cafe to no one in paticular

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 05/02/2003 - 6:29am.

Archived comment by Apple:
I'm thirding (?) what steff and Umrguy said. I know my parents. Well, my mom actually. Dad's had to replace the motherboard twice! Not to mention the "drink holder" incident.

*shudder*

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 05/02/2003 - 5:17am.

Archived comment by someguyintexas:
I really need to get into linux and unix support. The user community just seems to know what the hell they are doing.

I think it pays better too.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 05/01/2003 - 10:25pm.

Archived comment by umrguy:
I'm gonna have to go with Steff on the nervous cringing that your statement automatically produced there, Matt....

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 05/01/2003 - 6:58pm.

Archived comment by steff:
*GASP* matt! never say that! never SAY that!! i can't tell you the number of times (well, i've probably alluded to them, but you've lost track) of the times when someone "too ignorant" has brought the whole f*sking system crashing down in bright dancing flames of ruin. gah!!!

the problem that you, someguy, and i have isn't that we're the brightest computer users around, it's that we're good translators. interfacers, if you will. *grin*

*twitch* i still can't believe you SAID that....

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 05/01/2003 - 6:27pm.

Archived comment by Matt:
someguy, I do stuff like that at least once a week. I mean, the guy's old (late 50s). I can understand him not being able to learn new things, like the fact that clicking and holding on the blue bar in your window allows you to drag it places. But he has managed to learn that, in order to get a decent printed photo off a piece of photo paper, he has to use an image bigger than 120K. I even got him (I think) to stop sending 20K thumbnails in emails.

And then I get chastised because my boss can't seem to access his desktop via the LAN from another workstation, despite the fact that he has administrative priveleges (which I gave him to stop bitching at me for lack of access, knowing full well he's too ignorant about computers to do anything damaging).

/rant.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 05/01/2003 - 3:31pm.

Archived comment by marinerd:
That must be a new swear word in Texas.

forsking? fisking? fusking?

*g*

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 05/01/2003 - 3:27pm.

Archived comment by someguyintexas:
Today I got to show a member of management how to save his startup page in IE.

Yesterday I got to show him how to sort the email in Outlook so the newest ones were at the top.

And I had to set up Outlook email for 2 new guys in IT today apparently because none of the web developers in the room have developed that skill yet.

And I get to review ...every...single...document the help desk team creates because they can't be trusted to ....follow...instructions.

That sound you hear is my head and a wall.

I'm doomed, I'm just f*sking doomed.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 05/01/2003 - 11:16am.

Archived comment by Arvid:
If you have both I'll volunteer some webspace to host it.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 05/01/2003 - 8:01am.

Archived comment by E!:
And once again, with just a few choice comments, Monk hijacks the thread to the XXX zone...

If you have visuals, you could make an iMovie on an iMac...if you had aurals, you could make a soundtrack for your iMovie.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 05/01/2003 - 6:59am.

Archived comment by Apple:
Possibly both?? It's why you fit in so well here.

*grin*

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 05/01/2003 - 6:56am.

Archived comment by Meggie Moo:
well visual can sometimes lead to tactile, yes? or am i crazy?

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 05/01/2003 - 6:33am.

Archived comment by daen:
Just sayin' that I don't find visual at all near a substitute for tactile, just a reminder of what I don't, at that moment, have... so I don't bother.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 05/01/2003 - 6:30am.

Archived comment by Jon:
Silly rabbit, if I had tactile, I wouldn't need as many visuals!

I guess I need a Monkspeak refresher, 'cause the reference passed me by. I get it now, but didn't then.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 04/30/2003 - 8:16pm.

Archived comment by Paul:
And when they're not looking, make a break for it! Break like the-

Ugh. Nevermind...

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 04/30/2003 - 3:36pm.

Archived comment by slugbuggy:
Run, Monk, run like the wind!

Then hide, hide like...the wind!

And arm yourself heavily, like the heavily armed wind, or something!

Just a warning.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 04/30/2003 - 3:22pm.

Archived comment by marinerd:
ahh... the real difference between the boys and the girls!

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 04/30/2003 - 2:15pm.

Archived comment by daen:
But as soon as you show tactile, it becomes visual...
There's no point, then, as far as I'm concerned.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 04/30/2003 - 2:08pm.

Archived comment by hypoxic:
hey daen I've got a iMac that can make iMovie's if you want to show that ;)

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 04/30/2003 - 1:46pm.

Archived comment by daen:
Ah, why not...

69!

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 04/30/2003 - 1:43pm.

Archived comment by daen:
I prefer tactile.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 04/30/2003 - 1:25pm.

Archived comment by Monk:
steff, are you saying you have larger than normal ears, or that NIPMatt has a smaller than normal.....

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 04/30/2003 - 1:10pm.

Archived comment by steff:
heh. you're such a guy... aural is the shiznit.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 04/30/2003 - 1:10pm.

Archived comment by daen:
Ummm, Jon... I believe that was Monk's point.

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Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 04/30/2003 - 1:06pm.

Archived comment by Jon:
Heh. No phone sex for you!
Actually, I prefer visuals to auditory.

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