My heart bleeds for you Arania That reminds me of when I accidentaly inverted my monitor. I hated that so much. Luckily my groveling/praying payed off in the end.

We go for victory!

Umm, I ain't 15 anymore, but it's annoying when your kids fiddle with your control panel. Expecially when they disable the internet, sound etc

Neo, you could do like we have to at work. The residents access is very limited. They can only run programs and can delete or edit nothing. Win 2000, They can't even write to the hard drive, only floppies. The trashed the old 98 OS by deleting command files while in dos mode.

Michael
"Hezekiah"

Edited by - Finalday on 4/16/2004 9:15:13 AM

Bah! Wait until you work in the industry (if you intend to), then you'll have lots of fun! Worms and viruses are just the beginning! Crashes, vandalism, theft, irate employees, technologically challenged co-workers and others, the list is endless; just ask Taw! The irony is, I have to work with all of the above, and I am part of the lowest level of technical support in the entire Uni! It's not by choice though .

Boy, am I glad I have my OWN computer. Nobody's allowed to touch it. It's remained relatively bug-free and crash-free. I still run Windows 98 too.

"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb!"

Yeah...
I'd pity you, only I've got it worse. I am forced to live with my brother until he's old enough to go to prison, and he's a complete technological idiot, he's so far managed to screw up the entire system by downloading a whole pile of crap of the internet (my computer now has no less than 20 programs running when I start up (I'd uninstall them, but they'd be back in a day). On top of that, he's got a ****ty temper, and his latest trick is that he's managed to screw up the mouse so that the left clicker is raised a centimetre higher than it would normally be (this is a lot more pissing-offing than it sounds, believe me).
*Turns up speaker volume*
OMFG!
The top just fell off the ****ing speaker!!!
Note to self- kill brother...


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poor Esq.

wait 20 years and see if it gets better (it doesn't ) but you become less sackable and get away with more slacking and practical jokes. Eventually you end up like me and basically just do what you want and dare them to sack you (because by this stage you spend more time working out back up plans and cast-iron alibis) and if you get it right you can get the senior management to a/ come to you and knock on YOUR door b/ apologise from disturbing you (while youre looking at binary newsgroups ) c/ go away thinking it was all their fault anyway

then you plug the server back into its UPS when your kettle has boiled

think I'm exaggerating? the purpose of IT support is to destroy the willpower and self-esteem of all sales staff and managers, for they are the enemy.

@Corsair, " I am forced to live with my brother until he's old enough to go to prison" - that is SUCH a great line! you could always frame him and get him sent to a YOI for 6 months, then you can turn his room into something useful. I broke my brother's leg in a compaund facture when he was 8 that got him hospitalised for almost 3 moths, it was great being an only child again...

Edited by - Tawakalna on 4/16/2004 10:01:47 AM

@Taw: You were a child once?

Worst thing happened to me was a purple screen. Still not sure if it was me or the screen tho

*Braces for impact*

I'm to sexy for my sig, to sexy for my sig, to sexy for my sig
*** The Titan flies like a cow ***
Fight like a Warlord

I'm constantly having to visit my girlfriend's technophobe dad to wipe the porn off his machine that my soon-to-be-brother-in-law downloads when he comes home pissed. The phone call usually sounds something like this...

(gf's dad) Hi, the internet has died again, can you help me fix it please because I've got a huge business deal pending and I need to check my email

(me) err...ok...maybe we can do this over the phone...whats up with it?

(gf's dad) I'm not sure but I keep getting little messages offering me *whispers* sexual favours *cough* and now the internet isn't working...

(me) oh really? *stifles laughter* when did this start happening?

(gf's dad) well last night

(me) what was the last thing you did?

(gf's dad) I'm not sure but I think my son was on the computer last night, do you think he's done something?

(me) *protecting bro-in-law as stag night is pending* no no no no noooo...I doubt it, he's pretty good with a computer...maybe I'd best come have a look...

then I turn up at his house to find on the machine the largest collection (40+) of porn dial-up downloads I've ever seen. I bought him a copy of "young amateurs" last week and promised not to tell his dad if he promised to stay off the computer for a couple of months crude...but efficient.


Edited by - gromit on 4/16/2004 11:58:17 AM

can you send me a spare copy? and does he have Sodomania 7? I've been after that for a while..

I have an idiiot brother-in-law and a technophobe father-in-law too. D'you think they could be related?

holy ****! you married my girlfriend! you b******!

@~Cor

ROFLMAO -

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I am forced to live with my brother until he's old enough to go to prison

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I'm keeping this one. ....Rats. Taw already grabbed it.

Great great line. Really. Made my day. Thanks.

I have two younger brothers, which is a lot worse than having and older one, especially for the family computer, my little brothers are on the internet all day playing stupid games and getting viruses which I have to fix, and until I move out, which souldn't be for about five years, since i'm only thirteen, I won't be able to get my own computer, becuase my parents are afraid i'd look up porn or something, damn this sucks...

Edited by - spinnaker on 4/16/2004 2:20:16 PM

i have a 15 digit password on MY
Admin account on MY machine
and with longhorn i can limt user accounts
so that they are SEVERELY limited, were
talking internet (no downloads at all) and word
*grins*