OMFGWTFBBQ!!1!11!!eleventy-one!
Seems that a number of people in my immediate vicinity have been struck down with an attack of rabid supidity. Now, I'm not a rocket scientist, or a brain surgeon. But I do own a little common sense. So, when someone asks me if they can install a URL filter on a machine, I'd like to hope it doesn't already have a different URL filtering app on it. Ha. Wrong. Missed. Do not pass GO, do not collect £200. Just try to recover the fucking horrendous mess that was once a fairly useful and active URL filter. It's not that it can't be done. It just requires a little logic, if you intend to chain them. But noooooo. Slap it on, mess with it for five minutes, then forget it ever existed, leaving the mess for some other poor bastard to clear up. Still, it's only a little thing.
Then there's the floppy drive. It doesnt work. I know this. I asked a colleague to replace the drive, and test it. Then, if it worked, to isntall a SCSI card, and cable up the drive that was already in there. Ho, fuck no. I wandered in there two hours later after I'd just been asked "Did you get it working yet?". Floppy, scsi card, and cabling, all still on the side. People never fail to amaze me.
Ho well.
Y'know, I'm not going to refer to easy things as "hardly brain surgery" anymore. It seems to be triviallising (is that a word?) brain surgery. From now on, it's gonna have to be "It's hardly breathing, is it?"
Or something.
Later, cynics.
Then there's the floppy drive. It doesnt work. I know this. I asked a colleague to replace the drive, and test it. Then, if it worked, to isntall a SCSI card, and cable up the drive that was already in there. Ho, fuck no. I wandered in there two hours later after I'd just been asked "Did you get it working yet?". Floppy, scsi card, and cabling, all still on the side. People never fail to amaze me.
Ho well.
Y'know, I'm not going to refer to easy things as "hardly brain surgery" anymore. It seems to be triviallising (is that a word?) brain surgery. From now on, it's gonna have to be "It's hardly breathing, is it?"
Or something.
Later, cynics.
posted by Subscribed at 5:21 PM
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Mr Bradley, now im sure you are well aware that if things were made idiot proof they would just invent better idiots now wouldnt they? Please vent m,ore often like this as it acta as a sort of therapy for me having to deal with overseas IQ challenged IT peoples!
I'm pretty sure I'll have more rants to post. As you say, the idiots get, well, I'm not sure better is the right word, maybe more focused...
Link added too!
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