What's the most enraging thing a computer illiterate person has said to you?

[unstuck]

Fool, she may of been a bored randy housewife with an itch.

[avgas]

Fool, she may of been a bored randy housewife with an itch.

And 6 folds of skin covering it

[Akzle]

I thought that was uneligable. Should of stayed awake at school. Drugs are bad kids.

psssssssht.
there's no school in the south island.

This guy was not supposed to be computer illiterate. He is actually a project manager:

"I was going through the emails setup on the server through Outlook. I noticed there was a support one that no one was using - so I deleted it. Needed to free up some space on the server.
Turns out that is the support email that gets all the automatic emails from sites. Can Zack set it up again and recover all those emails for me?"

Me - "He can reset-up the account, but looks like you have wiped the whole history"

"It asked me something about the file was too big for the recycling bin. But I need those emails back"

Me - "Usually when I need something, I tend not to delete it permanently without asking someone else first"

y'know... windows sucks so much ass, you could probably have recovered them.
1) the undelete
2) a low level read/write to restore the file headers. (linux. f the f-ing win)

[neels]

I have given up on working on other people's computers, too much time for no reward. Almost as bad as trying to explain to a 70 year old how to use his freeview box.

I can't even get my staff to understand using automated buttons on their timesheets to do stuff in a sensible fashion instead of typing gibberish in the fields, and they're fucking technicians. The rest of the world I just don't have the time to bash my head against the wall.

[mashman]

When discussing a recruitment website with workflows forms etc...

CEO: It shouldn't take you long as it's only a textbox on a web page.

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After a discussion on what it would take to get an application up and running to meet the business needs.

General Manager: It shouldn't take that long and I've overseen 6 large website projects before.

The boss: fixes me a stare and waves his palms at me as I lean forwards with a smile on my face ready to constructively de-rage.

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A 3rd party "professional" having performed due diligence on the data that we have been capturing.

3rd Party: We have no data pertaining to clients in this given business area.
Me: Yes we do.
3rd Party: No we don't.
Me: I have an application containing 10,000+ records being used by 47 of our remote office staff that says otherwise.
3rd Party: Argues that the data isn't valid because it never showed in their analysis.
Me: Ok, you're the expert.

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Me: You realise that the reporting system you've written is calculating the Euro - GBP calculation the wrong way around.
CIO: Go and check it again, you must be wrong. (went bust 9 months later)

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Me: Your EBITDA report is missing 3 categories.
CFO: I don't believe you. (I was pulled off of the project not long after)

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Aye, cream of the crop that lot. Some people just don't like hearing bad news, especially when it's their fuckup.

[pete376403]

Aye, cream of the crop that lot. Some people just don't like hearing bad news, especially when it's their fuckup.

AKA Novopay

[avgas]

y'know... windows sucks so much ass, you could probably have recovered them.
1) the undelete
2) a low level read/write to restore the file headers. (linux. f the f-ing win)

Knowing this particular person - he would simply log in and sudo killall because the computer was too hot.
He knows enough to do dumb stuff, and not enough to do useful stuff.

Also there is no undelete or restore file headers if you remove similar to the way he del'd from windows. Best I could hope for is a bit level recovery through a shadow image on the raid. To make matters worse the moron told us about it this 2 weeks after he'd done it. So simple backup was gone.

However even if I could recover things these days I decide not to. If I do it once, its like telling them they have a safety net......so they then climb to next floor. Trust me. I have been asked if I could retrieve lost data from the network when the server was down.........the fucking network??!!!!
Yeah sure - I will just grab all the FIFO buffers from the cisco switches and then rearrange the data to suit you.
Much easier to say - no the data is gone now. Go get some more.

[YellowDog]

I had a customer let her son run up a >$5k phone bill downloading porn whilst on holiday in Spain. AND then she insisted that it was all my fault and my firm, or my firm's insurance company, should pay the bill.

When I explained that when she told me she would be holidaying in Spain, I did advise her to get a local ISP connection for Spain and that an international modem connection would only be OK for sending and receiving the odd email; she agreed that I had said that but told me I should still pay up, as I didn't state that internet downloads and website browsing might be costly. I only mentioned long email connections

Apparently is was also very slow and that was also my fault as I should have sold her a faster computer

[Jantar]

At work we have a very important application that runs on a remote PC, and to keep track that all is OK we have a slave display in the control room. One night we lost contact with the remote PC. I was unable to ping it, and data stopped being received. I logged an urgent help desk request describing the PC, its location, the nature of the problem and the consequences if the required data couldn't be received, and saying that I was unable to connect to it.

I received an email from the IT person looking into the issue asking me to get some information from the computer that I couldn't connect to or even ping. The instructions to get this information started with ' On the affected PC click start, the open a command window...'

[Akzle]

At work we have a very important application that runs on a remote PC, and to keep track that all is OK we have a slave display in the control room. One night we lost contact with the remote PC. I was unable to ping it, and data stopped being received. I logged an urgent help desk request describing the PC, its location, the nature of the problem and the consequences if the required data couldn't be received, and saying that I was unable to connect to it.

I received an email from the IT person looking into the issue asking me to get some information from the computer that I couldn't connect to or even ping. The instructions to get this information started with ' On the affected PC click start, the open a command window...'

M$ tech support at its finest!

[pzkpfw]

Worst I personally had was: "we didn't change anything."

Problem: my tracking software at the district council no longer recorded the water level in the Waituna West rural water supply.

Cause: they didn't like OS/2 Warp (which had proper multi tasking) so had installed Windows 3.11 on the PC.

Apparently changing the entire OS doesn't count as "doing anything".

[YellowDog]

Worst I personally had was: "we didn't change anything."

Problem: my tracking software at the district council no longer recorded the water level in the Waituna West rural water supply.

Cause: they didn't like OS/2 Warp (which had proper multi tasking) so had installed Windows 3.11 on the PC.

Apparently changing the entire OS doesn't count as "doing anything".

Most of my Windows 3.1 Business users ran it using OS2 as a hypervisor.

It ran faster and was more reliable

[c4.]

Was trying to organise a DVD presentation at a Motorcycle Club.
Me
"Ok, can you tell me what kind of DVD player and monitor you have?
Is it Standard def, HD, blueray?"

Answer
" it's just a normal one"

Me
"Right, I'll bring all 3 then. "

[pzkpfw]

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Most of my Windows 3.1 Business users ran it using OS2 as a hypervisor.

It ran faster and was more reliable

Of course, perversely that kind of thing stopped much software being written to target OS/2 Warp - it was so good at running Windows software. So that actually helped kill OS/2.

I wonder if that kind of thing might affect "Metro". The Windows RT tablets only do "modern U.I." (it's so locked down I personally hate the heck out of it). But a "full" Windows 8 machine will run "normal" desktop software. And manufacturers seem to be making more cheapish Win 8 tablets by using Atom processors, rather than by using Windows RT. So will Metro ever really take off? (Other than by MS forcing it on us, like how even the server installs use a metro style interface.)
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[SMOKEU]

So will Metro ever really take off? (Other than by MS forcing it on us, like how even the server installs use a metro style interface.)
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ClassicShell works well on Server 2012. It hasn't given me any problems so far, and I never have to look at that Metro interface again or that start screen.