Sadly, I know the exact guys in the ads you are referring to. My only guess is that they are so freakish looking it sticks in your memory. Now, how they figure they can make the jump from remembering freaks to actually wanting to click on their ads is beyond my comprehension.
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RE: "Homeowners Fail to Refinance"
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RE: Just gimme the monies!
Wow. Maybe next year everyone will get a "cheese of the month" membership instead of a raise.
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RE: When semantic extraction goes horribly, horribly wrong
Sounds like they got the entry for Prison correct:
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RE: VPN and your ISPI used to do helpdesk for a company that was outsourced by several ISPs. One of them was for ethernet over power lines. I don't know how the technology is doing these days, but four years ago it was certainly plagued with problems in this particular testing area.posted in Side Bar WTF
Anyway, I got a call from this one guy that often stayed at a hotel that was using this type of connection, and he often ran into problems connecting when he got there. So, he decided to call up support and wanted troubleshooting to be done on his laptop days before he was even at the hotel. Somehow making sure he could connect on his home network made him figure that he would be able to connect on a completely different site.
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RE: Krispy Kreme fail
@snoofle said:
Personally, I've never had the need to call a Krispy Kreme store, or Dunkin Donuts for that matter... it's sort of a given that when you get there, baked goods will be ready and waiting.
Maybe if you're the type of person that wants to know if their favorite doughnut is available that day. Geez, what a sad life that would be.
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RE: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Second Facepalm
@DOA said:
Sometimes people make me homicidal.
I know exactly what you mean. All the other times I am most likely asleep.
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RE: How to not read a ticket
Well, it does make me happy to know that many places have idiots working for them, it's not just my building. Hooray!
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RE: Tech support WTF
@C4I_Officer said:
I think I acknlowledged one possible use of WoL that makes sense. For the remaining 95% of cases, it's probably just gonna result in a "WTF? Why does my computer turn on at night?" remark or a helpdesk ticket.
Perhaps you need to combine your WoL with something else for even better results. We use Altiris in our environment, and it's wonderful what we can do from our desks.
So, for instance we can do the reimage job that has been talked about, PXE server and all. No, all the PCs don't have to be the same model, because the software sees what kind they are and pushes the appropiate package to the system. Well, that was fun, what else?
A customer requests to have their new Xerox setup on all the PCs in their office. Simple. Send a wake up job to all the requested computer names, and follow that up with the driver install. Now I don't have to drive across town to go to the site, and manually turn the computers on, or worse, depend on some person over there to go around and turn them on for me. Try calling up a random detective in an office and ask them politely to do that.
So, I agree that WoL is rather pointless for home useage, but not having it in a larger enterprise environment just seems silly. If you like, I can continue with the ways it saves us time here.
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RE: It's Ship Has Come In (Dr. Dobbs)
@AlpineR said:
If your 5th grade teacher keeps marking "The dog barked at my friend and me" as wrong, then just give in and write "my friend and I".
That teacher should be fired for marking it wrong. Knowing when to use me or I has always made me happy.
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RE: Bad website design
But what if I have more than 20 people moving with me?