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I was working on my PC one day and the phone rang. It was some girl who needed help with a disk problem she was having. My dad's got his company listed in the phone book and she must have grabbed the number quickly from there. It seems she couldn't get anything to save to her floppy disk. I told her to flick the "little button in the bottom corner".
"Oh, it's working now", she said.
I didn't have the heart to send her an invoice =).
poor girl!!
I just came up with another one:
What tech support person can honestly say they haven't wanted to kill somebody for confusing hard drives and memory?
That's one of my biggest pet peeves. Every time somebody does that, I just want to strangle them.
ME: Your hard drive is NOT your memory! Get it right!
THEM: *GASP*
ME: Say your hard drive is not your memory! SAY IT!
THEM: *choke*
ME: SAY IT!!!
THEM: *ack*
:D
The absolute worst question has got to be:
H0\/\/ D0 1 H4><0R |\/|Y FR13|\|D$ B0><? 1 D0|\|'7 \/\/4|\|7 70 4C7U411Y D0 |\|3 D4|\/|4G3, 1 JU$7 \/\/\4|\|7 70 |<|\|0\/\/ |-|0\/\/
For those less-l337 of you, the translation is: "How do I hack my friend's computer? I don't want to actually do any damage, I just want to know how."
--PhirePhreak (or, P|-|1R3P|-|R34|<, lol)
It isn't really a question as much as a statement:
"I jus want Nowledge to be fr33, d00d!"
The "Hacker Manifesto" has indirectly done so much evil. <shudder>
The other part is the
"I just want to KNOW how, that's all!" and the:
I guess that sort of blankets a lot of the "Teach me to hack X" questions.Quote:
Please tell me how to do this complicated end-goal in ten easy steps. Oh, and I'm not about to give you any information on the billions of variables implicit in this problem, or anything that might help you decide. All I can tell you is that it is some sort of Linux, and I want root. Thanks.
P.S.: How do you get a DOS prompt?
Well, Terr, I think that last one topped them all. And notice how those "teach me to hack" ones all fall into that simple "formula" that you quoted. They want to crack a server, but don't want to actually do any work, much less do any good.
--PhirePhreak
I was once asked..."This linux thing... do they make AOL for it?"
or
"KCA(a teach yourself how to type the AOL way software program) won't work! Did you do something to the command prompt!?"
I almost said "Yes I did, and I hope the problem spreads!"
OK my worst and/or funiest was a girl that worked in the building across the street called and ask if I could get the computer her mom got from work [her mom works at the local library] to work they couldn't get it to come on, so I said yea I'll try I thought maybe it was just a boot only or an old network box that they just gave away[it was a 386] anyway she brought it in and set it up monitor, keyboard and all, so I said what's it doing? she said it wont come on and started pressing the reset button in the front....I said how about this big red switch on the side that says off/on?? And yes eveytime I see her I say "the big red switch" wouldn't you:) :)
this isn't actually a question....but every 30 days ....it starts out...
they..."my password doesn't work..."
me..."did you use the new one i gave you yesterday?"
they..."yes...it doesn't work"
me...."did you type it in exactly as i gave it to you?"
they..."yes"
me...."are you sure?"
they..."yes"
me..."did you type it is upper and lower case like it's supposed to be?"
they...(here's the question)..."oh...does that matter?"
me...'yes"....biting tongue...while thinking....HOW MANY TIMES...#$@$#%@...STUPID F&$^#^#&^...arrrrrrrghhhhh...
User: what is left after an operation on a live brain transplant donor.
sigh...passwords change in a week...
House calls are always a riot.
Me: I can tell you how to take care of that over the phone.
Them: No, I need you to come over
Me: OK Fine....
I go over there.....
Them: I need this file off my computer.
Right Click, Delete...
Them: I could've done that.
Me: I know, that's what I said!
Drives me crazy... It's fun though.