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- Some people are so dumb
- About a month ago, one of our dumber members posted a question about how to hack into yahoo accounts. Funny, we see a lot of that here, and it is always by people that have been a member for about 15 minutes.It this particular question, I posted how easy...
- Tags: jdclyde, password, PT Barnum, noobies, dumb people, security, hacking, e-mail, yahoo, hacker, off-topic, dumb users, TR Mugs
- Discussion threads 2007-02-22
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- What's with the recent rash of dumb questions and postings from India?
- They range from 2 word illegible sentences to dumb technical questions being posted from people in India whose profiles claim they are "Desktop Support" or "Value Added Resellers". Folks, these are perfect examples of the kind of "quality experts"
- Tags: off-topic, Why Me Worry?
- Discussion threads 2007-03-09
- The dumb things organizations do to mess up team building
- I ran across an article the other day on about.com, written by Human Resources specialist Susan M. Heathfield. In the article, Heathfield cites 20 dumb things that organizations can do to screw up their relationship with the people who work for them. Here are a couple of my personal "favorites."...
- Tags: Workplace, Team Management, Personnel, Managment, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Extremely Stupid MIT Student wears fake bomb into airport
- news of the ODD! Happy Fridayhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070921/ap_on_re_us/fake_bomb_15http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3635225&page=1MIT has apparently lowered their standards. This ID10T wore a tshirt with an actual circuit board on the outside into an airport. And was carrying a lump of play-doh.Doh!I'm sorry if this sounds mean but maybe police should have...
- Tags: SECURITY, Dr Dij, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Discussion threads 2007-09-21
- Hitachi plays dumb in shunning notebooks
- About time :)I've been waiting for this. For years it's seemed a little absurd for companies to place expensive, complicated, buggy, security holes, a.k.a., full-featured PCs, on user's desktops. To heck with Citrix, et al, give 'em a dumb terminal to do their WORK. No viruses/spyware, no...
- Tags: Don "Bear" Wilkinson, Hitachi Ltd., notebook
- Discussion threads 2005-01-05
- Court upholds copyright law on 'orphan works'
- Link to the image gallerySearch this book!http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-1035_11-38680.htmlso, Is this a dead issue now?Very interesting, I still don't believe it solves anything, just makes it more confusing to more people. Wouldn't be nice if every person on this planet could have all the knowlege there is available to them? ...
- Tags: books, copyright law, networking, news, search, Sonja Thompson
- Discussion threads 2007-01-23
- Submit your entries for the 2001 Dumb Tech awards
- We've made fun of dumb users. Now it's time to poke a little fun at ourselves. Send us your stories about those techs who should have known better or just never got it at all.When Support Republic started the “Dumb User” contest in 1999, we received an overwhelming response. TechRepublic...
- Tags: Bill Detwiler, Dumb User, fax
- Technical articles 2000-11-20
- hot
- am hotMove to Alaska? NT.Sign up with Elite Model Management? NT.Return yourself to your rightful owner? NT.Stick a fan under your deskand point it properlyrun around the office naked screamingTake Me! Take Me! to everyone you meet!!!Turn on the AC:)Open a windowand jump out, the air flow should...
- Tags: mimoa7@..., Microsoft Windows NT
- Discussion threads 2007-07-09
- Dumb is in the eye of the beholder
- I just published Deb Shinder's list of "10 dumb thingsusers do that can mess up their computers," and not surprisingly, ithas sparked a fairly edgy discussionthat touches on users' intractability or inability to learn basic practicesand develop a little tech self-reliance. Also included in this mix is thefailure of many...
- Tags: Deb Shinder
- Blog posts 2006-05-18
- How about a few classic clueless-TECH stories?
- What began as a forumfor exchanging outrageous tales of user goofiness wound up as "10classic clueless-user stories" in both article and download format,showcasing a few of the more bizarre accounts.Now I'd like to force-morph the discussion into a look atthe other side of the coin: IT pro foibles and blunders.In...
- Tags: information technology, IT Staff
- Blog posts 2006-03-06
- Diving for the exit
- The thing that always seems most dangerous and stupid to me is those folks on a multilane highway who are out of position as their exit apporaches and dive across 3 or 4 lanes of traffic to make their exit. One day on my way to work on...
- Tags: lane, wild driving, markvallaster@..., off-topic, exit
- Discussion threads 2006-09-09
- 10 midyear resolutions for support techs
- Olduvai and Tristram?I didn't know Becky was a DOOM and Diablo fan! Well, I'm off to Terokkar Forest to farm some Netherweb Spider Silk or maybe to the Elemental Plateau in Nagrand for a few primals. Papa needs an epic flying mount!RE: 10 midyear resolutions for support techs#1 What...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Bill Detwiler - TechRepublic, user story
- Discussion threads 2007-07-10
- Internet Culture -- Culture Like a Mold
- Today, I present some commentary on Internet culture, in the form of links to external websites. Enjoy. "The Internet has always had loud dumb people, but I've never seen anything quite as bad as the people who comment on YouTube videos." "HD disk format wars are over" -- piracy won....
- Tags: Culture, Internet, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Chad Perrin
- Blog posts 2006-12-27
- What does TechRepublic do worst?
- So, crazy notion #437: What should TR stop doing? As I'm plowing through a book on design philosophy, I keep running into a lot of dumb decisions TR has made along the way, at least as far as feature development and design go. I...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-04-03
- U.K. cops want to attack terrorism Web sites
- It's the people stupid.It is the people, not web sites, that are causing the problems. Stop the people, and the web sites will go away. I have yet to hear of a web site that killed anyone!courts disagreethat white supremecist who moved from fallbrook to oregon had website...
- Tags: ChewyBass, security, terrorism, Web, Web site
- Discussion threads 2005-07-26
- Is Technology making people stupid?
- From my Blog:The question just raced across my desk that got me thinking. The question was: Is technology making us stupid.I had to go back to my cave and seriously go over all of the past 10 years and in retrospect, the conclusion that I drew was that...
- Tags: The Admiral
- Discussion threads 2005-11-21
- 10 dumb things users do that can mess up their computers
- Great List But . . .I agree with all the things that you listed and have had repeated services calls in all those areas. Many times repeatedly re-servicing the same customer for the same dumb action.But . . . you forgot or had to eliminate the following that have been...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Web technology, j2will, things user, computer
- Discussion threads 2007-08-02
- no route to subnet address?
- I have plugged in and connected a WYSE terminal. It will not connect correctly saying that " there is no route to the specified subnet address " I need to have this computer up and running ASAP.A Wyse terminal is not a computerIt's just that, a terminal. It needs...
- Tags: Mainframes, Jake@..., Wyse Technology Inc., computer, subnet
- Discussion threads 2007-03-13
- Why 'Star Trek's Prime Directive is stupid'
- Nice write up, I completely agreeI also think the vision of Earth in the Star Trek universe is naive and idiotic. It's a nice utopia to think about, but totally unrealistic when people are free to think. The freedom to think unfortunately also means people will have evil...
- Tags: species, george_ou@..., Prime Directive, off-topic, geekend, Star Trek
- Discussion threads 2007-02-12
- XP Pro Administrator account not in administrators group.
- I ran into a very strange issue today on a workstation and wanted to run it past you guys. Somehow... the local Administrator account on a workstation was no longer part of the local administrators group. We didn't notice that until after we removed it from the domain....
- Tags: Workstations, joel.gerstenmier@..., Microsoft Windows XP Professional, domain, workstation, administrator
- Discussion threads 2007-04-04
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