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- 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
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Dumb Mistake with Shadow Copy on SBS 2003
- I made a really dumb mistake the other week. During a scheduled maintenance procedure I noticed two users with a lot of MP3s in their "My Documents" folders on the Server.Without thinking, I guess I am still in the NT 4.0 Admin Mode, I immediately deleted the MP3s from...
- Tags: AndeAnderson, DOCUMENTS, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003, MP3, MP3s, networking, recycle, sbs 2003, server, shadow copy, Shadow-Copy
- Discussion threads 2005-07-13
- 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
- How Do I Access Mail In Administrator Template Mailbox?
- Probably a dumb question but it's been a long week and I'm tired, so here goes:I administer an SBS 2003 box w/Exchange SP2 for a client. A user left the company, so I deleted the user's account (per the client's request). Twenty days after deleting
- Tags: sbs2003, recover, sbs, e-mail, exchange, software, windows, Erik Eckel, mailbox, Administrator Template, Microsoft Access
- Discussion threads 2006-12-15
- 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 dumb things users do that can mess up their computers
- Users find plenty of ways to run into trouble, from gunking up their system with shareware to leaving it exposed to attackers to forgetting about using surge protectors. Share this list with your own users so they can sidestep preventable problems like these. Technology may be changing...
- Tags: Computer, Productivity, Internet, E-mail, Construction, Online Communications
- Download resources 2006-05-17
- One user/One sender can't email
- This is driving me mad. One user can't receive email from one sender.The user can send to the sender, but when the sender tries to reply, they get a nondeliverable message. Says, "There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient's email server. Please contact your system administrator."The user...
- Tags: e-mail
- Q&A 2006-05-25
- 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
- Submit your entry for the 2001 Dumbest User award
- Everybody has a story about some idiot user who shouldn't be allowed within a mile of a keyboard. Now you have a shot at winning a TechRepublic prize for sharing your story with the rest of us.There’s nothing stranger than the truth, and at no time is that more accurate...
- Tags: Mice, Mike Walton, mouse, Dumbest User
- Technical articles 2001-05-07
- 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
- 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
- Frightening ...
- I'm agreeing with George and kinda-sorta defending Microsoft? What's this world coming to?The problem cited regarding installing/uninstalling Firefox is an installation problem - it was "over-installed". Why would an installation put shortcuts on ALL user desktops? THAT was the dumb part. MS should stick to its guns with User Accounts...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-05-08
- Defragmenter interface (Windows Vista disk defragmenter)
- Disk defragI know Microsoft likes to "dumb down" their software from time to time, but the User interface for Disk Defragmenter is ridiculous. I would like the option of knowing how badly my files are fragmented so that I can base whether to run the program at that time or...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, kathyb-cla@..., defragmenter, disk, disk defragmenter
- Discussion threads 2007-08-04
- I bet my user is
- The is the last person you want to help!I got a call from the user from the underworld. You know who I am talking about, the person who knows that the computer let him/her do this last week but will not do it this week. They were trying to...
- Tags: computer
- Discussion threads 2004-12-04
- Windows Home Server Build 3790 (Windows Home Server installation)
- Anyone remember mainframes/dumb-terminals?I have not seen Windows Home Server first-hand, so I do not know how its use is intended. But if we are supposed to just use our other Windows computers to thin-client connect to the Home Server, it sounds like candy coated Mainframe computing with dumb terminals....
- Tags: Thin clients, chi2jjk@..., Windows Home Server, computer, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-05-08
- 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
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