Evening Reading

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• lol. : Ormsbee
• story of my life : CyCo_PL
• lol @ how many windows do you have open. : KxRook
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  lol @ 'FoxFire', i've heard that from my mum only she used its full name, Mozzarella Foxfire. : Baba Ghanoush
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    My mom calls it "foxfire" too, and I can't understand for the life of me why so many older folks seem to ... : thetangent
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      90% of my clients call it FoxFire : sludge vohaul
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        They're confused by the "noun-noun" techy thing name rather than the "adjective-noun" variety. I bet the... : DinK
        • Interesting. But how does switching the words around turn 'fox' into an adjective? : famine101
• I was removing files I didn't need... Reinstall windows. Hehe : bad_fish
• So true. And I'm not even in IT or anything (yet), but my whole family continues to think my job is that ... : invisible_kid
• Yea I think I've lived through about 95% of those :( : SolveChrist
• Foxfire ... fuck that hits too close to home : rosewood
• fucking tumblr servers : Maarten Goldstein
• Luckily my parents found a local shop to build their computers that seems decent. I feel slightly guilty... : Freon
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  oh god the horrible memories. : ant_hillbilly
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    However chrome + adblock plus, and MSE has really helped keep technical issues down the past year. : ant_hillbilly
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      i made the mistake of hooking the gf up with NoScript, and i am now personally responsible for every brok... : Veegeezee
      • haha yea I knew not to go that far. : ant_hillbilly
      • Yeah noscript is plain annoying. I end up flipping it off on 95% of the sites I use at work anyway. : xylopagus
• haha, amusing because they're true. PRESS ENTER LIKE A BOSS : DinK
• i'm on board with this one : aurealis
• I related. Hard. : Mr.Finkster
• "Family bitches about internet, reset router. A God." hahahahaha that happens so much for me. My pow... : TheVietSpecial
• HOW DO I DO.... JUST MOVE. : vile
• answer call from mom fix tcp/ip config from memory, been there : fletch_
• How do I do... Just move is so true. Then they get pissed off that you didn't let them do it, of cours... : lunarbunny
• Already fixed the printer here >:[ : hobohun7er
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  http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldoxu3ngzl1qe11kdo1_400.jpg : Godhatesfatpeople
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    http://www.doggiestylish.com/store/images/wordpress/uploads/2010/08/duck_dog_mask.jpg : eldiablo01
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      That ruins all the future duck pictures I'll be looking at...thanks a lot. : ImageOmega
      • You should see the follow up without the masks *shudder* : zakazi
• My life every day of the week. :( : guido anchovy
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  Too true. Beginning in 2011, I start charging for this shit. : SigmaDraconis
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    best way to get rid of the calls. If they balk tell them it takes your time away from what you do and th... : redfive
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      Ugh, I'd at least be nice enough to find them a list of real repair shops in their area. : lunarbunny
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        telling people to call geek squad is like an awesome slap in the face though : dantastic
        • My family has balked at me for not wanting to work at Geek Squad. Sadly, I have dealt with all of thes... : The Kazlor
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  I was on the subway sometime last year and overheard some dude doing the "fix TCP/IP from memory" one. : drazz
  • I've done this! : TabsAZ
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  Oh god, that's EXACTLY my in regards to one of my sisters. Holy crap is it dead-on. I just emaile... : TickHeadDog
  • err, "EXACTLY ME" not my. I speak good England. : TickHeadDog
• I went for dinner at my parents this Sunday and to my overwhelming surprise and relief they announced the... : dael
• yeeeeaap : godm0de
• I like this meme, i just scrolled down checking each one off the list. : alphablu
• 'Godzilla Firebox?' : scener
• I like your username : mayooms
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  Every single time my mom wants to email a photo to her friends, I have to show her how to do it again. ... : LemonJoose
  • Hahaha, same with my Mom on both accounts. : OmegaRed59
• When I was a cable guy, a good quarter of all new cable modem customers wanted me to configure AOL so the... : riptyde
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  Sucks, huh? My favorite is how because "I know computers" I'm supposed to have some amazing universal understanding of every program and website ever made.

  Dec 20, 2010 7:21pm PST
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  Sucks, huh? My favorite is how because "I know computers" I'm supposed to have some amazing universal und... : K1Bond007
  • you mean you don't? : umegastar
  • Fake it. : alias
  • With google, you do : rosewood
  • Mom: How do I send this website to my friends on AOL? Me: Oy. Copy the address from the web browser and... : Ovate
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    That bugs me so much, I'm more techie than probably 98% of posters here even, and that still doesn't mean... : Toraz Chryx
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      i was thinking who is this arrogant dude and then i saw your username and thought oh, well, he's kinda ri... : GloriousCow
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        There are definitely people here even more in the loop than I am, I mean there's a few Intel circuit desi... : Toraz Chryx
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          i just realized I've always mentally pronounced your last name as 'chicks' : GloriousCow
          • No, the R is not silent. : Toraz Chryx
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    Most people have no sense of UI conventions and treat every new program like it's another foreign languag... : Bamtan
    • That makes their assumption that someone who "knows computers" will be fluent with every application even... : Toraz Chryx
    • Many people live their entire live like that. Never had any classmates that treated math as 'remembering ... : tcs
    • are we talking about linux programmers now? : GloriousCow
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  I haven't had a support call since I got my parents on Chrome and MSE with win 7. Still though when I vi... : packav
  • Mine just bought new laptops and I plan on doing this very thing for them. Will be great not to have to d... : the_burd
• Could you turn on the computer? Thats the monitor. LOL! : rick
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  it's been awhile for me but i fondly remember the "i was deleting files i didn't need" situation. it's s... : EvilDolemite
  • also any college student the least bit technically inclined, whether you're a computer science major or j... : EvilDolemite
• i'm starting to dread going home for the holidays : CecilPhilpot
• Oh god, so much truth :( : etherboy
• lol at the come home for break one. EXACTLY! : uebersoldat
• new meme? memegenerator? what is this nonsense? : RikiTiki2
• Yesterday I was doing some home IT support. My dad got my grandfather's year old iMac after he passed awa... : BlackCat9
• Makes me laugh so hard I teared up a little :) : VictoriouSecret
• Hahaha, sooo true! I'm not in IT, but as the resident computer nerd, I experience pretty much all of thos... : csana
• NONE, I'M IN THE BASEMENT. lol : xxiv
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  There should be some meme about this common occurrence: Stupid Person: Hey xylo how do I <do this thin : xylopagus
  • I know its not funny 99.9% of the time, but this XKCD comic sums up my tech support method : http://xkcd.... : Baba Ghanoush
• Whenever i do support for a girl friend over the phone they never stop whining how confusing is this, as ... : hanged_man
• All too familiar. :( : David Craddock
• lol :\ : bolneze
• my brother works for a major computer security company now so I pass the buck and feign ignorance : deadfish
• http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/12/ I really wonder if we'll all go full retard for some tech ... : tcs
• Those are great. I'm getting that from coworkers. Their kids are starting to come back from college and o... : baron calamity
• haha fuck me, just as i'm reading this my mom calls me about this Incredimail bullshit because she wants ... : rookieone