Two weeks ago I contacted Computer Associates with a tech support question. A short while after I contacted them I received an email from them assuring me that my happiness was critical to them feeling good about themselves and asking if I’d mind filling out a survey about my experience with their support folks after [...]
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I flew to British Columbia this past long weekend. On the flight up I was on a Delta flight that had televisions in the back of the headrests. And so it was I caught about 10 seconds of Jim Cramer and Mad Money. In my defense I was flipping around, came across him on the [...]
We had an issue, a while back, where a user was sending attached files that would arrive looking like junk – the text would look like either Wingdings or just oddball, indefinable (past calling them random lines) characters. The mail, itself, would sometimes look like trash. The problem was they were being sent out using [...]
I unboxed a laser printer – a wireless one — at 7:30 a.m. this morning with the thought I’d have it on the network and ready for use by 8:30. After all, it was a simple thing to do. This would leave plenty of time to work on a database I’d started designing yesterday. You [...]
When we last left off I was trying to get Backup Exec software to load on a computer. The software was an “update” to an item I’d installed in demo mode that had worked but was going to expire and that I could no longer get a serial number for. After wasting far too much [...]
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I’ve been working on a software problem for two and a half days. Over the course of those days I’ve: Called Computer Associates. They were unhelpful, which was cool as I didn’t expect them to be helpful as it appears to be against their company policy. Still, I thanked the two guys I spoke with [...]
A rerun per my July 5th, 2009 note to you all. Edited a hair. Originally posted September 16, 2005. And sort of a request as MikeO sent me a reminder about this one a short while back. * * * * I am the IT guy for an electronics company. Periodically I need to send [...]
A while back a laser printer died and I sat it aside with a note that said, “I’ll take this to the recycling place when I get back from vacation.” And then I forgot about it. Mostly because it was in a room I hardly ever go into but also because my subconscious didn’t want [...]
I had a bit of trouble with a Microsoft Access Query this morning. I was trying to extract Open Sales Order Data from our ERP package in a manner that would cut down on the keystrokes the end-user would have to use to get the same data. To do this I did a DLOOKUP in [...]
I just ran across an article about ShadyURL. It’s Link-shortening (wait, “modifying,” as they’re rarely shorter) service that gives the new URL a suspicious-sounding name. One of the modified URLs for Delmer.com was: http://5z8.info/freeporn_i1m0_stalin-will-rise-again Others: Blogography: http://5z8.info/alqaeda-message-boards_m9h5_racist LeSombre: http://5z8.info/turkeyporn_s6q8a_taliban-meetup Google: http://5z8.info/dogs-being-eaten_c4u9_getPersonalData-start Banal Leakage: http://5z8.info/killallimmigrants_v7e8_hack-outlook Michael Gorey: http://5z8.info/how-to-build-a-bomb_t6g9_dogfights Kapgar: http://5z8.info/facebook-hack_f8s7_barely-legal And, finally, a shorter [...]
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