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Yearly Archives: 2012

This phone has a…concussion?

User: I dropped my phone yesterday from about 4 ft. It has the symptoms of a concussion where it works when plugged in and...

Comic: Nostalgia and obsolescence

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Users with a sense of humor – makes the job just a bit better.

Straight from a colleague of mine, comes a great example of the type of user I love to deal with: --- I have one user who...

Fails in public places: Attention drivers, your Flash upgrade is ready!

It's only a matter of time before somebody hacks one of these to be a porn-board... via:

RE-IMAGE MY PC NOW!

While in Afghanistan, I was working on the helpdesk and had this irate user come in with his laptop and says his "power cord...

Screenshot Technique Could Use Some Work [pic]

Captioned: "We asked the user to note the BSOD error code before bringing in her machine. We found this taped to the side." via:

“Sorry for the free show…”

I was working graveyards, about a decade ago, doing Wireless Networking support for a major PC manufacturer. I get this call at about 2am. It's...

Sticky situation

Okay, so I was helping in the rollout of new Windows machines as well as inventory/surplus of the old machines. One day, my team...

Best task of the day

Even IT guys turn it off and back on again. via

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