A new low
David Steinberg
"Hi I couldn't connect at 33.6, so I formatted my hard drive"
Top that one folks. :)
-David "ZZYZX" Steinberg www.ihoz.com "very strange raving egomaniac"
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Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
>>>>> "DS" == David Steinberg <zz...@seanet.com> writes:
DS> "Hi I couldn't connect at 33.6, so I formatted my hard drive"
DS> Top that one folks. :)
Oh, they format their HD's for the weirdest reasons.
L: "I coudn't find the icon for MS Word anymore, so I formatted the
HD"
- any more?
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Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <s...@online.no> wrote:
> >>>>> "DS" == David Steinberg <zz...@seanet.com> writes:
> DS> "Hi I couldn't connect at 33.6, so I formatted my hard drive"
> DS> Top that one folks. :)
> Oh, they format their HD's for the weirdest reasons.
> L: "I coudn't find the icon for MS Word anymore, so I formatted the
> HD"
> - any more?
Okay:
A week doesn't go by that we don't get at least 2-3 calls from fscking
(L)users who for one strange reason or another are compelled to
perform this act.
- Installed a new sound card. It didn't work. Took it out. The
old one didn't work. Reformatted HD.
- Your S/W didn't work. Reformatted H/D.
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David Steinberg <zz...@seanet.com> wrote:
> "Hi I couldn't connect at 33.6, so I formatted my hard drive"
> Top that one folks. :)
Top it? I doubt it. But I think I will refer it to our dept. for
incorporation into troublshooting techniques. We have often discussed
the idea of recommending H/D reformatting as a LART Object lesson #1!
Steve Holton <BLINK>
In article <90lzpv4...@opus.online.no>, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
<s...@online.no> wrote:
> L: "I coudn't find the icon for MS Word anymore, so I formatted the
> HD"
>
> - any more?
How can youu miss something THAT BIG?
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>>>>> "ST" == Steve Tursi <ste...@yaf.com> writes:
ST> I don't know what you guys are talking about. I love it when
ST> lusers reformat.. you know they don't have any crap on their
ST> machines that will make your job harder.
Very good point, but still you got to admit that, from time to time,
it's amusing to hear _why_ people format their harddrives.
Steve Tursi
I don't know what you guys are talking about. I love it when lusers
reformat.. you know they don't have any crap on their machines that will
make your job harder.
DS> "Hi I couldn't connect at 33.6, so I formatted my hard drive"
DS> Top that one folks. :)
>
> Oh, they format their HD's for the weirdest reasons.
> L: "I coudn't find the icon for MS Word anymore, so I formatted the
> HD"
Steve Holton <BLINK>
> >- Installed a new sound card. It didn't work. Took it out. The
> >old one didn't work. Reformatted HD.
> >
> >- Your S/W didn't work. Reformatted H/D.
Hmmm. How about...
" I got this email, said PENPALL GREETINGS. Now, I didn't want no stinkin'
virus, so I formatted my harddrive..."
And before you ask, no I haven't had this call.
jen kilmer
Steve Tursi <ste...@yaf.com> wrote in article
<5j05ud$b...@newsops.execpc.com>...
| I don't know what you guys are talking about. I love it when lusers
| reformat.. you know they don't have any crap on their machines that will
| make your job harder.
Yeah, right.
I had a few too many calls to believe that.
What they DO is format it, THEN put back everything
they had before, repeating the SAME STUPID MISTAKES
that they did before, only now they've formatted it
so they think it's CLEAN and so the PROBLEM has to
be your stupid broken software and billgates is the
antichrist and you're the antichrist and Imgoingto
killyouyoustupidcunt . . .
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jen kilmer (je...@microsoft.com) wrote:
: I had a few too many calls to believe that.
:
: What they DO is format it, THEN put back everything
: they had before, repeating the SAME STUPID MISTAKES
: that they did before, only now they've formatted it
At least they have some reason to think it's "clean". There was a caller a
few days ago who had a MS tech walk him through reinstalling 95... as in
just running the setup again. And he wonders why his connectoid isn't
working. Well it isn't going to when the components are on the hard disk,
but it's a virgin registry--opened the DUN properties of the connection
and no section at all for allowed protocols, just the Ok & Cancel buttons.
Sean
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Are you serious?!??!?! Heavy money, this was a blonde female from Dallas.
I can say this as there are tons of them around here.
Maverick
In article 100000@kisa, David Steinberg <zz...@seanet.com> writes:
>"Hi I couldn't connect at 33.6, so I formatted my hard drive"
>
>Top that one folks. :)
>
BroCaCa
eus...@exu.ericsson.se wrote:
> In article 100000@kisa, David Steinberg <zz...@seanet.com> writes:
> >"Hi I couldn't connect at 33.6, so I formatted my hard drive"
> Are you serious?!??!?! Heavy money, this was a blonde female from Dallas.
> I can say this as there are tons of them around here.
All I can say is that you must be doing either organizational, OEM, or
shop tech support and not ISP tech support. I recognized this call
right-away. It does happen. We get them too.
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