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yes - its migration authentication code
something they should really know at an ISP
not a mac address though which is something else
Had an "IT pro" as he professed many times on the phone trying to use his blackberry with the blackberry desktop management software. When you plug the Blackberry in, it will ask you for a password if you use one on your phone.
He can unlock his phone no problem by typing in the password but when he plugs it in to the computer and types in the same password its says "wrong password" I say to him you must be typing the wrong password.
We go back and forth a few times and then i break it down and ask him to first tell me what his password is and then tell me exactly what buttons he is pressing on his phone.
He bitches about it and accuses me of belittling him.
Turns out his password has letters and numbers in and when he types it in to his blackberry he does not press alt when typing the numbers.
Then when he (the IT pro) plugs the blackberry in to his machine he does type in the numbers as he now has a full keyboard, therefore not typing in the same password which he keys in to his blackberry.
I bet he had a face like a beetroot.
He can unlock his phone no problem by typing in the password but when he plugs it in to the computer and types in the same password its says "wrong password" I say to him you must be typing the wrong password.
We go back and forth a few times and then i break it down and ask him to first tell me what his password is and then tell me exactly what buttons he is pressing on his phone.
He bitches about it and accuses me of belittling him.
Turns out his password has letters and numbers in and when he types it in to his blackberry he does not press alt when typing the numbers.
Then when he (the IT pro) plugs the blackberry in to his machine he does type in the numbers as he now has a full keyboard, therefore not typing in the same password which he keys in to his blackberry.
I bet he had a face like a beetroot.
Year and years ago my ol' fella came up to my house and I was showing him the new rig I'd just built. He asked me what sort of things you could look at on the pc and I told him anything you wanted to. I nip downstairs to find that he'd typed in something like 'slutty nurses' and was sitting there with his jaw wide open looking at filth.
Him and my ol' dear go home.
Three days later I get a call from him to say that he'd bought a pc and could I set it up for him. I reckon I spent about £100 in total on petrol driving down to his house because his screen kept popping up with filth every time he switched it on and he was scared my ol' dear would see it.
He kept on telling me that it was Microsoft Updates that had installed the filth but the last straw came when he told me that four payments of £75 quid had been coming out of his bank account although he hadn't received the goods that he'd ordered from the net. When I asked him what it was he told me it was Anti Virus software from Spain
Funnily enough he couldn't remember what it was called but that his discs would be sent out in plain brown paper wrapping
I felt bad telling him that I'd had enough even though I had shown him the steps to keep his pc running smoothly. Last time I spoke to him he had won an Audi TT for being some websites one millionth customer
Him and my ol' dear go home.
Three days later I get a call from him to say that he'd bought a pc and could I set it up for him. I reckon I spent about £100 in total on petrol driving down to his house because his screen kept popping up with filth every time he switched it on and he was scared my ol' dear would see it.
He kept on telling me that it was Microsoft Updates that had installed the filth but the last straw came when he told me that four payments of £75 quid had been coming out of his bank account although he hadn't received the goods that he'd ordered from the net. When I asked him what it was he told me it was Anti Virus software from Spain
Funnily enough he couldn't remember what it was called but that his discs would be sent out in plain brown paper wrappingI felt bad telling him that I'd had enough even though I had shown him the steps to keep his pc running smoothly. Last time I spoke to him he had won an Audi TT for being some websites one millionth customer
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My first day at college. We were being told how to login to the college network (via dos) and how our user ids were made up from letters from our surname, first name and date of birth. By default our passwords were set to "Apple". We'd all logged in and set our own passwords, and got into windows. Except one guy sat opposite me. He'd ignored the user id section and proceeded to go straight to typing in the default password at the dos prompt. If that wasn't bad enough couldn't even spell it right. All the way down his screen it just read...
C:\> appel
Bad command or file name
C:\> appel
Bad command or file name
C:\> appel
Bad command or file name
C:\> appel
Bad command or file name
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Jon Venables trying to remove his hard drive with a tin opener.
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Fox was obviously being sarcastic, pointing out that the majority of people probably don't know what a KVM switch is.
I had something similar at my last school. The teacher was trying to tap the whiteboard and move things around but nothing was happening on the whiteboard. I came and had a look and agreed nothing was working. I then looked at the pen tray on the whiteboard and noticed that there were only three there. So where was the other one? Found it on a table nearby and put it back into the tray. The whiteboard detected the presence of all four pens and lo and behold tapping the whiteboard now worked.
You'd be lucky to find a smartboard with more than one pen at my school, the pen trays were full of rubbers and random items of stationary to keep the mouse focus.
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classic one we get here is people with network issues "ok can you just check the network cables in at the wall for me" shortly followed by "beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" as they pull the phone socket out rather than the network one!
Years ago, when I worked in retail I had a woman come in and ask me about a specific printer. I showed her to the printer and corrected her when she stated it was A3 (it was a small printer). She got quite angry with me and said " My son says it's A3 and he earns a lot more money than you so he should know". I tried arguing with her but she wouldn't have it. She bought the printer.
2 days later she brought it back and complained to my manager that I'd sold her an A4 printer which I'd claimed could print A3 and I should be fired in her opinion.
2 days later she brought it back and complained to my manager that I'd sold her an A4 printer which I'd claimed could print A3 and I should be fired in her opinion.
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bs?
How else do you load software other than putting the software dvd into the dvd rom drive
Knowing itunes it probably will!