“It’s not a feature. It’s a bug!”
Posts by elitejedimaster
13 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Nov 2014
Microsoft breaks Microsoft account sign-ins in Windows 11 with latest update
User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't
Sunday 14th December 2025 12:15 GMT
Back in my tech support days I had many users that were every bit as dense as this one. More than once I would have to ask the user to describe everything they saw and with their way down. Once they saw that to which I was originally asking for made a dim bulb light up. Then I had to hold their hand as I walked them step by excruciating step on what to do next. Ask a user to turn their computer off then back on? Still says the same thing? Ahh, you only turned the screen off and back on. The computer is the box you put the floppies into. No, that's not the hard drive. How do you right click? See your mouse? See the button on the right? Yup, that's it.
Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
Russian IT pro sentenced to 14 years forced labor for sharing medical data with Ukraine
European Commission broke its own data privacy law with Microsoft 365 use
Google says there's no Waze forward, carpool app axed
Decentralized IPFS networks forming the 'hotbed of phishing'
Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced techie is indistinguishable from magic
Sunday 16th August 2020 06:42 GMT
This reminds me of my old tech support job when dialup was the way you got online from home. I was befuddled by a user that could not connect, and nothing I tried over the phone worked. So I decided a house call was in order and drove the 50 miles to the customers house on my own time just because I needed the challenge.
Upon arrival, I connected my laptop to their phone line and attempted to connect. Whilst the loud negotiation tones rang from my speakers, I noticed the sound cut out once every second. Having grown up on a farm, this sounded suspiciously familiar. I picked up on the phone line and heard an even more familiar ticking sound that told me exactly what the problem was. I asked the customer if they had recently installed an electric fence, which they confirmed. After unplugging said fence, Internet connectivity was promptly achieved.
Go figure.
Dumpster diving to revive a crashing NetWare server? It was acceptable in the '90s
OK brainiacs, we've got an IT cold case for you: Fatal disk errors on an Amiga 4000 with 600MB external SCSI unless the clock app is... just so
Come to Malmö for St Peter's. Stay for the Bork
Not a Genius move after all: Apple must cough up $$$ in back pay for store staff forced to wait for bag searches
The next big thing in medical science: POO TRANSPLANTS
Monday 24th November 2014 09:44 GMT 
I've actually observed a fecal transplant procedure in the hospital in which I work. It was to a patient with C. diff, and apart from the discomfort of the nasogastric tube, went very well. It takes just a few minutes to complete, and the patient gets no icky taste of poo, because the tube is placed into the duodenum (initial part of small intestine for those not medically inclined). A rather interesting procedure, actually.