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Not really a rant…

This is a post to clear up my last post about “help desk annoyances.” In case I offended anyone at my place of employment, that was not my intentions nor my true feelings on people in general that I assist and work with. Rants are just that, rants. They allow you to get things off [...]

Help desk annoyances

Do you know what really annoys me about work, employers, bosses, users, and managers? It annoys me when they all want something done, they want it done now or better yet yesterday. When a manager or normal user contacts the help desk, they expect results ASAP. They don’t want to wait around, they don’t want [...]

Pissing contest over Reply-To Munging

I got into a bit of a pissing contest today with someone on a list, which I’m not going to mention. I’m not mad, and so therefore I’m not getting too personal about this argument. I’ll start from the beginning. I’m going to use two mailing lists, A and B as my examples. I’m a [...]

Flash BIOS on floppies…grrrrr

So I’m still annoyed from something the other day. I had to work a little late a few evenings ago to update the BIOS and diagnostics firmware in a couple of IBM xSeries 235’s. Why do corporations still insist of using tiny ass floppies to put images on?!?! I don’t get it. I mean hardly [...]

Fireworks

I live in the wonderful state of Pennsylvania where fireworks are illegal. About the only thing that is legal in this stupid state are snakes (you know those things you set on fire and they grow), and those little snapper things you throw on the ground. Bottle rockets, nope illegal. M-80’s, nope illegal. Roman candles, [...]