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  • Bad IT people

    First of all, sorry for not posting much lately. It's a very busy time, I just finished working for a month, gonna buy a new laptop, a Dell.

    Didn't have that much time (and energy) to do much computer related things, and if I did something it wasn't worth blogging about it (and yes, I usually set my standards pretty high :p)

    But here is a little teaser, a small list I gathered some years ago, all based on true events:

    Bad IT people:

    • Can not press CTRL-ALT-DEL properly
    • Lose their command prompt
    • Can not configure their e-mail client
    • Do not understand <form>
    • Can not put RAM in the right memory banks
    • Do not understand https://
    • Can not install & configure IIS
    • Deny that Google is the best search engine
    • Can not use command line 'ftp'
    • Do not understand what dual-boot means
    • Can not open a .pdf file
    • Forget to check the power supply on failure
    • Can not use MS Excel
    • Believe that MSN is the only IM
    • Do not know the difference between their LAN IP and external IP
    • Are scared when their cpu load is at 100%
    • Do not know what extensions are
    • Put their pencil in a pc cooler
    • Believe that Hotmail is a program
    • Can not see extensions
    • Destroy their mobo and CPU by installing a printer
    • Do not know what their source code is
    • Can not open unknown files
    • Burn 1.8Mb on a 700MB CDR
    • Do not known what a proxy is