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IamSpartacus 
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 Topic: You’ve got to love the IT Dept....
Posted: 17-August-2005 at 09:15 |
After having all PC's & Networks shut down for half the day due to a viral problem, here's the mail we received from IT....
Hi everyone,
Please be advised that the problems with the virus attack are now solved:
You can now start-up your pc and log-on to the network.
Now, it’s not that I'm ungrateful or anything but as I'd logged off and shut down the PC as directed, I wasn't exactly in a position to read the mail they'd sent out…..
These boys n girls need to get out more methinks
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thepits
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Posted: 17-August-2005 at 09:53 |
Derek,
Perhaps I'm missing something here, but if you had logged off and shut down your PC, how do know they sent you an email? 
Simon - in IT!
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IamSpartacus
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Posted: 17-August-2005 at 10:03 |
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Because I'm a bad boy and logged abck on to see if anything was happening!!
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thepits
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Posted: 17-August-2005 at 10:20 |
 Derek M5 wrote:
Because I'm a bad boy and logged back on to see if anything was happening!! |
A-HA! Its people like you that we in IT love!!
"can you all log off and close down your PC's now please"
"does that include me?"
"yes, all, everybody please"
"what all the way out?"
"yes and close down your PC"
"can't I even......?"
" NO, EVERYBODY please log out, turn off your PC's........(whispered quietly)and all go home"
"But.....?"
"AGGGGGGGGGH!"
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IamSpartacus
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Posted: 17-August-2005 at 10:51 |
Yup, sounds about right. Oh sorry, when you said everyone, I thought you meant the workers, not us manager types that are busy checking our shares and idling away the hours on BMW related sites.
Have we met before then?????
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thepits
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Posted: 17-August-2005 at 11:15 |
Derek M5 wrote:
Have we met before then????? |
Probably, but you sound just like a typical user, with whom I deal day in and day out - wish they wouldn't all keep phoning in and interrupting me from my real work.....! 
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IamSpartacus
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Posted: 17-August-2005 at 11:41 |
thepits wrote:
wish they wouldn't all keep phoning in and interrupting me from my real work.....! |
Networked games of doom and such with the other techies?
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thepits
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Posted: 17-August-2005 at 12:12 |
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sleeper
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Posted: 17-August-2005 at 12:20 |
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thepits
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Posted: 17-August-2005 at 12:20 |
sleeper wrote:
porn more like. |
shhhhhhhhhhh!
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Andrew Rolland
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Posted: 18-August-2005 at 03:02 |
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IamSpartacus
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Posted: 18-August-2005 at 03:12 |
No, I never did fall for then 'any key' one, many others but not that one.
We can set our own screensavers but can we access our hotmail, gmail, or yahoo web accounts? Can we *******!!!!
Thank heavens fax machines always have a direct dial line......
Edited by Derek M5
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thepits
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Posted: 18-August-2005 at 08:16 |
Derek M5 wrote:
We can set our own screensavers but can we access our hotmail, gmail, or yahoo web accounts? Can we *******!!!! ...... |
Aha, sounds like you need help to 'tweak' IE round this!
Edited by thepits
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IamSpartacus
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Posted: 18-August-2005 at 08:35 |
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Tell me more please?????
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kbannon
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Posted: 18-August-2005 at 08:42 |
thepits wrote:
Aha, sounds like you need help to 'tweak' IE round this!  |
not if its an external firewall blocking particular websites/IPs/phrases/etc.
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IamSpartacus
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Posted: 18-August-2005 at 09:03 |
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not if its an external firewall blocking particular websites/IPs/phrases/etc. [/QUOTE]
Parade, Rain
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Horsetan
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Posted: 18-August-2005 at 09:21 |
Derek M5 wrote:
kbannon wrote:
not if its an external firewall blocking particular websites/IPs/phrases/etc.
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Shouldn't that be "Grave, Speeet" ?
Edited by Horsetan
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thepits
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Posted: 19-August-2005 at 08:45 |
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G0ph3r
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Posted: 20-August-2005 at 05:46 |
If Doctor Seuss was in IT Support
If a Packet Hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted
as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk
abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.
If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
and the
double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
and your data is
corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash,
then the situation's hopeless and
your systems gonna crash!
If the label on the cable on the table at your house,
says the network is
connected to the button on your mouse,
but your packets want to tunnel on
another protocol,
that's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
and your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
so your icons
in the window are as wavy as a souse,
then you may as well reboot and go out
with a bang,
'cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!
When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk,
and the
microcode instructions cause unnecessary risk,
then you have to flash your
memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM. Quickly turn off the computer and be
sure to tell your mom.
(Author unknown)
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