Invisible wrote:
> 
> Don't worry about it. I sent all our users an email a while back saying
> "If you see an error message like *this*, you need to do so-and-so". A
> few days later, I got a call from some guy about how every time he
> looked at a certain email it gave him an error message and no matter how
> much he clicked it, it wouldn't go away. *sigh*
> 

With earlier workstation I had a screenshot of error message (humorous
one "Invalid month on date 72.15.7265" (oslt, invalid month on totally
invalid date anyways). Every once in a while, usully when I was still
tired at the early morning, I clicked it to go away.

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Eero "Aero" Ahonen
   http://www.zbxt.net
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Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Don't worry about it. I sent all our users an email a while back saying
>> "If you see an error message like *this*, you need to do so-and-so". A
>> few days later, I got a call from some guy about how every time he
>> looked at a certain email it gave him an error message and no matter how
>> much he clicked it, it wouldn't go away. *sigh*
>>
> 
> With earlier workstation I had a screenshot of error message (humorous
> one "Invalid month on date 72.15.7265" (oslt, invalid month on totally
> invalid date anyways). Every once in a while, usully when I was still
> tired at the early morning, I clicked it to go away.
> 

error: unbalanced parentheses in e-mail

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> Don't worry about it. I sent all our users an email a while back saying 
> "If you see an error message like *this*, you need to do so-and-so". A few 
> days later, I got a call from some guy about how every time he looked at a 
> certain email it gave him an error message and no matter how much he 
> clicked it, it wouldn't go away. *sigh*

Hehe, the old "take a screenshot of a window and set it as the desktop 
wallpaper" trick used to confuse the hell out of even the IT guys at school 
:-)  Or the "recurring task: launch solitare.exe every 5 minutes" on an 
unused machine during a lesson.

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Invisible wrote:
> much he clicked it, it wouldn't go away. *sigh*

That's OK. I was in line behind some woman at the electronics store 
repair desk. The clerk spent, and I exagerate not, 40 minutes explaining 
that while a laptop computer *does* have a battery, one nevertheless 
needs to occasionally plug it in. And this is the icon that shows you 
it's plugged in. And if you put the mouse over it, it tells you how much 
it's charged. And if you take the battery out, and it isn't plugged in, 
you'll lose whatever you haven't saved. And it'll charge faster when 
it's turned off than when it's turned on.  And yes, when the icon says 
100% charge, it won't get any higher.

I suspect she takes the car back to the dealer when she runs out of gas, 
too.

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     Remember the good old days, when we
     used to complain about cryptography
     being export-restricted?

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Darren New wrote:

> I suspect she takes the car back to the dealer when she runs out of gas, 
> too.

I don't really know why, but some people become paralysed by fear when 
they go near a computer. Otherwise normal people become unbelievably 
stupid when confronted by a PC. It's as if their brain switches off 
while using one.

I don't know - perhaps these people think normal common sense isn't 
applicable to new technology?

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>
> > I suspect she takes the car back to the dealer when she runs out of gas,
> > too.
>
> I don't really know why, but some people become paralysed by fear when
> they go near a computer. Otherwise normal people become unbelievably
> stupid when confronted by a PC. It's as if their brain switches off
> while using one.
>
> I don't know - perhaps these people think normal common sense isn't
> applicable to new technology?

Actually normal common sense isn't applicable to new technology.
Quote from Wikipedia

Of two general meaning attached to the term "common sense" in philosophy, one is
a sense of things being common to other things, and the second is a sense of
things that are common to humanity.
It is common sense not to stick your fingers in a live socket but only if you
know what a live socket is. IM(ns)HO


Stephen

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Invisible wrote:
> 
> (Normal humans don't understand the concept of a picture of some text 
> being different to the actual text. Nor the idea that a picture of an 
> error message being different to a real error message. Next time you 
> feel like having a good giggle, try to explain to someone what the 
> difference between the string "7" and the number 7 is... Every 
> programmer in the land knows the answer, but not normal humans!)

Sure, make and break my day.

The first statement made me almost sound normal.
The last statement not.


But I have run into the second statement.  But most of the people in the 
class I was in were 'normal'.


Tom

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Darren New wrote:
> 
> I suspect she takes the car back to the dealer when she runs out of gas, 
> too.
> 

I remember reading someplace that some wealthy North American Indians 
(due to the oil boom) would buy a car and when it ran out of gas just go 
buy another one.


Tom

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scott wrote:
>> Don't worry about it. I sent all our users an email a while back 
>> saying "If you see an error message like *this*, you need to do 
>> so-and-so". A few days later, I got a call from some guy about how 
>> every time he looked at a certain email it gave him an error message 
>> and no matter how much he clicked it, it wouldn't go away. *sigh*
> 
> Hehe, the old "take a screenshot of a window and set it as the desktop 
> wallpaper" trick used to confuse the hell out of even the IT guys at 
> school :-)  Or the "recurring task: launch solitare.exe every 5 minutes" 
> on an unused machine during a lesson.
> 
> 

I once swapped the J & K keys on my keyboard at work.

It was great seeing other people try to figure out what was wrong.


Tom

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Tom Austin <taustin> wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
> >
> > I suspect she takes the car back to the dealer when she runs out of gas,
> > too.
> >
>
> I remember reading someplace that some wealthy North American Indians
> (due to the oil boom) would buy a car and when it ran out of gas just go
> buy another one.
>
>
> Tom


Also when the ashtray was full.


Stephen

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