Get an IV, stat!

tikrin · 12 days

Yeah, I wasn't sure if anyone would really catch it. I'm referencing the Jackie Chan image you see in rage comics, and memes.

This

tikrin · 13 days

Really? We had CA eTrust before which was much more intensive than MSE. There was a night and day difference in boot time between the two. The 7 minutes she is referring to though was not at boot time though. When she brought the laptop to me, I completely shut it down. Booted it straight back up, opened IE, and read a few articles on Yahoo with her watching.

Later in the week, I dropped back by to just double check. I shut it down completely, turned it back on, and it popped right up.

Whatever the issue was has seemed to just disappear because she said it never happened again. I did have a theory that MSE could have been running a scan in the background, but she said the only thing slow was the internet.

adelle · 16 days

I hate emails as follows:

Internet doesn't work

Derpette Sent: Fri 5/11/2012 5:55 PM

To: Tikrin

empty body

Work orders that expect me to know their entire problem based off just their subject. What's better is when the internet isn't working yet they send me an email.

EDIT:Formatting...some

tikrin · 16 days

What's even better is that none of the computers on the network even had an antivirus program and it was passing around by jump drive! It was a mess to clean. Sadly, the organization I am at would be considered reactive in that they will take preventative measures once they see the damage that it does, not the damage they are told it will do.

tikrin · 17 days

Yeah, we are rather country here in southern Oklahoma, USA. The parents came to some agreement with the academy to not raise lawsuits so it was pretty hush hush, but he pretty much alienated himself at that point. Respect dropped down to 0, so when I found the p2p software, I had no mercy on him.

tikrin · 17 days

I reported him, explained how it couldn't be the kids(Every hour he taught, except one where he was suppose to be grading, so still in his room), and the general lack of avoiding the responsibility of it being his fault. I may have been biased though. Earlier that semester, my brother's uniform was untucked in the back and hadn't tucked it back in. Their ridiculous policy was that it couldn't be untucked. This man made my brother and a few other boys, who actually on purpose had it untucked, bear crawl across black asphalt in ~105°F/40.5°C Oklahoma weather. They told him the asphalt was too hot but he demanded they do it for their untucked shirt. It didn't stop until one of the other boys skin started to peel back from the heat. The boy had to wear gauze bandages for a week after. My brother was the least severe and only have 3-4 blisters to deal with. This was all done during recess where all the other students saw it.

EDIT: He was let go at the end of the semester after I reported him. The official statement was that he "felt he should look elsewhere", but dang it, I was determined to get him fired for what he hath done.

tikrin · 17 days

Sadly, it was just pirated music/videos that had some nasties along for the ride. They were under his username and we had the computers set up to where it would only let that teacher log onto the computer, so no student could mess around when they were out of the room. When approached about the music/videos and the p2p client, his response was "Kazaa/Morpheus/Limewire? Huh! Never heard of it, but it sounds pretty cool! It's on my computer? Well, one of the kids must have logged in under their name and did it! Elvis Presley music? Man, those kids have great taste!"

tikrin · 17 days

Honestly, the only way I can picture her being bale to do that was to unplug everything except the cables. Then when she tried unplugging and saw that they were really tight...she probably picked up the computer by the cables and started shaking, hoping for the cables to come undone. This is the only way I can think of that would have came close to stretching out the shielding to where the wires became exposed. From there, who knows...maybe she though thinner wires and thought maybe they just plug in and out? shrugs

tikrin · 18 days

Thank you very much! I do find that pretty cool!

tikrin · 18 days

Maybe it was distance, or building based? Maybe she believed the computer gods would let her transfer absolutely anything while at work, but forbid the transfer to happen at home? It seems she at least grasped that much.

tikrin · 18 days

At the time which was 5 years ago, I was 17 and a volunteer myself. I got hired by the organization 2 years later to do software for them. So, to her I was just a punky teenager trying to tell her she did a bad thing. As a volunteer, I could suggest what the building needed to improve the presentation. So when I brought up that our projector cables were destroyed, they simply sighed and said they would get the new projectors. They weren't at all shocked at what she had done. As mentioned, she isn't there anymore though.

Nowadays, I am much more comfortable about telling them what they did wrong. I flashback to a teacher downloading Kazaa/Morpheus/Limewire(can't remember which) and inevitably infecting the network and him trying to act innocent about it.

tikrin · 18 days

It makes sense enough. I'm sure someone may have told her before that the tower is the "brain of the operation".

tikrin · 18 days

I feel this would have been attempted if not for it just popping off.

tikrin · 18 days

Right, I thought brain was humorous but made sense enough. She was a volunteer so wherever she worked during the day must have backed her documents up on a share for her, so I also see how she would think it would be on both brains. But the insane need on her part to get the brain from point A to point B was astounding.

tikrin · 18 days

By George, we had CA before we switched them to security essentials. This would probably be the best bet.

tikrin · 18 days

Well, I originally joined up with them to do software. Now I do IT, and am suppose to do software at the same time. The mix of handling a network and also being required to provide software solutions has murdered my code. To them, as long as it works, it is fine, but I assure you if you were looking at my code as a QA, you would not be pleased with me. I die when I give them a solution that is only suppose to be a prototype and they say, "Looks great, get it out next week."

tikrin · 18 days

Yeah, after rereading, I cringed myself. Though, reading it fast makes me think of a Halo Elite saying "Wort, wort, wort."

tikrin · 18 days

Oh, I know it would have. I've had too much history to want to decipher her meanings. I understood what she meant though. She seemed to be referring to a weekly checkup, or just a checkup in general. Her computer was in good repair, antivirus software was working, and I had no other antivirus softwares informing me that I should buy their version to remove 100 viruses.

This is the kind of person who uses "internet" in place of computer, "bloodline" in place of checkup, "doohickey" and "dealie whopper" in place of not knowing what else to call it, "box" in place of monitor, etc. It's not her first occasion. I admit to usually always knowing what she is trying to refer to from the tone and context, but I suppose next time I can at least find out what led her to create such a word.

tikrin · 18 days

Hi, Tramm!

I can confirm that Tramm has helped out on countless occasions as a volunteer. There have indeed been times where she will come up to him, glare at him, and then ask him to leave because "He's doing nothing, and there's nothing to do". Once he leaves, she'll have me call him back to see if he can come back and do something. When he is not able to because he lives a good 20 minutes out of town, she'll rant about him not being dependable.

Our theory was that we could care less about talking to her, so therefore she doesn't like people that don't speak to her!

tikrin · 18 days

Thank you for those red herrings!

tikrin · 18 days

Sadly, no. She actually uses the term "landline" when referring to the ethernet cable. Or I've heard her use it enough to know she wasn't confused on this.

tikrin · 19 days

I honestly think she was referring to what barbers use to do with their clients. They would bleed out the "bad blood". Maybe she was saying I needed to take the computer and remove the bad things for her.

tikrin · 19 days

I did have DnD Character Builder up on my laptop...though I had closed it to place her laptop on top of it.

tikrin · 19 days

Thanks, man! I think?

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