Fuego's Quote Of The Day...

[badstar]

Me, to a customer on the line... "I'm sorry sir, I'm not aware of the potential interference that dead mafia victims may pose to your wireless networking capabilities."

After asking what stood between his computer and wireless router, the guy rattled off several things...an aquarium, walls, assorted household miscilania and then he said "My building's like, old. I'm pretty sure there are dead mafia guys in the walls."

Comments

[vees.livejournal.com]

Whacked organized crime members placed horizontally or vertically in the walls would only be likely to cause interference between 130 and 197 MHz. In order to cause interference on wireless frequencies, they would need to be cut into 5 inch high chunks, and preferably wrapped in aluminum foil.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to ask how you know that....

[penguinicity.livejournal.com]

In other news: technical support personnell from Apple Computer discovered the body of Jimmy Hoffa today. He had been cut into 5 inch high chunks, wrapped in aluminum foil, and placed in the walls of an apartment complex in South Toejam, NJ. Technicians made the find while trying to discover the cause of poor WiFi coverage in a customer's apartment...

[vees.livejournal.com]

Hah, because those are the radio waves near the height of a typical person. That's simplifying it a little bit, but that's what I remember from radio safety.

[staticchris.livejournal.com]

Wow...
what a call!

[fuego.livejournal.com]

other than that, it was prety uneventful the network was working when he caled. it didn't work last night. wanted to know why. spent a moment or two accounting for possible sources of interference and then told him to call back if/when he was actually experiencing connection issues

[tecie.livejournal.com]

I think that wins for the sober user calls.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

sober user calls?

[tecie.livejournal.com]

The internal helpdesk tends to get drunken calls from time to time of people who either want something very expensive or screwed something up

[kb5elv.livejournal.com]

When I was a tech support idiot (now just your standard garden variety
idiot), my favorite calls, apart from the yokels in Corsicana who
"couldn't get their thing off their thing", were the day
traders. "Every day your !@#$%^!!ing network sucks so bad, I'm losing
money!" Never mind that he's using a POS $5 soft modem (not even a
good soft modem, but the really horrible ones) with a computer that
had too little memory and a failing hard drive and 48,275 other
applications open. If they were making any real money, they'd've at
least had ISDN. (Sheesh) I feel your pain. But at least this guy was
entertaining, and that's something, anyway.

I want a Mac Mini! (Don't need a screen, so why pay extra for one?)

[marilyth.livejournal.com]

You made me spit & inhale Ritz crackers!!! (how does one do that anyway... well I did ;)

[sunneyone.livejournal.com]

BAAAAAAAAAH HAHAHAHAHA