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>I mean, do I *look* like your mother? Do I *look* like the operator?

I don't know - do you wear brown skivvies, corduroy pants and Reebok pumps? :)

>Do I carry secret sysadmin genetic codes printed on my forehead? Something
>that makes the terminally clueless ask me for help. Maybe I've committed
>the crime of knowing what I'm doing. Maybe it's because I type with ten
>fingers. I dunno.

I'd say you're probably one of the few people in there no looking around the
room, lost as could be :)

>I expect he's trying to work out how to get Netscape going from his
>shell account. That is to say, I'm not crediting him with knowing the
>word 'Netscape'; I'm imagining him having a mental picture of a Netscape
>screen-image as seen in a magazine, probably at www.playboy.com or
>something similar. Something like that.

Nah he has no idea what he wants to load, he just wants to "surf"...

>[glances over] Yep, he's in Web space. He's never coming back. Be
>helpful -- it pays!

Nah, just tell 'em that you don't know either  :)

>ObStudent: I hereby propose that when giving the new bugs accounts, Info
>Tech should give 'em a ten-page leaflet guide to the Net and everything
>in it. Include a page of severe penalties for misuse, of course. This
>statement is made in my official capacity as VUT SRC Media Officer
>and, as such, is an expression of departmental policy.

Sounds like a good idea. And have a ban on any of them wasting the help desk's
time asking them how to install their Win95 IP stack. I once had to wait in the
comp. centre for 30 minutes to get some access restrictions on my account which
shouldn't have been there cleared up, because the stupid git in front of me
insisted of getting the girl at the help desk to tell him how to install and
run EVERYTHING he needed. Also insisted on drawing several pictures in his
notepad for each one, re-doing them until the girl said they looked right.

Too damn tempting not to whack the twat over the head with a terminal....

>ObASR(1): The above would be another Darwinian force selecting who gets
>to be at uni next semester: those with self-control, who correctly regard
>the 'net as new and exciting television and every bit as deserving of
>twenty-six hours a day. Wipe 'em out early and save the taxpayer money.

Ban anyone who hasn't used the 'net for a minimum of two years, and who doesn't
have aclue how to find their way around in a Unix shell.

As for the Drawinian idea - it's close to what I believe. I don't think that
socially incompetant and non aesthetically pleasing people should even be
allowed to apply for Uni.


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