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        <title><![CDATA[Blasphemy!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;Everyone&quot; KNOWS that it is physically, morally, and spiritually impossible for a Mac to develop a problem, whether via hardware, software, or user. It just doesn't happen. To even think otherwise is blasphemy.I have been personally assured of this by every Mac user I have ever met.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[DvT-Hex]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:36:43 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Great Joke!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'm glad you can see.... NEWSgtPappy | 11/23/2009 @ 08:44 AM (PST)This is my last word NEWSgtPappy | 11/23/2009 @ 08:33 AM (PST)'last word' was published at 08:33 .. prior to last word published at 08:44.How did you manage that?Les.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[SObaldrick]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:27:47 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Last Word?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That was your last word? Then I get to have a last word after yours. Here we go.You won't even know when I'm the one at your table sharing some beef and beer with you. You'd be too busy laughing at my humor to recognize your misinterpretatation of me.So, Sarge, have a happy and healthy holiday season. Same to your friends. Be nice to your fellow human beings.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[SirWizard]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:39:47 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'm glad you can see....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[...what I am saying.  Yes I could have been a little more clear in my original post regarding who I joke around with.  I didn't think I would be causing such an uproar.  I mean really what is it in my post that got some of you so upset?  Because I consider these people my friends I would never do anything to jeopardize that relationship.  I dish out some jokes and I fully expect to have them pulled on me, and they have. I don't claim to know you or whether or not you are about to explode.  That was a joke.  Like you serving your country, I served in the US Navy for 15 years.  Anyone who has served their country gets extra credit from me.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[SgtPappy]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:44:06 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is my last word]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'm intolerant of persons with different workstyle or perspective toward work, humor, professioanlism or safety?  Sounds like you are intolerant of my sense of humor THAT EVERYONE I work with says is a good sense of humor.  You are intolerant of our workstyle of our whole company and prespective toward how we get our work done.  Did you not read where I said these are my friends who happen to be co-workers and end users? I joke with them, they joke with me we all joke together. They've pulled some real good jokes on me too.  I take it in stride.  No big deal.   We are all having fun.  No animals or people are getting decapitated, for that manner they don't ever get hurt. No dangerous stinky chemicals are involved. No data gets lost, no critical lasers are beamed toward school children and we all go out for beers on Thursday night.  (We also make sure to have a designated driver, usually me).It's a healthy work environment.  Here let Jim tell you in his own words...go ahead Jim.Hi this is Jim.  Pappy here is a great guy.  His humor makes work a fun place to be.Hello Carla here, Pappy made me laugh so hard once I almost pee'd my pants.  I hate coming to work when he is on vacation.You should have seen the look on Pappy's face when he figured out the picture on my monitor was &quot;a real physical picture on my monitor&quot;.  He tried for 10 minutes to &quot;close&quot; it.  Priceless....Greg co-worker, friend and Thursday night drinking buddy.Bill - Pappy safely got me home one night after drinking too much during one of our Thursday night get togethers.  Without his assistance I sure would have killed someone driving or I would have gotten a ticket.  Now if I can only get the pictures of me passed out in the bar with finger nail polish on my fingers and toes and ruby red lipstick on my lips.So there you have a few shoutouts from a few of my friends.I'm talking about moving desktop icons to a different folder.  Are you seriously saying you would hurt my finger or toe for that?  Then call me intolerant?  Now I'm really scared.  Mom, SirWizard is going to give me an ow-wee.  Rest assured SirWizard if we worked together I would quickly see how serious you are (you wear you pants too high) and I would not pull a prank on you.  Not because I'm scared you will break my fingers or toes but because you are too serious.If that's the way you want to be so be it.  No problem, I can tolerate that.  But I wouldn't talk to you unless it was work related because I wouldn't want to worry about saying something that might offend you. I wouldn't sit at the same lunch table as you because my real meat sandwich might upset your little tummy and I wouldn't drink a beer with you either because you would be just a co-worker or should I say end user in this case, and nothing more.  You are the type of person I try my darndest to stay away from.Have a Happy Thanksgiving, a Merry Christmas (thats right I said Christmas) and a Happy New Year.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:33:45 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I agree, but..]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You are right on that, but... that is not a replay for what i posted... I think you should have replied the message above mine (the one i replied to).]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:29:18 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Agree with both of you.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[All I mean by my reply earlier was we have were I work as user a very difficult jobs were attention is primordiale and dealine and innatention would be catastrophique.If you let me know about the joke ok that is different.  But if you do the joke as you were telling eveyone before your explanation without letting know the user it was you.You could understand my disaproval, because you will have make that user very confuse and not trusting the network or his PC anymore regarding that strange behavior that you induced by your special logon.I hope you understand my reaction as eveyone here were saying the user is stupid when were I work I could tell you the user are very resourcefull and not &quot;stupid&quot; as protray in that video.And we do have problems with upgrade from time to time, so many variable that could go wrong and as I said in my line of work if I do a mistake it is the member money that will suffer or the widows so I can't permit my self a second guess on my result.And BTW don't pretend that you know me and think I am about to explose I am self disciplined and as Military I am also  a non apologetic Canadian when it come to my line of work to anyone, especialy the one that never served their country, I will consider their sarcasme when they have done their duty like me.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Another Canadian]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:45:24 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[&quot;He&quot; (user) knows, &quot;his IT people&quot; don't...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[and they had to realize it many times.Unfortunately IT guys (not all of them!) think that the user is - by definition - STUPID.One of IT geniuses kept job ticket open for over 3 months (&quot;investigating&quot;) when all folders on all 3 hard drives lost ownership so they were not accessible to the user.As I am that supposedly STUPID user and I found the solution, I have fixed almost all of them, leaving some untouched for the genius IT to fix it. He tried remotely, then few times came down to my workstation. Many reboots, logins as administrator, asking me to log in as normal user and as local administrator (I can, it is my own private machine!). He &quot;escalated&quot; it..Somehow that job disapeared without &quot;Closed&quot; notification...it was about 2 years ago, after over 3 months of failed attempts to fix it.Tell me who should get &quot;smacked&quot; and by whom.To this day they can't forgive me for my replacement of C$ share (and D$, X$, Y$, Z$; yes, I have and use those drive letters). For their pleasure I left IP$ untouched.I did it because they &quot;silently&quot; were using my collection of music (MP3 files). This slowed my CAD machine beyond acceptable level.If you claim (or support it) that users are stupid and should be smacked then switch the sides. You may equalize the balance ...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:32:28 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You are NOT funny]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[SgtPappy, I find appalling your lack of tolerance for persons with a different workstyle or perspective toward work, humor, professionalism, or safety. Remember that other workers in your workplace may have been hired for talents that do not include your carefree approach to pranks.My friends and coworkers enjoy my wild humor and zany outlook toward most things. I'm a barrel of laughs, but fun is never at their expense. Abuse of innocent victims is not part of my humor set, and I do not abide being an abused victim of property damage or personal danger. Any mild acceptance of such practical jokes evaporated long ago with the lab animal decapitated so its head could be placed in my mailbox. Or the poisonous volatile solid left to outgas in my office. (I went home from work sick and later found the material stashed next to my file cabinet.) At the time, I was running a high-power laser facility where inattention or practical jokes could result in serious burns or blindness to those inside the safety enclosure. During maintenance work, a brief prank could readily result in someone being crushed or electrocuted.So any joker who assaults me, my possessions, or my workplace gets one very clear warning of his physical danger if I were to catch him repeating a prank against me or innocents in my care. Your flippant &quot;Oooo my file? I'm scared.&quot; would ring hollow if you knew you'd get at least one finger or toe broken, with no apology, for screwing with my file after a warning.Also a proud non-apologetic American]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[SirWizard]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:29:22 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You are funny.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Oooo my file?  I'm scared.  I guess I won't have to worry about working with you because I'll never move to Canada.  Do you get my lead there Michel? If that is who you say you are working as a Financial Analyst.  My file documents how well I get along with others I play with in the sandbox.  My &quot;peer&quot; reviews which are conducted by the very same people I have pulled pranks on, have always been generous and flattering.I know when to be serious and when to be light hearted.  None of my pranks last for more than a few minutes, do not destroy data, and have always been taken with a smile and a plot of light hearted revenge by the person I pulled it on.  Lighten up man.  If I knew someone would react like you over a little practicle joke I would leave them (you) alone.  In fact I would want to stay as far away from such a serious person as I could possibly get.  You are the guy waiting to explode.  Yep we'll read about you in the paper one day.  Employees and people in his neighborhood reported saying &quot;He was a quiet man, a man who kept to himself&quot;. &quot;He seemed so serious all the time&quot;.  &quot;He was always working on some very critical financial reports&quot;.  &quot;He always seemed to work overtime and never talked about his personal life&quot;.  One employee at the company reported seeing stacks of paper on his desk with the words &quot;all work and no play make Michel a dull boy&quot;  followed by the curious words &quot;redrum redrum redrum&quot; filling up the rest the page.  He spent an extraordinary amount of time everyday &quot;straightening up&quot; his desk while muttering to himself &quot;someone touched my things. I just know it&quot;. &quot;I can tell someone moved my pencil cup, the rubberband I setup next to it isn't touching it anymore&quot;. An ex employee of the company had this to say, &quot;I thought Michel was a little wierd&quot;.  &quot;All he ate for lunch everyday, was one carrot stick, one stalk of celery, and a peanut butter sandwich, without the crust&quot;. &quot;He would first bite the carrot, then the celery stalk, then the sandwich, sit back in his chair and begin chewing them all together 15 times before taking a sip of lemon water to wash it down&quot;.  &quot;He would repeat this until he had finished eating his lunch&quot;.  &quot;Then he would wipe the corners of his mouth and gently and precisely fold his napkin and slip it into his starwars lunch box&quot;.  &quot;I always said he was gonna blow one day&quot;.Now stop wasting your time reading and replying to blogs Michel and get back to work solving the world's financial problems that some serious financial guys created.Signed Sgt Pappy, aka., Uncle Dime Bag, aka., Homer, aka., Steed, aka., Brad Pittex Navy Air Traffic Controller and Pasta Maker Current IT Manager, System Administrator, Network Administrator, Help Desk 1 and 2, IT Consultant and Camera CzarMadison WIStill the United States of AmericaA Proud Non-Appologetic American ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[SgtPappy]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:48:10 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[peer vs client]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I tend to think beyond the boundaries of work.  These are my clients when I'm actively working on their computers.  They are also my co-workers.  Yep most of them are also my friends.  Three of them live within 6 blocks of me so I guess they are my neighbors too.  When I'm working on their computers I talk to them about their families or if they got a doe or a buck over the weekend.It's because we know each other so well that we have a relationship where we can have a little fun and don't have to worry about someone telling the boss or talking behind your back. I've worked in places where people don't bother getting to know each other and it sucked.  In those environments there seemed to be walls between groups of us and groups of them that fostered petty jealousies and little rivalries.  Christmas parties were boring.  Nobody talked between groups of just co-workers or just peers.  Someone was always talking about someone else.  In my current work environment there isn't very much of that crap going on.  I attribute it to the fact that we all treat each other as more than just clients and service personnel. The reason I am here is because of the whole package.  I have great co-workers, peers and friends who all happen to be clients that I serve.I'll save the ATC stories for the bar.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[SgtPappy]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:54:49 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In keeping with this post....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How about something like the Wizard of Oz background.  You will be the man...er..um head behind the curtain.  Do I get a free coffee mug?  I lost my old favorite mug in a flood ten years ago and I haven't found a suitable replacement yet.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[SgtPappy]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:31:32 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[peer vs. client]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[SgtPappy, they are not your peers.  They are your clients.  As you said, &quot;they are the reason you are there.&quot;You should fill us in on the pranks you played as an Air Traffic Controller.  I'm sure the readers here would be interested.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[bruce@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:20:32 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This works on everything]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have worked on (well, almost...). I walk up to a machine (PC, Car, lathe, jig borer, milling machine, grinder, HVOF spray gun...), chant a few words just loud enough for the person who called me to hear, touch the device in question, then BANG!, it works (sometimes it really does go BANG!)Sometimes I'll dig deeper, but most often it's something simple (porn -er- media running in the background pulling system resources, stretched cable, reversed connection on the safety circuit...) that needs to be fixed. I share the joke, teach the user the solution, and we both part happy!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jdeglers]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:50:33 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Driver and OS problems]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This isn't just a MS problem...I run a mixed network of Macs, WinDoze and Linux machines, and when we updated to OS 10.5, all the PCI busses on the Quicksilver G4 machines suddenly stopped working. Think about that. No extra firewire/USB ports. No SCSI RAID storage access. No special sound editing through (very) expensive sound cards. This went on for a month or so until Apple issued the first OS update for 10.5. The G5 and newer machines were fine, but this did prompt an upgrade to some machines that had finally outlived their usefulness.THAT was HELL!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jdeglers]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:39:31 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Circles]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[1. No, I run Mac's and have this feature work in almost all apps I run.2. I have seen this feature in OSX, Linux, Unix, and OS2/Warp3. See above.4. The Gods of the computer realm, you know, the ones that control the magic of electronics...5. I seem to remember an OSX help video that mentioned &quot;the farther you move the mouse while the screen is scrolling, the faster it will scroll.&quot;6. We, the user and IT Pro's who complained every time we couldn't get the screen to move when we were trying to drag and drop an item into another folder...Now, excuse me while I sacrifice some sand to my computer and sell my soul to the Microsoft deity to get my antiquated PC running again.....]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jdeglers]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:27:12 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[PRINT QUEUE CLOGGED]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I am known in my neighborhood, everyone drops by to have me look at their pc, one lady up the street, if her printer will not print, she keeps clicking on print. Till there are 10 -15 printouts in the queue. Then if she fixes why it wont print..like out of paper  . When the printer starts printing out copy after copy of the same documnet, she will call saying &quot;what's wrong w/ the printer, the darn thing keeps printing the same thing&quot;]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[toad_z]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:57:43 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I hope your user Sgt.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I am in the CF and working on Financial very critical work.If a IT like you come mess my PC, you could be sure that I will make every effort and I mean every effort to  see your career terminated or at least a very good recorded warning in your file.In my line of work we hold people life here in our hands and we don?t like very much games as we do real games here.Do you get my lead Sgt Pappy if you are a real Sgt working as IT Pro.Signed Michel DeromeMaster CorporalDMPAP/Financial Analyst/Verification TeamOttawa ONCanada]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Another Canadian]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:55:56 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Your Card Security Drivers is about to be upgraded]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Oups same time you got a adviser that pop up from baseline telling you that all user of a particular bldg will lost their Q drives, leading to their (My Documents). Bang you are forced at the same time to do the update of the Card reader supporting your PK Card... Great..I was one of those user on the other side of the country in Canada... First day the only PC Workstation that was available wasn`t used by any user for about 3 weeks to a month, it is Monday but I still have access to my Q Drive so no problems in my setting configuration and no need for the Network to fall back on a generic personalize setting.. follow my lead here.So done the upgrade and be patient knowingly that if nothing happening on the screen it doesn`t mean nothing is happening behind the &quot;screen&quot; 3 reboot later and one and half hour also of lost productivity gone the upgrade finally terminated to have my terminal back to me so that I could work.User is now back for his leave the next day, so I move to a different station but now lost that day my &quot;My Network Documents&quot; and also personalized setting... bang the bloody upgrade pop again as it is a new station... well guess what is the result... upgrade did not work and stuck with a cripple workstation w/o a card reader.. Moved to the next workstation again to try to work.. bang again I am now in the obligation to do that upgrade of the card reader... same problems... finally go to the desktop but lost my ability to reach Outlook... great.... Got in my financial software no possibility to send the print out to the virtual printer as it use the email and need to do a data extract... great another lost of almost 6 hours productivity that second time and stress as my financial verification might be in jeopardy now for that Office.Forced to ask a user to step away from his own workstation to do my jobs and prevent him to do his.. wow.What a crapware baselineis to me and sometime our IT support could be as no safe guard is build in their upgrade like.. if user is prevented to use his full profile due to a network or maintenance schedule on the network itself do not proceed with mandatory upgrade.. but not a silent upgrade and force installation is always the case and is just the perfect disaster for my upgrade and lost of productivity..So yes I could be construed as one of this user when using my corporate network as I have no control or way to explain to the it to stop the upgrade, no button with a snooze offer with automatic reply linked to the IT department as why I want to delay the upgrade because of legitimate reason..I will be honest all the Microsoft upgrade offer on my 4 PC at home are been put right away but all our PC are been upgraded when there is also no problem with our network also.. I guess in such big organisation as mine they just go by the numbers knowingly that some user might end up with a reimaging of their workstation if the baseline software manager screw it up as the easiest solution is always took here (the silent install or forced software upgrade)..I would love some honesty regarding the user because where I come upgrade could be a very long process with many multiple reboot with our workstation (it mean 6 to 5 min from turn ot to full access to desktop) not mention it that each time we use an application baseline always to a check prior to see if that software need a new version and that is every time between each boot, add this to that baseline have to do so many thing to do at the same time.Last and most truth in my line of work, update from IT department will happen sometime at the worst time i.e. a production pay day period even one time we had to call in emergency the IT and said textually ?if you do that upgrade during our DFT process you will explain why none of our employees did not get their salary that week in their bank account and who will pay them??]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Another Canadian]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:43:42 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cursor Circles]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-321089-3203631]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I do this all the time.  Generally, I tell the user that it does nothing but keept the IT Coordinator happy.  Occationally, I mess with the end user and tell them that I am curing the issue and if they watch closly they will pick up the pattern of the circles.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rolenik@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:08:40 -0800</pubDate>
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