Weird Technical Question

For posting a somewhat helpful, politely toned reply.

I, "evil grin mode on", had some more devilish thoughts since I and just about everyone else posting here has certainly run into a similar type of individual, whose ego will not let them admit that they are hopelessly lost.

I would much prefer to have one tell me that they really don't understand and ask politely to dumb it down for them, than to try and get my head around that kind of post and similar kinds of questions. I re-read it a number of times, and I still don't quite get to the essence of what the person is asking for exactly.

I used to say when I was teaching computer courses that "There is no such thing as a stupid question". I may have to rethink that notion.

James

50's bad movies, well any bad movie and that link was worse then any of them. Have you looked at
The Chronicles of George web site? Great for a laugh.
http://chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/

https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-11183-0.html?forumID=5&threadID=186778&messageID=1913797

All of his posts are pretty hilarious. The guy's name is Etanawanbi-something or other. He's obviously not an English speaker. So I suppose we should cut him some slack. But damn, it IS funny as hell reading the stuff he writes! I may add him as a contact just so I can read anything that he posts from now on. haha

This was yet another freakin' double post. I'm editing the original contents which can be viewed in my post above with the same title. I am getting tired of this really awful TR website. Pages take 20 seconds or longer to load, if at all. Many, many "page requested not available" errors. Is this thing built on 1980s technology? A bunch of IBM PC-ATs with 512K RAM hooked together through their RS-232 serial ports? If you ask me, it is by far the most unreliable, slowest web site on the whole Internet. Nothing even comes close because it is ALWAYS this bad. If this crap keeps up much longer, I am seriously considering abandoning this thing and never wasting any more of my precious time waiting for pages to load or resubmitting posts that didn't get posted. I have better things to do than click my Refresh icon over and over again day after day.

Regards,
M_a_r_k

After that one which I still can not understand but maybe it's just that I don't know what a [b]CHIP[/b] is. :D

I'm going to watch the newest French & Saunders DVD that [i]She Who Must Be Obeyed[/i] got yesterday at least that will have me laughing and I do need a break from this silliness. :p

I don't know if anyone got this persons answer to the HP Pavilion not booting into XP but I really liked the question "Was the Recovery CD HP compatible!" I suppose he expects that this person is using a Dell or Gateway CD to install on the HP with right? :(

Instead of trying to find out why my DR USB HDD is no longer readable I'm off to watch a DVD as at least I know I'll be laughing at it. Dawn French being a member of the CIA "Chocolate Intelligence Agency" that tracks all the nasty people who deal in that nasty chocolate. I just grab some chockies first. :p

Col ]:)

All I did was post the "Jabberwocky" poem from "Alice Through the Looking Glass". It seemed to be appropriate to his question.

Strangely, his posted comment to my question was far more understandable and in far better English than his original post. Correct use of the word "malarky".

Anyway, some people have no sense of humour. :p

After reading the post. I need and Asprin.

I hate to be the skeptic but I wonder if it is not just someone trying to be cute.

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I would guess that English is not his first language, and he's using a combination of some words he does know (or thinks he knows) and some sort of translation program, both for reading the message and to post his reply.

My message converted to French:

Je devinerais cet anglais n'est pas le sien la premi?re langue, et il utilise une combinaison de quelques mots qu'il sait (ou pense qu'il sait) et une esp?ce du programme de traduction, les deux pour lire le message et poster sa r?ponse.

And back to English:

I would guess this English is not his the first language, and it uses a combination of some words that it knows (or thinks that it knows) and a type of the translation program, the two to read the message and post his response.

Converted to Portuguese:

Adivinharia este ingl?s n?o ? seua a primeira linguagem, e usa uma combina??o de algumas palavras que sabe (nem pensa que sabe) e um tipo do programa de tradu??o, os dois ler a mensagem e coloca seua resposta.

And back to English:

It would guess this English is not his to first language, and uses a combination of some words that knows (neither thinks that knows) and a kind of the program of translation, the two read the message and puts its answer.

Imagine translating a longer, more complicated technical message.

Personally, I'd give the guy a break and assume that things are simply getting lost in the translation.

We just rented "Millions" on DVD. It was a really wonderful, offbeat film and I heartily recommend it to anyone who is not too much of a curmudgeon.

But the dialect... Uncompromisingly British English. Not the slightly-homogenized-for-international-audiences upper-class speech of "Pride and Prejudice."

In America we're accustomed to accents being purely regional. Once you master the generic "southern" pronunciation and slang you can understand anyone from Dolly Parton to George Bush. But in England accents are an attribute of "social class." We may understand middle class Londoners talking over dinner, but when the scenes shifts outdoors and we're listening to construction workers, we can't make out a single word.

Thank the goddess for DVD technology. We just clicked on the "English Subtitles" button and read the dailog!

the people without a sence of humo(u)r that don't even recognise a classic South Park reference?

"ok, now lets here from someone thats not a complete retard"
[i]
Mr. Garison

Its not the question I object to, its the manner in which it was framed. And perhaps translation isn't helping the case.

But to me, a precise of what I read was: I am a smart computer guy and this is my theory, do you agree? Thats the tone that came across, intended or not.

Let me take a non IT example. Many people think glass flows, as in over time glass gets thicker at the end closest to gravity - as evidenced by the fact that some medieval church windows have thicker bottoms than tops. Physics on the other hand says it isn't so and that glass installers of the middle ages put the thickest parts of their glass sheets at the bottom as a practise.

If you come into alt.folklore.urban and ask, "Does Glass really flow? Someone told me it does", most of the time you well get a polite well researched answer.

If, on the other hand, you post a question that isn't a question but a theory; "I know its true because I read it in a book on medieval churches, and I believe it.", you will get the full wrath of a bunch of people who can recite chapter and verse.

through chemistry! ]:)

Lets Rock!

GG is still looking for you for standing her up. :p

Col ]:)

According to this guy centrifugal force is causing the data to be thrown off the platters so it must be hitting the sides of the case and lying on the bottom of the enclosure. :p

But as the drive is still working and showing up in [b]My Computer[/b] it's still working just all the data has been thrown off the platters. :(

Col ]:)

Raciest & sexist Jokes e-mail them to me I'll at least laugh over them without making you look anything but the purest driven snow. :p

Col ]:)

When I first read the question or statement which it really is I started thinking in Boolean. :p

Guess I'm giving away my age by saying that right. :)

Col ]:)

It was just too perfect to pass up!

I throw myself on the mercy of the court!

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.....when your favorite watering hole (water cooler) gets so polluted. I suppose I'm glad to be on the outside looking in on this one. The stench is too overwhelming on the inside.

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...as though you're the target of the ridicule. It kinda' puts it in perspective.

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Because I was both wrong and out of line.

I owe both BFilmFan and jaqui a profound apology.

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Because I was both wrong and out of line.

I owe both BFilmFan and jaqui a profound apology.

Maxwell, please save your comments for someone who deserves them more than BFilmFan and those others of us who have contributed to the feeding frenzy over entawanabi's posts. The man - entawanabi - is a complete idiot.

I agree with you that if someone asks a question, however stupid or however bad the spelling or grammar, we don't really have the right to stick it to the questioner without better reasons. Entawanabi, however, sets himself up for anything we care to dish out because of his [b]responses[/b] to questions and articles. I include for your perusal the top four from his list of posts. I haven't read the rest - yet.

A response to a TR article on a delayed MS patch:

Of course we all know in perfect world of programming there were no mistakes made (and if there were they were caught before they left the floor_Let's assume this is so for this argument: Nowwe then look at "US" who are of course less perfect, "IT WEREN"T US"; so who did do it? The premise I pose and find in my field of expertise; Boy, do I want to snicker at me when I see what ya'll can do; Is your system founded?; How many decades ago was that?; Just where is it operating and from what basis - I'm seeing some stuff that is not cool -?; Boot, Boot, Boot, and REBOOT, INSTALL, RE-INSTALL, Whoops! What happenned to the boot disc HOW OLD IS IT?

Maam, if you or someone is haveing trouble with there mouse reread in the Mouse program instead of replaceing the complete set-up, usually this is sufficient. It also highlights that occasionally that these things FADE, I think is the correct term, with use.

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In this post, he answers a perfectly reasonable question about wireless security with complete tosh:

The first part is to design your, or consider the structure of your user name and password Operation, that will provide most of your problems solutions, the second part is provided with a registerred 'IP', an Identification Protocol. I'm not sure where to get one but that is\was the common practise.24

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Another response to a question on network access problems - in full!

It is one of the rudimentary things: for a lot of reasons 'THEY' could no longer be networked together correctly. It is a place to start.

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A response to a user with Access Denied problems on his home LAN:

IP(Identification protocall) they have to be known to both machines, this normally is not the problem but bringing it up addressing it, it is out of the way. Next, this can be problematic of elderly machines and rarely elderly wiringnext is the operations scaled to the machine(s)- I've no way of doing much with this subject and maybe someone else will be able to remember the vocabulary requiring a minimum amount of mega-bytes for something to work at all, IS THERE A WAY TO TELL HOW MANY RESIDENT OPERATIONS AND FUNCTIONS ARE HOLDING HOSTAGE 'megs", Ikow I'm the only one that messes up that darn CAP LOCK button! Finally IF this is 'a' used set or one is used is it possible that the security operations are finnally catching up?

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There is more and it does make for fun reading.

These are responses to questions. I rest my case.

Neil

p.s. Sorry, I just had to add this answer re: a lost partition

Your 'drive`spins at a certain rate, out near the edge the gravities are high, the bucket weighs three pounds but when you swing it in a circle ay arms length it weighs much more, after a few years the medium spins off; agood example of extreme medium loss is a very small feild on your screen that is not expandable and you never seem to be able to save anything well, also you can toss your antenna as wellas its coating; so then do you have any storage medium left that is coherent? And how much. As far as recovery is concerned: in DOS 2.2 is Drive.RECif your drive is properly set-up and founded this will recoer what is possible including from fibers that used to hold the storage medium.

As of last nights news its now official [b]Global Warming is Happening[/b] AU has just had the hottest year in recorded history and for the last 2 decades the temp has been steadily increasing. :p

They are saying that 2006 is going to be a stinker and since I have the AC on in my [b]Lab[/b] from 6.30 AM till well after midnight I tend to agree its getting quite warm. Now I'm not saying that the Ice Caps are going to melt and flood the place out for the next few centuries but it has been BLOODY hot recently and even at night the temp hasn't been dropping a lot either. :)

As for my polluted sewerage pit becoming unbearable well I try to avoid Tasmania but even there the new pollution laws are allowing the ravages of industry to be turned back and there is now a massive out cry that grass and shrubs are now growing on the denuded hills that have been laid waste because of the heavy polluters so that piece of Tourist Industry is dieing and all that will remain are postcards of the area before the stuff grows back. But to be fair they are trying hard to keep the place looking like it did at the height of the pollution they are going around pulling out the shrubs and fertilizing with [b]Roundup[/b] anything that is attempting to grow there but they are slowly loosing the battle. :)

But when it comes to raciest jokes the very best ones are told to me by those who are belittled by them and what's worse is that I can't repeat them without seeming like a raciest. Oh the inhumanity of life. :(

Col ]:)

PS It's very hard to keep a straight face when one of the downtrodden tells you a very funny self degrading joke in a major shopping center without looking like an absolute fool which is the desired result when they tell the jokes. :(

What can I say [b]The Devil Made Me Do It![/b] :)

By the way currently I'm running a Data Recovery program in an attempt to pick up all the data that's been thrown off my backup drive as the original person who is being talked about has claimed in another of his posts. With a bit of Luck I will not have to take the drive into a Class 1 Clean Room to get all that messy data out of the drive. :D

But seriously do you understand the question that was posted above? To me it is more of a statement rather than a question where either agreement or informed disagreement is asked for rather than solving a problem in the T Q & A section of TR.

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It's the who, the when, the why, and the how that I'm in disagreement with. I won't blind-side an innocent bystander, and I don't go looking for one to target. And usually, it's only well into the course of a "discussion".

I'm kinda' like the Tina Turner version of "Proud Mary", if you know what I mean. And if my opponent doesn't want to participate, I don't try to beat him senseless into submission.

I'm in charge of virtual hugs, I'll have you know!

Happy New Year!

:x :x :x :x :x :x

(Are we there yet? ;) )

:x :x :x :x :x

(oh, for five minutes! :D)

- love that donkey.....

:p

GG

I was just thinking that he might need a hug from the donkey in Shrek. I think he might have gotten the hug from his dog, though.

Hey, I just hug the girls too.

In Tech Q&A a question was asked about how to stop a computer rebooting every 2 minutes.
The following was this guy's answer.

This is endemic where the harddrive medium has been used up and is no longer even in the machine, it is also, less common, a symptom of an antenna that is gone or no longer working correctly.

I was thinking of sending him $2.50 simply for all of the laughs!

http://tinyurl.com/a4koy

Edited because I forgot to press the [Shift] and there's no way I'm paying him 42.50 [b]anything[/b]

But if you insist I can arrange to have them donated to my favorite charity. :p

The one that helps old IT workers back into real life and how to deal with the day to day problems and act like they are not Life & Death decisions. :)

Col ]:)

Have a look at these they leave me speechless. :D

https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-6336-0.html?forumID=75&threadID=188843

and the mix for this thing at

https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-11184-0.html?forumID=56&threadID=189052

Now maybe I'm missing something here but by the provided description you have a 1 gallon Microwave seal able container with a partial Faraday Cage in it with two bare wires coming out of it and a gelatinous mess poured into it and somehow you are supposed to be able to interface this with a computer.

And this is this persons description of them self.

Computer Operator, Current Professional application Installation & Set-ups of computers and computer systems; Hardware Core Structures, Core Structure Set-ups and Foundings. Tremendously large, Dumb education at American Speaking Universities and Colleges, not English speaking, a lessor language.

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This goes beyond [b]Weird Technical Questions[/b] to something far worse requiring large amounts of drugs applied by Medical Professionals. :)

Col ]:)