Small Town Paranoia

[WrongEyedJesus]

Check this out:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/24/tuttle_centos/

 

[___]

wow, this is classic... people are so stupid it really is a miracle that mankind survived these 2000 years of modern civilization. and then think of the thousands and thousands of years before that... makes you fell small and somehow... elitarian.

 

[Angel]

amazing, 22 years computer experience, lol what a retard.

 

[Axeman]

Man - this could be a day at work for me (being in CentOS's position)!

 

[nickspoon]

They should have just let him get the FBI

Honestly, how technophobic can you get? After having the situation explained several times in as simple terms as possible, he didn't understand, continued his threats, and claimed to have worked 22 years with computers!

"Well, I did use an abacus at school once... that's a kind of computer... I think..."

 

[Draken]

Oh for fuck's sake, that's unbelievable.
The sequal/follow-up is even better: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/27/tuttle_email/

 

[grahf]

The typical ignorant and angry combination. I see it all day. People who dont have any idea what they are talking about, but somehow manage to get their way by being angry.

 

[pantera6]

Makes me laugh so much
I wish the FBI got involved, they would have laughed at him aswell.
I wonder how people can be like that sometimes, just looking for trouble. anyway hes been humiliated worldwide now, I think hes learnt his lesson.


http://www.tuttle-ok.gov/index.asp?Type=B_...A92275C95081%7D
thats a link to what he looks like, he doesnt look an angry man

 

[Mudi]

I don't think he is really angry, really... probably just has 0 experience dealing with webservers and had a few dozen panic attacks when things stopped working the way they should. Understandable, but probably should not have made those statements about how he didn't mind getting media attention over this.

 

[DemonStar55]

this event will put Tuttle, Oklahoma ON TEH MAP

 

[TelcoLou]

I'm a tech for "The Phone Company" and I wish I had a dollar for every time some self-proclaimed vendor spouted "I've got XX years in this business, I know about T1s!!!"

I'd have a lot of dollars

... it's a sure sign of stupidity when someone finds the need to show off how many years' of experience they have ... EVERYONE could learn from others, no matter how much you think you know.

 

[DemonStar55]

I'm a tech for "The Phone Company" and I wish I had a dollar for every time some self-proclaimed vendor spouted "I've got XX years in this business, I know about T1s!!!"

I'd have a lot of dollars

... it's a sure sign of stupidity when someone finds the need to show off how many years' of experience they have ... EVERYONE could learn from others, no matter how much you think you know.

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I have 59 years of experience in computers.... ( I am so not 17.....)

 

[Ravnos]

I'm a tech for "The Phone Company" and I wish I had a dollar for every time some self-proclaimed vendor spouted "I've got XX years in this business, I know about T1s!!!"

I'd have a lot of dollars

... it's a sure sign of stupidity when someone finds the need to show off how many years' of experience they have ... EVERYONE could learn from others, no matter how much you think you know.

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I work in tech support and I get that kind of shit all the time.

Idiot: My connection isn't working!
Me: (after several troubleshooting steps) Have you bypassed your router?
Idiot: Look you son of a bitch, I have XX years of experience! I know it's not my fucking router! Send someone out here to check the lines!
Me: (not wanting to deal with any bullshit) Ok, I'll set up a dispatch.

Two days later
Dispatched technician: Yeah, it was his router.
Me: What a cocksucker.

 

[TelcoLou]

@Ravnos:

LMFAO³!!!

Man o Manoschevitz! We get a few of those a week ... two words: Billable Dispatch ... at ~$400 per hour, we get back at them :lol:

 

[DemonStar55]

I'm a tech for "The Phone Company" and I wish I had a dollar for every time some self-proclaimed vendor spouted "I've got XX years in this business, I know about T1s!!!"

I'd have a lot of dollars

... it's a sure sign of stupidity when someone finds the need to show off how many years' of experience they have ... EVERYONE could learn from others, no matter how much you think you know.

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I work in tech support and I get that kind of shit all the time.

Idiot: My connection isn't working!
Me: (after several troubleshooting steps) Have you bypassed your router?
Idiot: Look you son of a bitch, I have XX years of experience! I know it's not my fucking router! Send someone out here to check the lines!
Me: (not wanting to deal with any bullshit) Ok, I'll set up a dispatch.

Two days later
Dispatched technician: Yeah, it was his router.
Me: What a cocksucker.

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yeah, internet connection always screws up so i call tech support and if they bother asking if you use linux they should at least send you to someone who understands that IE isn't on linux

and it usually ends up being their part, like them blocking my connection because I might of been hacked or something.

 

[Ravnos]

yeah, internet connection always screws up so i call tech support and if they bother asking if you use linux they should at least send you to someone who understands that IE isn't on linux

and it usually ends up being their part, like them blocking my connection because I might of been hacked or something.

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We never have problems like that. Most of the people who work with me are familiar with Unix because we're all either Linux or Mac users and it's a small company so if you don't know something, one of the other techs will offer to take over from you if he does. On top of that we have a pretty bulletproof troubleshooting procedure for DSL connections, so by the end of the call we're usually pretty sure which side the problem's on. I mean, peoples' connections go down all the time for things that are on our end (or on the telco's end, we lease lines from them) but 9 times out of 10 it's something simple and when you get some self-proclaimed expert on the other end of the line, they HATE to admit it could be their fault.

 

[sand_man]

lol what a dumbass

 

[DemonStar55]

yeah, internet connection always screws up so i call tech support and if they bother asking if you use linux they should at least send you to someone who understands that IE isn't on linux

and it usually ends up being their part, like them blocking my connection because I might of been hacked or something.

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We never have problems like that. Most of the people who work with me are familiar with Unix because we're all either Linux or Mac users and it's a small company so if you don't know something, one of the other techs will offer to take over from you if he does. On top of that we have a pretty bulletproof troubleshooting procedure for DSL connections, so by the end of the call we're usually pretty sure which side the problem's on. I mean, peoples' connections go down all the time for things that are on our end (or on the telco's end, we lease lines from them) but 9 times out of 10 it's something simple and when you get some self-proclaimed expert on the other end of the line, they HATE to admit it could be their fault.

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yeah, I notice when it's my fault and usually figure it out but if I can't I still listen to the tech people and do what I did just before I called, just incase and I'm not an asshole like that incase it is my fault

 

[rokdcasbah]

i think that it's ok to be ignorant with regards to certain things. none of us know it all, all the time. it's also usually ok to have that "shoot first, ask questions later" mentality. but it's definitely not ok to be both ignorant and hot-headed at the same time.

had this guy screwed up by being arrogant in a field he knew about, i might feel bad for him. we all have those days. had he just been your typical clueless user, yet took the time to read all of the various things written for his benefit, i'd have felt bad.

but given that he clearly's been able to get through life -- like so many others of his ilk -- by simply being a loud enough asshole to hide any lack of knowledge...given that, he throroughly disgusts me. and i don't feel guilty about that because i can honestly say that i've never acted the way that he has, much less in a situation where i was clearly in over my head. i DO have a sense of humor, and i am always pretty pissed to see people like this, who completely lack one but still manage to get by because they scream at everyone.

he's a hick and probably little else. i can only hope that he has not reproduced.

actually, it's not him that pisses me off. it's his type, and the fact that so many like him are calling the shots in congress. remeber ted stevens' "bridge to nowhere?". i can't even watch c-span for too long because it just makes me want to drop a bomb on our glorious freakin leaders.