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Some People Shouldn't Be Allowed to Use a Computer

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  • Y YvesDaoust

    Teach them that the PDF can be OCR'ed :)

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    lewax00
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    They probably know that already, our software includes an OCR component ;P

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    • L lewax00

      I worked at a satellite ISP for a summer, but all our network diagrams were given in dry erase marker.

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      DrewCopenhaver
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      Most of them aren't that bad, but there are definitely some customers who are trying to set up their own and are unwilling to pay a technical person to do it properly form them. :laugh:

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        Most of them aren't that bad, but there are definitely some customers who are trying to set up their own and are unwilling to pay a technical person to do it properly form them. :laugh:

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        lewax00
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        Oh you meant home networks, I was thinking internal network diagrams. Luckily, I worked on internal tools there, never had to deal with those. :laugh:

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          Oh you meant home networks, I was thinking internal network diagrams. Luckily, I worked on internal tools there, never had to deal with those. :laugh:

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          DrewCopenhaver
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          Actually, no. We're high-grade, business-only interwebs. And we still get crayon drawings!

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          • L lewax00

            We just received an email, with an attached PDF, containing a black & white scan, of a printout, of a screenshot of an error message that was in a copyable text box. W. T. E. :doh: :confused:

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            RafagaX
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            Given that it passed for at least 2 hands, most likely, the user took the screenshot and printed it, then sent (or gave) it to the the technician who had no choice but scan it and send it to you as PDF, at least that's the scenario that makes more sense...

            CEO at: - Rafaga Systems - Para Facturas - Modern Components for the moment...

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            • L lewax00

              We just received an email, with an attached PDF, containing a black & white scan, of a printout, of a screenshot of an error message that was in a copyable text box. W. T. E. :doh: :confused:

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              Ian Fitzgerald
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              We asked a user to show us a log file once. Instead of getting a txt log file, we got a screenshot of Windows Explorer showing the file. :laugh: So close and yet so far.

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              • Z ZurdoDev

                Wait a second. So, reverse engineering the process you are saying that they 0. Took a screenshot 1. Printed it. 2. Scanned it to pdf as black and white 3. Then emailed it to you. Look on the bright side, at least they sent it as a pdf instead of a .tiff. :)

                There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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                patbob
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                Or maybe.. they: 0. Took screenshot 1. printed it 2. used printer to scan it to a pdf and email it Perhaps they can't figure out how to paste a screen shot into email.. or perhaps the printer can send email to you but they are not allowed to? I've seen crazier things, like sending a laptop back, sans disk, for an application SW upgrade that we had to do at the factory. Sounds crazy, but it was the only way.

                We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.

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                • D DrewCopenhaver

                  Actually, no. We're high-grade, business-only interwebs. And we still get crayon drawings!

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                  lewax00
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                  I guess my question now is...why do they have crayons to begin with?

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                  • L lewax00

                    I guess my question now is...why do they have crayons to begin with?

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                    DrewCopenhaver
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                    Now that is a question I would love to have an answer to!

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                    • G Gary Wheeler

                      Actually, on our[^] equipment, you could print it faster than you could play it :cool: since we can print around 17 feet of paper per second.

                      Software Zen: delete this;

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                      OffCenter
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                      >we can print around 17 feet of paper per second.< Hmmm... How many trees per hour does that convert to? ;P

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                      • I Ian Fitzgerald

                        We asked a user to show us a log file once. Instead of getting a txt log file, we got a screenshot of Windows Explorer showing the file. :laugh: So close and yet so far.

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                        lewax00
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                        I just got a screenshot of a log file opened in Notepad. At least we can read some of it... :doh:

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                          We just received an email, with an attached PDF, containing a black & white scan, of a printout, of a screenshot of an error message that was in a copyable text box. W. T. E. :doh: :confused:

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                          Chad3F
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                          Wow! Some users will stop at nothing to prevent the government from [easily] accessing their email content! :laugh:

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