Someone give Microsoft a gold star [modified]

[glenn horton freemanco com]

Figure eights work better than circles or back and forth. And the patterns are prettier.

[DragonsRightWing]

On the other side of the story - I also worked tech support (second level), and these are a few of the idot comments that the first level techs put in the tickets they sent me - these are comments that I personally copied and kept because they were so funny. I did not correct spelling (sometimes that is half the humor), and I've added my own little (snide) comments in italics ... ... since the customer can not visualize anything on the screen, almost like an OS issue. So the customer needs the Braille version of Windows? Found the script and did everything ... Nothing works. Nothing works? Not even standing on your head and whistling Dixie? ... the Outlook issue is at steak. No, no, no - the steak is at the Sizzler! - or - How terrible! The customer's difficulties with Outlook are at risk of getting fixed! The customer has problems. ... and the tech has issues. The customer claims that some people with an external account used to get encryption from him. I contradicted him. The customer is always wrong! ... turning into a how to scenario, and what could be better. I don't know - what could be better ... except maybe helping the customer? Remote conected to the customesr machine, the process is not taken. Tried it twice, unchecked. ... or maybe you just checked out? The customer has a file that is password-protected. Could not break the password. Looked to see if it would work. Yeah - those new retinal scanners are tough ... Looked in the script and tried to solve this error, but did not work. Keep up that not working, and pretty soon you won't have a job! ... after 20 minutes on call, I became hopeless. No comment necessary ;P

[Miszou]

Here's a couple of things for you to try: 1). In Visual studio 2008, open a large text file and scroll to the top. start selecting the entire document with the mouse. You will notice that once you reach the bottom of the page it stops scrolling and selecting until you move the mouse. Continue Wiggling the mouse to select the entire file. 2). You will notice the exact same behavior in Notepad and it has done this since as long as I can remember (At least Windows 95, possibly earlier). However, on some versions of Notepad (windows XP, I believe), it actually does continue selecting text if you don't move the mouse, but it is painfully slow.

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[CoolDadTx]

It sounds funny until you realize that it was written for a product that is over 12 years old. Furthermore it was last updated 7 years ago. It was likely a problem for cooperative MT operating systems such as Win9X (for 16-bit apps) which the Oracle component might have been. If you've never worked with a coop OS then it sounds funny but it was a serious problem. Hence why modern OSes are preemptive. Continuing on with the trend though. In Windows 95 the help window that you'd get if your mouse was not responding or didn't appear would give you a suggestion. It said if that didn't help then "Click here to continue". Not sure how you could click anywhere if your mouse wasn't working... I was ready to chuck Win95 at that point and go back to OS/2.

[Vikram A Punathambekar]

Was that in Madras? ;) We have exactly the same problem in one of our lifts. Oddly enough, the other 5 work fine.

Cheers, Vikram.

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Carpe Diem.

[Gary R Wheeler]

I'm afraid not. It was actually a building at our local Air Force base.

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