NEW rant thread!

[Elspeth]

Rant away, my friends!

[Squirt]

Why oh why can't it be the same time everywhere in the world, all at once?! I want to watch the soccer but it's still FIVE HOURS away! I dont think I can stay up that late! And I'll never get up again if I let myself fall asleep Silly silly timezones.

[Cat-Eyes]

Err, because then we'd be stuck having midday in the middle of the night, because America would claim proper times for themselves. Or we'd stick with GMT. Either way, our times would be WHACKED "Oh look, it's the coldest part of the darkest part of the day, I think I might go swimming..."

I'm sick of not sleeping. It's SOOOOO annoying and I'm really really really exhausted!

[Fuil Dearg]

couldnt it be like 'the land of the midnight sun'?
i'm sick of not sleeping too.

[Lix]

why do i have to work to make a living when id rather be at home in bed with my laptop and book! why?

[Elspeth]

I'd like to know the answer to that one, too. Stupid work.

[Swallow]

STUPID SODDING NORTON'S PEOPLE AND THEY'RE STUPID SODDING TECHS

i swear, none of them have been near a computer since getting the job, i'm almost positive they're in India or somewhere. I'm almost positive while dealing with me (in an IM kinda way) she had to keep running back to her boss and query something that was a SIMPLE COMMUNICATION PROBLEM. you want me to look at the website, say "look at the website" instead of saying "go to Step 3" after giving me 5 steps to complete and all of them in the AntiVirus window, not on the website. and Step 3 is "click miscellaneous". I CLICKED THAT and CLICKED THAT and it wasn't until i said "is it the website, or the antivirus window" that YOU FINALLY SPECIFIED WHICH

*chuck things against walls* I've dealt with tech-help before, and i've never had this problem. I usually just admit my stupidity and they tend to be really lovely. This one was a total git, i don't think she even knew what the hell to do either.

And then, right when we're getting somewhere in our confusion, she tells me that she can no longer help because my Norton's is version 2003. They now only provide help for 2005+. Yet they still want me to pay for service updates. She then proceedes to try and SELL ME THE 2006 VERSION before we've even SOLVED THIS PROBLEM

And where did it say on Norton's that they'll only help you for so long? every year you pay for updates to the program but this isn't apparently good enough to get service help. you'll pay them money, and they happily neglect to tell you that they cannot provide you with any service whatsoever when their system watering-cans up. Did we get a letter about this? an email? a general alert? NO we're registered users, a bit of COMMUNICATION GOES A LONG WAY and we might have SOLVED THIS PROBLEM AGES AGO

*pulls out a 2x4 and starts to attack any Norton's product/person/sign she can* and HOW is this meant to make me want to buy another one of their products??? Does anyone have another one they use that don't treat you like an idiot and make you pay for things you won't get??

anyone??

[catwhisperer]

Are you all tired of me ranting about teachers?

[Arctic Firefox]

Voters of Australia: how many times does John Howard have to lie to you before you throw him out of office? Fifty times? A hundred? A thousand?

I'm going to eagerly await the next opinion polls, and if there isn't a significant swing away from the Liberal/National Coalition, I shall rest my case where my arguments for voluntary voting are concerned.

[Dark One]

Flit, the people at Norton are always like that. I just needed some port numbers from them when i was setting up the prog on my mums PC, and they tried to take me through all the install steps.

One bit of advice. Uninstall Norton and install Avast www.avast.com/

This is the best free virus checker available, and it even works with the Microsoft Vista Beta (XP's replacement)

[Hannai]

im with u artic fox
lets get rid of Howard b4 he does any more damage to our country!

Oh and my fet hurt!!!
WHY cant we SIT down at the when serving at cash regisrters?

[Dark One]

Im ranting about the heat!!

The temperature in Britain today is supposed to get up to 37 degrees C! I don't mind the heat, but its humid here as well

Our bloody estates department have refused to install air-conditioning in our IT office for the past three years so we're going to boil in the office.

Its 9.30am here and already the outside temp is 31deg and inside its 28deg

Edit: Its now 36deg outside and 33deg inside!

[Lauren Hedgehog]

*sigh* I wish we were getting temperatures like that Dark One. I absoultly HATE the cold. I want summer back

My main rant though is that not only is my computer still broken from weeks ago, but now my Mum's one which I've been using won't connect to the internet, so if I want to go internetting I have to use this extremely old and slow computer. It's so old that you shut it down by pressing the esc key twice

[Siryn]

i hate the fact that --yes, it is cold and yet my body continues to sweat. its disgusting. i feel so disgusting....and am i spelling that word right?....anyway, i was about to ask -why is there a NEW rant thread? what did i miss?

[Squirt]

Ummm, I'll pass on that question. I can't believe you felt the need to rant on the night of your bday! Poor thing!

[fearless-falcon]

how about this howard vrs beaty
i mean keep it to urselves guys
and i belive we need a new pm howard has to step down at some stage

[Lina]

I'm ranting becuase even though I can drive they won't give me my license so I can drive legally - grrr it wouldn't be so bad if:

a) I didn't have to cough up something like $200 each time and
b) worse drivers than me are allowed on the road!??

[Squirt]

$200? Serious!?! It only cost me $40 to do the test four or so years ago. eek!

[Min]

Flit, I totally agree with DO, go to Avast or AVG. Biff Norton out the window. It's a piece of crap.
We never recommend it to anyone. It ALWAYS auto-installs with Laptops, though, I've noticed. I remove it as soon as I see it on machines we set up here.
I recently had a guy here who we had to perform a complete reformat of his machine, after Norton updated automatically and removed/corrupted the registry keys that recognised Inventor files. We re-established the keys but Norton just kept deleting them after a reboot.
NORTON BITES THE BIG ONE.

In other news - WTF is with this drawing I'm trying to update for a client? I've got a stop watch out on it, doing some tests, and it's taken - no kidding - 20 MINUTES to update. I've been sitting here for 20 MINUTES looking at a blank screen, waiting for a 150 part/1500 instance drawing to update!!
And Autodesk tells me this performance is normal?! No it ISN'T! Users can't sit at their desks staring at NOTHING for 20 minutes!! How am I supposed to go back to the client and tell him it's normal?!
*thwacks Autodesk*

[Swallow]

i can't handle my STUPID BROTHER being back. GODDAMNIT he claims the fact i get kicked off the net all the time isn't his fault, but when he's not here and using it 24/7, the only internet hiccup i get is caused by MSN. He leaves his computer and the internet on while he's out. While he's asleep. and looks at me blankly when i yell at him even computers need a sleep.
GAH
That and he takes up SOOOOO much room in the washing. It's my job to do the washing, and because he's back it means i have to use the seperate line, which i hate using because it's yicky and i have to walk on the yicky grass and dodge the dog crap which is hiding in it. URGH. I want my internet to remain reliable, i'm so p!ssed off that i'm back to being kicked off at random times. YICK

and thanks DO and Min, this was on my mother's computer, i still have mine which is in date until September, but instead of paying to update, i think i'll give that a go. I've paid for Norton's, so i might as well keep it until its useless. But i might get my mother onto this one. She needs friendly people to talk to. I had to take over that IM conversation because she was nearly crying over her frustration. Stupid idiots. Too many of them in this world.

I hope Autodesk starts working for you Min, if not, would you like this 2x4? it's very useful.

[Min]

The annoying thing about anti-virus software is it should just work. It's not like you're playing with it on a user level or it's the most important thing on your machine. Norton takes the tact that it's the most important thing in the world (as all other software developers do, I'm sure) and they really need to get a reality check. People don't want to have to configure or fiddle with anti virus, you just want it to do it's job.
I've got AVG and I never have to fiddle with it, it just sits in the back ground doing it's job and updating whenever it needs updating. I'm going to check out this Avast though and see what the deal is if you're recommending it DO.

Autodesk. I'm a bit "gah!" over this case... I've gone back to them and asked how on earth can I tell the client that sitting in front of a screen waiting for it to update for 20 minutes is normal behavior?! And I've heard nothing. They tend to stick their heads in the sand when they come across something like this.
They're not completely useless or anything, they're usually quite good...it's just on the 'difficult' cases that your have to beat answers out of them...grrrrr...that, and the rule that I'm sure exists stating "never ever admit to anyone that there's a problem in the software"...*takes 2x4 and readies it* thanks.

[esspess]

gah how annoying, i join the school girls open rugby team this year and im like yay this is going to be fun...and now half the year has passed and we've only had two games and i wasnt allowed to play the first cause i hurt my ankle in soccer...and today we play our second and we get thrashed like hell which means we are kicked out of the comp cause its knockouts....GRRR! all those early morning trainings every week at 7 o clock for nothing....NOTHING i tell you!!!!
not only that but there are only two more weeks left of soccer for my team and we've already had 3 games called off cause of bad weather...and i reckon they are gonna call this weeks off cause its been raining all week and theres more to come... why WHY...i live for soccer they cant call it off...they dont even bother to reschedule our missed games which they are supposed to do its NOT FAIR!!! *wails*

[Dark One]

Min, good luck with Autodesk! They sound as bad as Quark!

[Rushton]

I have Avast, and it's fantastic - it just pootles about in the background and does its job. And believe me this puta is like a fortress as the brother works in internet security

But I shall have a mini rant about salsa jars. Why are they so ridiculously hard to open? Maybe it's my girly arm muscles, but I try everything - running the lid under hot water, using a teatowel, just about the only thing that does work is prying a butter knife up under the lid to break the seal, but this is surely not the best way to go about it.

No other jars of food are so hard to open. Why salsa? Why does it merit a super dooper tightly sealed jar?
BAH! I think I'll just make my own in future.

[esspess]

hey Rigel i find that sometimes just a couple of good wacks with a butter knife to the ridge of the lid can loosen them enough to open... i find this is a good method, especially so because i get to wack things