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  • IT SAYS GOOGLE!!!

    This one's a fun one.

    I was helping someone the other day whose computer kept freezing up when he tried to launch Internet Explorer (our company won't let us support Firefox). He wasn't really sucky, but was getting kind of frustrated when the first few things we tried didn't work. After some more fiddling, I asked him to try again.

    Me: Ok, double-click on Internet Explorer again and let me know what happens.

    Him: Nothing ... wait! Ooh! Ooh! I got an hourglass!

    This was uttered with all the glee and excitement of a small child opening presents on Christmas morn. Then he exclaimed the following with utter jubilation and triumph.

    Him: I got a webpage! IT SAYS GOOGLE!!!

    I was trying hard not to laugh because I didn't want him to get the wrong idea, but it just tickled me that he was So Frickin' Excited to get back on the internet. Imagine the scene they have in some movies, where a woman has been in labor for a long time, and there may be something wrong, but then the baby is born, and the father burst out of the room holding the baby shouting "I HAVE A SON!!!" That is exactly the tone of voice this guy used when he shouted "IT SAYS GOOGLE!!!"

  • #2
    Heh. That's definitely amusing.

    Side note for helping troubleshoot that: I saw it happening on computers where I used to work. Start it again (so two copies), and the second one would come up. Removed Yahoo toolbar and Google toolbar, and first would now work correctly.

    And that was your random tech-tip of the day

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    • #3
      Hey, I can understand how he felt. Somedays, when I have to fix a particularly irritating networking issue, that google page can look like the most wonderful thing in the world.
      The Rich keep getting richer because they keep doing what it was that made them rich. Ditto the Poor.
      "Hy kan tell dey is schmot qvestions, dey is makink my head hurt."
      Hoc spatio locantur.

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      • #4
        That's great. I mean, sure, I empathize with his happiness, but can you imagine this guy living day to day life?

        "WHERE ARE MY KEYS?!?"

        "THE DINNER WAS DELICIOUS!!!"

        "I HAVE TO GO POOP!!!"

        "WHERE THE **** IS THE VAN?!?"

        Sorry about that last one..obligatory Dane Cook reference.
        You can find me on Backloggery, Facebook, Twitch, Twitter, YouTube

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        • #5
          Quoth gunsage View Post
          "WHERE THE **** IS THE VAN?!?"
          *dadadadadadadadada* "THE VAN WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HERE!"

          Seriously, though, [insert company] toolbars are the devil. What's worse is that there are people who collect them the way other people collect shot glasses, keychains or STD's. Actually, not that much like shot glasses or keychains.

          And let's not talk about the people who use IE, know about Firefox and the similarities and differences between them, and won't use Firefox because A) "downloading it will use up hard drive space", B) "I'm just used to Internet Explorer", C) "I don't trust it because it's a 3rd party program".
          "I'm not a crazed gunman, dad, I'm an assassin... Well, the difference being one is a job and the other's mental sickness!" -The Sniper

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          • #6
            UPS' homepage is my page of choice for checking my connection.

            Not only is it something I use regularly at work, but it loads in milliseconds if my connection is active.

            Plus, shortly after they locked out YouTube from being viewable by company computers, we stopped being able to use Google maps. Then a couple of weeks ago, we stopped getting Google at all. I can't even begin to express how much harder that makes things around the office. >.<

            ^-.-^
            Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden

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            • #7
              Quoth Andara Bledin View Post
              we stopped getting Google at all. I can't even begin to express how much harder that makes things around the office. >.<

              ^-.-^
              does blackle.com work?

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              • #8
                Quoth Andara Bledin View Post
                UPS' homepage is my page of choice for checking my connection.
                I use Google because of the way they have it set up. Google is not likely to have a server outage that bork's their webpage. If things go bad on Google's end, something very, very bad has happened.

                I can't believe they blocked your access to google. I probably use it several times a day for work purposes. Any chance of getting work-related access back?
                The Rich keep getting richer because they keep doing what it was that made them rich. Ditto the Poor.
                "Hy kan tell dey is schmot qvestions, dey is makink my head hurt."
                Hoc spatio locantur.

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                • #9
                  Back in the day (Wednesday) when I was a tier 2, we used to use red.com, yellow.com, and purple.com. For some reason, we're not allowed to do that now. Often we use google and yahoo. Sure, red.com got bought up by someone and yellow.com is Yellow Pages, but I really don't understand that. Perhaps it's because various applets are loaded or something and it effectively tests a common Internet site on Yahoo and Google...I don't know.
                  You can find me on Backloggery, Facebook, Twitch, Twitter, YouTube

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                  • #10
                    Quoth MMATM View Post
                    Seriously, though, [insert company] toolbars are the devil. What's worse is that there are people who collect them the way other people collect shot glasses, keychains or STD's. Actually, not that much like shot glasses or keychains.
                    Part of the problem is that a lot of software that you get off of the web (Java, WinZip, and I think Open Office does it too) installs either Google or Yahoo toolbar by default, "for your convenience". Sure, you can uncheck the little box and not install it, but your average user just keeps clicking Next without really looking. I don't know how many times I've worked on a computer with Google/Yahoo toolbar, and the user has no idea how it got there because it auto-installed with something else.

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Geek King View Post
                      I use Google because of the way they have it set up. Google is not likely to have a server outage that bork's their webpage. If things go bad on Google's end, something very, very bad has happened.

                      I can't believe they blocked your access to google. I probably use it several times a day for work purposes. Any chance of getting work-related access back?
                      I've seen Google borked more often than I've seen UPS borked. It's mostly in the Java on Google's sites. In fact, on my home computer (which doesn't like to let Firefox & Java play together), I have to use IE to use Google Maps.

                      And Google isn't supposed to be blocked, only YouTube. But either someone at Google is tricksy and has it set up where people blocking YouTube will end up unintentionally blocking Google, too, or someone at my company fucked up. Considering what I know about the people on my end in that department, I know where my money is going.

                      Quoth Chattonne View Post
                      Part of the problem is that a lot of software that you get off of the web (Java, WinZip, and I think Open Office does it too) installs either Google or Yahoo toolbar by default, "for your convenience". Sure, you can uncheck the little box and not install it, but your average user just keeps clicking Next without really looking.
                      And thus the ban on installing anything on the computers at my work without authorization. I think it might have had a little something to do with the infected machine in the warehouse that happened to also have half a dozen toolbars installed on it. I, personally, won't have anything to do with toolbars.

                      ^-.-^
                      Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden

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                      • #12
                        They finally blocked YouTube at our work, much to the dismay of the sometimes bored overnight crew. Now when you search for a video in Google Video, it lists those hosted by YouTube, but theres a red X instead of a snapshot of the video and you still can't view it.

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                        • #13
                          Quoth MMATM View Post
                          And let's not talk about the people who use IE, know about Firefox and the similarities and differences between them, and won't use Firefox because A) "downloading it will use up hard drive space", B) "I'm just used to Internet Explorer", C) "I don't trust it because it's a 3rd party program".
                          They hated me. I am not a Microsoft Guru, if you have internet problems the first thing I do is install FireFox and see if it works ok. Helps a lot to find out if the problem is *inside* IE or is it the user's Windows setup. Example, my friend was cursing at IE, but when she ran FireFox it reported problems with her QuickTime. If QuickTime is out of date no amount of work on IE will fix the problem.

                          Quoth edible_hat View Post
                          does blackle.com work?
                          Thanks for the tip on Blackle.
                          Last edited by Broomjockey; 03-08-2008, 09:13 PM. Reason: multi-quote

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                          • #14
                            Quoth gunsage View Post
                            That's great. I mean, sure, I empathize with his happiness, but can you imagine this guy living day to day life?

                            "WHERE ARE MY KEYS?!?"

                            "THE DINNER WAS DELICIOUS!!!"

                            "I HAVE TO GO POOP!!!"
                            Y'know, part of me wishes I could live my life, and all its trivialities, with that much enthusiasm.

                            ... "THE BUS IS ON TIME!" "I GET TO SLEEP AGAIN!" "THE SUN CAME UP! YAY!" :P

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                            • #15
                              Quoth Chattonne View Post

                              I was trying hard not to laugh because I didn't want him to get the wrong idea, but it just tickled me that he was So Frickin' Excited to get back on the internet. Imagine the scene they have in some movies, where a woman has been in labor for a long time, and there may be something wrong, but then the baby is born, and the father burst out of the room holding the baby shouting "I HAVE A SON!!!" That is exactly the tone of voice this guy used when he shouted "IT SAYS GOOGLE!!!"
                              Most of you are tech types, so your reaction is probably the similar. However, for those of us who aren't tech/computer gurus computers can be very frustrating and difficult, so even little victories are a big deal. Don't begrudge us our happy dances.

                              Quoth edible_hat View Post
                              does blackle.com work?
                              So besides the spiffy black interface is there anything else different between this and Google.com?
                              Be a winner today: Pick a fight with a 4 year old.

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