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Phish Scams & User Foolishness
We've had a ton of Phishing Scams at work. These are attempts by people to get your user name and password so that they can, in turn, use your credentials to send out more phishing scams and spam. Usually an official looking email is sent out to users ... 		Aug 17, 2008
9:51:00 AM
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Can you *chomp-chomp* help *slurp-smack* me?
This one has been a long time coming for the Gripes list. Exactly what makes people think that I want to hear you eating food while you're speaking to me? At least once a week I answer the phone to someone eating their lunch in my ear. This has to be one ... 		Jun 29, 2008
9:39:00 AM
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Fixed Width Web Pages
Why is it some web pages have fixed width web pages? You know the kind, where it looks like you're looking at a sheet of paper with the margins on each side expanding to fill the width of your display? If you have a smaller monitor, that may not be a bid ... 		Aug 21, 2007
4:41:00 PM
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Clickers of Everything
One of the things that never ceases to amaze me is that after all these years of being exposed to computers, people still fall for the lamest "tricks" to expose them to a virus or spyware. Probably the truly single most jaw dropper for me is the ... 		Aug 15, 2007
4:38:00 PM
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Web Sites That Auto Play Things
This has been one of my top gripes since the age of the internet began, I honestly don't know how I didn't include it in the first few gripes! I hate any web page with auto-playing multimedia with sound (auto playing silent video, while annoying, is a ... 		Nov 25, 2006
4:19:00 PM
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Baby Monitors
I don't dislike what these do, they let you hear you child cry easily. What I do hate is the technology: they amplify every little sound and add tremble to it which probably adds 50 decibels to the sound. They crackle for no reason too. What someone ... 		Sep 12, 2005
4:21:00 PM
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\Ar"ro*gance\
\Ar"ro*gance\, n. [F., fr. L. arrogantia, fr. arrogans. See Arrogant.] The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, ... 		Nov 26, 2004
4:23:00 PM
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Xbox Controllers
This past Thanksgiving my nephew brought along his XBox and I was looking forward to trying a little Halo 2 having play the pervious one on my PC. I say now and for the record that the XBox controllers are a steaming pile of magical crap. They have no ... 		Nov 26, 2004
4:22:00 PM
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ARMY! NAVY! AIR FORCE! MARINES!
Not that I would ever consider myself the military type - but, watching those ads on TV for the armed forces, they make it look so neat. Drive a tank, fly a plane, be on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. Don't forget everyone - they need people to ... 		Apr 4, 2004
4:31:00 PM
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Keep on Calling
This one will be short. At work we have a few users who will call to report a problem and then phone back with more 'information', and then phone again soon after with either FUD or I Have A Friend comments (see below.) Aside from those two already very ... 		Jul 21, 2002
4:24:00 PM
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FUD
A friend of mine whom I work with often uses the phrase "FUD." While he certainly didn't coin the phrase, a lot of people do suffer from Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. Recently, I accidently changed the wrong person's password (oop, my fault ... 		Jul 12, 2002
4:26:00 PM
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Dishwasher Safe
A quick search at Google reveals that "American Joel Houghton invented the first dishwasher in 1850. He made it out of wood and it was operated with a hand crank." Wow. Its been awhile! Would someone tell me why there is still cookware that ... 		Jun 15, 2002
4:28:00 PM
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"I have a friend..."
As of this date I figure I've been working professionally with computers, full time, for 13 years. Sometimes working campus, or consulting in the evening, I will diagnose a problem for a user/customer and will get the following phrase: "Well, I have ... 		Jun 15, 2002
4:27:00 PM
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Backup Your Data!
Working in computer service it always amazes me how many people don't backup their important stuff! For the record, a computer service engineer is a highly trained and skilled individual, but we are not miracle workers! If you hard disk crashes we may not ... 		Jul 6, 2001
4:29:00 PM
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Turn Signals
Just about since the dawn of the automobile, the makers of these machines have put these simply wonderful devices on them called Signal Lights! (Aka blinkers, directional lights, and flashing thingy.) They let the other drivers around the operator of the ... 		Dec 3, 2000
4:32:00 PM
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Plowin' the Roads
Why do the crews that operate the big plows first sand THEN plow? I would assume this throws all the sand (that is doing a wonderful job keeping me on the road) in the ditch. 		Nov 20, 2000
4:33:00 PM
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Hurry Up & Go!
Nothing, nothing, ticks me off more than this: You're driving down a street and about 500 feet ahead of you a car is getting to a stop sign, blows through it, and makes a right in your lane to get ahead of you. So, that person is in a hurry, right? After ... 		May 14, 2000
4:35:00 PM
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Sporting Events on TV
The thing I hate the most about televised sports is the over-runs (mostly football games.) If a game goes past 7pm and a show *I* want to watch is bumped - I get really ticked. What makes football more important than what I want to watch? Now, this can be ... 		May 14, 2000
4:34:00 PM
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4-Way Stop
It never ceases to amaze me how many people have no concept of what to do at a 4-way stop intersection. Here it is. Learn it. Live it. Use it. When approaching a 4-way stop, the first car to arrive goes first. If you and several cars arrive all at the ... 		Dec 14, 1999
4:36:00 PM