BTW... gotta pass on this funny story from last night.
Late last night I get forwarded a message from my guy out in DC. He's got a user that sent him a fairly rude nastygram that I will redact heavily and paste in below:
"I Have just returned to [home state] from an inspection. I'm at home with Comcast cable internet access. I'm running [vpn system name] to gain direct access to [server]. I was trying to copy 800MB of photos from my computer to [server] and it was unbelievably slow! So slow, that it's useless. What is the problem with our network? If I was downloading something over the internet, I could get 10 times the throughput. Can you enlighten me? The only thing [vpn system name] seems to be useful for is Outlook access over the net (which I'm doing right now, but not very quickly). Sorry to sound like an ass, but it's very aggravating."
-- [signed east coast muckitymuck]
I recommended that he reply with "I too, am sorry that you sound like an ass". But he thought better of it.
But YUMPIN YIMINY what does this airhead think trying to upload EIGHT HUNDRED MEGS of photos from home. Sure... your comcast cable is 3Mb downstream... but's it is only 128K (kilobits) upstream, dumbass.
And yet this dumbass makes it all *our* fault. People like this should be forced to only ever use 9600bps modems just to get some perspective on the abuse they are perpetrating on the internet.
LOL! I like that idea, at least as a temporary measure. Kinda the technological equivalent of being made to go stand in the corner for being a bad boy.
LOL. I like the way you think.
*rolls eyes heavenwards*
I work with people like that. Oh, and just yesterday, someone was asking why everytime they send me pictures over the internet, they bounce back.
I replied "Because hotmail is a free e-mail service and its too small to accept large attachments".
Then I heard "Well, can't you delete some of the stuff you have in there?"
*deep breath* "Yes, but it is still too small to accept a bunch of pics."
"I know! But maybe if you cleared out some of the stuff in there...."
"Hello? Let me speak more slowly...Hotmail....is.....free. It...has....limited...space...unless...you...pay....for...premium....service. That...means...even....if....it's....empty....it....cannot......accept....an....e-mail.....with......five.....pictures...attached."
"Oh."
chicken... triple dawg dare yuh...
Heh....