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...can't rip their faarrrkkkking heads off.
I was called out to a customers Tuesday as the computer was slow. Turns out the thing is faarrrkkkked. Motherboard or something, but clicked something, live out the rest of your life and it still isn't doen. If you want to run an Administrative tool, then bad luck.
So I organise a nice new shiney 6th Gen i7 with Windows 10. Then I get the software from the customer, all original.
2 untouched, unopened copies of Windows XP Professional.
1 Vista Ultimate with the license sticker still on it.
Office XP Profesional.
QuickBooks from 2008.
His other software for his business (tradesman) has been purchased and downloaded from links in emails. From what I can see it was last done in 2009.
So then it gets better. Looking at the HDD from the old computer he was using Office 2013, talking to him it is Office 365. He doesn't know his Microsoft Account or any passwords. It's all kept in Norton Vault.
Looking through the old HDD I find he has old installation files for Norton Identity Safe. So I login to his ISP Webmail, then reset his Norton Accoutnpassword and login. His Norton Identity Safe subscription is expired, I can renew or delete his backed up files.
It's too late to call him, I can't get any of his software installed and he wants this back and working tomorrow morning. It's currently 22:10 and there is no hope this will be sorted.
Will have to put the HDD back in the old shitbox and hope I can get something out of it.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Tell him to drop Norton Blackmail and get Keepass or something similar instead
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It's a bit late for that now: he needs the content first! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: It's a bit late for that now: he needs the content first! 
Spot on. He didn't ask you to keep a copy for him by chance?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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No, sorry. You could try the NSA archives?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Try that in a garage with your car; "I want it fixed tomorrow."
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Try that in a garage with your car; "I want it fixed tomorrow."
...to which the response can almost always be "it can be done, but it'll cost you"
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Just one of those things that come up in conversation in the MAXXX household
What do YOU call it? Crayon or coloured pencil - or something else?
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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We're posh and have both. Coloured pencils are just that, pencils with a coloured 'lead'. Crayons are the wax things that get trodden into the good carpets and can never be fully removed.
veni bibi saltavi
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I agree.
Except I don't have any good carpets.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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That's my take, too (although we don't have carpets, living in a posh Queenslander with wooden floorboards, but Mrs. Maxxx called them crayons in her youth, not coloured pencils.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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I wouldn't want to be the one to tell her she's wrong - good luck !
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I would say something about being uncouth, but taking into account that you're too far south, that would be considered socially insensitive.
veni bibi saltavi
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I seem to remember my mother calling them both something along the lines of [snip - Decency Police]. It took sometime for my youthful self to work out that that was the only name of crayons/pencils when used to create impromptu murals in the living room!
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I've known coloured pencils to also be called 'pencil crayons' but never just 'crayons', which are the waxy things.
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Crayons were always the coloured wax.
Pencil crayons or coloured pencils were interchangeable terms for the wood encased coloured 'lead'.
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'something else'
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In English, in my experience, a crayon is a wax pencil (TM crayola) wrapped in paper and a pencil is a led core encased in wood (black or colored).
In french, crayon can be both led (and colored) pencil and if you want to specify was, then it is a "wax crayon" (crayon de cire)
I'd rather be phishing!
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The ones that the dog eats are crayons, the ones that the cat eat are the colored pencils. In either case the gastric after effects are somewhat colorful. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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They're completely different things. These[^] are colored pencils and these[^] are crayons. Colored pencils are made out of graphite ("lead"), while crayons are made from a wax based material.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Colored pencils are made out of graphite ("lead")
I think you forgot the joke icon. Either that or you're thinking of ordinary grey-leads.
How It's made - Colored Pencils[^]
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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Thanks! I did not know that. 
/ravi
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Weapons of colored wax destruction?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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It depends on which I'm talking about; the two are entirely different products. Crayons are wax-based markers which carry colorants, while colored pencils are more like chalk, as in sintered, finely powdered colorants. No relation.
Will Rogers never met me.
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