OT: Technology and Geek Stuff Thread

[Coop]

the problem you run into ULF is when a warranty part fails and you have to deal with JEHK from India.................

[Timmy]

My personal fav was when I called for an issue with my laptop and was clearly speaking to someone in India who identified himself as "Josh" with as thick of an Indian accent as you can imagine.

[-Deborah-]

Yep...same with calling Charter. "Allo? Tank ooo for calleen Charturr. This is Nancy."

I always say something like "I seriously doubt your name is Nancy. But hi..."

Don't forget this short film....perfect!

http://www.callcentermovie.com/

[Coop]

Timmy - it's JAHSHE

[YT]

There was a 60 Minutes segment a few years ago about American companies outsourcing the customer service calls to India.

A Corporate Training Consultant (i.e. "Bullshit Artist"); hired by one American companies; was interviewed and showed him teaching a class. He said the hardest thing to teach is pronunciation to help them loose their accents.

Several of the trainees were also interviewed and were asked how they came up with their "stage names". One young girl said she chose "Julia" since her favorite actress was Julia Roberts.

[SeattleLionsFan]

My computer seems to have caught a social disease. It's randomly spawning new explorer windows every 30 seconds or so.

If anyone is good with the HijackThis and you have a minute to help, I'd appreciate anything you can do to help.

[Drew]

Whenever I deal with stuff like that, and try to fix it with other programs, things usually get worse. Eventually, I'll save files and email addresses to the slave or shared drive, then wipe out the master and reload Windows.

The living room computer is working pretty good right now, but that's the one that the boys get on, so I have to do the above once or twice a year.

[SeattleLionsFan]

That would be a very very bad solution Drew. at least until after the bar.

[Drew]

Yeah, the boys always complain about missing stuff. In my best guitar-smashing John Belushi Animal House voice, I say "...sorry"

[SeattleLionsFan]

You can take the bar on a computer, but you have to have already downloaded the software, and if it screws up, well too bad so sad.

And I write like a drunk 2nd grader.

[-Deborah-]

Bit late here but I don't know much about Hijack This. In fact I don't think I've ever used it at all. If you're not up for reformatting, get the best virus protection you can, the best anti-spyware, and a good firewall.

[THE STEE]

and stay away from cheap porn sites

[King Cole]

and stay away from cheap porn sites

does that mean expensive ones are better and/or safer ?

[THE STEE]

have no idea just read that on the internet

[SeattleLionsFan]

I don't know what happened Stee...but it wasn't from cheap porn. (that's on the clean computer)

I think I accidentally clicked on a popup, instead of the 'x' and it installed a trojan on my machine. Now I get the most random pop ups ever. I've reduced the problem to a trickle, so I am hoping that it will be good enough. Cross your fingers!