When Computer Geeks Snap

[Chris]

You probably have to be a dork, or at least into computers a bit to understand why this is funny, but here goes:

So this afternoon, I'm farting around with an open source program called AirJack: http://sourceforge.net/projects/airjack/

AirJack is a device driver (or suit of device drivers) for 802.11(a/b/g) raw frame injection and reception. It is ment as a development tool for all manor of 802.11 applications that need to access the raw protocol

Seems pretty mundane, right? Now, I always, always, always bitch and moan about open source shit, especially stuff on Sourceforge, being great software with piss-poor documentation written by people with massive brains and zero social skills.

So, as I delve into the FAQ for AirJack to get it running, I come across this stuff in the FAQ:

Q: i cant send XXXXXXX type of frame, without it doing something strange?...

A: the firmware is a little quirky in this area because it wasnt made to do
this sort of thing...the solution is to play with modes, my favorite are
5 and 6...i can tell you that i have successfully, and reliably been able
to generate all types of frames except smaller control frames with this
driver...

Standard-faire, geeky Q&A. No problem.

Then it starts getting interesting:

Q: I've found a bug in the tools, and i dont have a fix for it...

A: good for you, no one cares about you, go eat worms...

And a little more..

Q: im not seeing any of the airjack traffic on my 802.11a card...

A: <sarcasm>well i cant see why not, let me plug my gigabit ethernet card
into my token ring network so i can get online and tell the world,
cause i just cant seem to understand this one...</sarcasm>...seriously
people you cant pick up airjack on your car am/fm radio either can you
so why would you be able to see 802.11a traffic...

Then he just loses it:

Q: im having trouble installing your code for windows, without cygwin

A: wow, the last question was by really stupid fuckers, but you didnt
even have the inteligence to get cygwin in there...if you are even
thinking this one, then give up, go be a lunch lady or something,
you remember the lunch lady right?, well when you're a lunch lady no
one will notice or even care about how clueless or stupid you are
you'll just have to serve sloppy joes...now go away...

Q: ive spent all the time to download, build and install airjack, but
why do i have to install your driver to make airjack work, i just
want to be able to make it work on my driver...

A: lets get something strait, AIRJACK IS THE DRIVER jackass...you just
asked me this..."why do i have to install airjack to use airjack",
well i dont know...maybe because computers are still not magic boxes
so until they are, please do us all a favor and stop using yours to
send people email...

 

[Shannon]

My dear Chris,
Exit computergeekhumor.exe.
Upload normalchrismode.exe.
You're funnier that way.
Shannonisapainintheass.exe running normally.

 

[Scott]

You probably have to be a dork, or at least into computers a bit to understand why this is funny, but here goes:

So this afternoon, I'm farting around with an open source program called AirJack: http://sourceforge.net/projects/airjack/



Seems pretty mundane, right? Now, I always, always, always bitch and moan about open source shit, especially stuff on Sourceforge, being great software with piss-poor documentation written by people with massive brains and zero social skills.

So, as I delve into the FAQ for AirJack to get it running, I come across this stuff in the FAQ:



Standard-faire, geeky Q&A. No problem.

Then it starts getting interesting:



And a little more..



Then he just loses it:

BAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMG R0X0R=Teh SeX!!11!1!!!111



That is just toooo funny. ROFL!!1!!1!!one!!!

 

[bostjan]

c:\> help

Computer cannot give you the help you need...sorry.

 

[Kagami]

some people piss me off so I have to go headbang and go psycho, that guy type shit in instead, lol.

 

[Leon]

that's hilarious

my $0.02 on computing:
garbage in -> garbage out

 

[Drew]

Relevant quote - "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -Picasso.

 

[noodles]

Hostility issues?

 

[Leon]

antisocial issues, for sure. most of us have probably seen it, or been there, before. it's not a good place to be

 

[Regor]

PEBKAC

 

[DelfinoPie]

if you are even
thinking this one, then give up, go be a lunch lady or something,
you remember the lunch lady right?, well when you're a lunch lady no
one will notice or even care about how clueless or stupid you are
you'll just have to serve sloppy joes...now go away...

That made me lol, roffle and lamow all at the same time.

 

[XEN]

Makes me want to change my email signature to this:
There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary, and you, you fucking idiot!

 

[FoxMustang]

PEBKAC

I ran into quite a bit when I did IT support.

 

[Mastodon]

That was pretty hillarious.

 

[Digital Black]

Funny stuff.

 

[Ken]

My dear Chris,
Exit computergeekhumor.exe.
Upload normalchrismode.exe.
You're funnier that way.
Shannonisapainintheass.exe running normally.

Don't forget to shut down and let your memory empty before....

...Cue the Barry White music...

...turning yourself on.

 

[Vegetta]

Seems pretty mundane, right? Now, I always, always, always bitch and moan about open source shit, especially stuff on Sourceforge, being great software with piss-poor documentation written by people with massive brains and zero social skills.

OMG
+1 I say the same thing all of time time

 

[rogue]

thats quality stuff

 

[Naren]

Ha ha ha. Funny stuff.

And I just finished translating a 35-page QA manual yesterday. Printing that kind of stuff goes against everything written in the manual, which is why it's so funny.

Ah, when I'm translating something and I think that the Japanese is TOO obvious, I don't even bother translating it. I just skip it. There was a long explanation of what GUI is that went for 3-4 lines and I was like "I doubt anyone reading this doesn't already know that" and I just wrote "GUI: Graphical User Interface."

I also translated a FAQ yesterday and today and I had to restrain myself from translating the responses to the questions sarcastically. I wanted to rip into the idiots who would ask such stupid questions...

Ah, good stuff. Indeed.