Topic: Work
To go along with the last work post...
I've had a couple of people recently call me with another flawed view on computing. They both swore up and down, in fact one woman started arguing and then screaming at me, that they could only receive their Internet email on one and only one computer.
Conversation went something like this:
Me - "I can send you the VPN file if you have an external, Internet email address."
Caller - "I have a Yahoo account, but I can't check it from this computer."
Me - "You don't have Internet access at that computer? If not, you won't be able to use the VPN anyway."
Caller - "I do have the Internet on here, but I can only check my Yahoo from my other computer."
Me - "And why is that exactly?"
Caller - "Because my Lotus Notes email comes to this computer, and my Yahoo mail goes to the other one."
Me - "You can check any Internet based email from any computer in the world, provided that it has Internet access."
Caller - "No you can't!" <--And they were both very serious about this claim.
Me - "Ah, yeah you can...that's kinda the whole point of it."
Anyway, as I said, one of them argued with me for a while and even screamed at me that I was wrong. Then I'm like..."Ok, prove me wrong, open IE and go to yahoo.com, click mail and sign in...thank you."
Then she calmed down and even thanked me later for setting her straight. That was fun!