The Water Cooler

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Nofel

10:47

Morning all.

3 hours later…

Snow

13:20

Afternoon. Suffering the highs and lows of a new company laptop. worst low being McAfee.

motosubatsu

@Snow you have my sympathies

Snow

McAfee is preventing me from installing IIS, I beleive.

motosubatsu

@Snow because all users (or is that victims?) of McAfee are parents of thirteen year old boys, and all they know about the internet is that it's used for porn therefore they need to get something that stops The Internet before it shows their pure little angel Tyrone some pictures of naked women.

and that is why McAfee blocks IIS

or I might just have made that up

Richard U

13:40

So, who are we going to annoy today.

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@motosubatsu we all know why hackers have been specifically targeting McAfee for years... That SECOND group they had in the back....

motosubatsu

13:59

ION it's insanely hot in the office today.. bearing in mind that it's 8C outside the chocolate bar on my desk has mostly melted

Richard U

@motosubatsu I'm wearing my coat at my desk. it's -7 here outside, and not much better in the office. I'm seriously considering getting gloves.

motosubatsu

@RichardU at this point I'd gladly swap

been slowly broiling all week

my head's splitting :(

Richard U

Yeah, I can relate. The only good thing about the cold here is that it's making the insects easier to catch.

Snow

14:15

Those crunchy nutritious insects...

motosubatsu

@RichardU that's no way to talk about your co-workers

Richard U

@motosubatsu it's better than some of the things going through my head.

1 hour later…

Richard U

15:19

going for the double rep-cap again :D

Snow

You'll need that to counter your loss from yesterday (a returning troll user).

Richard U

@Snow I maxed out yesterday at 215 here and at worldbuilding. Any loss by the troll was absorbed. :D

Trying not to sweat the small stuff these days... to much big stuff going on

Snow

You're a steamrollering-repmachine.

Richard U

@Snow Looks like we old farts may actually know a thing or two, but I think it's because my brain doesn't work quite like many people's that I give a different perspective.

Snow

15:34

My perspective is usually based on "stating the blindingly obvious"

Richard U

@Snow well, there is that too. I just had to post "HR IS YOUR NEW BEST FRIEND". I seem to be doing a lot of that lately. I hope I don't get into the habit.

Snow

HRBFF FTW

motosubatsu

15:50

@RichardU ref: this - I once got a verbal reprimand from HR for referring to one of my direct reports as "my minion" :D

Richard U

@motosubatsu I couldn't decide to post that, or the one with a picture of a fox and the words "Oh, for" above the fox, and the word "Sake" below it.

motosubatsu

what as extra amusing was that it was said minions own term for himself :D

Richard U

@motosubatsu Ah yes, the famous "offended on the behalf of someone else".

6 hours later…

Richard U

22:02

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