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Snowflake
02-14-2007, 02:41 PM
Okay, I laughed out loud, and felt empathy for the modern version.

Two sets of subtitles.

Bonus points if you read the bottom.

medieval help desk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRjVeRbhtRU)
Alex
02-14-2007, 02:52 PM
It's really mildly annoying that I start working somewhere that blocks YouTube and you all go YouTube happy.

Anybody willing to volunteer to represent any YouTube links as ascii animation?
Ghoulish Delight
02-14-2007, 03:00 PM
Do the block content, or just the URL? Does this link (http://www.jenniegreg.com/RandomImages/techsupport.html) work?
Snowflake
02-14-2007, 03:02 PM
Do the block content, or just the URL? Does this link (http://www.jenniegreg.com/RandomImages/techsupport.html) work?

Visible MOJO, GD! Thanks!
BarTopDancer
02-14-2007, 03:26 PM
LMAO!!!!!!! This is part of what I do. I am sending this out.

Visible mojo (I must spread mojo around before I can give it to Snowflake again)
Alex
02-14-2007, 03:31 PM
Embedded YouTube videos are blocked as well. I can access your URL but there's nothing in it.
mousepod
02-14-2007, 03:34 PM
what about non-youtube flv files? can you see the menstruation vid I linked to in the Girl Stuff thread?
Alex
02-14-2007, 03:56 PM
Maybe, but I'm not going to try.

But yes, I'm sure that if the resource is coming from a non-blocked source it would play fine. But I'm not looking to circumvent the company policy (if I were, getting to LiveJournal would be much more important to me).

It was more a bemused comment on the fact that now that I can't easily see them suddenly it seems like half a dozen YouTube videos are getting posted here every day. (Frequently with just a link and a "wow, this is funny!")
Stan4dSteph
02-14-2007, 05:31 PM
Maybe, but I'm not going to try.

But yes, I'm sure that if the resource is coming from a non-blocked source it would play fine. But I'm not looking to circumvent the company policy (if I were, getting to LiveJournal would be much more important to me).

It was more a bemused comment on the fact that now that I can't easily see them suddenly it seems like half a dozen YouTube videos are getting posted here every day. (Frequently with just a link and a "wow, this is funny!")I am in the same boat, Alex.
Ghoulish Delight
02-14-2007, 05:44 PM
I can view 'em, but the computer I use 99% of the time at work doesn't have sound, and I don't have headphones here to use with the one that does have sound.
BarTopDancer
02-14-2007, 05:56 PM
I'm lucky I can get on LoT. One of my hockey boards is blocked, iTunes is blocked, last.fm is blocked, musicbrainz is blocked

Silly people want me to work at work or something.

Contact the Administrator. I am one of the Administrators!
Ghoulish Delight
02-14-2007, 06:57 PM
Heh, that post finally motivated me to scavenge a sound card from an old system that didn't need its. Now if I can remember to bring in headphones, I'm golden.
wendybeth
02-14-2007, 07:26 PM
That made my day, Snow. Thanks!:snap:
Morrigoon
02-14-2007, 10:02 PM
That was cute.

Reminds me of this one lady in my office. She never signed out of her computer, so when the computer had to be restarted while installing some new antivirus software (our company's network recently got TAKEN DOWN by viruses), she couldn't sign back in. Eventually IT signed in as administrator so she could get some work done. She kept complaining that she wasn't getting her emails. I tried to explain to her that she wasn't signed in as herself right now, and she didn't get it, so I pulled up Explorer and signed her in on teh web interface. She SO didn't get the difference between getting her email on the web vs opening Outlook on the desktop, and no matter how many times I told her, it never sunk in that she wasn't signed in as herself and she kept complaining that all her old information was "lost".
Betty
02-15-2007, 06:38 AM
I have to explain the outlook vs webmail thing regularly to people. I use the anology of checking your mailbox at the street and leaving the mail in there (webmail) to bringing the mail in the house (outlook). Once you take the mail in the house, it won't be in the mailbox anymore.
Ghoulish Delight
02-15-2007, 09:08 AM
I have to explain the outlook vs webmail thing regularly to people. I use the anology of checking your mailbox at the street and leaving the mail in there (webmail) to bringing the mail in the house (outlook). Once you take the mail in the house, it won't be in the mailbox anymore.Unless you're using an Exchange server, in which case if you use outlook not only is it still in the mailbox, you can get to that mailbox from anywhere.


Day 1: forgot headphones