Thursday 1 July 2010

Things to do when asking for help in an IRC Chat Room

1) Post your entire live firewall on a pastebin site
2) Post passwords for your system so people can help diagnose your current issue.
3) Rant about completely off topic problems, then wonder why the operators kick you out. When it says ##networking be sure to start asking questions on why your visual basic script won't connect to a server.

Yes we really do see things like this on a daily basis in chat rooms trying to help people. Remember these folks are not being paid for this and probably using up time they could be dedicating to solving problems at work that they are being paid for,