Journal Sylver Dragon's Journal: Oh Shit! <Alt>+F4 <Alt>+F4 <Alt>+F4 2
This past Thursday I was once again reminded of the dangers of browsing on the internet and typing in a domain name you think is right. At my work we have a couple of machines which the students are allowed to use (in addition to their laptops) so that they can access some software which we only have one or two licenses for. On this particular day, one of the students was using this system for part of her project and had run into a problem: when the computer was setup Python was installed but PythonWin was not. No problem, I'll just add it for her and be on my way.
It just happened to be that while she was asking me about it one of her fellow students walked up and they started talking about the software she was using, and the second student wanted to see it so she stuck around as well. Please note that, at this point I have two female students chit-chating next to me and watching while I get PythonWin installed. While this shouldn't be a problem, it will become obvious why this was one shortly.
I figure that the quickest thing to do is pop out on the web, download PythonWin and install it. So, open Internet Explorer, and type python.com into the address bar (Do NOT do this at work!). Now, with the wonderfully fast connection we have, within a second I begin to see adds for porn. I let out a reflexive, "oh, shit!" and started hitting <Alt>+F4 as fast as my fingers would move. At this point, the two students behind me give me confused looks. I quickly apologize, which they initially didn't understand. It would seem that my mind picked up on what was going on, and reacted fast enough, that they hadn't seen anything. Thank goodness both of them were able to understand and laugh it off; but, I still think I lost a few days off my life from that.
So, lesson learned, unless I am damn sure of the address I am going to, JFGI.
It just happened to be that while she was asking me about it one of her fellow students walked up and they started talking about the software she was using, and the second student wanted to see it so she stuck around as well. Please note that, at this point I have two female students chit-chating next to me and watching while I get PythonWin installed. While this shouldn't be a problem, it will become obvious why this was one shortly.
I figure that the quickest thing to do is pop out on the web, download PythonWin and install it. So, open Internet Explorer, and type python.com into the address bar (Do NOT do this at work!). Now, with the wonderfully fast connection we have, within a second I begin to see adds for porn. I let out a reflexive, "oh, shit!" and started hitting <Alt>+F4 as fast as my fingers would move. At this point, the two students behind me give me confused looks. I quickly apologize, which they initially didn't understand. It would seem that my mind picked up on what was going on, and reacted fast enough, that they hadn't seen anything. Thank goodness both of them were able to understand and laugh it off; but, I still think I lost a few days off my life from that.
So, lesson learned, unless I am damn sure of the address I am going to, JFGI.
Eeeew Quicktime (Score:1)
They stream video in Quicktime, nasty.