Work Fakage...
We have all, at some point, had dead time at work - those days when you work your ass off in the morning and come lunchtime you find your meeting has been cancelled, or the project has stalled and you have to wait for someone else to get stuff to you, etc. However, life being what it is, we can't just go "woo-hooo! I'm off to the pub, suckers!". No, we have to stay in the office and look like we're working.

So far today I've booked a meeting from 12-2 with a colleague as it means we can get catering to bring us lunch for free (can't work through lunch and not get fed!) and I've also got my personal laptop sat next to my work PC ("wow, he works so hard he even takes work home with him!"), with a random selection of spreadsheets open on it. In reality, I've got the entire back-catalogue of Dilbert downloaded onto it and I've read the entirety of 1998 and 1999 already today...

Sometimes, I really enjoy my job.

(in fact, if my wife hadn't taken my cash card by mistake this morning, it'd be a perfect day. As it is, I can't get cash out for a post-work beverage. bugger).
(Chad, Thu 17 Jul 2008, 10:28, closed)

ooooh
I'm missing those ones.

www.geek.nl/pics/dilbert-arch/

Any change you could zip and email? Or let me know where you get them from?
(Shifty weeeee, Thu 17 Jul 2008, 11:08, closed)

dilbert
piratebay - just search for "dilbert" and found a torrent with all dilbert from about 1995 to 2007 in PDF format. If you struggle, I'll whack it up on t'interweb when I get home (bloody office net-nazis won't let non-work machines connect. gah).
(Chad, Thu 17 Jul 2008, 11:22, closed)

Ah ha -
...should have thought of that really.

No need to send it to me. As I am one of the neo-net-nazi's I have already got the torrent going on my PC here. It'll be done in 10 minutes!

Also - try setting you Laptop to DHCP - will it pick up an address then? If not then try it the other way round and specify an IP address that is identical to your own except the last bunch of digits

10.11.12.xxx
^these ones.

Probably not a good idea though - you may break things and they'll moan. A lot. And use words like 'Company Policy' and 'breach'. Things you don't want to hear.
(Shifty weeeee, Thu 17 Jul 2008, 11:37, closed)

'tis worse than that...
We have to log in to the PCs here with an ID card that loads a whole raft of crap before you can get to the network. Frankly, it's a pile 'o shite - I'm sat here using a Pentium IV laptop that responds more slowly than the old Celeron 800MHz I gave away to my mum's friend. I am tempted to see if I can get on, though, as I don't think their IT crew are too hot - they just rely on the setup done by the experts who put it together...
(Chad, Thu 17 Jul 2008, 11:43, closed)