Things that make you RAGE (IT)
m3nt4l
Brisbane, Queensland
1923 posts
Installing Windows 7 on an older laptop, finding that it runs very nicely indeed, except that the manufacturer released Windows 7 or Vista drivers for everything except the sound card and they don't exist. For a laptop which will be sitting in a bus and providing sound to the head deck, gps and the odd facebook update.
Installing Windows XP on the laptop, entering the cdkey from the laptop sticker and getting "product key not valid". Yes it is the right version. Now I have to dick around making a slp cd now.
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TicMan
Melbourne, Victoria
7649 posts
The #1 thing that makes me rage is when something just stops working for no fucking reason whatsoever. This happens constantly with my HTPC. All it does is sit under the TV playing media yet every so often it'll just stop working - media will stop playing or it will lock up or fast forwarding stops or I can't see the photo albums anymore and other stupidly random shit.
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Eorl
Brisbane, Queensland
4731 posts
I hate people who do stupid things with their computers. Like downloading viruses. Who downloads a virus anymore?
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FaceMan
Brisbane, Queensland
7990 posts
The word Loose used in place of Lose.
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hardware
Brisbane, Queensland
9902 posts
IT is great - but product failure rates are far too high. Oh and users are both stupid and annoying and needy most of the time.
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ravn0s
Brisbane, Queensland
14251 posts
The #1 thing that makes me rage is when something just stops working for no fucking reason whatsoever.
having that problem atm with my pc. one of the HDD's sometimes wont work when i turn on the pc. i quickly open the case, pull out the cable then put it back in and it will work again. also if i plug in my external HDD, both it and the other faulty HDD wont work. they used to work fine together a month ago. might have to buy a new HDD or maybe try a new cable.
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Whoop
Brisbane, Queensland
19147 posts
Installing Windows 7 on an older laptop, finding that it runs very nicely indeed, except that the manufacturer released Windows 7 or Vista drivers for everything except the sound card and they don't exist. For a laptop which will be sitting in a bus and providing sound to the head deck, gps and the odd facebook update.
Installing Windows XP on the laptop, entering the cdkey from the laptop sticker and getting "product key not valid". Yes it is the right version. Now I have to dick around making a slp cd now.
I had the same issue, it turns out that CD key is apparently locked to a specific type of windows made for that company. Why is this sort of shit legal? XP pro key should work with any xp pro disc, not just a fucking TOSHIBA xp pro disc. (this also is what makes me rage)
Also people who say they hate a particular brand just because everyone else does or "because its shit". This is more to do with people who hate consoles, or macs, or nvidia just because they're a PC loving ATI fanboy and no other reason.
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Hogfather
Cairns, Queensland
11589 posts
I had the same issue, it turns out that CD key is apparently locked to a specific type of windows made for that company. Why is this sort of shit legal? XP pro key should work with any xp pro disc, not just a fucking TOSHIBA xp pro disc. (this also is what makes me rage)
I mentioned this in another thread.
Why should it be illegal? You're not buying Windows in this case from Microsoft, you're buying it from Toshiba. If you don't like that then don't buy Toshiba (or buy your Windows straight from Ballmer).
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Whoop
Brisbane, Queensland
19148 posts
Because with most laptops now, you don't get a CD. If I buy windows and use that windows CD on my PC, I can't legally use the same key on my laptop as well, but I can't use the legal CD key that is on the laptop because it doesn't work with any CD except the one you get with the lapto.... OH WAIT YOU DON'T GET A CD.
Who buys windows though right? I mean that's just crazy talk that anyone would want legit computers. What was I thinking, thanks hogfather you've shown me the light.
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Captain Lateral
Brisbane, Queensland
4197 posts
Why should it be illegal? because they didn't invoice you? :P
but seriously, because vendor locking is bad karma?
It's really hard to justify why it feels like so dirty though? limiting supply? even forcing the purchase of the same item multiple times due to artificial "locking" is a bit of a stretch.
If you don't like that then don't buy Toshiba (or buy your Windows straight from Ballmer). or just pirate it! is it illegal if you already have a license for the product and you just download a copy from an unauthorized distributor?
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Skitza
Brisbane, Queensland
9677 posts
Noobs who don't listen to advice they are given then turn around and do the exact opposite and then wonder why shit breaks/doesn't work!!! Yeah rage++;
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Clubby
Brisbane, Queensland
734 posts
Users who change / break stuff and then claim "it just stopped working" :P
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Mosfx
Gold Coast, Queensland
857 posts
"Click on the Start Bar"
"What's that" *face palm*
My girlfriend always complains, "IE stopped working" "well download Chrome" I say, yet she still uses IE and complains *face palm*
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Captain Lateral
Brisbane, Queensland
4198 posts
every friday without fail.
"my x isn't work"
"have you tried" same step i tell them every time
"NVM I FIXED IT" hangs up without telling me how.
what really irritates me but shouldn't, is when people call up, say its not working, i ask them to walk me through what they are doing, they walk me though and it "magically starts working". no, its not magic, you just started thinking about what you were doing instead of clicking away like an idiot, and it turns out there isn't an actual problem.
old people are the worst at this.
I say it shouldn't annoy me because they don't take that much of my time.
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Jc_23
Brisbane, Queensland
254 posts
This rages me! There are 3rd party work arounds but my system needs all the resources it can get. :)
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sandman
Brisbane, Queensland
84 posts
Having a client call in regards to having no "signal" on her internet connection. I asked her to run me through what was on her screen, she stated there was nothing on the screen except for the words "No Signal".
I layed my head on the desk and asked her as patiently as possiblt to turn her monitor back on before hanging up the call.
Just yeah...
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copuis
Brisbane, Queensland
1904 posts
Having a client call in regards to having no "signal" on her internet connection. I asked her to run me through what was on her screen, she stated there was nothing on the screen except for the words "No Signal".
I layed my head on the desk and asked her as patiently as possiblt to turn her monitor back on before hanging up the call.
Just yeah...
it could be my inebriated state but i had a good ole chortle
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Jc_23
Brisbane, Queensland
256 posts
m3nt4l
Brisbane, Queensland
1925 posts
Her monitor was on though, the computer was off, a cord unplugged or the monitor was set to the wrong input, but the monitor was on?
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rthy
Melbourne, Victoria
9 posts
Love how users think by buying a new computer will fix all the problems... its like, no one else has problems, its only you and thats the problem.
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installation progress bars that sit on 100% for 10 mins
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Some Fat Bastard
Brisbane, Queensland
1069 posts
^ Oh yeah! Drives me nuts.
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Some Fat Bastard
Brisbane, Queensland
1070 posts
What really annoys the shit out of me is how people seem to think emails are IMs and require instant replies. Fuck off and leave me alone and I will get back to you when I am ready and want to.
On top of that the communication overload in todays workplace. I am sick to death of sms, im, emails and phones where the volume's so great it impacts on productivity.
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Exibus
Sunshine Coast, Queensland
158 posts
Her monitor was on though, the computer was off, a cord unplugged or the monitor was set to the wrong input, but the monitor was on?
^
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thermite
Brisbane, Queensland
8633 posts
Renaming files in windows that have two dots in them.
When windows is doing something and a dialog appears with the option "ignore". Does that mean keep going, or fuck it?
When windows is doing something and a dialog appears with the option "Do this for all items". Do what for all items? The thing I tried to do, or bothering me with a dialog for each item?
Fucking use real sentences microsoft.
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darkjedi
Hobart, Tasmania
3333 posts
Bad Rats. fuck that game and it's bizarro physics, seriously.
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scuzzy
Brisbane, Queensland
15068 posts
The ending to RAGE, made me rage
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m3nt4l
Brisbane, Queensland
1928 posts
Yeah hate it when your typing away and something pops up, but you've already hit a key and it has disappeared before you can see what the hell it was.
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demon
Brisbane, Queensland
6631 posts
it makes me a tad peeved that it staff think they are important when they are just support staff for the real workers. ;D
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paveway
Brisbane, Queensland
15979 posts
it makes me a tad peeved that it staff think they are important when they are just support staff for the real workers.
so like designers -> engineers :p
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packagedmeat
Brisbane, Queensland
79 posts
m3nt4l
Brisbane, Queensland
1929 posts
redhat
Sydney, New South Wales
738 posts
User sends a terse email saying application isn't working in browser.
Go to desk FFS, 4 different browser bars(ask jeeves, yahoo, google etc) in IE.
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Zylox
Brisbane, Queensland
1519 posts
That there's no win7 gadget for quick switching between monitor and TV(enable/disable secondary screen). Also the same for sound (headphones/TV).
When you need a VGA/DVI adaptor and you know you got 5 laying around somewhere but an hour of searching and you don't find any of them.
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m3nt4l
Brisbane, Queensland
1931 posts
I would like the ability to use two sound cards at the same time, so the kid's can watch a movie with the sound going from the video card to the tv, and play skyrim with the sound going through the soundcard to the speakers.
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Zylox
Brisbane, Queensland
1520 posts
Eorl
Brisbane, Queensland
4741 posts
I would like the ability to use two sound cards at the same time, so the kid's can watch a movie with the sound going from the video card to the tv, and play skyrim with the sound going through the soundcard to the speakers.
Why not just get a good surround sound and attach that to the TV?
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m3nt4l
Brisbane, Queensland
1932 posts
I do, I meant the TV area. I have the Tv/amp/set top box on a table infront of the couch, and the computer to the left a bit.
When I watch something from the computer its great, switch to the amp output, when I play a game it goes through the speakers on the computer desk. What I want is to be able to have both running at the same time.
The computer has no problem playing a High Def movie on the Tv and outputting all the sound to the amp while I play a game, but "I took an arrow to the knee" over the top of dialogue from a movie kind of ruins it and listening to dragurs waking up on the other side of the room instead of at the computer table is off putting.
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scuzzy
Brisbane, Queensland
15071 posts
I would like the ability to use two sound cards at the same time, so the kid's can watch a movie with the sound going from the video card to the tv, and play skyrim with the sound going through the soundcard to the speakers. I know winamp lets you select what output device you want to use independent of the primary sound device, surely something like VLC will have that feature.
edit: appears not to, anyway try it with winamp. last edited by scuzzy at 12:58:58 04/Jan/12
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Crizane Tribal
Brisbane, Queensland
3669 posts
That there's no win7 gadget for quick switching between monitor and TV(enable/disable secondary screen)
Windows key + P
Let's you chose between primary only, duplicate, extend or secondary only very quickly and easy. I have 2 monitors each connected to a DVI port and this works perfectly for me.
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Mantorok
Brisbane, Queensland
6296 posts
That there's no win7 gadget for quick switching between monitor and TV(enable/disable secondary screen). Press Win + P
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Zylox
Brisbane, Queensland
1521 posts
did now know that. If it were a gadget with background functions and sound output options it would be better.
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skythra
Brisbane, Queensland
5023 posts
I do, I meant the TV area. I have the Tv/amp/set top box on a table infront of the couch, and the computer to the left a bit.
When I watch something from the computer its great, switch to the amp output, when I play a game it goes through the speakers on the computer desk. What I want is to be able to have both running at the same time.
The computer has no problem playing a High Def movie on the Tv and outputting all the sound to the amp while I play a game, but "I took an arrow to the knee" over the top of dialogue from a movie kind of ruins it and listening to dragurs waking up on the other side of the room instead of at the computer table is off putting.
This is possible already?
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Sc00bs
Brisbane, Queensland
8454 posts
hi 5 mantorok
that has made life 1million x easier
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m3nt4l
Brisbane, Queensland
1940 posts
Yes it is, and it was easy.
Last time I tried searching I only found
Unfortunately this cannot be accomplished, as it is by-design,
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Crizane Tribal
Brisbane, Queensland
3670 posts
hi 5 mantorok
WTF? I said it 2 mins earlier :(
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sCOOBY
Brisbane, Queensland
4394 posts
The ending to RAGE, made me rage
QFT, after such awesome mid-game missions, the end was about the most retarded thing possible
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HerbalLizard
Brisbane, Queensland
5306 posts
The quote "Year of the Linux desktop" yet another year passes and it hasn't happened.
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TufNuT
I like eel pie
Brisbane, Queensland
3724 posts
1.5 hour 'conversion' i had to have with one of our staff members as it had been escalated to me from the helpdesk.. sigh..
Staff : Printer is over heating and is a fire hazard..
Me: Why do you say that?
Staff: paper comes out a bit warm, i think we need a new printer..
Me: No thats normal the printer heats the ink a bit to get it on to the paper.
Staff: No printer is a fire hazard and i want it replaced..
this goes on and on.. meanwhile i am slowly getting closer to slitting my wrists..
Edit: people who 'work in IT' or manage an IT helpdesk that know nothing about computers.. i mean a helpdesk manager that doesnt know how to fukin change the windows desktop FFS
last edited by TufNuT at 00:20:34 05/Jan/12
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skythra
Brisbane, Queensland
5024 posts
Technically right now i work in helpdesk for a printer company, supporting clients with the printers we lease.
Most of the time is "The printer isn't printing". turn it off and on and it works again, especially during xmas where some upgrades take place and maybe they've changed network somehow and the printer needs basically just to lose its cached ip and grab a new one.. or something else like a paper jam which a sensor still says is there even though the jam was fixed.
Sometimes it's users:
Them: "The printer isn't printing"
Me "Okay, no worries, so can you tell me when you're at the printer does it say anything?"
Them: "Nope"
Me "Well, so it says nothing or is the printer unavailable right now?"
Them: "It's not printing"
me: "Okay, well I can check remotely from the web image monitor i'll just need you to go to the printer by browsing through your web browser to the printer IP address, i can get that from the printer driver, if you're at your computer i can guide you or i can remotely connect"
them: "There's no network right now, we're moving so they moved the network away already".
=_=
I wasn't exactly RAGE'd i was just like "okay i'm not sure how i can explain how information is passed from one thing to another, except by using really baby terms like how they teach you about sex by talking about birds and bee's in year 2".
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redhat
Sydney, New South Wales
739 posts
people who 'work in IT' or manage an IT helpdesk that know nothing about computers
This pretty much, I hate project managers that have never actually done anything technical so when you are explaining why you can't meet one of their precious project deadlines in their dumb MS Project plan it takes about 3hrs worth of meetings. How can you manage a big IT project when you know fk all about how IT works?
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skythra
Brisbane, Queensland
5027 posts
And conversely, I hate IT managers who are awesome and worked their way up to their position with the IT skills they have but have no effing idea about management.
They have no people skills nor time management skills, they tend to micromanage your workload because they know how to do it better and they think they're in charge so they berate you over doing something inefficiently even though its still done right and faster than if they didn't come to tell you you're wrong.
Then they put you under the pump when real important things are going wrong because they have spent all their energy in telling you how to do your job, and not what jobs you need to do.
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Opec
Brisbane, Queensland
7482 posts
Users who change / break stuff and then claim "it just stopped working" :P
This. THIS!
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greazy
Brisbane, Queensland
5193 posts
Knobshiners who start drifting into your lane, or the ones who continue driving thinking they can merge into an ending lane.
Also, installing a printer on a mac. It's 25 steps when it should just be a single double click like on a windows machine.
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TufNuT
I like eel pie
Brisbane, Queensland
3725 posts
Also, installing a printer on a mac.
QFT..
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Raven
Melbourne, Victoria
6347 posts
Getting SMB to work with Windows. Actually, getting SMB to work at all. OMG< such a pain in the ass.
Actually - anyone want to earn some $ (what's a fair figure?) and configure SMB on a Microserver (Ubuntu 10)? I've given up, and am about to run out of space on my Qnap.
Has to work with Windows 7 without tweaking any registry keys etc.
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it's probably something silly, I can't think of many things much easier than getting samba to work
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HerbalLizard
Brisbane, Queensland
5308 posts
Actually - anyone want to earn some $ (what's a fair figure?) and configure SMB on a Microserver (Ubuntu 10)? I've given up, and am about to run out of space on my Qnap.
Has to work with Windows 7 without tweaking any registry keys etc. Yeap
AVHD files and hyperv make me rage and want to fucking kill everyone!!!! ahhhhhhhh
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skythra
Brisbane, Queensland
5029 posts
Getting SMB to work with Windows. Actually, getting SMB to work at all. OMG< such a pain in the ass.
Actually - anyone want to earn some $ (what's a fair figure?) and configure SMB on a Microserver (Ubuntu 10)? I've given up, and am about to run out of space on my Qnap.
Has to work with Windows 7 without tweaking any registry keys etc.
isn't smb equv samba for linux?
Isn't it default in ubutnu 10.x?
What fancy things do you want to do other than share folders/files?
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HerbalLizard
Brisbane, Queensland
5312 posts
Raven
Melbourne, Victoria
6349 posts
Nothing fancy at all. Out of the box it rejects credentials etc, won't allow viewing shares, yada yada yada. Just doing *simple fricking tasks*, it doesn't work.
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casa
Brisbane, Queensland
4392 posts
 God lets see:
Boss #1 for typing with 1 finger on one hand only.
Boss #2 for getting angry at me because he doesn't know how to use a computer.
Colleague #1 for smashing her mouse on her desk when something isn't working, instead of just asking (said employee also smashed her phone when she's had a rough telephone conversation).
Colleague #2 for thinking I'm stupid and I don't know he browses personal sites too much, my block list is at about 30 or 40 now at work.
I hate people who do stupid things with their computers. Like downloading viruses. Who downloads a virus anymore?
Wife #1 for downloading a fucking virus @#!*&$!*&$^!^@!%@!
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HerbalLizard
Brisbane, Queensland
5315 posts
You want to give me remote access some time raven... fix that shit up. Also whats the Firewall on each end doing?
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Timmeh
Brisbane, Queensland
1668 posts
People who send emails with videos attached then download the video from the email, then send it to everyone on the network so there are 4736573265784365 million copies on the network.
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Dazhel
Gold Coast, Queensland
4308 posts
Similar to m3nt4l's issue, if you have two sound endpoints like I do (headphones & speaker setup) and want to switch the default to one or the other it can be a pain to go through the UI each time. AutoHotKey is useful here - tested on Windows 7 for my specific configuration, anyone else might need to do some tweaking.
;ToggleDefaultAudioEndpoint.ahk
; Ctrl-Shift-` toggles between the first and second audio endpoint devices
; Congrats Microsoft for not providing a way to do this via an API
^+`::
Run, mmsys.cpl
WinWait,Sound
ControlSend,SysListView321,{Down}
ControlGet, isEnabled, Enabled,,&Set Default
if(!isEnabled)
{
ControlSend,SysListView321,{Down 2}
}
ControlClick,&Set Default
ControlClick,OK
WinWaitClose
SoundPlay, *-1
return
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skythra
Brisbane, Queensland
5035 posts
smb is samba
Oh okay, i thought SMB was microsoft, and samba was a separate entity for linux that interpreted smb stuffs. *shrugs*
edit: made me google and read through "http://www.samba.org/cifs/docs/what-is-smb.html" i think i'm more educated now.
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Jc_23
Brisbane, Queensland
284 posts
Sort of IT related because he is spamming the Vodaphone upgrades at this time, but this guy annoys the hell out of me for some reason. Very smarmy indeed! :)
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