[computer-geekz]

AAAaaaargh!!! I hate people sometimes!!!

I've been having difficulties on the LAN I manage with the new version of the Flash plugin (version 6), where it was crashing IE every time someone browsed to a site using Flash. I found a way to quickly restore the previous version of Flash (which worked fine) over the LAN by replacing and renaming one file. Well, I had been posting in Macromedia's forums asking about a solution to the problem, and I posted my solution to that forum as a SUGGESTION, saying that "it worked for me, it was quick and easy, and I could do it over the LAN".

This contradicted someone else's previous solution, which called for much more extensive changes (registry entries and such). So, this other guy writes a sarcastic post in reply to mine, flaming me for passing on my solution! He said "You shouldn't post something if you haven't tested it on every platform and you're sure it'll work for everybody." WTF?!!! I made a point of saying that it probably isn't the correct way to fix it, but that it worked for me! If this is the kind of gratitude I get for trying to help, then maybe I should just forget trying to assist people with their computer problems!!!

Whew. Thanks for letting me yell. I feel better now.