Oldies vs ComputersAs someone who is "good with computers" I get a lot of calls from people who've got problems. Some of them even have problems with their computers.
Back many years ago working for a telecoms company, I was called to a senior secretary who "had put a disk into the drive and couldn't get it out". She had one of the first Mac II machines with two drive slots. But only one drive.
Opening up the case revealed stacks of floppy disks that she'd been posting through the hole in the case for weeks. She'd only decided there was a problem when her boss wanted one of them back...
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chthonic, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 13:58)
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That is not a small number!My family was visiting my aunt and uncle, who were having trouble with their computer. It ran very slowly, it made strange noises, and several programs had just stopped working.
"Okay, so lets do a virus scan," says my sister.
"Vi...rus... scan?"
Apparently, they didn't even HAVE a virus checker. Great.
So, she manages to download a free virus checker, though it takes over an hour even though they had a high speed connection.
Ding! Virus! Yay, problem solved! But lets finish the scan, anyway.
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! About 40 dings later (no word of a lie) the entire computer is scanned. A grand total of 47 viruses, all on the one little computer.
How did this happen? My youngest cousin had been randomly downloading programs for his palm pilot, and hadn't thought it strange that the programs disapeared once he'd downloaded them.
To top it all off, he asked if "while you're downloading things," we could download something for him to share music, like e-mule or limewire. Ummmmm... NO!!
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 15:11, Reply)
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