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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My old uni house mate had an enormous amount of pornographyon his computer. He was extremely proud of it.
While he was away on a sports tour, someone stayed in his room and decided to browse online and maybe add to the collection. 5 minutes later the computer is throwing pop ups in every direction and not responding to anything. Then the internet connection dies. Aparently it was sending more than 1000 emails a second and brought down the service for the local area. The system was royally screwed. XP wouldn't boot anymore but I managed to recover his important work with a Live CD. No such luck for the porn which was on a seperate drive corrupted by the virus.
His face was like that of a wheelchair bound child on the 1st floor landing of a burning house when he returned to find his pride and joy in tatters.
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Devon Dan without geometry, there would be no point, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 14:33,
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