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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Technological illiterates (or is that ignorant) ??Man, the tehnological illiterates (or is that the technological ignorant) really f_ck me off!!
I have so many numerous accounts.
(1) An office colleague you knew I am “good with computers” asked me about anti virus programs. Turns out her Norton AV (which is turd), had expired, and encountered a virus it could not delete. She concludes with “Well, besides that Panteneman, the PC works perfectly fine apart from that virus warning window”. This very same person ALSO tried to delete Norton to stop the error message coming up.
(2) Know a friend of a friend that was a potential IT genius, that jacked in anything to do with PC’s whatsoever, flogged the whole f_cking lot. ALL OF IT. Reason: he was distracted to death by his father who was PC illiterate.
(3) Giving Panteneman Snr my old PC and running a wireless network. Buy him Windows For Dummies. Help him but repeatedly dog him to death and tell him to RTFM, but to no avail. He is all “I don’t care, only want to go online, print my photo’s and don’t need to know anything else”. Well, why didn’t you continue with going to the library and use the PC’s there?
(4) Panteneman Snr’s inane purchase of “PC reliant gadgets”, like a PDA. Man I hate those f_ck_ng things!! – ironic seeing as he can’t be arsed learning how to use the PC.
(5) Miss PossibleFuturePantenegirl’s mother, who is 70 something and finds anything powered by electricity plain baffling, such as getting Miss PFP to record programmes of TV but never watch them. Switching a mobile phone off directly after a call, defeating the object of using a mobile phone. Also forgetting to enter the region code of where she wants to ring. I actually had a vivid nightmare about her mobile phone ignorance where I drempt she was answering my calls with the phone display side facing outward. Miss PFP actually said I woke her up “Sleep swearing and arguing”…
(6) Have dim b_stards in work repeatedly ask me mobile phone related questions, and completely ignore my advice. Such as advising the dim bint in (1) to get “x” mobile and contract, to get a sh_t one with a contract that’s twice the price. Then say I gave her bad advice and her phone bills are sky high.
(7) Be the IT custodian for my sister in law. Last time I was there there was 52 viruses discovered by NOD32 and endless piles of spyware. One of the spyware components was actually a waterfall screen saver. Upon deletion, she was gutted her screen saver was gone. Like, HELLO?? It was spyware you thick bint!
And to conclude, the techno illiterate also haunt my sleep. Miss PFP vividly recalls this little snippet of sleep ranting.
One night I woke her up, mumbling “You’ve got it on the wrong setting, it sounds sh_t!!”
Replying a few seconds later (to the normal observer to seemingly nobody)
“Seeeeee – told you it sounded sh_t!!”
Length? The chicks like my girth....
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 19:08, Reply)
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