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 bossAsked me to set up his internet in his office for him. He insisted on using AOL, which is fair enough, so I put in this router for him for *one* computer...
Everything is set up. I load up the page of the router in internet explorer to check the wizard hadn't left the wireless networking on. He comments:
"why can you use the internet through internet explorer? I *only* want you to be able to access the internet through AOL...."
*sigh*
I don't really want to explain that Microsoft have been in court for several years over this issue... So I set AOL as the default brower and change the router settings so it'll only connect when it "dials" on the AOL application as opposed to dialing up as soon as the computer turns on ( its PPPoE anyway, thank god in this situation )
Then, once I've set the names up and AOL is the default browser...
"wow, look how fast it dials up!"
Also, the website for the business. I find out the domain name... And crack up laughing. I then regain composure.
"Why have you called it hollywoodhollywood.co.uk?"
"because our company name hollywoodnails.co.uk was taken"
"ok, what about the slogan, bringing beauty to your fingertips? or beautifulnails.co.uk?"
"nah, too far away from the name."
"ok, what about using a hypen?"
"too complicated"
Ah well. He's a great business man, and a nice guy. Just... if you ever wonder why your local whatever has a pencil and paper appointment system, they're probably owned by a guy like him.
(, Sat 23 Sep 2006, 3:56, Reply)
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