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 friendMy friend at uni was having some difficulty with his pc, calls me as I do a computing degree.
Pop over to have a look expecting hundreds of dialers/virii/malware/spyware etc.
Wasnt disappointed. He had no antivirus and no firewall or anything.
4 hours later, the scan was complete (he had quite a selection of data if you know what i mean). something in the region of 700 of the aforementioned parsites sitting on his machine. Thats was a fun evening clearing it down. Although he did supply the beer.
He was also having problems with system stability. I informed him that using the mains power switch is not the best way to end a windows session or restart the computer.
Machine is still going strong tho. But if anyone can tell me why when playing an mp3 track it starts fine and then starts to jutter only to continue at normal speed on every track, i would love to hear from you. I suspect the crappy onboard soundcard.
(, Tue 26 Sep 2006, 8:18, Reply)
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