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13 Things your computer person won't tell you
Proin Drakenzol:
[sort of on topic]Remember kids:
Fix a man's computer, earn your paycheck for a day.
Teach a man to fix his own computer and lose a steady source of income[/sort of on topic]
Cloud20200:
I think they forgot making a partition for your os then putting everything else on a seperate partition or is that too advanced? I don't really see why its not done like that on computers before, means your OS will (if you give it the required space) always run at a decent speed because it'll have enough space for temporary files and virtual memory. With most modern comps and laptops I've seen these days they come with a primary partition and a recovery partition but no winblows disc, I just say to the shop owners "DON'T BE SO BLOODY CHEAP AND GIVE THEM THE DISC NOT A RECOVERY PARTITION!" :)
Also another top tip, firefox + noscript + flashblock + adblock = ultimate, I have to take my microSD card with me now with portable firefox on it cause I feel naked without it now. AND NEVER LOOK AT PORN FOR GOD SAKE! Use reliable sources for illegal stuff too. I only really watch anime and manga so just boxtorrents or the anidb trick, look who subbed it, go to their website, dl :D
HrtOfSword:
--- Quote from: Proin Drakenzol on December 07, 2008, 07:12:37 AM ---
--- Quote from: rd.com ---13. If you don't understand me, I'm not doing my job. Confusing tech jargon is a sign of insecurity, not intelligence.
--- End quote ---
Number 10 is only because the majority of users are stupid.
Number 13 means the guy's job could be done by a retarded monkey. If the user doesn't understand you it's because computers are special pieces of equipment. You shouldn't expect someone to understand how computers work... just that they do.
--- End quote ---
Computers aren't exactly highly complicated pieces of equipment unlike precision equipment. The basics that the common man or woman needs to know can be easy to understand. In fact, anyone who has at least gone through middle school could do so if they tried.
Computer programs on the other hand, are something else.
In fact, I remember the time when I was a kid and all this "repairman" did was reformat my computer to fix it. I could have done it myself (if I was older) instead of paying that dude.
--- Quote from: Proin Drakenzol on December 28, 2008, 12:15:10 AM ---[sort of on topic]Remember kids:
Fix a man's computer, earn your paycheck for a day.
Teach a man to fix his own computer and lose a steady source of income[/sort of on topic]
--- End quote ---
The truth.
Edit: I just realized this post was from 2008. I thought it was a recent thread since it was left saved in my Firefox browser when I opened it.
molbjerg:
Old post is OLD.
kurandoinu:
When I was about 12 I learnt the joys of changing the wallpaper of a school computer via MS Paint (any control panels were blocked on students accounts). I decided to show that little trick to my sister when we visited our local library. She drew a wonderful picture of some mice, and we put it on the wallpaper. Next time we went in the head librarian at the time called us over. She said she knew we'd been the last ones on the computer and that they'd spent over an hour on the phone to tech support to get the mice off the background. They imposed a permanent computer ban on me (it actually wasn't removed for years, not until I got a new library card). All I did was change the freaking background image. I wasn't very computer savvy myself then, but even I knew you didn't need tech support for something so retarded. :/
I didn't tell my parents for years, told my mum this year and she almost wet herself laughing- even she knew how to change her wallpaper!
So stupid people really do exist :D
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