[finbarr]

Originally Posted by pgo

"Create a new folder? What are you talking about?"

haha... those were the days, eh?

[H.Yates]

Aye, I recently had someone telling me their modem was getting full up, noisy and required defragmenting and also being quite adamant that their new PC couldn't cut copy and paste. Sigh.

[Eyual]

Why is customer service always telling me, my only option is to format....


I am glad for the computer illiterate it gives me a job...

[pgo]

^^^ Haha, that's what I tell people. I see they've loaded their computer with Bonzi Buddy, Weather Watcher crap, and spyware, adware, viruses galore.

Heck, I ought to start just putting a Firefox shortcut on the desktop, replacing the default icon with the IE icon, and naming it "Internet". They'd never know the difference.

Originally Posted by finbarr

haha... those were the days, eh?

I wasn't aware that those days had passed yet.

Just had to work on one of my dad's friends' computers. It's some piece of crap Dell with a Pentium 2. She said, "It needs a new motherboard."

So, I switch it on and it boots. Hmmm. Windows runs - albeit slowly - but it works. Run some diagnositics, checked for driver issues, etc. Seems fine.

"It doesn't need a new motherboard - it's fine."
"Well, I need one so I can get on America Online."
"Wait, do you mean 'modem'?"
"Yeah, whatever it's called."

So, I went to Newegg and ordered a $10 modem. Magically, the motherboard works now.

[finbarr]

Originally Posted by pgo

I wasn't aware that those days had passed yet.

only for me, my friend... I fortunately dont have to deal with those kind of fuckwits anymore. Which is just as well cos I never had much patience and I have even less now

[pgo]

Originally Posted by finbarr

only for me, my friend... I fortunately dont have to deal with those kind of fuckwits anymore. Which is just as well cos I never had much patience and I have even less now

I'm automatically elected "computer fix-it guy". I'll be driving home from work one day and my dad will call me on my cell - "Hey, just thought you'd like to know, I volunteered you to fix So-And-So's computer this weekend."

Thanks Dad.

[H.Yates]

You are not alone PGO, you are not alone.

Now, where did I put that plug..?