Most Annoying Thing About Computer Users

[smearbrick1]

Just a place to rant about the people around you who work on PCs everyday, yet seem to know nothing about them.

My personal peeve:

Someone using the term hard drive when referring to the entire case of the PC. Or, people thinking everything they save must be stored on the network drives. (I've seen photos on the network you wouldn't believe). Then when the network is down, they bitch because they can't access their files.

Save locally folks. Save on the network for backup.

[yoda313]

Hello,

People who don't know where the ON button is!

Kevin

[bazooka]

I had a former friend tell me his Dell Dimension computer that was running M.E. at the time, that his computer did not have an operating system.

I told him that it did, and without an OS, all you would have is a tower with no way to interact with the components inside.

[smearbrick1]

My boss was having a hell of time opening a document one day. She ask me help... I noticed she had MS Word open and was trying to open the document. I asked her where the document was stored... she said, "Out in Word". I said "what?" She said, "they stored the document in Word." I said, "no, what drive?" She didn't know what I meant. Turns out the document was an excel doc anyhow.

[bazooka]

My boss was having a hell of time opening a document one day. She ask me help... I noticed she had MS Word open and was trying to open the document. I asked her where the document was stored... she said, "Out in Word". I said "what?" She said, "they stored the document in Word." I said, "no, what drive?" She didn't know what I meant. Turns out the document was an excel doc anyhow.

She would have never gotten it open.

It was a good thing you were there.

[thecoalman]

The insistence of the local newspaper that my sister-in-law or anyone for that manner send images at 300 dpi because 72 dpi images are not suitable for printing....... Technically correct if the image is resized by them in inches but they should know that.

<fights urge to send 100px X 100px 300dpi image to paper>

[Heywould3]

ist funny how many people dont know what a "double click" is.. im mean seriously..damn thick arses...

Just double click that file to open it.... HUH? right there click it twice... how? oh lord.. i need more mtn dew.

[bazooka]

A+ technicians who believe that Linux is yesterday's news.

I ran into one several years ago in CompUsa when I first decided to go into the IT support field.

He acted like he was a deity and Linux was finished.

If that is the case, then why are Bill Gates an Steve Ballmer worried about Linux?

[smearbrick1]

People who are backward thinking when it comes to technology really piss me off. I had this professor in a mainframe class that told us that he never expected hard drives to go over 1gb and also never would need a computer that was over 1.0ghz. He always revelled in the fact that he used to use punch cards instead of virtual input cards to execute programs on the mainframe.

[yoda313]

People who are backward thinking when it comes to technology really piss me off. I had this professor in a mainframe class that told us that he never expected hard drives to go over 1gb and also never would need a computer that was over 1.0ghz. He always revelled in the fact that he used to use punch cards instead of virtual input cards to execute programs on the mainframe.

Hello,

He should have known that the only thing limiting technology is imagination. If there's away do to something it will be done. Size and speed only need time to improve.

Kevin

[bazooka]

People who are backward thinking when it comes to technology really piss me off. I had this professor in a mainframe class that told us that he never expected hard drives to go over 1gb and also never would need a computer that was over 1.0ghz. He always revelled in the fact that he used to use punch cards instead of virtual input cards to execute programs on the mainframe.

Several terms ago, There was a question about having to add a backplane to a motherboard. I told the instructor that motherboards now have the serial and parallel ports now so that question was irrelevant. The instructor told me that I am thinking too modern.

There is still an instructor at school that thinks Dos is the greatest operating system ever. I wish he would come out of his dreamland.

[yoda313]

Hello,

There is still an instructor at school that thinks Dos is the greatest operating system ever. I wish he would come out of his dreamland.
_________________

Well DOS was good, it rarely crashed unless you screwed up autoexec or config!

Kevin

[shoozleboy]

People who think that just because they afforded the purchase of a computer, then someone should hold their hand and show them how to do everything and anything on it.... and they get angry when you don't hand hold, but show them the resources that they can reference in order to LEARN how to use apps...

Maybe you should have to get a license to operate a computer - just like you do with an automobile??

[yoda313]

Hello,

[qoute="shoozleboy"]Maybe you should have to get a license to operate a computer - just like you do with an automobile??
[/quote]

Well if they had done that with vcrs there would be a lot fewer flashing 12:00's !!!!

Kevin

[Heywould3]

well dos was good.. BUT... this was the extent of the program code lol

10 INPUT "What is your name: "; U$
20 PRINT "Hello "; U$
25 REM
30 INPUT "How many stars do you want: "; N
35 S$ = ""
40 FOR I = 1 TO N
50 S$ = S$ + "*"
55 NEXT I
60 PRINT S$
65 REM
70 INPUT "Do you want more stars? "; A$
80 IF LEN(A$) = 0 GOTO 70
90 A$ = LEFT$(A$, 1)
100 IF (A$ = "Y") OR (A$ = "y") THEN GOTO 30
110 PRINT "Goodbye ";
120 FOR I = 1 TO 200
130 PRINT U$; " ";
140 NEXT I
150 PRINT

not quite C++ or VB

[bazooka]

well dos was good.. BUT... this was the extent of the program code lol

10 INPUT "What is your name: "; U$
20 PRINT "Hello "; U$
25 REM
30 INPUT "How many stars do you want: "; N
35 S$ = ""
40 FOR I = 1 TO N
50 S$ = S$ + "*"
55 NEXT I
60 PRINT S$
65 REM
70 INPUT "Do you want more stars? "; A$
80 IF LEN(A$) = 0 GOTO 70
90 A$ = LEFT$(A$, 1)
100 IF (A$ = "Y") OR (A$ = "y") THEN GOTO 30
110 PRINT "Goodbye ";
120 FOR I = 1 TO 200
130 PRINT U$; " ";
140 NEXT I
150 PRINT

not quite C++ or VB

WOW.....That brings back memories.

[thecoalman]

well dos was good.. BUT... this was the extent of the program code lol

10 INPUT "What is your name: "; U$
20 PRINT "Hello "; U$
25 REM
30 INPUT "How many stars do you want: "; N
35 S$ = ""
40 FOR I = 1 TO N
50 S$ = S$ + "*"
55 NEXT I
60 PRINT S$
65 REM
70 INPUT "Do you want more stars? "; A$
80 IF LEN(A$) = 0 GOTO 70
90 A$ = LEFT$(A$, 1)
100 IF (A$ = "Y") OR (A$ = "y") THEN GOTO 30
110 PRINT "Goodbye ";
120 FOR I = 1 TO 200
130 PRINT U$; " ";
140 NEXT I
150 PRINT

not quite C++ or VB

Boy that brings back memories, I remeber getting those magazines for my C64 where there would be like 30 pages of code in small type that you could copy to make simple programs..... Take like all day to type it in.

[bazooka]

I remember making a basic program that would compute batting averages when in elementary school that used lines of code like that.

[Dr. DOS]

Dweebs I work with that think just 'cause I'm 40ish means I know nothing ..... they think they can pull one over when they send me a RAR file instead of a Zip (corporate standard) file. ******* Propeller heads...

[shoozleboy]

That code brings back nightmares of computer class in school..... C64's with the 1541 floppy drives..... we then graduated into the x86 IBM PC's to learn Pascal programming.... remember Pascal??? Is it even in existance today??

[Capmaster]

That code brings back nightmares of computer class in school..... C64's with the 1541 floppy drives..... we then graduated into the x86 IBM PC's to learn Pascal programming.... remember Pascal??? Is it even in existance today??

Yep. Pascal and COBOL

[shoozleboy]

Hello,

Well if they had done that with vcrs there would be a lot fewer flashing 12:00's !!!!

Kevin

[bazooka]

Dweebs I work with that think just 'cause I'm 40ish means I know nothing ..... they think they can pull one over when they send me a RAR file instead of a Zip (corporate standard) file. ******* Propeller heads...

I love winrar.

It has more capabilities than winzip.

[tgpo]

When people call their Desktop Wallpaper the Screen Saver

When you ask a person what OS they are running and they say "Windows" or "Microsoft"

At a job interview they had a check box for programs you know well. One box said "Corel." I asked them specifically what program by Corel, they had no idea what I was asking.

At SRS we had to write tutorials on how to do certain tasks, but they called them Desktops. It was a very confusing time.

Telling someone "Goto My computer, C:, My Documents" and they ask "Okay I see My Computer, do I click on it?"

When people say "C Drive" in reference to all hard drives, no matter if they are on a PC or Mac, or even if it's a Network drive or an External.

[Dr. DOS]

Someone who gives you a network link such as:
H:\SERVICES\XYZ\FILENAME.TXT

I don't have a clue what their Drive H is mapped to.... it should be \\SHARE\PATH\FILENAME.TXT

[thecoalman]

A local graphics company that kept sending 500k images in e-mail that in the long run looked like crap because they were formatted by %. Kind of sux if you were on a 56k.

Same company changing practice after I informed them of the error in their ways and embedding image with src pointing to a local file on there drive. Ye old red ex.

[smearbrick1]

When people ask you to help them reinstall the OS and have no OS discs.

That goes hand in hand with people that throw out all of the restore software when they buy an off-the-shelf pc. Then they can't figure out why they can't find drivers for chipset soundcard they have.

[BobV]

people who can't understand that a computer in the business world is just a tool, a means to a goal, that said the best tools are easily understood and used by anyone in that business field as opposed to the computer industry.

[housepig]

I just hate being tech support for family and friends. "Okay, now save the file to your hard drive... now open it up".

"Where is it?"

"Well, where did you save it?"

"I dunno."

biggest ass-chap is a guy I know who used to run rings around me on computers, and it's like he's forgotten everything he knew - he asks me newbie questions about how to do stuff that he taught me back in the day. makes me want to throttle him.

and insult-to-injury - people who see something that I do, either video, audio or graphic, and they want to do it. then when I start telling them about the software expense, or the number of steps to go through, they respond "oh, I don't want to spend/go through all that! isn't there a easier / faster / cheaper way to do it?"

hmmm... if there was, don't you think I'd do it that way?

[bazooka]

and insult-to-injury - people who see something that I do, either video, audio or graphic, and they want to do it. then when I start telling them about the software expense, or the number of steps to go through, they respond "oh, I don't want to spend/go through all that! isn't there a easier / faster / cheaper way to do it?"

hmmm... if there was, don't you think I'd do it that way?

That sounds like most of the new people here. They do not realize the steps you have to go through to manipulate video. They think you just press 1 button and like magic, it is done.