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Soon there will be an update e.g. a post.

I love the users around here, they manage to call me with the strangest things happening to their computers.

User "I think there is something wrong with my computer, it may have a virus or something." (The computer having a virus is the favorite excuse of some users).

Me "Ok, what happened?"

User "Well a man started speaking to me out of the computer, I think he was Indian."

Me "....What?"

User "Well he sounded Indian, but I'm not sure."

Me "Let me get this straight, your computer started talking to you in Indian?"

User "Yep, he was definately speaking a foriegn language. Maybe it has a virus?"

Me "......"

Me "Maybe I better come have a look at your computer..... Don't touch anything."

Note: computer was found to be normal (or as close as). No virii, speech recognition was not turned on, no sound or video files had recently been played. Incident has not occured again, one of those once off things that manage to happen to my users.

It amazes me how my users manage to lose things. They lose documents, emails, icons and even whole programs (don't ask me how). Sometimes I'm not sure if it is windows or just my users. I'm betting on the users, since I never have any problems.

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Who really uses the over type mode anyway? Its really annoying when you turn it on and don't know how to turn it off, not me my users. They eventually come to me to fix the problem but usually struggle on for an hour or two with it on. Something like Shift + Insert turns it on I think. Deffinately something that needs to be made harder for users to accidently turn on.

Back to my question, who uses overtype mode anyway?

 

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How come just because I can fix computers everyone assumes that I can fix every other electrical device ever made? One of my users put a DVD in a DVDPlayer and smoke started pouring out of the drive bay (is it called that on a dvd player?). Anyway my guess is its stuffed.

 

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You know its pretty much assured that any aliens that do land on earth are going to be hostile. Why? Because any lifeform intelligent enough to cross space and discover our little world will be able to come to some quick conclusions about us. 1, people have been conditioned by books, movies etc to fear aliens. 2, if the government (s) don't decide to launch some nuclear bombs at them then some extremist terrorist/religous group will. The only aliens that are going to land here are going to be the ones who want to wipe us out. Even in the off chance that some peaceful aliens are about to crash land their space ship, taking into account the above, what do you think they are going do? We can crash into the planet with the aggressive, unstable lifeforms or go for the planet with a lot less water and is rather red. Alternatively they could crash on one of the icy outer planets, it would be like going skiiing during the holidays - at least compared to putting up with us.

 

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We have a couple of networked printers that are right next to my desk. Not the ideal situation, but I have to live with it. Anyway you would be really surprised at how many times people come out, look through the inevitable stack of printing sitting in the printing tray, and say "wheres my stuff?" ..... WTF? "Did you hit print?"  "Of course I hit print but its not here!" "Go back and try it again, remember to click on OK." 

The so called 'second' time they hit print the printing arrives in the tray on schedule.

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As everyone knows it's all to do with size. No I'm not talking about that. It seems strange to me but my users just don't understand how the size of a picture in a word document has no correlation to the actual size of the picture file. I'm always getting calls about how some document is taking ages to email. Almost every time its due to an embedded picture thats 14MB big. "But I made it really small?" Nope you didn't. Oh well maybe in a few years they'll get it.

 

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The main theme of my blogs may give the wrong impression, I don't dislike my users, think they're idiots or make fun of them all the time...... However that said I am perfectly willing to laugh at some of the things they do.

 

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