Things that non computer techs do/say that absolutley drive you crazy!!!

[compudog]

Referring to the tower/case as the modem. Also "It has 97 on it, will that work with the Internet?"

 

[Skel]

Originally posted by: Tripleshot
When the call a tower a CPU.

The sad part is, I've read that in a lot of books, and some of my friends that have taken classes were told that...

Originally posted by: zsouthboy

Originally posted by: Luden
The double click of everything and that alienware thing..

And when you ask what version of windows they have, they say 97... ......not what version of WORD.......WINDOWS!

I really hate that one, it's one of the most common answers... If I correct them about it, most of them swear up and down that they are telling me what I'm asking

Originally posted by: aves2k
When I see people double-click a hyperlink.

I see that all the time, it bothers me, but that one I can deal with better, think back to the old win3.11 days were everything was double click


Though the one that really bothers me is : " My machine is down." After finding a little more detail, it turns out it's just not printing..

Edit: Then there is the what kind of computer do you have? Answer: A Pentium

 

[styrafoam]

When the call a tower a CPU.

Tell them to get in their engine and drive home.

 

[zsouthboy]

Originally posted by: styrafoam

When the call a tower a CPU.

Tell them to get in their engine and drive home.

ROFL i gotta remember that one!

 

[kleinesarschloch]

every time i have to deal with IT headhunters i encounter some of these:

"the COM API, that's like .com webpages, right?"
"what applications do you know?" ("the internet" is also an application)
"are you proficient in C+?" (not C++ mind you, they assume there must have been a C+ at some point)
"how many of the microsoft foundation classes have you completed?"

i know some of these won't make sense to non-programmers...

 

[bobcpg]

Originally posted by: KingNothing
I was scanning some pictures at my parent's house today and I asked my mom if I could take her scanner (which I bought her last Christmas) home with me for the afternoon and use my PC to process the images since mine was so much faster.

She said...

get ready..

"But my PC is 56K, isn't that fast enough?"

i hate that too!!

 

[LiQiCE]

Some of these are classic. The '97 one is the most annoying imho ...

Another common one in my experience ..

Me - "Well you're running out of memory, you're gonna have to buy some more."
Them - "But the computer came with 30 gigs of memory, isn't that enough?"
Me - "No, you don't understand, thats the size of your hard drive, not the amount of memory you have."
Them - "But I remember when I bought the computer it said it had 30 gigs of memory"
Me - "I know what I'm talking about, trust me!"

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: aves2k
When I see people doubleclick a hyperlink.

My supervisor triple clicks everything.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: LiQiCE
Some of these are classic. The '97 one is the most annoying imho ...

Another common one in my experience ..

Me - "Well you're running out of memory, you're gonna have to buy some more."
Them - "But the computer came with 30 gigs of memory, isn't that enough?"
Me - "No, you don't understand, thats the size of your hard drive, not the amount of memory you have."
Them - "But I remember when I bought the computer it said it had 30 gigs of memory"
Me - "I know what I'm talking about, trust me!"

technically a hard drive is memory...

the one that gets me is refering to the computer as either
a) hard drive
b) modem
and refering to the monitor as the computer.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: aves2k
When I see people doubleclick a hyperlink.

My supervisor triple clicks everything.

When I use iMacs I have to click everything forever cause it always lags for me.

 

[spidey07]

when they don't understand that you just keep typing and hit return to END the paragraph. They'll hit return when the cursor gets close to the right hand side of the screen or window.

Instead I get
paragrahs like
this that don't
want to format
right.

 

[Krugger]

Definetly the Hard Drive space VS. RAM issue. People who think they have too many mp3s and that's why they are out of memory (RAM). Things like that. So hard to get people to change the way they think about it. It's so common to hear it among college kids here.

 

[weezie]

This is one I used to get a lot:

User: My PC was running fine this morning but now it's very slow!

Me: Ok ( click on the taskbar and see 38 instances of Excel running ) Umm...are you working on all of these at once?

User: Oh! That's where all my stuff went!

 

[Jmmsbnd007]

Originally posted by: Tripleshot
When the call a tower a CPU.

That could be considered correct, as the computer itself in a whole can be referred to as the central processing unit.

 

[NightShadow]

Ummm.....

Any of you guys willing to fill out a quick questionaire for my doctoral dissertation? It's for anyone who's been any kind of IT manager in the past 3 years.

The defense committee is REALLY down on my butt

Anyone here willing to help?

 

[LeeTJ]

Originally posted by: KingNothing

Originally posted by: Tripleshot
When the call a tower a CPU.

When I worked for a local hospital system's IT department, everyone referred to the tower as a CPU. They were all smart enough to know the difference, but they did it anyway. I never really asked why. Maybe from years of calling it than in front of the clueless people for their improved understanding.

it's from the old days. in the old days a cpu took up an entire enclosure. it's not exactly inaccurate to call it a cpu. it is the central processing unit.

 

[Jmmsbnd007]

Originally posted by: kleinesarschloch
every time i have to deal with IT headhunters i encounter some of these:

"the COM API, that's like .com webpages, right?"
"what applications do you know?" ("the internet" is also an application)
"are you proficient in C+?" (not C++ mind you, they assume there must have been a C+ at some point)
"how many of the microsoft foundation classes have you completed?"

i know some of these won't make sense to non-programmers...

I understand all of them and I barely know any C++

 

[HwK2]

When a person (my father in-law) installs a program from a cd and then tells me he "downloaded it onto the hard drive from the cd"

That and he reads every g*damn EUA from beginnig to end.

 

[DrumminBoy]

Originally posted by: Tripleshot
When the call a tower a CPU.

AGH!! I HATE THAT!

 

[Pastore]

Two things my dad constantly bugs me about...

1) "Mike, my computer is being slow!!!! Come look at it!!!"
He's trying to get to buy.com and the internet is slow. I try to explain to him it's not the computer, but the internet is being slow, but he still doesn't get it.
2) "Mike, I can't get to my email!"
If he used outlook or something I wouldn't flip out at the concern, but he could be surfing webpages, then decide to check his email, so he goes to Yahoo!. Since Yahoo!'s mail was down, he couldn't login, and said something was wrong with his computer and expects me to fix it.

 

[Iron Woode]

I heard:

"netburst architecture makes surfing the internet faster"

 

[KingNothing]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode
I heard:

"netburst architecture makes surfing the internet faster"

From an Intel ad?

 

[Tarmouth]

I worked with a half dozen Russian immigrants who would point at a computer and call it " The Devil". First time i heard that i almost wet myself

 

[PoPPeR]

hahaha yeah the "my computer is slow, i have too much stuff on it, let me delete some pr0n to make it go fast" gets to me sometimes, although there is a small element of truth in that.

the "i need more ram, i'm out of space" gets to me also, and vice versa with the I have 30 gigs of ram or the "i have a HP"... great... so is it a 300mhz HP from 1997 or a 3 gig HP from last week?

 

[WarmAndSCSI]

Originally posted by: brtspears2
When they highlight everything they read.

I do that....


I hate morons that piss me off by getting DSL when all they do is occasionally surf the net or download an MP3 or two.