When my daughter was 3, she used to watch me build Win9x and NT4 systems. One day, I started the installation for a new NT4 system and left it after accepting the EULA. My daughter stuck around to watch it for a while, then came to where I was and said, "Daddy, it crashed."
Thinking that she was mistaking the blue NT setup screen for the crashed Win9x screen, I said to her, "No, I think it's fine." When I finally did go to check on it, lo and behold, there was a lovely BSOD on the screen because of an incorrectly detected component. She was paying a lot more attention than I thought. I apologized for not believing her right away... :) *ASB *(Professional Bio <http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio>) Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:04 PM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > I had this one, OS was Windows XP: > > Luser: I powered on the computer and it shows a blue screen with a bunch of > stuff on it > Me: What does it say, exactly? > Luser: I don't know, it's too technical > Me: Can you read any of it? > Luser: No I can't, it's too technical > Me: Can you *spell out* any of it? > Luser: No, it's too technical. > > And yet when I finally went to where this system was it as the typical BSOD > with yes, human-readable words "A problem has been detected..." > > This person was our receptionist at the time. She was later replaced by > another one who called me once and asked "are we on the east coast, or west > coast?". > > Dave > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 12:39 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Stupid user tricks > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Joseph L. Casale > <[email protected]> wrote: > > After that, another one gave me shit that she couldn't remember her > > login name that she had been using on her desktop daily for years and > > her iphone? > > I once had this conversation: > > Luser: What's my logon name? > Me: First initial followed by last name. > Luser: How do you spell that? > > Some people just shut their brains off when they get near a computer. > > -- Ben > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
