On 06/30/2017 11:54 AM, TN Patriot wrote: > It's sad and disheartening. Years ago when it was Microslop 2000 and older > OS's on most systems, I was the person in my town who made housecalls to fix > peoples' computers. I can honestly say that in the 3 years I did that, I > swear > by all the gods, that at *least* 75% of the people that I called 'customers' > should not have owned a computer at all, ever. I had over 300 'customers', > so > do the math.
I've run into similar. I have a friend who insists she knows how to use a computer properly, but she's clearly clueless about much of it. I also used to do support at IBM Canada and had a "fun" users. One woman insisted it was OK to just kill the power to the computer when she left for the day, but couldn't understand why her computer stopped working. The disk was filled with all sorts of improperly saved files. What's worse is people who should no better, but don't. I come across this in the company I work for. We do networks, VoIP, etc. It's unbelievable the nonsense one of the owners comes up with. A recent one was he claimed turning off the DHCP server in a modem/router was enough to put it into bridge mode. He also seems to think that an Ethernet card can tell what type of cable (CAT5, 6 etc) is connected to it. He seems to think that's what determines what speed the NIC works at, oblivious to the fact the NICs negotiate best speed & mode. He also seems to think some Ethernet switches don't handle VoIP properly. Well, switches don't know anything about VoIP or even IP. They simply pass Ethernet frames, without regard to content (the exception being VLANs, on managed switches, with CoS set). But this guy's one of the owners... Still though, it wouldn't hurt to include that link in the sigs, so that when someone complains about OO, we can tell them to read the article. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
