jd wrote:
Kurt Buff さんは書きました:
Uh, paranoia is not mitigated by ignorance. Remember the earlier
description of her friend: retired and partially disabled. This
probably means older and not nearly as educated as we are about
computers, and set in his/her ways. This, augmented by scare stories
in the mass media, probably contribute to the difficulty.
A lot of older people still believe that giving the PC the wrong
command will cause it to explode in a shower of sparks, thanks to
Hollywood. It seems that Hollywood is still doing that.
I can't count how many times my boss's boss would yell at me when a PC
quit working, afraid I'd given it some command that would cause it to
explode.
Back in 1995 one day at Central Point Software I was walking by the
server room when I heard a funny noise, I ran in just in time to
see the IBM monitor spew out a huge cloud of greasy stinky smoke. I
held my breath, ran in and unplugged it and carried it out into the
hall. The flyback transformer had melted down. I later found out from
someone else that this was a common occurrence with those IBM monitors.
The monitor was in a rack, right underneath our fiber distribution
panel. That would have been rather messy if it had caught on fire.
Ted
