Computer Stupidities

Flint · 07-27-2006, 11:18 AM

Another one: My manager is at my desk, and notices a screensaver running on my PACS workstation (this is a 3 mega-pixel dual landscape monitor setup.) I'm running the "starfield" screensaver that is standard on XP. My manager says, suspiciously, "is that something you added on there?" I explain that it is a standard screensaver inculded in Windows, but she remains vaguely under the impression that I am "hacking" the computers.

Another time, a nurse who had called me to set up a web application on their floor, followed me around telling me about which machines had screensavers on them, and she knew that "we aren't supposed to do that" so could I "take them off." I tried, with no success, to explain that what they were probably told was not to download screensavers. I took the screensavers off of all their PCS, they were running the standard XP "scrolling text."

07-27-2006, 11:18 AM	#20
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Another one: My manager is at my desk, and notices a screensaver running on my PACS workstation (this is a 3 mega-pixel dual landscape monitor setup.) I'm running the "starfield" screensaver that is standard on XP. My manager says, suspiciously, "is that something you added on there?" I explain that it is a standard screensaver inculded in Windows, but she remains vaguely under the impression that I am "hacking" the computers. Another time, a nurse who had called me to set up a web application on their floor, followed me around telling me about which machines had screensavers on them, and she knew that "we aren't supposed to do that" so could I "take them off." I tried, with no success, to explain that what they were probably told was not to *download* screensavers. I took the screensavers off of all their PCS, they were running the standard XP "scrolling text." __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

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