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[zippyt]

"What do you meen that I need to click the start icon to shut down my pc ?? Just turning off the power strip works FINE !"
But TOTALY corupts the data bace you are trying to work with .
And also why I keep a copy of EVERy customer custom program on my lap top !!!

" No sir , just point and click , ,,,, just move the mouse pointer to the icon for the program you want to start and click ,,,, left click ,,,, no don't hold the button in , just click ,,,,, No don't double click it takes a sec for the program to start , now you have started the same program 3 times , , point and click the X in the top right of the window , now again , ,,,, there ya go"
This was me trying to instruct a customer that said he was Puter Literet . This Ain't the first time , or is it FAR from the last time I will have to have this conversation with a customer .

" Oh just go install this soft ware up date ."
What is it suposed to do ??
" Damn If I Know ! "
So how am I suposed to know if it worked ??
"Oh the customer will know "
The person who has requested the software update is NEVER there , and call back 3 days later asking if we did the update they requested , and then whay it doesn't work exactly as they wanted .

Welcome to MY Puter world !! ( Nite Mare !!! )

[SteveDallas]

Originally Posted by zippyt

" Oh just go install this soft ware up date ."
What is it suposed to do ??
" Damn If I Know ! "
So how am I suposed to know if it worked ??
"Oh the customer will know "

Me: Yeah, I just installed patch # 735843 on Solaris 8 and I'm having a problem. [I actually explained the problem, but this was a dozen years ago so I don't remember what it was.]
Sun Tech Support: OK, let's just see what you have here... hey, you don't have patch # 654389.. that's odd...
Me: Yeah, we haven't installed it yet.
STS: But they're in the same cluster patch. [this is a group of a couple dozen patches that you install all at once.]
Me: Yeah, I know, but we don't install the cluster patches. We go one at a time.
STS: How come?
Me: Because the third time a cluster patch screwed up one of our systems and we had no way to tell which individual patch was causing the problem, we decided we weren't really saving any time by using the clusters.
STS: Well yeah that's true, they are kind of hard to troubleshoot....

[Rexmons]

lol i was only kidding about the taking her own life thing; and yes she already did pass her genes on because she had pictures of her grandkids, EVERYWHERE!

[Clodfobble]

I think by "appropriate" glatt only meant "accurate."

[glatt]

Yeah, that works.

I was commenting on darwinism.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Either way, I stand by my post.

[Flint]

Computer Stupidities was updated with new stories on 01/21/08...yay!

A friend of mine told me that when he was in junior high school (mid-to-late nineties), they got a computer in the classroom free for the students to use during breaks. The first thing many of them would do to was to change the dull Windows 95 desktop. The school's IT Manager for some reason thought of this as vandalism, so he frequently fixed it in the only way he knew how -- by reinstalling Windows.

I was almost on the floor laughing when my friend told me about how the IT Manager had come into their classroom one day and told the students, "Will you STOP changing the desktop background? I've had to reinstall Windows every day for the last two weeks now!"

[perth]

"Should I capitalise that number?" - I get asked this *daily* when performing password resets. By doctors.