• I can't stand talking to computer illiterate people about computers.
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It's just about what they can understand.
I had a reputation at my school for knowing more than the IT specialist, so I didn't have this problem. Protip: Learn Linux early. Show the IT teacher that it DOES get more complicated than Visual Basic.
I love the expression on people's faces when they have been trying for ten minutes to solve a problem, then I come over and solve the problem in ten seconds.
Hahaha same. [editline]09:48PM[/editline] And when everyone in the class is told to increase the value in an increment box and the click the up arrow hundreds of times rather than just typing the new value in.
[QUOTE=IdiotStorm;17728506]Me: Why are you using Avira? Dad: Because it's free Me: Well AVG and Avast! are both free, and are much better. Dad: BUT THIS IS FREE[/QUOTE] Avira has better detection rates than AVG and Avast.
People at my middle school always considered me a hacker. "Whoa man! Can you hack this computer?" *points to their computer in tech class* "What do you mean, hack it? What do you want me to do?" "Hack into it!" "Well.. it depends on what kind of hacking. Getting files? Removing passwords? What?" "Hack it!" "For the last time, what do you want me to do?!" "You can't really hack a computer can you?" ... "Fine. I'll [I]hack[/I] it." I open up a cmd prompt and do a tracert to some random ip I just made up. "Here's.. uh.. access logs.. to all their files and passwords." "[B][I]HOLY SHIT!!!!1!!!!one!11!1!one!!!!eleven"[/I][/B]
I find Avira better than AVG, AVG sucks at detection, and when there finally is a virus, and it detects it, it slides on a bannana and fucks it up. Maybe Avira has alot of false alarms, but i like it. But theres pro's and con's of everything. Also have anybody tryed this scenario? You walk to some guy, you thought didnt know a shit about computers (Or has a basic understanding.) You talk with him about networking (Asuming he knows what fibernet is. Then he suddenly mentions his router always fuck up and he gotta buy a new router You talk about routers Then suddenly you find out he has a Ph. D or something in Computer Science?
My dad was trying to get pictures off of our new digital camera for an hour complaining about how I broke the computer or something (My parents excuse for when [b]ANYTHING[/b] goes wrong with it) and I come over and have them all downloaded in 2 minutes.
My mum doesn't know how to send email attachments, after me explaining around a dozen times. I even made a .pdf file with step-by-step instructions, and screenshots, and she didn't know how to access it. It was in My Documents.
the only thing that grates my nerves about computer illiterate people are the ones who call upon me every time a new window pops up on their screen it's like "just read the god damn window and make a decision GOD", it's really annoying getting called upon every few minutes to hit an "OK" button
One time some guys came and asked me to help them format a hard-drive. I went over there and they had it pulled up and all I had to do was click 'OK' and 'Start'. I said "Well all you had to do was click this." and now am known in that group as a giant douchebag.
[QUOTE=DiscoBiscut;17746854]One time some guys came and asked me to help them fragment a hard-drive. I went over there and they had it pulled up and all I had to do was click 'OK' and 'Start'. I said "Well all you had to do was click this." and now am known in that group as a giant douchebag.[/QUOTE] Why would you want to fragment a hard drive?
[QUOTE=ImBill;17746498]the only thing that grates my nerves about computer illiterate people are the ones who call upon me every time a new window pops up on their screen it's like "just read the god damn window and make a decision GOD", it's really annoying getting called upon every few minutes to hit an "OK" button[/QUOTE] My mom does this to me all the time. It's even worse when I need to help her with the same exact thing every day.
[QUOTE=ilolled;17735584]People at my middle school always considered me a hacker. "Whoa man! Can you hack this computer?" *points to their computer in tech class* "What do you mean, hack it? What do you want me to do?" "Hack into it!" "Well.. it depends on what kind of hacking. Getting files? Removing passwords? What?" "Hack it!" "For the last time, what do you want me to do?!" "You can't really hack a computer can you?" ... "Fine. I'll [I]hack[/I] it." I open up a cmd prompt and do a tracert to some random ip I just made up. "Here's.. uh.. access logs.. to all their files and passwords." "[B][I]HOLY SHIT!!!!1!!!!one!11!1!one!!!!eleven"[/I][/B][/QUOTE] I have the same reputation and it's fucking annoying just because I helped someone use the "Lost my password" feature of bebo (hell if I'll ever use it).
[QUOTE=cryticfarm;17748950]Why would you want to fragment a hard drive?[/QUOTE] I think he meant "de-fragment"
OP must be new to being techy.
This one time I was bored and typing up random shit in the command prompt and the teacher saw and hes like HES ACCESING THE ROOT DRIVE and i got in trouble
[QUOTE=1337asian;17751707]OP must be new to being techy.[/QUOTE] well he's had plenty of time to get used to it then
[QUOTE=abcpea;17753518]This one time I was bored and typing up random shit in the command prompt and the teacher saw and hes like HES ACCESING THE ROOT DRIVE and i got in trouble[/QUOTE] What the hell is a root drive?
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The place where the host operating system is, if i remember.. Kinda tired right now (Fucking hard football match)
I hate it when I know what I am doing, and a dumb teacher or random person, sais "You are doing it wong!" when I am doing it faster and a more efficient way. I hate it when people get amazing pc's and use them for crap, and boast about it, I dont care to much any more because I say I can 'unblock' the schools net, so they can watch porn, but instead I just give em some virus without them knowing. It later after a week stops all apps, net, etc... from working, than they come to me for help I fix it and they say "WOW! How did you do that" and than I bitch about how dumb they are to their friends and turn every one against them. MU HU HU HU HU!!!!!
[QUOTE=hqdby;17757741]MU HU HU HU HU!!!!![/QUOTE] and at this point I realised you were 12
[QUOTE=TheMadness;17758432]and at this point I realised you were 12[/QUOTE] I realised that when he said he gave viruses.
[QUOTE=lord-0f-dark;10336694]What annoys me are the people who say 'download' in place of every single computer term. Like they 'download' the movie into movie maker, or they 'download' the program from the install cd. Fucking hell, it's annoying. And also when people say MP3 instead of MP3 PLAYER. No, you can't plug your MP3 into your car, they're not tangible things you can plug! Grr, makes me angry.[/QUOTE] Thiiiiiiiiiiis!!!! ARRRRRRGG. [editline]03:29PM[/editline] [QUOTE=hqdby;17757741], sais "You are doing it wong!" when I am doing it faster and a more efficient way.[/QUOTE] At this point, I realized you were twelve. [editline]03:35PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Shogoll;10379052]I circumnavigate this by NOT TALKING ABOUT SPORTS.[/QUOTE] lol you mean circumvent. To circumnavigate would be to travel completely around it.
Am I in the only school in the world where the computers actually have limitations on what you can fuck with?
No, we have partly-limited computers. Nothing I can't handle though...
[QUOTE=Tea;17762023]Am I in the only school in the world where the computers actually have limitations on what you can fuck with?[/QUOTE] no every school has that. but if you know what you're doing, you can avoid it. like the program that blocks half the stuff on our computers can be turned off by rebooting the PC and closing the program when the cmd pops up (to launch the program, i dunno why they did this)
apparently i "broke" my dads laptop when he dropped it [editline]09:53PM[/editline] also he is a massive pirate coz its "free" to get them this way
[QUOTE=BananasGoMoo;17762243]no every school has that. but if you know what you're doing, you can avoid it.[/QUOTE] Mine doesn't. The only thing that's blocked on ours are certain websites (AKA 90% of the internet)
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