Computer illiterate people who think they know things V5 = I FLICK PSU VOLTAGE SWITCH
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[QUOTE=slinkman;22949608]Your posts make me lost all faith in humanity.[/QUOTE]
I already have. :v:
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[quote][i]What follows is an urban legend. It is not true. It contains several historical and cultural inaccuracies. It does, however, make a compelling case for its moral.[/i]
SuperMac records a certain number of technical support calls at random, to keep tabs on customer satisfaction. By wild "luck," they managed to catch the following conversation on tape.
Some poor SuperMac TechSport got a call from some middle level official...from the legitimate government of Trinidad. The fellow spoke very good English and fairly calmly described the problem.
It seemed there was a coup attempt in progress at that moment. However, the national armoury for that city was kept in the same building as the Legislature, and it seems that there was a combination lock on the door to the armoury. Of the people in the capitol city that day, only the Chief of the Capitol Guard and the Chief Armourer knew the combination to the lock, and they had already been killed.
So, this officer of the government of Trinidad continued, the problem is this. The combination to the lock is stored in a file on the Macintosh, but the file has been encrypted with the SuperMac product called Sentinel. Was there any chance, he asked, that there was a "back door" to the application, so they could get the combination, open the armoury door, and defend the Capitol Building and the legitimately elected government of Trinidad against the insurgents?
All the while he is asking this in a very calm voice, there is the sound of gunfire in the background. The Technical Support guy put the person on hold. A phone call to the phone company verified that the origin of the call was in fact Trinidad. Meanwhile, there was this mad scramble to see if anybody knew of any "back doors" in the Sentinel program.
As it turned out, Sentinel uses DES to encrypt the files, and there was no known back door. The Tech Support fellow told the customer that aside from trying to guess the password, there was no way through Sentinel, and that they'd be better off trying to physically destroy the lock.
The official was very polite, thanked him for the effort, and hung up. That night, the legitimate government of Trinidad fell. One of the BBC reporters mentioned that the casualties seemed heaviest in the capitol, where for some reason, there seemed to be little return fire from the government forces.
Ok, so they shouldn't have kept the combination in so precarious a fashion. But it does place "I can't see my Microsoft Mail server" complaints in a different sort of perspective, does it not?[/quote]
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Got banned from the school network today, for 'hacking'. (Opening regedit.com and command.com with a batch file).
If i could get my phone to connect to my pc i would show you the picture.
[QUOTE=Toad;22950063]Got banned from the school network today, for 'hacking'. (Opening regedit.com and command.com with a batch file).
If i could get my phone to connect to my pc i would show you the picture.[/QUOTE]You deserved it. They block cmd and regedit for a reason, so people like you can't fuck around.
[QUOTE=DireAvenger;22940314]I call SATA cables SATAN cables because they're always a bitch to unplug from my mobo.
[B]SATAN CABLES.[/B][/QUOTE]
I call them Serial A-T-A.
Comrade, all your posts make me want to explode with rage.
[QUOTE=hTux;22953998][url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=960973[/url][/QUOTE]
I think I did something horrible in that thread just now...
[QUOTE=stone555;22951119]You deserved it. They block cmd and regedit for a reason, so people like you can't fuck around.[/QUOTE]
lol, some people have classes like BUSINESS COMPUTERS where all you do is make shit in Powerpoint and do brainless exercises in the Excel workbook and you have basically the entire year to yourself because you finish everything the first week.
[QUOTE=Odellus;22954917]lol, some people have classes like BUSINESS COMPUTERS where all you do is make shit in Powerpoint and do brainless exercises in the Excel workbook and you have basically the entire year to yourself because you finish everything the first week.[/QUOTE]They have one at my high school.
INFORMATION PROCESSING
Probably THE most useless class there.
it's safe to say I didn't learn anything except that I'm better than everyone in my school at Halo
[QUOTE=stone555;22951119]You deserved it. They block cmd and regedit for a reason, so people like you can't fuck around.[/QUOTE]
We had 10 minutes free time, I decided to see if I could open it. I didn't know what the fuck I was going to do when I opened it, I would probably just close it and say 'wow i just opened regedit'.
[QUOTE=Toad;22955775]We had 10 minutes free time, I decided to see if I could open it. I didn't know what the fuck I was going to do when I opened it, I would probably just close it and say 'wow i just opened regedit'.[/QUOTE]Play with fire get burned
I'm banned for like 1 day. I haven't really been burned.
Oh god why am I continuing posting in the PS3 Computer thread :gonk:
[QUOTE=Errorproxy;22914250]He's contradicting himself.
11. Mac is a nicer paperweight
This one is a bonus point. I don’t really get the paperweight joke thing, but it always comes out in every flame war between Mac and PC fanboys. But even if PC users called Mac “a very expensive paperweight”, Mac is still a nicer paperweight considering the product design.[/QUOTE]
The writer was a woman.
I'll just leave that there...
At my school we cannot even right click.
[QUOTE=dArKnEsS_2;22903114]Not necessarily. What people don't realize is that the power coming out of each socket, one in North America and the other in Europe, is the same. Europe runs on 240V at 3A. This means it provides 740W of power. NA runs on 120V at 6A. This means it provides 740W of power as well. In Europe, the PSU is expecting 240V and 3A. When you flip the switch, it now is expecting 120V and 6A. That means it's receiving more energy than it's ready for. In NA, the PSU is expecting 120V and 6A, when you flip the switch, it's now expecting 240V and 3A. That means it's receiving more amperage than it's ready for. It's hard to explain unless you have a knowledge of electricity.[/QUOTE]
Wouldn't more amps give a better "explotion" than more volts would?
All I know, is that here in Europe, they give a loud bang, and then infinitive ammounts of thick white smoke comes out from them.
"PS3 is better than computers because it has a more powerful graphics cards, look it can play GTA4 at maximum graphics"
God damn.
[QUOTE=Takkun10;22963314]At my school we cannot even right click.[/QUOTE]
I seriously don't get the reasoning behind that...
What's so wrong about right clicking? Right click is also mandatory for certain applications...
[QUOTE=Boris-B;22964212]I seriously don't get the reasoning behind that...
What's so wrong about right clicking? Right click is also mandatory for certain applications...[/QUOTE]
it allows you to get to your computer's properties, mayhaps?
I can imagine students setting stupid backgrounds being a bit of a nuisance.
i call dibs on v6 "my monitor is spewing smoke but i didnt turn it off yet"
[QUOTE=DireAvenger;22940314]I call SATA cables SATAN cables because they're always a bitch to unplug from my mobo.
[B]SATAN CABLES.[/B][/QUOTE]
Hvae you ever worked with IDE? Give me a single cable over ribbon & master/slave setup any day.
Haha this is brilliant, so many idiots.
Fuck IDE.
I can't tell you how much trouble I had to deal with because people are lazy and use "Cable Select". FUCKING CABLE SELECT!!!!!!
/rant
[QUOTE=Callius;22964754]Hvae you ever worked with IDE? Give me a single cable over ribbon & master/slave setup any day.[/QUOTE]
Oh its not THAT hard.
While I myself never have to deal with computer illiterate people who think they know things, I had an awesomely literate technology teacher who loved messing with them. He also ran the technology center (what a shock!) after school, where people generally came to go on the internet (I realize that this may not make sense. To give some background to this, I was a foster child living at a group home/gated community, which contained a school. The rules were rather strict. Not only could you not visit a large amount of websites, you could only have internet in the living room, which only has one computer. There are 8 teenagers per house, with 18 houses, 9 for boys, and 9 for girls. The tech center also has filtered internet, but it has many more computers.). The best things I can remember him doing was changing a student's ipod's (which was blasting music through headphones) displayed language to japanese, and him messing with students who were not doing the assignment and just playing games on the internet with VNC software, first by subtly screwing them over in whatever they were playing, then by being much less subtle and closing the browser. He was much more tolerant of it though it if you've completed your assignments. How tolerant? He regularly played games with me in both the classes I had with him (photoshop, and film), and has occasionally turned on the big screen that's situated right above his desk (which he usually uses to teach photoshop techniques or show old films) to show what he's playing on a more relaxed day.
[QUOTE=Callius;22964754]Hvae you ever worked with IDE? Give me a single cable over ribbon & master/slave setup any day.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Computermaster;22964880]Fuck IDE.
I can't tell you how much trouble I had to deal with because people are lazy and use "Cable Select". FUCKING CABLE SELECT!!!!!!
/rant[/QUOTE]
Lol the old days. I still have 2 IDE Drives and they're still being used. Not this minute but I use them for backups.
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