Aaaargh! A PC rant...

[swissdave]

Originally Posted by Scuttler

I think that has more to do with the operator than the laptop

Oh a comedian eh.....

May your fridge pack up and you be plagued with non chocolate hobnobs,
while your tea tastes funny

[annatrnr]

[quote=ShinyD;831543]I took the bull by the horns this morning . He didn't take the news particularly graciously, but what the heck. I'd never met him before Friday so I'm not exactly gutted at the response
quote]
Green incomming for sticking up for yourself, your precious free time and sanity! x

[PW1664]

Originally Posted by ShinyD

I took the bull by the horns this morning and rang the guy up before I was due to visit. I told him I'd spent too much time in the past fixing other peoples PCs and as I had limited time outside work I didn't want to open that particular box again. I told him I wouldn't be calling around and again recommended the guy down the road that makes a living fixing these things.

He didn't take the news particularly graciously, but what the heck. I'd never met him before Friday so I'm not exactly gutted at the response

I still feel like a bit of a rat though...

How could you, especially during the Christmas holidays... where's your charity when someones in need of help?

[annatrnr]

Originally Posted by PW1664

How could you, especially during the Christmas holidays... where's your charity when someones in need of help?

PW My house is need of a good hoover and dust would you mind donating some of your free time to help a good cause (whilst I check my kit for Tues) I'll obviously repay your time and effort with a cup of tea and a stale mince pie

[PW1664]

Originally Posted by annatrnr

PW My house is need of a good hoover and dust would you mind donating some of your free time to help a good cause (whilst I check my kit for Tues) I'll obviously repay your time and effort with a cup of tea and a stale mince pie

I'm en route..... make sure ou clean up before I get there.... visitors and all that!

Anyway, where you going Tuesday?




Oh, Tom

[NeilB]

You see your problem is that you don't know enough about computers.....

I've worked for IBM for 25 years as a hardware engineer.

When my wife lets slip this fact I add 'if they don't cost £5million and are water cooled I haven't a clue these days.'

Seems to work

[Sooty Stoo]

My favourite trick is to recommend people that work full time doing computer stuff.

For some strange reason they cannot say the word "No".

Gets me out of spending time with computer illiterates.

[annatrnr]

Originally Posted by PW1664

Anyway, where you going Tuesday?

I will be at Wraybury with some other YDers drinking Champers underwater to celebrate the New Year. (see planned trips - underwater bubbly) Why not join us.

[Adrian Kelland]

Originally Posted by Richard Mason

Hah. You think that's bad. I ring the folks back home in Blighty, get my Dad whoi is having computer problems, mainly because he never does a disc cleanup nor a defrag.

Furthermore, he hasn't worked out how to save photos etc and more seriously, correspondence from work (various financial statements, certificates etc in pdf), he's an Independent Financial Adviser, so the upshot is that any email he's ever been sent over the past 5 years that has an important attachment, he hasn't deleted.

So I spend 3 hours on the phone....from Australia mind you......telling him how to set up new folders to store his stuff in and how to save to them. Matters are made worse by the fact that he tries to have a conversation with me about why he didn't see a dialogue box, or he'll just shout hysterically that a little box has opened and he doesn't know what to do, not hearing me asking him to read it out to me becvause he's just repeating the same panic bollacks over & over and not listening to me. Then it's the disc cleanup and I don't want to even discuss the defrag. The save as command totally eludes him too.

Worst part about it is that after a 1-3 hr session, I'll be on the phone to them a month later and he's forgotten everything. It's got to the stage where I won't ring anymore as it's costing me a fortune and a lot of blood pressure.

So, install Skype or similar...

[Scubee]

Originally Posted by PW1664

Anyway, where you going Tuesday?

Originally Posted by annatrnr

I will be at Wraybury with some other YDers drinking Champers underwater to celebrate the New Year. (see planned trips - underwater bubbly) Why not join us.

yeah....come and join us...if you are man enough