Computer Abuse, what ticks u off?

dBTelos said:
If you go for one of the VIA branded boards that is made by some no name company, what would you expect? If you buy a no name board, that's your fault, not VIAs. Popularity has never been a problem with chipsets, I don't see why you brought it up. FYI, the manufacturer has the drivers on the website, usually, if they don't then they're probably a generic/noname, once again your fault. So the over statement "cheap boards like VIAs" is incorrect.
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So wait, your defending them because I said they are crap, and then you just explained to me that they are crap. Make up your mind!


-Brandon
 
People who have and use iTunes for a music library and stuff when they dont even own AN IPOD! ticks me off i dont know why,its just like "you use itunes and you have no ipod...wooow thats cool, go find up Winamp.com dummie"
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People that think they can buy better computers and warrantity from Futureshop and London Drugs, etc retailstores then buying it online seperately and making it yourself.


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shawnol said:
People who have and use iTunes for a music library and stuff when they dont even own AN IPOD! ticks me off i dont know why,its just like "you use itunes and you have no ipod...wooow thats cool, go find up Winamp.com dummie"
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lol. iTunes is so much more poweful and convenient then winamp. I use iTunes and do not use it for an ipod.

And norton not only uses tons of resources, but it causes so many problems. Probably half of the problems I deal with with customer computers are because of friggin norton blocking something randomly.


-Brandon
 
A person was hooking up a monitor cable and it wouldn't go in, so he used more force and broke the pins. It was put in the wrong way.

Or being smart enough to put ram in when the computer is running.

Or when I say to my dad to leave a window open. But he always ends up closing it, and within minutes or seconds. He can't fight the habit, I guess.
 
The thing that bugs me is when a person comes up to and ask for advice in buying a computer. You tell them that you can build them a good computer at a reasonable price and the person says that he'll get back with you. The person comes back to you and say "I'm going with such and such because he can build me a computer at a lower price" I say "OK, whatever it's your money". The persons come back in a few weeks asking me to fix it, I used to say "OK, I'll take a look at it". I go over to the co-worker's house and find the other person has put a illegal copy of Windows XP on the computer (an other illegal software on it too) and crappy PC parts inside the computer, I did my best fixing the mess but what a nightmare. I never again try to fix computers that this person builds for people, for he's skimping to make a few extra $$$ and causing the people (most of them novices) headaches with their computers.
 
Astrogiblet said:
So wait, your defending them because I said they are crap, and then you just explained to me that they are crap. Make up your mind!


-Brandon
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Many brands will take a VIA chipset, and put it on their board. Some of these brands are terrible, won't give you any support, etc. But a greater number of brands are good brands that wil give you all the suport, drivers, etc that you need. So, it's the brand that designed the boards and their support that you're saying is "crappy", not the VIA chipset itself.
 
Hurdler said:
What's wrong with Norton??
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Uses tons of resources, trys to be annoyingly userfriendly (to the point that my grandpartents get lost), low detection rate, better products for free (freeware FTW!), etc. The list could go on and on, but I wouldn't ever use nortron unless my grandparents or parents got so accustomed to it that they couldn't use anything else.
 
Ooh, this talk of Norton has reminded me of something else. Back when I was in 5th/6th grade (before I knew anything about computers), we didn't know that you had to update stuff like antivirus, windows, etc. Our HP (bleh) came with McAfee on it, and we never updated it. Man, we got all sorts of interesting viruses on that thing. Some of the viruses were actually kinda cool for a while, like this one that made desktop icons jump across the screen when you got the cursor near one of them. Good 'ol Windows 98... :p
 
i love itunes.
i have an ipod, but i'd still use it if i didn't.
another thing i hate is when people come over to use your computer then leave, without telling you that's all they need.
 
EQTakeOffense said:
I hate it when I overhear two people who think they know something about computers talk about them, when infact that know nothing.
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Haha, some kid in my science class is always like, "I am a leet hacka! I haxxored MapleStory!"
 
dBTelos said:
Uses tons of resources, trys to be annoyingly userfriendly ...
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Well, that's been my exact experience with McAffe(sp?). As far as I can tell Norton is the lesser of two evils. I guess since I'm still using Norton 2003 it's before most of what's wrong with it.
 
Hurdler said:
Well, that's been my exact experience with McAffe(sp?). As far as I can tell Norton is the lesser of two evils. I guess since I'm still using Norton 2003 it's before most of what's wrong with it.
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Ya mcaffe is just as bad. Get AVG or avast or something (nod32 if you wanna pay).
 
In fact, its kinda funny. Norton home/basic editions suck completely. However, norton corporate is probably the best antivirus I've ever used. And I've used ewido, avg, norton home, mcafee, etc..


-Brandon
 
McAffee has better detection rates then Norton, it's that it uses just as many resources. I'm use AV Free Classic Edition and it works great.
 
man the only thing worse then the finger on the monitor, I dunno if someone has done this to you or has been mentioned is the pen on the monitor. My best friend (university room mate) did it all the time god damn its sooo annoying............he also like to do the eat over the keyboard thing.....gah.......man the pen would drive me nuts....gah.....
 
wassi said:
I have this guy sitting next to me at work who just pounds at the mouse, so far i have had to replace 2 in the past 6 months. Every time i hear him clicking it, it ticks me off, its like *CALICK*

What have u seen people do to their computers intentionally/unintentionally that gets on your nerves?
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Haha...I have a friend who does the exact same thing. He pounds the keyboard too. I've mentioned it to him but there is no changing his ways. :)
 
CompuDrew said:
Touching the monitor. More specifically, dragging their fingers across their LCD monitors pointing out things. I'm easily annoyed I guess. :p
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Oh yea, this one really ticks me off. I told my brother once to please not touch the monitor as it leaves smudge marks and he is one of those people that doesn't like to be told what to do so it ended up in an argument as to why you shouldn't put your grubby fingers on the monitor.I still use CRT so the smudge marks are really noticeable.
 
Astrogiblet said:
lol. iTunes is so much more poweful and convenient then winamp. I use iTunes and do not use it for an ipod.
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LOL, WinAmp sucks. I can't stand it, old outdated interface from the 90's. No thanks. It had it's place in time back when you needed an efficient player that wouldn't bog down your P2 266 while playing MP3's on it.
 
nigerian_businessman said:
People who make the assumption that, because I'm such a nice guy, and because I know so much about computers, I won't mind fixing their computer or their parent's/uncle/best friend/cousin's computers, and I won't mind working for free.

I am generally helpful to people if they have problems, but theres always that person who takes an act of kindness for granted and then expects me to be their personal IT bitch. Its not so much working for free, its that these people don't even offer a few bucks or some beer or anything, just expect me to come by and fuck with their computer for hours while they interrupt me and ask all kinds of questions that they never remember the answers to, but manage to turn a 2 hour job into an all day thing.
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Yea, a girl at work needed some computer help so I spent a few hours on her computer. This is a person who uses a computer at work all day and had been using computers longer than me. On her home computer she was doing stupid things like installing apps into the folders of other apps. I fixed it up for her and another friend from work said she had asked him what to get me for fixing her computer. He said a six pack of beer would suffice. I never saw one bottle of beer even. Would you ask someone to fix your car and then not pay them for it? Hell, no. So why should it be any different when we fix their computers?
 
People who call their PC's modems should be shot, people who think that turning the monitor on will start the computer (thanks so much Apple), and if someone touches a screen that I'm working on I smack their hand and tell them NO! BAD! want to act like a child I'll treat you like one. :)
 
Dyslexic_Dog said:
People who call their PC's modems should be shot, people who think that turning the monitor on will start the computer (thanks so much Apple), and if someone touches a screen that I'm working on I smack their hand and tell them NO! BAD! want to act like a child I'll treat you like one. :)
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I kinda like the monitor turning on the machine. One thing I don't like about it is that if you then hit the button when the machine is on it puts the machine to sleep. I use to always disable that right away. I use to laugh because when I was in hs they had like the 15 inch apple lcds hooked to the servers. You had notes on them saying "don't turn off monitor" because if you did it would put the server to sleep and no one bothered to look up how to turn that feature off. Someone would turn it off and a part of the network would go down. Good times.
 
Computer stores that hire sales people that know next to nothing about computers. I hate having my time wasted by some sales person who tries to bullshit me into buying a crap product.
 
Pepster64 said:
The thing that bugs me is when a person comes up to and ask for advice in buying a computer. You tell them that you can build them a good computer at a reasonable price and the person says that he'll get back with you. The person comes back to you and say "I'm going with such and such because he can build me a computer at a lower price" I say "OK, whatever it's your money". The persons come back in a few weeks asking me to fix it, I used to say "OK, I'll take a look at it". I go over to the co-worker's house and find the other person has put a illegal copy of Windows XP on the computer (an other illegal software on it too) and crappy PC parts inside the computer, I did my best fixing the mess but what a nightmare. I never again try to fix computers that this person builds for people, for he's skimping to make a few extra $$$ and causing the people (most of them novices) headaches with their computers.
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I've had this happen to me a couple of times. Asked to find a good computer to buy so I spend time doing the research and find them a really good PC for the money. Then they turn around and buy some POS from some shit outfit that uses a cheap motherboard with integrated video etc. Don't waste my time you mofos!
 
4b5eN+EE said:
Touching the monitor is the big thing for me.
MySpace/AIM whores

People that run their $600 20" LCD screen at 800x600 res because its "hard to read when its bigger"....raise the DPI dipshit....
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Raising the DPI fucks up fonts in some games and apps.
 
Gatticus said:
Computer stores that hire sales people that know next to nothing about computers. I hate having my time wasted by some sales person who tries to bullshit me into buying a crap product.
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Oh man! Dont get me started! I hate going into best buy and I have to train the guy working there in order for him to answer my question..

Then I put in my app, which I'm sure shows a thousand more qualifications then 99% of the people there, and I dont get hired.


-Brandon
 
Astrogiblet said:
Oh man! Dont get me started! I hate going into best buy and I have to train the guy working there in order for him to answer my question..

Then I put in my app, which I'm sure shows a thousand more qualifications then 99% of the people there, and I dont get hired.


-Brandon
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Maybe they don't like your attitude, did you have an interview or anything? From your attitude here, I could tell why they might pass on you. Half of what I see BB employees doing is helping seniors pickout a HP/Compaq pre-built system. Besides, the sections to find parts are clearly labeled at bestbuy, I don't see how you could have a hard time finding something.
 
Probably because he is over qualified. All those kinds of stores want are bullshit artists and marketing twerps, no actual computer knowledge needed.
 
what ticks me off...my father, never defrags his PC, never error checks, never does a virus scan or a spyware scan, then he come to me and complains about his PC being so slow and demands me to fix it.
 
in order of worst offense to lesser offenses

touching the screen
shoving the monitor so someone can look at the screen. why not gently ?
failing to admit the spyware came from their doing
using IE
spraying the monitor by laughing with your mouth full of soda, yes it happened
not cleaning up after
dumping drinks down the front of the tower, yes it is red behind the clear plastic from kool aid left from months ago
leaving old plates of half eaten food on the tower
moving a tower while it is running
unplugging the PS/2 mouse while running
unplugging the keyboard while running
turning the power off because it froze up. the app froze, not the pc dummy.
calling a computer a piece of crap when it runs perfectly fine. the problem is not silicon based, it is carbon based.
calling a computer a piece of crap because it is more than three years old. if that were true of people you would be a fossilized turd.
not knowing at least the difference between a hard drive and system memory. that is like not knowing the difference between a can opener and a blender.
last but really not the least, leaving the hair dryer plugged when they have been asked not to because it is right next to the bathtub. next time ? snip goes the cord. after I unplug it !
 
my wifes uncle owns a plumbing shop. once he asked me to help him build a system to control his inventory. bar scans, vendor contacts for all parts, 2 new comps. the whole shebang. so i spend about a week after work speccing a couple different setups, testing out about 30 inventory programs till i found one that whas exactly what he wanted. even started counting and sorting his less used parts. his reaction? never mind, we'll work on it next year. gaaahhhh!
 
Astrogiblet said:
This one REALLY, really gets me:

Tiny, local computer stores that sell custom computers to people with parts that are so shitty (like, for example VIA motherboards) and obscure, and then they dont provide a driver CD, so when, for example, a customer brings me that PC and tells me they need me to reformat it because its got a bunch of viruses, and I do so, only to find the drivers for that no name, crappy, motherboard dont exist/have never existed/were never put online.



-Brandon
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yeah I know what you mean, you ask them to bring all ther driver cd's and you get nothing. btw, VIA makes very good chipsets. I used to believe ALi was crap too, but then I tested an ASUS board that had one, the busmastering was the best of any socket 7 I ever saw. The 503+ was awesome, used a MVP3 chipset made by VIA. Even SiS makes good chipsets. Most modern boards now have at least passable chipsets, or they won't sell. Too much competition to make total crap, even ECS makes a good board now.
 
I recall a RadioShack employee trying to sell a poor old lady (she must have been nearly secenty) to buy a Linksys router over the D-link crap they had next to it.

However, she was ignoring the Motorola wireless combo kit (which included a router) for 30$.

The old lady, who could not tell a router from a turnip, was pleasantly surprised when I walked up and pointed out that you could do the same thing with an item that was not 110$, and have an extra wireless card if you wanted to add a second PC.

But what happened next was priceless.

After she rung up the Motorla router (IMHO, they're not half bad), she then mentioned that "I think that I know what I'm doing" and has "IT training". Although I technically have no formal training, I've been fixing PC's for a long time, and pointed out that there's no way that the router (54mbps vs. 108mbps maximum, or 20 vs. 30mbps average) would be restricting performance.

She, of course, mentioned fiber-optic connections and some likely meaningless jargon.

She had not, however, bargained on the fact that the annoying interloper (me) happened to have memorized the specs for every internet connection option within the lady's ZIP code (which I overheard during her checkout) from a recent job, and the details of every residental fiber connection availible, AND when they were likely to get here. (Verizon, hurry up already!)

I then proceeded to order a remote-control helicopter, which drove her nuts.
 
Gatticus said:
Computer stores that hire sales people that know next to nothing about computers. I hate having my time wasted by some sales person who tries to bullshit me into buying a crap product.
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I once went to Best Buy and one of the Geek Squad guys was talking to someone about some RAM they had on sale. The person asked if two identical 512MB sticks of DDR400 which came separately could be ran in dual-channel. The Geek Squad guy went into a long tirade about memory, so I cut to the chase and told the person that any DDR could be run in dual-channel, as long as the two sticks were identical and the motherboard supported it. The Geek Squad guy proceeded to lecture me on how not all memory could be run in dual-channel, and I said that of course regular SDRAM can't. Then he started telling me that SDRAM can be run in dual-channel, and told me how he saw it in a friend's PC or something. At this point I just ignored the guy and walked away. It's amazing what kind of idiots manage to get hired at these stores...
 
Zero82z said:
The Geek Squad guy proceeded to lecture me on how not all memory could be run in dual-channel, and I said that of course regular SDRAM can't. Then he started telling me that SDRAM can be run in dual-channel, and told me how he saw it in a friend's PC or something. At this point I just ignored the guy and walked away. It's amazing what kind of idiots manage to get hired at these stores...
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Yeah, except that you are wrong. While there were no consumer-level machies with a dual-channel memory configuration with SDRAM, there were servers that required SDRAM be installed in pairs because those chipsets were running a 64bit bus.

There is no reason, at all, why SDRAM could not be run in dual channel. It is a function of the chipset, afterall.
 
lithium726 said:
Yeah, except that you are wrong. While there were no consumer-level machies with a dual-channel memory configuration with SDRAM, there were servers that required SDRAM be installed in pairs because those chipsets were running a 64bit bus.

There is no reason, at all, why SDRAM could not be run in dual channel. It is a function of the chipset, afterall.
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I know that, but we were both speaking in terms of consumer-level applications and it was quite obvious he was lying. In all practical personal computer situations, SDRAM can't be used in dual-channel mode since there were no boards or chipsets which supported it.
 
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