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hardware pet peeve.

For all you people who hate those who spend more than you deem "necessary" on a computer:

Without them, the hardware companies would not innovate, R&D costs are enormous, without these companies charging a premium for these products at introduction, they could never pay for R&D costs. If someone did not buy these products at a premium cost, then the prices would be a lot higher for everyone else, not to mention products would be released less often.

Instead of hating on them, perhaps you should thank them.
 
Originally posted by ajm786
Slightly OT but amazing nonetheless that no one has mentioned yet:

I HATE when losers buy hardware from you, it doesn't work, they come back to you, you try to explain that it is NOT defective hardware, then they say: "I'm A+ certified. I know what I'm doing."
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lol, A+ certification, lol.
what a pointless cert:D
 
Originally posted by kronchev
True, Xeons are not more stable. no processor is more stable than another, so shes fully of shit there. dual xeons are the fastest, i dont have any benchmarks on me but they are the clear winner, theyre also the most expensive. dual opeterons are only a little slow but much more cheaper.

and she is wrong but on technicalities.
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The thing is the performance on 3D rendering was completely irrelevant!

Saying *BSD is the same thing as Linux is like saying Ford is the same thing as Opel. Yeah, they both have four wheels etc, but... (Ford and Opel were just the two first car makers that popped into my mind, don't comment it.)
 
Originally posted by Black Morty Rackham
The thing is the performance on 3D rendering was completely irrelevant!

Saying *BSD is the same thing as Linux is like saying Ford is the same thing as Opel. Yeah, they both have four wheels etc, but... (Ford and Opel were just the two first car makers that popped into my mind, don't comment it.)
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I'm pretty sure Opel is a subsidiary of GM, so you're safe there;)
 
Originally posted by HiTech-Hate
for the most part companies have CRAPPY tech support. Dell comes to mind, I would rather claw my eyes out with a rusty fork then deal with their customer support.
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Amen to that! :D Took me THREE HOURS on the phone with Dell "Tech Support" (more like 'Call our number and let us help you get really pissed off') to get service authorization for my Mom's laptop when her HDD was within inches of total failure. I TOLD the tech people that I spoke to that the problem was the HDD--everything else was fine. However, they insisted that the problem was the motherboard and had me send the whole thing to them to get it "fixed"... :rolleyes: Anyway, a couple of weeks went by and I finally got the computer back from Dell. When I opened the box there was a slip of paper inside which detailed what had been done to the computer and the only thing that was listed was 'motherboard replacement'. No surprise that the computer still wasn't functioning properly because the HDD was still all fucked up... which led to another few hours on the phone to convince them that they fixed what wasn't broken and the HDD was still the problem. Long story short, they eventually shipped me a new HDD and, after installing it, the computer worked as flawlessly as a Dell can be expected to work. :rolleyes:

What bothers me more, though, are people who ask for help but aren't willing to actually learn what they did wrong and how not to do it in the future/how to do things properly. They just want it fixed, as if the computer magically screwed itself up and the user had nothing to do with it. (Though, sometimes that can happen.... but those aren't the cases I'm talking about :p ) Ignorant/stupid people who are hellbent on remaining totally ignorant/stupid! GAH! :mad:
 
Originally posted by Great_Melinko
haha, i had a kt266 pro with a athlon 700 at 850-966. everytime i booted up, it was overclocked to a different speed. onboard usb? nope it crapped out at 135mhz along with the onboard sound
lol:p
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My motherboard just about does the same thing. I don't know about onboard sound as I've only used it a few times (if nothing else, the fact that it's so darned quiet I can't hardly hear anything at max volume even excluding the quality issues) but my USB hasn't given me any troubles. I don't exactly get different overclocked speeds with each bootup as you got, but if I have it oced and shut off the power supply (or unplug,) when I start it back up it will "forget" the overclocking. At first I thought this was a safety precaution against overclocking too high, but if you have it too high it won't get far enough to do that, defeating the whole purpose...

Originally posted by HiTech-Hate
The one thing I hate more then anything is the people that call their computers a "CPU". I'll be trying to help someone and they'll be like "So when I tried to turn on my CPU I got a black screen". Even when I correct them most of these ppl are insistent that CPU is the correct name for their computer, I dunno why but this just burns me up lol.
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Drives me crazy too. My grandmother is the worst at this. She will say harddrive when she means the entire computer sometimes... It makes things very confusing at best. And what is with all the people who are unable to differentiate between harddrive space and memory? It drives me absolutely insane when someone with 1GB+ of RAM tells me they are having trouble because they don't have enough free memory, but what they mean is they don't have enough HD space! Arg.

So, I guess I'd like to agree with the people who were saying ignorance. That's definitely my pet peeve. So many people not only are ignorant on these matters, but they seem to WANT to be! They can't grasp simple concepts simply because they don't want to be bothered with it, so they just give up after one failed attempt after making you waste a lot of time and effort. You can say "well, at least let me set this up so you can do so-and-so" and they will just sit there refusing, so the entire thing was wasted for nothing...

BTW, thebro, P1-100MHz with a Radeon 9800XT??? Please please tell me you were making that up....
 
People who ask for your help when specing out a new computer then freak when you tell them the onboard Intel Extreme graphics aren't gonna cut it and to play that game they need the $200.00 Card. They also freak when you tell'em that 128MB RAM ain't gonna cut it either :)

Also people that think your an Idiot for buying a Dell/Gateway/Alienware etc... Yes I know how to build a computer, I just did'nt ##$%@ feel like it !!!

:D
 
Originally posted by Drinnit
My main peeve is when people insist they know more than I do. Especially about networking.

I'm a computer tech at my school, and we mostly fix network problems. I'll sometimes stand in back of a teacher, during their own class time, watching them fuck with their own connection, to the point where it's almost beyond repair. Then I kindly ask them to move.

"No," they say, determined to make my trip to their classroom worthless, as they continue to screw with things that have absolutely nothing to do with their connection issues. I've had to re-install printer, video, sound, and even USB drivers simply because people refuse to let an 18 year old fix something that they fucked up.

Hm.

I take back all of that -- my peeve is ignorance.
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Wow. Just wow.

I feel exactly like that. Except im 14 and of course that means that the admins and teachers know more about computers than me (/end sarcasm)

Also, people ask me things like "So how many gigaherts does that thing have" I say "Oh, 2.6 ghz overclocked to 3.4ghz" and they respond "Oh cool, well my dell has 4.0 ghz and 10gb of ram"

"Sure it does, and what video card does it have?"

"A what?"

"A video card, the thing that prossess the images coming from your computer"

"Oh that, its made by Linksys" :mad: :mad: :mad:

oooooooooooooooo, does that ever get me pissed off.

Also, a girl in school has a dad that make computers and she insists that she knows more than me and that her computer is obviously more powerfull than mine, so I say "Really? What cpu ya got?"

The answer "A celeron, see mine is better"


How many levels are you trying to be wrong on??
:mad:

How about when I show people my computer and they refuse to believe that I could build such a thing. (It is quite impressive, ill give them that)

Man. the list goes on and on.

Please, If you are 13-15 and know anything about computers, please tell me, restore my faith in mankind:( :( :(
 
Originally posted by Demonfire
Wow. Just wow.

I feel exactly like that. Except im 14 and of course that means that the admins and teachers know more about computers than me (/end sarcasm)

Also, people ask me things like "So how many gigaherts does that thing have" I say "Oh, 2.6 ghz overclocked to 3.4ghz" and they respond "Oh cool, well my dell has 4.0 ghz and 10gb of ram"

"Sure it does, and what video card does it have?"

"A what?"

"A video card, the thing that prossess the images coming from your computer"

"Oh that, its made by Linksys" :mad: :mad: :mad:

oooooooooooooooo, does that ever get me pissed off.

Also, a girl in school has a dad that make computers and she insists that she knows more than me and that her computer is obviously more powerfull than mine, so I say "Really? What cpu ya got?"

The answer "A celeron, see mine is better"


How many levels are you trying to be wrong on??
:mad:
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Oh dear... I get pissed off just by reading that! :eek: Thanks a lot! :mad:

:p :D

I hate people like that.
 
I hate it when people that know barely nothing about computers say that Windows XP sucks, Windows 95/98 is 10 times better. I then ask them why and they cannot give even one justified reason for disliking it.

Also, it is annoying when you hear people saying "this computer is so slow" when it is actually the internet connection speed that is being slow - the internet won't load faster if you buy a new processor or more memory!
 
Originally posted by Black Morty Rackham
Saying *BSD is the same thing as Linux is like saying Ford is the same thing as Opel. Yeah, they both have four wheels etc, but... (Ford and Opel were just the two first car makers that popped into my mind, don't comment it.)
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You know I both want to agree with you and disagree, so I'll do both:
1) They do actually perform the same tasks, present similar interfaces (both for programmers and the general userland) and code for one will usually compile on the other.
2) They're still very different at heart.

Like diesel based and a wankel rotary based cars, so very different, yet so much alike :D
(I ended up agreeing there, I think.)
(And this, btw, is what I like about open standards.)

I've cheerfully explained to people with only a vague idea about linux, when they've asked about my FreeBSD install, that it's something very much like Linux, to give them a reference point. Saying that it is is a Linux, OTOH, is bordering on blasphemy.

Another thing: People who insist that I mustn't upgrade anything, or at least leave the originals, because otherwise they won't understand anything, and then use the new versions without even noticing, thus consting me hours of messing around to make their old win98 dualboot with XP, and keeping office 97 and XP on the same drive. For bonus points, let them already be using win/office XP in their office.
 
Originally posted by HHunt
You know I both want to agree with you and disagree, so I'll do both:
1) They do actually perform the same tasks, present similar interfaces (both for programmers and the general userland) and code for one will usually compile on the other.
2) They're still very different at heart.
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Regardless of whether you have a Ford or an Opel, the result is the same, basically. You get from point A to point B. You move forward because of the expansion of the fuel as it burns up, etc etc etc. But they're still not the same. :D

The diesel/rotary engine comparison is probably a more correct one, heh. They do the same thing, you can put either one in the same car (well...), but at heart, they're very very very different.

Plus the fact that Linux is just the kernel anyway... and Linux and MACH are more different than *BSD and GNU/L on the whole. :p

And to add a little more clarity to the situation, it was about Mac OS X. She kept saying that it wasn't based on UNIX in any way, that it was just a Mac system, regardless of how much I tried to explain how it was essentially a BSD system... then she said that BSD = Linux. :rolleyes:
 
Oohh... madness.
In these cases, I'm found of digging up some thousand lines to back up my points, and then breaking down and weeping when they shrug it all off with some (poorly constructed, usually) short sentence.

Unrelated, I'm not sure what I think of the Debian/BSD project. Going the other way, and bringing the BSD userland to Linux, would seem like a more productive solution to me :D
 
Originally posted by HHunt
Oohh... madness.
In these cases, I'm found of digging up some thousand lines to back up my points, and then breaking down and weeping when they shrug it all off with some (poorly constructed, usually) short sentence.
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I have a maybe 3 square inch hole in my door after I threw my chair about three meters in sheer frustration. :p
 
Originally posted by Black Morty Rackham
I have a maybe 3 square inch hole in my door after I threw my chair about three meters in sheer frustration. :p
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Indeed. There are times I'd like to find these people, continue the discussion in some seedy locale, and beat them to death with the printouts.
 
Originally posted by HHunt
Indeed. There are times I'd like to find these people, continue the discssion in some seedy locale, and beat them to death with the printouts.
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I'm inclined to agree with that... *sigh*
 
Originally posted by HiTech-Hate
The one thing I hate more then anything is the people that call their computers a "CPU". I'll be trying to help someone and they'll be like "So when I tried to turn on my CPU I got a black screen". Even when I correct them most of these ppl are insistent that CPU is the correct name for their computer, I dunno why but this just burns me up lol.
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that's actually a pretty old convention. if you grew up using computers in the 80s i think it was pretty common to call the computer the cpu (i remember seeing a poster in the computer lab in grade school that showed and described the monitor, printer, keyboard, and "cpu")
 
oh, and my #1 pet peeve is when someone tries to show me something on the screen and TOUCHES MY MONITOR!!!!

i really hate that, i mean at least touch it with the back of your fingernail if you're going to touch it, but don't leave marks all over the screen....
 
Originally posted by fugu
that's actually a pretty old convention. if you grew up using computers in the 80s i think it was pretty common to call the computer the cpu (i remember seeing a poster in the computer lab in grade school that showed and described the monitor, printer, keyboard, and "cpu")
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I remember seeing that, too... in "how stuff works" books and such as well.

i really hate that, i mean at least touch it with the back of your fingernail if you're going to touch it, but don't leave marks all over the screen....
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I really, REALLY, hate that! A friend of mine who used to borrow our iMac did that all the time... and when he thought it needed to be cleaned, he simply wiped it with his palm! :eek: :mad:
 
Originally posted by fugu
oh, and my #1 pet peeve is when someone tries to show me something on the screen and TOUCHES MY MONITOR!!!!

i really hate that, i mean at least touch it with the back of your fingernail if you're going to touch it, but don't leave marks all over the screen....
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I dislike me for hating people who touch my screen with their fingers.
 
Just adding, not really complaining, but i think it's funny:

I work for a local computer repair company and i had an appt. with an optometry business last week. The woman wanted me to add ram to one of their machines to make it as fast as their other machine. The first machine was a PII 233 and i bumped it up to 256MB RAM (max it could handle), and the other machine she wanted it to be as fast as was a brand new Dell P4 2.4. Just funny how people expect so much out of old machines. I sort of put the perspective to her of 233 vs. 2400. She was nice though and was fairly understanding when i told her that her machine was maxed out and it wouldn't be cost effective to do anything more to it ;)
 
Originally posted by The Hockster
I hate it when people that know barely nothing about computers say that Windows XP sucks, Windows 95/98 is 10 times better. I then ask them why and they cannot give even one justified reason for disliking it.

Also, it is annoying when you hear people saying "this computer is so slow" when it is actually the internet connection speed that is being slow - the internet won't load faster if you buy a new processor or more memory!
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Oh yeah, I've run into this in regard to win2000 vs winxp. Same OS, only the latter has some 'perks'.

My friend recently upgraded to xp after 2 YEARS of calling it crap. Then a week later he goes: "oh, it's great". The asshole.

Ps. This thread is quite cathartic.
 
Originally posted by hordaktheman
Oh yeah, I've run into this in regard to win2000 vs winxp. Same OS, only the latter has some 'perks'.

My friend recently upgraded to xp after 2 YEARS of calling it crap. Then a week later he goes: "oh, it's great". The asshole.

Ps. This thread is quite cathartic.
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Isn't XP based on a newer NT core? Not a big difference, I know... :p
 
Originally posted by fugu
oh, and my #1 pet peeve is when someone tries to show me something on the screen and TOUCHES MY MONITOR!!!!

i really hate that, i mean at least touch it with the back of your fingernail if you're going to touch it, but don't leave marks all over the screen....
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A LOT of people are afflicted with this...Just count yourself lucky you have a CRT...

We have LCDs in the Chem E computer lab, and I can't even count the number of times someone's been pointing something out to someone else and finger-jabs the monitor.

IT'S BAD FOR THE SCREEN, PEOPLE!!!

XP doesn't make a *lot* of changes to Win2k, but that's because it didn't have to. Win2k was a great OS, just didn't have much game support or colorful end-user features because (suprise, surprise), it was designed for a business environment. Both are very good OSes, I'm currently running XP because I like my games:)
 
Originally posted by Filter
still trying to break my GF of the finger on the screen thing.
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For a minute there is sounded like you were going to break your GF's finger. Then again its late...

Cheers,
 
Originally posted by fugu
oh, and my #1 pet peeve is when someone tries to show me something on the screen and TOUCHES MY MONITOR!!!!

i really hate that, i mean at least touch it with the back of your fingernail if you're going to touch it, but don't leave marks all over the screen....
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Well then you would really hate me, I write all over people's monitors with dry erase markers.
 
My pet peeve also involves the retarded help at my local Best Buy. They had a sale on Crucial memory a year or so ago and I was looking to see if they had a stick of Registered PC2100. The guy at memory desk was an absolute jack-ass (smartest guy there) and was trying to tell me that there was no such thing as "registered" memory, he had never heard of such a thing. I tried explaining it to him, maybe they had "buffered" or "ECC"? No such memory exists, you obviously must be smoking crack, sir.

Bah, that's what I get for buying registered memory i guess.
 
I hate when people try to correct my grammar and think they are the smartest in the world... but then they dont realize that its just memorizing symbols... i bet they cant read chinese... =)

better yet... same guy thinks i am not "educated" enough to build a computer if i dont know which video card is enough to run a certain game...

first of all, its not rocket science to build (or plug in prebuilt parts) a comp... actually its call assembling a computer...

second, you cant tell how good something is before you REALLY test it yourself... unlike him... he probably tested every single card out there...(not)....
 
actually the worst is...

when someone think he/she is a genius and brag about how they KNOW something that others dont know... i really dont think it take much inteligence to KNOW informations...
 
Originally posted by yusoweird
actually the worst is...

when someone think he/she is a genius and brag about how they KNOW something that others dont know... i really dont think it take much inteligence to KNOW informations...
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I did that all the time when I was like six years old. :D
 
Originally posted by Black Morty Rackham
I did that all the time when I was like six years old. :D
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haha yea im sure everyone did it at one time... but sadly, some are still doing it...
 
Took me a while a few years ago to convice a mate of mine that his duron 800 sucked ass compared to my pIII 700.

The thing that annoys me the most is when people pick up the phone WAY too quickly, and by the time they've explained what they think is wrong, the problem has sorted itself out anyway.

I hate having to stuff around in compaq or hp cases where you need hands the size of a small baby and 5 joints in your arm to change a RAM stick...

And I love how people can't figure out whether the PURPLE keyboard plug goes in the PURPLE hole or the green one...

And there's the print button clickers who don't pay the paper bills...
 
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