02-23-2003, 06:05 AM
I work at the Help Desk at my college. We give laptops to all incoming freshman, so the idiot ratio is much higher than normal.
My personal favorite was when the tech next to me answered the phone. He listens for a minute, puts the caller on hold:
"He wants to know how to play a CD."
Yes, these are W2k laptops with Autoplay enabled ...
One frequent, annoying call:
"The printer in *whatever lab* is out of paper."
"It's not showing empty from here, what does it say?"
"Tray 1 Empty."
"There's three trays in the printer."
One night someone came in:
"Internet Explorer won't work for me, it gives me this wierd message."
I check the computer and it's for some file like qubar.dll (can't remember the exact name).
I try control panel to get to Add/Remove (just to check) and it gives me the same message.
I tell the tech next to me to search for the file on her computer:
"It's not there."
"Google it."
First result on google page? A forum which detailed how this file was a poorly written browser hijack that installed itself after downloading certain porn off of Kazaa.
And one way you can tell how these people use these computers:
We've got a local NetWare server running and an ftp that only people on the lan can get to. The only software that's on both the server and the ftp?
Ad-Aware and McAfee Virus Scanner.
My personal favorite was when the tech next to me answered the phone. He listens for a minute, puts the caller on hold:
"He wants to know how to play a CD."
Yes, these are W2k laptops with Autoplay enabled ...
One frequent, annoying call:
"The printer in *whatever lab* is out of paper."
"It's not showing empty from here, what does it say?"
"Tray 1 Empty."
"There's three trays in the printer."
One night someone came in:
"Internet Explorer won't work for me, it gives me this wierd message."
I check the computer and it's for some file like qubar.dll (can't remember the exact name).
I try control panel to get to Add/Remove (just to check) and it gives me the same message.
I tell the tech next to me to search for the file on her computer:
"It's not there."
"Google it."
First result on google page? A forum which detailed how this file was a poorly written browser hijack that installed itself after downloading certain porn off of Kazaa.
And one way you can tell how these people use these computers:
We've got a local NetWare server running and an ftp that only people on the lan can get to. The only software that's on both the server and the ftp?
Ad-Aware and McAfee Virus Scanner.
Trade yourself in for the perfect one. No one needs to know that you feel you've been ruined!