nah only joking, glad you liked it, thanks for linking it back to me.

Oh, and people that send out bulm messages using the “to” field so that every recipient sees all the other email address.

I don’t expect non-techs to know how to rewrite the registry (even though they do that sometimes), but a basic thing like “computers work on electricity” should be common knowledge.
My favorite unplugged story happened when a client calls me and frantically tells me she can not print. I ask printer questions and after some time extract from her that actually she can not turn on the computer hence she can not print. Deep breath and we continue. After asking the all time favorite question: “is the power cable connected” (with an explanation how a power cable looks like) the client replies “Yes”. I then decide to go and explore further. When I arrive I find to my horror that the power cable was connected to the computer from one side, and a splitter (domino) on the other. The same splitter hosted also the printer, monitor and … the splitter own cable that should be connected to the wall socket !

That’s hilarious…but not surprising. There are so many things that I think should be common knowledge when it comes to computers, and when I call for support on something the people always walk me through doing things that make me feel stupid. I always end up telling them that I know what I’m doing with computers, so if they just tell me what they want to do I can do it…instead of walking me through all of the menu options to choose from. There are so many people like the one that you mentioned that makes me realize why they have to dumb things down so much.

Students can be pretty bad, too, or so I hear. Young ones click on ads and download questionable software, though some schools have better protection such as [faronics.com] in place to prevent such things.

Yeah, you might want to search the internet next time and find the blog (which was Digg-effected into going down) which wrote the post, and actually give them credit for the list.

[spiraloz.com]

We appreciate you pointing out the source, but we really didn’t know where it came from. It was received as an email and had we known about the source we would have not copied all of the content. However, being that it was received in an email format there was no way for us to link to the email, so we pasted the content here.

Even if we did do some searching how would we have found that site to be the source when it was down? If it came up as one of the search results we would have clicked on it to see if it was the source. When nothing came up (according to you because of the Digg effect) we would have just ignored the site. So even if we did go looking around there would have been a very slim chance that we had actually found the original site.

We have added the link to the post though, thanks for pointing it out.

[spiraloz.com]

How about the people who send around the chain letter hoaxes to everybody in their address book, assuring them all that this is real and they should follow its instructions… and you can’t decide whether to “reply to all” or just to the sender with a “carefully worded” email stating that the first time you saw this particular hoax was in 1991.

Step away from the computer…