Experiences with non-techies

[WkdPaul]

YOU ARE AMAZING!

Problem is though it still will say Caps Lock. I like my keys doing what they say. lol

You can actually remap the caps lock to shift I guess! lol

[Alir]

You can actually remap the caps lock to shift I guess! lol

Or Ctrl.

huh

That would actually be a lot better having the ctrl key in the middle as opposed to at the bottom.

 

Why the heck haven't they implemented these ideas.

[WkdPaul]

I remember talking about a local computer shop and how they don't know shit! Well they did it again! lol

 

Just saw on their website, molex to sata adapter, they don't call it that, they somehow call a molex connector "ATA" ... so the part is titled "ATA to SATA connector" ... WTF? lol

 

EDIT (it's in French so "a" = "to");

[Fgtfv567]

That's the most satanic thing I can imagine.

Oh come on! I can think of better!

[steezemageeze]

This should probably go into the Dumb Tech Quotes thread, but I can't/am too lazy to find it. I'm sitting in study hall today because my the VoTech isn't open today, and one of my friends came up and asked me if I "fixed my motherboard" (I posted a Snapchat story when I was building my rig). I was confused until I realized what he was talking about, and told him that I built my computer. THEN, and this is where it gets good, he starts rambling on about how his dad's friend built him a motherboard because he works at some tech company, and that he has a special chip that makes it really fast. he said, and I quote, he "ripped apart a gaming computer and it's really beast". He also tried to tell me his power button is a laser or something like that. I just nodded and agreed with everything he said.

[vanished]

I remember talking about a local computer shop and how they don't know shit! Well they did it again! lol

 

Just saw on their website, molex to sata adapter, they don't call it that, they somehow call a molex connector "ATA" ... so the part is titled "ATA to SATA connector" ... WTF? lol

 

EDIT (it's in French so "a" = "to");

 

Wait if it's in French why does it say "special"?  Or is that the same word...?

[WkdPaul]

Wait if it's in French why does it say "special"?  Or is that the same word...?

yes, it's only missing an accent on the "e"

 

https://translate.google.com/#en/fr/special

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yes, it's only missing an accent on the "e"

 

https://translate.google.com/#en/fr/special

Well in all fairness that's as big a difference as having a completely different letter.  I hate when people ignore those little details, like when they write "cafe" instead of "café" - it sounds and means a completely different thing...  :angry:

[soup]

If your Chromebook doesn't navigate to the intended page immediately, bash the keyboard.

 

You mean that doesn't work?

[vanished]

This is because of a number of things.

The Change Journal has to update it's record(s) with a supersedence of the following actions first:

Timestamps to be updated

Check and update all Hardlinks to the file (POSIX Compliance pls)

Checking and updating of Sparse data

Distributed Link tracking updated for the unique Object identifier

de-compression of file(s) and recompression once moved

The generating of appropriate short files

Updating of file streams

And depending on what type of File WIndows associates it as (system/etc) it might need to be updated in the Master File table (and placed in the Master File table copy)

 

There's actually a lot going on behind closed doors, GNU+Linux and UNIX systems typically use different file systems than NTFS hence why it's a lot faster as NTFS wasn't exactly made for... Speed.

TL;DR: NTFS Pls

 

Yes I'm digging this up again

 

So it just happened again, on FAT32.  I moved some files from one folder into another on the same partition and it took like 3 seconds.  There was a progress bar and everything.  So does FAT32 have to do all these same things or is there another explanation?

[WkdPaul]

Well in all fairness that's as big a difference as having a completely different letter.  I hate when people ignore those little details, like when they write "cafe" instead of "café" - it sounds and means a completely different thing...  :angry:

Yeah, and their site is filled with errors like these, like the molex adapter I posted, the "a" is also missing an accent, it should be "ATA à SATA"  so yeah! lol

 

Those guys are immigrants so I don't complain that much on the quality of their French, especially considering they seem to have better knowledge of French language than computer knowledge! lol (also, even though I'm French Canadian I hate the "101 bill French police" bullcrap we have going around here.)

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Yeah, and their site is filled with errors like these, like the molex adapter I posted, the "a" is also missing an accent, it should be "ATA à SATA"  so yeah! lol

 

Those guys are immigrants so I don't complain that much on the quality of their French, especially considering they seem to have better knowledge of French language than computer knowledge! lol (also, even though I'm French Canadian I hate the "101 bill French police" bullcrap we have going around here.)

At least they have an excuse then.  That probably wouldn't slide if it was a brick-and-mortar in the city though, would it?

[PurpleScythe]

Ok, so we've all got that really annoying, smug, self-satisfied friend. But what's the most annoying thing he or she has ever done? Please share your rants and funny stories. 

[PurpleScythe]

I'll give you an exapmple: A while back when one of my friends heard that I was planning on building a gaming rig, he proceeded to question me on what the best components were for gaming and where to buy them from etc. The next thing I hear he's got a brand new gaming rig with a 4790k and a 980ti, pretty much the best you could get at the time, and about the best you can get today as well. You can imagine my frustration. Anyway a few months on and he barely uses it, I think his most graphically intense game is "Need for Speed" *hits head on desk in frustration*

[TheRandomness]

Pretended to know what they were talking about.

[TomvanWijnen]

@mikat getting a better CPU than me

/jk

[Guest]

I remember talking about a local computer shop and how they don't know shit! Well they did it again! lol

 

Just saw on their website, molex to sata adapter, they don't call it that, they somehow call a molex connector "ATA" ... so the part is titled "ATA to SATA connector" ... WTF? lol

 

EDIT (it's in French so "a" = "to");

To be air to them, the molex connector is most commonly used to power drives of the IDE standard, which is also known as ATA, hence why sata is called serial ATA.

[steezemageeze]

I bet his cousin has a PS5 in his garage but he can't show it to you because he lent it to a friend.

 

He's exactly the type of guy that would try to pull a lie like that off. I bet if I asked to see this amazing supercomputer, he'd make some excuse about why I couldn't see it. In fact, he told me that it was like top secret and the guy who "made" his motherboard told him he couldn't tell anyone or something like that.  

[WkdPaul]

To be air to them, the molex connector is most commonly used to power drives of the IDE standard, which is also known as ATA, hence why sata is called serial ATA.

lol wtf? you sound like you're trying to explain this to a 12yo that has no clue what computer standards are, and BTW, look at the picture again, that's not a IDE connector now is it???

 

The picture is pretty clear, that's a molex connector, just google "ata to sata" and I can garranty you will not find a molex to sata power adapter in the results!

[soup]

 BTW, look at the picture again, that's not a IDE connector now is it???

 

Nope but it IS the type of (even if male instead of female)power connector used in IDE drives.  I rather think that's what he was alluding to he did not seem to be saying that was an IDE connector.

[WkdPaul]

Nope but it IS the type of (even if male instead of female)power connector used in IDE drives.  I rather think that's what he was alluding to he did not seem to be saying that was an IDE connector.

And I was saying it's not called an ATA connector.

 

This shop is just pathetic as far as computer knowledge, that was just a small sample of how they confuse stuff all the time, like they are selling Q6600 for $50, then 10 years old C2D for $180 and i5 2nd gen laptops for $210, and then when you ask questions they tell you "that new generations renaming is just a marketing thing from Intel and those CPUs are basically all the same." Though that probably works on non-techies! lol

[soup]

And I was saying it's not called an ATA connector.

 

I don't think he was either.

 

This shop is just pathetic as far as computer knowledge, that was just a small sample of how they confuse stuff all the time,

 

Do they actually not know these things or is their target market pretty much of the level were they think of a MOLEX connector as a power supply connector for an IDE drive so they just call it ATA?

  Still shops will cater to whatever their market is, when someone comes along who is more knowledgeable than their normal customers you get nonsense such as "that new generations renaming is just a ..." probably from a shop assitant (saturday boy) who actually believes such crap

[Str_Mape]

Guy comes in and looks at Just Cause 3 playing on one of our demo PC's (i7 6700 and GTX 980) and says "this look really nice but it still looks better on my PS4 with my 4K TV"

I was not amused.

[Marinatall_Ironside]

Guy comes in and looks at Just Cause 3 playing on one of our demo PC's (i7 6700 and GTX 980) and says "this look really nice but it still looks better on my PS4 with my 4K TV"

I was not amused.

Lol that's salty.

[Sauron]

A friend was having a problem installing virtual dj. Here are some extracts from the conversation.

 

Me: What os are you on?

Him: Windows 6 (turns out it was actually 7, no idea how you can mess that up)

...

(so I am now under the impression that the file won't open, since he stated it "wouldn't work")

Me: What kind of file did you download?

Him: huh?

Me: What extension does it have?

Him: What? I downloaded virtual dj

Me: YES, but does the file end with .something? What's that something?

Him: uuhh dunno, will check

...

(I painstakingly get him to explain what happens when he tried to open it - it's just a normal installer, however he can't read english well <dude's 13, and while at his age I was fluent in english I was fairly out of the norm here given the way it's thaught in schools> and just blindly clicked next and before he knew it he installed all sorts of crapware and not the program he wanted)

Me: Look, just send me a couple of pictures of what it says and I'll guide you through

Him: Ok

(sends me a pic and... lo and behold, none of what he said was actually happening, he just got an error message saying the installer didn't work properly)