Experiences with non-techies

[Dude]

Mom: Going to PC world, do you want anything?

Me: Nope

Mom: We'll put that Norton on your PC if you want.

Me: No

Mom: Why?

Me: Already got AVG

Mom: But Norton is better

 

I just smiled and shook my head.

Adaware, Malware bytes, Spybot and Hitman pro are all you'll ever need.

[Speedbird]

I have convinced my mum to buy a Surface 2 by telling her that it's the only tablet with a full-size USB port. Now I feel bad...

[Aristocrates]

I miss Matt and his Cheeto Dust...

[OneZombieTrain]

*Has a <u>DELL tower</u> and a <u>Viewsonic monitor</u> 

 

Me: What Specs are your computer?

 

 

Them: It's a VIEWSONIC (not even the name of the manufacturer of the case I wouldn't be as annoyed if they said dell and not What I wanted (i5 4790k 8gb RAM.....)

[BlazingGunnerFTW]

Still waiting for it to come to me though...

So is 95% of the people that want it. I wish I could get 5 MBS for 300 dollars down.

[Reavantos]

Try being the lead engineer for a public school district. Superintendent Promised a Ipad in every students hand. Told me today he wont upgrade the awful HP wireless to support the incoming 400+ devices...that will be here next week.

[Frankie]

Try being the lead engineer for a public school district. Superintendent Promised a Ipad in every students hand. Told me today he wont upgrade the awful HP wireless to support the incoming 400+ devices...that will be here next week.

 

But.. that is not gonna.... I... The fuck ?

 

Prepare for clusterfuck

[Reavantos]

But.. that is not gonna.... I... The fuck ?

 

Prepare for clusterfuck

 

 

 

 

Probably a good time for me to take up drinking..

[DanTheMuffinMan]

Probably a good time for me to take up drinking..

Good God, I thought I had it rough with ~70 devices on a SOHO router and 24-port switch. Well if it help's I've heard cocaine's a hell of a drug.

[Frankie]

Probably a good time for me to take up drinking..

 

You gonna get through I am expecting the Superintendent to start asking questions after the network gonna go down and then you probably gonna get him to upgrade. 

[Fgtfv567]

(i5 4790k 8gb RAM.....)

an i7 4790K or an i5 4690K?

[Cree340]

I got some gold for you...

This is from five years ago.

I am on the bus with my brother. It is completely empty apart from us and two other people ahead of us; a flubber-like young girl and her equally gelatinous mother. They are talking about stuff that my younger mind could not care less about. But then I hear the young girl come up with a truly innovative (absoultely retarded) idea which will save the world.

She says "they should make... like wi-fi bracelets so everyone can have free wi-fi". I cringe internally, wishing I could blow my head off with an old German luger to end my suffering. The mother concurs but asks whether it would be comfortable or not.

The daughter replies; "It will be really slim and will have a code on it so they can use their wi-fi so they can have free internet".

I stop listening to them after that because I would have kicked her in the head repeatedly if I had to put up with any more of her stupid and illogical shit.

I was thinking, what if all those "wifi-bracelets" (which probably can only house low power wifi transmitters) were configured in a mesh and in dense locations (like New York) would repeat the signal of actual free wireless hotspots and repeat the signals of other bracelets and saturate the whole city with wireless and fill in all the gaps. The only issue I could see is too much wifi interference and terrible battery life on the bracelets due to their sheer size. Also, the more hops wifi goes through, the slower the throughput. So it could start at 433mbps (1 SS .11ac) but with every jump from bracelet to bracelet would slash the throughput drastically.

[Cree340]

So if I painted a really shitty PC a shiny gold, would people pay 2000 bucks for it?

Sounds like something apple would do. 

[soup]

Reavantos and DanTheMuffinMan   ˅˅

 

[Reavantos]

Reavantos and DanTheMuffinMan   ˅˅

 

 

 

 

Laughed out loud. had to explain why to confused wife. 10/10

[slightlyjaded]

This probably isn't the best spot for this because this was uttered by the guy some consider the king of techies (especially considered so by the non-techies, the rest of us just giggle, and sidle off hoping they don't notice.)

 

"You will never catch a virus on a mac."

 

nuff said

[Elliott Game]

Mom: Going to PC world, do you want anything?

Me: Nope

Mom: We'll put that Norton on your PC if you want.

Me: No

Mom: Why?

Me: Already got AVG

Mom: But Norton is better

 

I just smiled and shook my head.

mummy, get bitdefender instead 

[Dude]

I was thinking, what if all those "wifi-bracelets" (which probably can only house low power wifi transmitters) were configured in a mesh and in dense locations (like New York) would repeat the signal of actual free wireless hotspots and repeat the signals of other bracelets and saturate the whole city with wireless and fill in all the gaps. The only issue I could see is too much wifi interference and terrible battery life on the bracelets due to their sheer size. Also, the more hops wifi goes through, the slower the throughput. So it could start at 433mbps (1 SS .11ac) but with every jump from bracelet to bracelet would slash the throughput drastically.

That's not what she was referring to though. She was literally referring to a bracelet that provided it's own independent internet connection (she's one of those people who thinks all internet is wi-fi). But your idea is not that bad although the interference could possibly be crushing.

[Speedbird]

mummy, get bitdefender instead 

Nobody should pay for an antivirus.

[Castdeath97]

I remember someone said this in my class:"VR are games where you move your head"

[slightlyjaded]

I was thinking, what if all those "wifi-bracelets" (which probably can only house low power wifi transmitters) were configured in a mesh and in dense locations (like New York) would repeat the signal of actual free wireless hotspots and repeat the signals of other bracelets and saturate the whole city with wireless and fill in all the gaps. The only issue I could see is too much wifi interference and terrible battery life on the bracelets due to their sheer size. Also, the more hops wifi goes through, the slower the throughput. So it could start at 433mbps (1 SS .11ac) but with every jump from bracelet to bracelet would slash the throughput drastically.

At it's heart this is what the internet started as. I'm old enough to remember the BBS system, and acoustic couplers ( you might want to wiki that) It later turned into a central clearing house with an easy way to index files.... Yup that's what the world wide web really is. This is actually an old concept, and the nearest parallel in modern computing is a RAID array. If you transmit through multiple transceiver/receivers simultaneously, and have a way to sort out multiple/garbage transmission. You can theoretically multiply your throughput by the number of nodes you're connected too. It doesn't work at the moment in practice, but that doesn't mean someone isn't working on it.

[slightlyjaded]

Nobody should pay for an antivirus.

Surfing the internet with a free antivirus is like safe sex with a crochet condom. Yes most of us know better than to log onto that website promising free viagra(take a girl out for a "date" that all our friends have told us has been around) But come on she's sort of hot, and she's promising you all sorts of nasty things...Just once you say.

[Speedbird]

Surfing the internet with a free antivirus is like safe sex with a crochet condom. Yes most of us know better than to log onto that website promising free viagra(take a girl out for a "date" that all our friends have told us has been around) But come on she's sort of hot, and she's promising you all sorts of nasty things...Just once you say.

The thing is that most browsers have some phishing/malware filters built-in. There are also browser extensions like Web of Trust, where every site has a rating given by the community. If the rating is negative, you will be warned before entering the site.

[slightlyjaded]

The thing is that most browsers have some phishing/malware filters built-in. There are also browser extensions like Web of Trust, where every site has a rating given by the community. If the rating is negative, you will be warned before entering the site.

Yeah, but she's cute, and she's hot, and she want's to do nasty things to me.... No company has gone broke underestimating the stupidity of the human species....Just take westburo baptist church for example.

The weakest point in any security system is always the idiot typing on the keyboard. However Some programs (usually the paid for ones) stick enough obstacles in their way to make them think twice (but she's hot) okay make that three times.

[jayctech]

Yeah, but she's cute, and she's hot, and she want's to do nasty things to me.... No company has gone broke underestimating the stupidity of the human species....Just take westburo baptist church for example.

The weakest point in any security system is always the idiot typing on the keyboard. However Some programs (usually the paid for ones) stick enough obstacles in their way to make them think twice (but she's hot) okay make that three times.

Using your analogy, paid solutions still don't have enough obstacles. Might as well use a free one and save money.

 

Source: I work in tech support. Number of times I've found viruses on "work" computers...... With a paid AV on it.