Experiences with non-techies

[NumLock21]

21 minutes ago, Fgtfv567 said:

If you build a PC without a DVD drive, but the manufacturer gives you the drivers on a CD.. Well, I don't know what to tell except to get an external DVD drive. Good luck getting one of those at 10PM in the middle of the night

Then you can continue with your build the next day, after you got a external DVD drive.

[ShiftHitTheFan]

3 hours ago, ptcgplayer said:

When I plugged my PC into my TV so that my friends could play some games at my house, and my sister enters the room and screams at me because apparently I could break my television because it is meant for watching TV... I tried to explain how monitors and TVs are kind of interchangeable if it has HDMI but she only got more angry! It was a struggle man.

My sister is exactly the same way. Everything I do is wrong or if something happens it's my fault.

[Fgtfv567]

20 minutes ago, ShiftHitTheFan said:

My sister is exactly the same way. Everything I do is wrong or if something happens it's my fault.

Oh so I guess it's your fault for her phone getting cracked as hell and her laptop is slow as balls..

[matrix07012]

22 minutes ago, ShiftHitTheFan said:

My sister is exactly the same way. Everything I do is wrong or if something happens it's my fault.

Try crippling fans on her laptop so it thermal throttles or crashes.

[ptcgplayer]

5 hours ago, RustyZombie said:

Given the level of stupid and oblivious she'd have to believe that, and the fact she was yelling at you over what you were doing with your own stuff, makes me think she was just inventing a reason to dump her anger on you.

Now that I look at it, you might be right. Thankfully this was about a month ago and I don't think we've fought since, So that anger must be gone. And I can plug in my PC without getting yelled at  

[ptcgplayer]

2 hours ago, ShiftHitTheFan said:

My sister is exactly the same way. Everything I do is wrong or if something happens it's my fault.

Lol sisters can be that way man, I feel you.

[ShiftHitTheFan]

1 hour ago, Fgtfv567 said:

Oh so I guess it's your fault for her phone getting cracked as hell and her laptop is slow as balls..

Yep. If the internet goes out its my fault, crap like that.

1 hour ago, matrix07012 said:

Try crippling fans on her laptop so it thermal throttles or crashes.

It's already full of dust. She won't let me clean it.

[Godlygamer23]

1 hour ago, matrix07012 said:

Try crippling fans on her laptop so it thermal throttles or crashes.

Then it would be the poster's fault.

[Fgtfv567]

36 minutes ago, ShiftHitTheFan said:

Yep. If the internet goes out its my fault, crap like that.

It's already full of dust. She won't let me clean it.

Did you ever ask her why she won't use the beast desktop? Does she even have a need for all that power?

[DirtyDane]

On 2/26/2016 at 0:31 AM, thekeemo said:

They stole it from xerox which did not commercialize it

same thing with the mouse

please dont start this again.... I DONT WANTA REPEAT OF THE GREAT HARD DRIVE DEBATE OF PAGE 40 i think it was page 40

[thekeemo]

1 minute ago, DirtyDane said:

please dont start this again.... I DONT WANTA REPEAT OF THE GREAT HARD DRIVE DEBATE OF PAGE 40 i think it was page 40

what was the great HDD debate about?

[RustyZombie]

Just now, thekeemo said:

what was the great HDD debate about?

I've heard mentions of it, in hushed tones.  I think someone made the assertion that HDD's get heavier with the more they have on them, and it turned into an argument that went on for way too long.

[thekeemo]

Just now, RustyZombie said:

I've heard mentions of it, in hushed tones.  I think someone made the assertion that HDD's get heavier with the more they have on them, and it turned into an argument that went on for way too long.

SSDs do

[ShiftHitTheFan]

1 minute ago, thekeemo said:

SSDs do

Technically they all do, but it's soo small it's pointlessly febal to go measure. Basically none of us here are smart enough to actually calculate it, so the debate happened. End debate, Google it.

[thekeemo]

Just now, ShiftHitTheFan said:

Technically they all do, but it's soo small it's pointlessly febal to go measure. Basically none of us here are smart enough to actually calculate it, so the debate happened. End debate, Google it.

I know still something

[Bhav]

Stored data has weight?

[Fetzie]

17 hours ago, Fgtfv567 said:

If you build a PC without a DVD drive, but the manufacturer gives you the drivers on a CD.. Well, I don't know what to tell except to get an external DVD drive. Good luck getting one of those at 10PM in the middle of the night

 

 

18 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

What board is that, can you provide link.

Just want to see if that person don't know what he's doing or motherboard actually don't have with a disc. Out of all the boards I've installed, they all come with a disc. Only one I've got without a disc, was a server board from SuperMicro. Some even comes with a usb flash drive with the necessary drivers.

Windows has a built-in NIC driver that's enough to get you connected to the internet. Then you can download the drivers from the manufacturer's website. Doesn't support fancy stuff like teaming or QoS, but to be honest it's got the functionality that any home user would need.

[Speedbird]

14 minutes ago, Fetzie said:

 

 

Windows has a built-in NIC driver that's enough to get you connected to the internet. Then you can download the drivers from the manufacturer's website. Doesn't support fancy stuff like teaming or QoS, but to be honest it's got the functionality that any home user would need.

It doesn't work with every single NIC in existence, and the driver in Windows 7 isn't as good. You need to get a driver from the manufacturer for almost every NIC on Windows 7 and older.

[NumLock21]

21 minutes ago, Fetzie said:

 

 

Windows has a built-in NIC driver that's enough to get you connected to the internet. Then you can download the drivers from the manufacturer's website. Doesn't support fancy stuff like teaming or QoS, but to be honest it's got the functionality that any home user would need.

The nic will only work, if it was included in the os database. Not on the list, then you'll  need to install the drivers. 

[Bhav]

I remembered another thing ... Back at uni all my friends kept telling me I was studying the wrong course and I should be doing IT cos of my interest in computers.

 

I'd always have to say something like - IT is for dumber fucks than me, too simple, and Im too much of a dumbfuck for computer science / electrical engineering. 

[DirtyDane]

16 hours ago, Bhav said:

Stored data has weight?

oh GOD NO its starting again *gets on knees and whips out a steam tab* our gaben, who art in valve, Gaben be thy name, thy summer sale come, thy wallet gone, on Pc's with 980tis, and give us to this day our daily sale, and forgive us our origin purchases, as we forgive those who bought consoles, and lead us not into sony, but deliver us from xbox, Amen

[RustyZombie]

This is one I remember from a while back.  While not specifically computer tech, I think it'll still make some of you facepalm and some of you chuckle.

 

A family I know had their 20+ year old CRT TV finally die, and replaced it with a LCD/LED set, pretty much the only kind you can get anymore.  Within a week their five year old son broke the screen by running his hotwheels across it, something he apparently always did on the CRT set.  When the mother happened to be complaining about the "cheap" TV to me, I asked how it happened, and then told her LCD screens are typically more fragile and that she shouldn't let her son use it as a play pen.  Her response was "THEN HOW IS IT BETTER?"  I lost my temper a bit and said her husband's steel toed boots must be better shoes than her $1200 something or another because her son couldn't destroy the boots with his playing.

 

If you've only had CRT sets and are tech ignorant, and see people touching the screens on their smart phones all the time, I could understand thinking LCD screens were generally tougher.  But I don't understand why some people judge a product based on its performance in something well outside its intended purpose.

[ShiftHitTheFan]

6 hours ago, Bhav said:

I remembered another thing ... Back at uni all my friends kept telling me I was studying the wrong course and I should be doing IT cos of my interest in computers.

 

I'd always have to say something like - IT is for dumber fucks than me, too simple, and Im too much of a dumbfuck for computer science / electrical engineering. 

I'm kind of the same way. I could go for electrical engineering, but do I really want a desk job? I want to be out there, not planning and drafting behind a desk. Its would be too stressful as a full time job.

[Fgtfv567]

8 hours ago, Fetzie said:

 

 

Windows has a built-in NIC driver that's enough to get you connected to the internet. Then you can download the drivers from the manufacturer's website. Doesn't support fancy stuff like teaming or QoS, but to be honest it's got the functionality that any home user would need.

How the hell do you access it? Every time I reinstall Windows I have to grab the driver off of another computer, and wireless or ethernet will not work until I've done so

[Bhav]

33 minutes ago, ShiftHitTheFan said:

I'm kind of the same way. I could go for electrical engineering, but do I really want a desk job? I want to be out there, not planning and drafting behind a desk. Its would be too stressful as a full time job.

I didn't get anywhere close to good enough grades to do comp sci, and I couldn't even understand how to write a 12 a side text based football programming for A level computing, hence I found out coding wasn't for me.

 

Now I'm just waiting to go back to stacking shelves. Yay.