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[AdvancedFlea]

She did have two other options. One, fix it herself, I doubt the missing keycaps would be THAT hard to find.!

Keycaps aren't hard to find but speaking as someone who actually can't see small stuff properly, they are a bitch to put on.

heh. Imagine if I had loaded Linspire, Ubuntu or fedora on there for her? ;D

"What do you wanna bet that the reason the guy brought his whole computer in was because he couldn't figure out how to unplug the keyboard? Because I just had to explain that part to him too."

hahaha XD I wander if this guy had any trouble finding the Any key? ;D

[Kanalah]

I was reminded of the time Hubs fixed Deadbeat Uncle's computer (for free, of course. Uncle screams about how poor he is )

Uncle: So I just bring you the hard drive?

Hubs: No I'm going to need the computer, I don't have the right tools to just work on the hard drive itself.

So he brought the tower, monitor, keyboard and mouse. Apparently he had decided that it made it sound really smart to all his friends if he called the computer case the "hard drive".

Yes we still laugh about it today.

[raudf]

hahaha XD I wander if this guy had any trouble finding the Any key? ;D

Had those too. I could have killed the salesmen who sold these mental midgets computers that were smarter than them. Although at that point, I began to think that an etch-a-sketch was smarter than them.

This is why I'm baffled that my parents have phones that are far smarter than them. I had to show Dad how to receive a call and Mom how to end a call on the Droid OS phones. I gave up explaining to them that having a Google email will keep them from having to re-enter all their contacts when they get new phones... which I hope won't happen for a few years!

[EricKei]

I began to think that an etch-a-sketch was smarter than them.

You have now obliged me to share this link. It's a moral imperative. -- Supposedly, the most popular comic he's ever done

[raudf]

I did. In fact, I had that particular comic at my desk when I was work. It was honestly more a jab at my manager who was very computer illiterate, but covered customers too!

[Silent-Hunter]

Keycaps aren't hard to find but speaking as someone who actually can't see small stuff properly, they are a bitch to put on.

heh. Imagine if I had loaded Linspire, Ubuntu or fedora on there for her? ;D

I imagine it depends on the model of laptop it was. And I use Gentoo, but that would be even worse. She'd probably explode.

[AdvancedFlea]

I really wonder what goes through the minds of those truly clueless people. Provided they have minds, that is. And count me as one of those who agreed that having a degree in whatever does not equal intelligence.

We've had DVD-drive cup-holders before too. In fact one guy had a HP machine with a CD holder in the top of it that also had a run through the top of the machine for cables. He thought that was a cup holder and the cable run was a spillway. Yeah. It leads out directly over the top of the power supply unit. So anyway he spilled a drink, the "spillway" took away all of the liquid and dumped it onto his surge protector tripping the power to his house. Moron.

...So he brought the tower, monitor, keyboard and mouse. Apparently he had decided that it made it sound really smart to all his friends if he called the computer case the "hard drive".

Kanalah, Deadbeat Uncle sounds exactly like the sort of customer we used to joke about when I was still doing tech support.

Yup. We get that. I rage about it too "You're calling it the hard drive because you think that makes you sound clever and it's the only computer term you know". Another common one is people will say "I rebooted the hard drive" what they actually mean is they ran the factory recovery program. I'm actually thankful that in windows 8, Microsoft have renamed that a "PC Reset"

This is why I'm baffled that my parents have phones that are far smarter than them. I had to show Dad how to receive a call and Mom how to end a call on the Droid OS phones. I gave up explaining to them that having a Google email will keep them from having to re-enter all their contacts when they get new phones... which I hope won't happen for a few years!

I passed my dad my phone the other day because he needed to call someone. He had forgotten his phone. He looked at it, looked at me and said "How do I get to the phone part of it?" I leaned over and tapped the button that says "Phone" >.>

I imagine it depends on the model of laptop it was. And I use Gentoo, but that would be even worse. She'd probably explode.

Oh dear god. that would have killed her XD

Eh, Ubuntu seems to take to anything quite well...allthough it doesn't like the backlight controls on HPs for some reason.

[Ophbalance]

Eh, Ubuntu seems to take to anything quite well...allthough it doesn't like the backlight controls on HPs for some reason.

Or Dell's. Or responding to lid close requests correctly on older netbooks. Or use my @#$@#$@#$ PCIe NVidia card without giving me crap . However, I've got Ubuntu on the kids box and LUbuntu on two other laptops the kids use as well and wouldn't have it any other way.

I recall in some of my courses back in the day, that CPU, Hard Drive, and a few other terms were all acceptable names for the entire computer case back in the 90s. I don't know WHY, precisely, they were acceptable... just that there were.

[AdvancedFlea]

Or Dell's. Or responding to lid close requests correctly on older netbooks. Or use my @#$@#$@#$ PCIe NVidia card without giving me crap . However, I've got Ubuntu on the kids box and LUbuntu on two other laptops the kids use as well and wouldn't have it any other way.

I recall in some of my courses back in the day, that CPU, Hard Drive, and a few other terms were all acceptable names for the entire computer case back in the 90s. I don't know WHY, precisely, they were acceptable... just that there were.

yeah mines a bit funkey on my graphics card but mines a 4-year-old GTX480 so I figured it was just that. I've never had any issues with Dell (for once) nor lid closes so....that's odd o.O

Those were never acceptable terms for me. It grinds on my nerves when people use them too.

[EricKei]

"How do I get to the phone part of it?" I leaned over and tapped the button that says "Phone" >.>

Does it scare anyone else that a huge number of people who grew up with cell phones probably have no idea what that little (handset-shaped) image on that button is meant to represent?

[mhkohne]

Does it scare anyone else that a huge number of people who grew up with cell phones probably have no idea what that little (handset-shaped) image on that button is meant to represent?

Not until you said, no. Now it does.

So very, very scared...

[crazylegs]

Does it scare anyone else that a huge number of people who grew up with cell phones probably have no idea what that little (handset-shaped) image on that button is meant to represent?

What's even more worrying is that even fewer of them will have ever had the satisfaction of slamming down a phone into the receiver (angrily jabbing a screen doesn't come anywhere close...)

[Jetfire]

Or Dell's. Or responding to lid close requests correctly on older netbooks. Or use my @#$@#$@#$ PCIe NVidia card without giving me crap . However, I've got Ubuntu on the kids box and LUbuntu on two other laptops the kids use as well and wouldn't have it any other way.

I've got an older Dell Laptop (about 5 years old now). Its Windows install got corrupted and since I couldn't find/be bothered to look for my install disks (I did actually have install DVD's with it), I decided to switch it over to Ubuntu 11 (at the time). For the most part it installed fine... but strangely enough, when I installed, it saw the external monitor and laptop screen fine and did dual screen fine. But once it was out of install mode, it could no longer find the external screen. Had to do some strange hacking to make it visible again.

Now, it ONLY sees the external screen; the laptop screen doesn't turn on even if the external is unplugged. (Not even for bootup/bios that I've noticed). And if I close the lid it still goes to sleep even thoug h Itold it not to. *sigh* Oh well, 11 is working enough for me so I'm not touching a thing.

I'm not even upgrading to 12, since the last time I tried that, the Network stopped working on it completely once it got out of install mode (install mode, Network works fine, standalone, no network of any sort). Someday, I'll get a new laptop and maybe install a new Ubuntu, but for now, I'm nursing this one for as long as I can.

[Argabarga]

What's even more worrying is that even fewer of them will have ever had the satisfaction of slamming down a phone into the receiver (angrily jabbing a screen doesn't come anywhere close...)

You knew you were good and mad when you could make the bell go off a little.

[crazylegs]

You knew you were good and mad when you could make the bell go off a little.

I've only just got rid of my rotary phone. Got a little frustrating trying to punch in my card number when telephone banking... After 2 attempts you got through to a real person, normally a 'nice young man', I can only assume it was the old duffers department