Stop Talking and Listen to My Instructions!

[dalesys]

Yeah, but their partners seem to prefer them once they're no longer quite so floppy...i.e., once they're in a solid state.

The best configuration has always been dual floppies + one hard.

[taxguykarl]

I once had someone with the weirdest colour settings on their monitor. When you went into their folders it was black with green neon writing.

Sounds like that individual had some kind of color blindness. Most are blind to certain color combinations, no most don't see everything like a black & white movie. I speak from experience, I had to support some users with such problems--their displays were headaches waiting to happen from those with normal color vision.

[Seshat]

I've mentioned this before; but I used to work with a programming team, and none of us ever wanted to see the code on each other's displays:

White/grey on black,
Black on white/grey (me),
Green on black,
Magenta on blue.

Mr Magenta-on-blue had trouble reading high contrast text, for whatever reason.

All our eyes are different!

[otakuneko]

I had a similar situation once when I was doing tech support for Red Checkmark. It wasn't that she just kept blabbering, but the caller just kept insisting she simply could not do it. No amount of assurance from me could convince her that I could help her.

...then you realize the guy's been on an iPad this entire time (or, worse, a Blackberry!)

As a newly-minted Crackberry Convert, I bite my thumb at you sir!

[EricKei]

I can see someone setting up the entire system to do green/amber text on a black background -- there used to be a time when that's all many monitors could display. Maybe that's just "what they're used to" ...?

dale - Well, there was that guy who did an AMA on mos eisley reddit who has a *ahem* matched pair of his own...

[Silent-Hunter]

I once had someone with the weirdest colour settings on their monitor. When you went into their folders it was black with green neon writing. And that was the least head ache inducing part. I swear it took longer to work on their computer because of the colour scheme than the actual problem.

Sounds like my computer when I was 12. Windows 3.1, high contrast color scheme.

Real men have 8" floppies.

I never had one of those, but I have a QIC tape drive.

[Racket_Man]

Real men have 8" floppies.

NAAAAA They use 12 inch reel-to-reel tape drives

or

50M removeable multi-platter HDDs.

[Android Kaeli]

I think 1024x768 is still the defacto standard for minimum resolution, which itself is pretty low, but still probably used by some budget notebook computers. Any lower than that and I'd have to wonder if you still have a CRT monitor and floppy drive to boot.

I know for a FACT that one parent still uses the 800x600 resolutions, because anything else makes a 24-size font look like Ant Man to them. At least that's their reasoning, I know people with worse eye sight that uses a different resolution and they get on fine.

[greek_jester]

At least that's their reasoning, I know people with worse eye sight that uses a different resolution and they get on fine.

Eye problems are not limited to "not being able to see past x feet" or "not being able to read small fonts". My mum has better distance vision than me, but she's nearly blind in strong light or watching overly bright screens due to cataracts. There are certain eye conditions which mean the person has to wear glasses with a colour tint to be able to read but they can still have otherwise near perfect vision.

Eyes are complicated and can screw you over in many new and interesting ways.

[dalesys]

...I never had one of those, but I have a QIC tape drive.

First time I've heard someone brag about their quarter-incher.

I had a Stringy Floppy for my TRS-80 Model I...

... If I ever catch whoever hooked the fence charger to the urinal...

[Ghel]

Ugh. I overheard a couple of my coworkers talking about the same issue as in the OP.

"If you don't have the web page full screen, you can only seen the one box for the User ID, but not the Password." <Apparently, she doesn't know how to use a scroll bar, either. And never mind that if you type in your User ID and then hit tab, it scrolls the screen over so the Password box shows.>

"They should have the User ID box on top, and the Password box below." <Would that really make any difference?>

"It's not user friendly." <Ooooh.... Change. Scary!>