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  • #1

    Of course you did nothing

    Ok for my first one, i'll keep it short. Ok looking at it i lied, i'm not good at short

    In the times when everybody slowly got onto the internet in "rural" germany i often installed the software onto people's computers while my father did lay the cables as he is an electrician and i'm just the kid who once read the manual.

    So the day after i did an unproblematic install i got a call that the internet stopped working. I drove over there and first checked the hardware to see if a cable might have gotten knocked loose or something simply failed. --Nothing
    While booting the computer i asked what they did with it in the past 24 hours.
    Me: Me
    SC: SC

    Me: so what did you do after i left?
    SC: nothing, we just turned it on and it didn't work 2 hours ago, and then we called you.
    Me: sure that none of your kids might have been on the computer?
    SC: no, they are not allowed in here at all.

    PC finished booting and not only was the proper software completely gone, but a software for a 56k modem was installed, without the computer ever having been near such a modem or me being able to find any installation discs for either the modem or the proper software i'd need to install, which i asked them to put in a save spot the day before. Luckily i had my discs with everything in the car and could install it. As i left i told them that the person who did nothing should give them back their software and keep away from the computer.
    "Your people don't use simulations for this kind of work?" "We used to, but the trouble with simulations is that the put up with far too much shit." -Revelation Space
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    maybe the computer did a restore back to before the time before the first install. That's the only way I can think of "nobody did nothing..." remark could fly.

    But still someone had to press a button.
    I've lost my mind ages ago. If you find it, please hide it.

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    • #3
      Quoth LostMyMind View Post
      maybe the computer did a restore back to before the time before the first install. That's the only way I can think of "nobody did nothing..." remark could fly.

      But still someone had to press a button.

      Or they did / installed something else that caused it to revert back.

      "I did nothing" means "I didn something I don't want to tell you" most of the time.
      Quote Dalesys:
      ... as in "Ifn thet dawg comes at me, Ima gonna shutz ma panz!"

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      • #4
        A computer is just a machine, and a machine almost always does exactly what the operator tells the machine to do. Mechanical failure is actually quite rare.

        So in the cases where a user destroys their computer or OS in some way, the computer did exactly as the user instructed the computer to do. Its not the computer's fault that the idiot user instructed the computer to kill itself.

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        • #5
          I think autorestore wasn't possible on windows me or 95 unless i'm remembering it wrong. The incident happened before the year 2000.
          What really stumped me that the software i installed actually was made out of 2 parts, the driver and the software of the ISP. Now it's pretty easy to get rid of the ISP-part, but to remove the driver you have to know what you are doing to some degree and i just can't get my head around it to this day that somebody knows how to do it but fails to reinstall it after they notice it stopped working.

          A autorestore is the only think that would make sense now that i think about it but i don't think it was possible. The other explanation i can think of is that they had the same PC twice and didn't want to tell me that they switched them out.
          "Your people don't use simulations for this kind of work?" "We used to, but the trouble with simulations is that the put up with far too much shit." -Revelation Space

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          • #6
            and personally i never had those "system restores" do anything anyway.

            but usually when they say "i didn't do anything" they really mean "I don't think what i did would cause THIS", or "I screwed up but don't want you to know it"

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            • #7
              Quoth GaspodeTheDog View Post
              I think autorestore wasn't possible on windows me or 95 unless i'm remembering it wrong. The incident happened before the year 2000
              WinME, I believe is the first to have the "system restore" feature. And it is/was extremely buggy. So if it was WinME, it's quite possible that when it crash (which WinME did quite often) it automatically reseted to last known safe restore point.

              I turn off system restore even with WinXP. I hate that "feature".
              I've lost my mind ages ago. If you find it, please hide it.

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              • #8
                Quoth LostMyMind View Post
                I turn off system restore even with WinXP. I hate that "feature".
                Ditto! I've never pooched my system bad enough to need to use it and, if I do, I have my files on an internal-but-physically-separate drive from the operating system and apps, so a reformat is no problem, as I found out when upgrading to XP x64.
                ...WHY DO YOU TEMPT WHAT LITTLE FAITH IN HUMANITY I HAVE!?! -- Kalga
                And I want a pony for Christmas but neither of us is getting what we want OK! What you are asking is impossible. -- Wicked Lexi

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                • #9
                  Quoth draggar View Post
                  "I did nothing" means "I didn something I don't want to tell you" most of the time.
                  Quoth PepperElf View Post
                  but usually when they say "i didn't do anything" they really mean "I don't think what i did would cause THIS", or "I screwed up but don't want you to know it"
                  From my experience, "I did nothing" better translates to "I have no idea what I did".
                  "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

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