In mitigation, I thought I had plugged it in, but did not think to check. Knowing too much can be as big a problem in the twit stakes as knowing too little, as it becomes ever easier to overlook the simple explanations.
In mitigation, I thought I had plugged it in, but did not think to check. Knowing too much can be as big a problem in the twit stakes as knowing too little, as it becomes ever easier to overlook the simple explanations.
ah i've done that many a time, almost a ritual now :lol: even worse when you get up for work and you relise that your phones flat as you forgot to plug the charger in! lol
I think really the more that you know about technology the less you realise how little everyone else does and things that you have done for years are second nature to you until someone comes and asks you how to turn on their computer. It also works both ways however we can know alot about techknology and when fixing something we often overlook the most simple things
The other day, I was talking with a salesguy from The Tribune about a full page ad advertising my new bowling alley. There were a whole bunch of changes that needed to be made, and I was going over them all with the guy. Part of the ad was a bulleted list of all of the things we have ... sports bar, party rooms, billiard room, arcade, pro shop, and so forth. One of the specific things on the list read, "Birthday Parties for Kids." My grandma, who was looking over my shoulder, said, "The party rooms aren't just for kids, they're really for everybody. We shouldn't just limit ourselves to kids parties. Let's add another bullet that says 'Adult Parties'", and she got the salesguy who spoke in broken English to add it to the mock-up before I started going, "nonononono!." If I wasn't there it would have made for some risque bowling alley!
Not as funny as today though, i was out and my dad decided he wanted to move his pc upstairs, away from the switch but he knows nothing about networks so he went to townand baught a wifi card for it and paid £80 quid to have the guy install and configure the network for him.
This guy about had a heart attack when he came the next day when he came and saw our network. And i quote:
"wheres the pc"
"upstairs"
"wheres the router and whats the passwords"
"downstairs, in the rack, user root, password toor"
(he about died when he saw my openbsd rackie)
"uhh... wheres the xp?"
"in the bin"
"what"
"it doesnt run xp"
"but it has to"
"-sigh-"
"it runs linux - look, can you do it or not"
The guy practically ran away - must of been about 17 and had probably never seen a real, secured network in his life
Last edited by jbennet; Oct 11th, 2006 at 3:51 am.
Not as funny as today though, i was out and my dad decided he wanted to move his pc upstairs, away from the switch but he knows nothing about networks so he went to townand baught a wifi card for it and paid £80 quid to have the guy install and configure the network for him.
This guy about had a heart attack when he came the next day when he came and saw our network. And i quote:
"wheres the pc"
"upstairs"
"wheres the router and whats the passwords"
"downstairs, in the rack, user root, password toor"
(he about died when he saw my openbsd rackie)
"uhh... wheres the xp?"
"in the bin"
"what"
"it doesnt run xp"
"but it has to"
"-sigh-"
"it runs linux - look, can you do it or not"
The guy practically ran away - must of been about 17 and had probably never seen a real, secured network in his life
i love salesguys like that (not litterally of course :lol: ) you can eat them for breakfast lol, had to explain to a sales guy in the link other day the difference between the version of bluetooth and class of bluetooth (in his defence he looked about 12) you can have soooo much fun though! :cheesy:
you'll have to post some pics of this bowling alley though dani! :cheesy:
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