h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Respect is a two-way street.

Lil

If only we could all agree which side of that street to drive on

;^)#

Heh... now there's the kicker.

Whilst, as you may have gathered, I'm don't fomerly work as a IS support person, because I am know to keep various bits and pieces in my desk I frequently get asked have I a new mouse, this one is broken, 2 minutes later I give the old one back and a handful of, fluff, detritus, and enough gunk to grow dope in, back to the user.

So yes I do agree that some users are beyond help and should slowly over the course of time be weaned off there PCs. Most I'm sure could make do with Psion 5's anyway

CH

oh BTW I have starte a collection of those useless error messages from software that makes all our lifes so interesting. Any contribution welcome to http://www.h2g2.com/P191152.

Cheers

CH

O.k. o.k. o.k. Relax....

I wanted Hugo to come across but I didn't expect this...

The only statement I wanted to make is :

"It doesn't matter how computer-illiterate a user is as long as he or she ADMITS it !" As I said I don't repair my roof, I have it done by experts. And I don't set fire to it just to see how fireproof it is"

Uhmm...rather a long statement...

And no matter how great you are, there's still someone better.


(Why do I suddenly feel like I'm playing devil's advocate in a communications game again? )

I'm an IT technician (the guy actually going there, screwdrivers, other drivers,hardware, the works),and let's face it: MS *anything* will flop over and die many times per week, applications will not run, the same config you used yesterday crashes..... But usually the user is not to blame! I've upgraded about 500 Compac workstations these last four months, and found so many anamolies, even between very close runs, that IT seems an acronym for Irregularity Teems!
Let's face it: Users are not stupid, they want at least the functionality of a typewriter-and do not get it! Let's get better!

The left. One must always keep left unless overtaking

ICU2

There might be some who are willing to take you 'head on' on that one


;^)#

I guess it all depends on where you're comming from hemespherically speaking, that is.

ICU2

If in doubt, whatever side your steering wheel is on, drive on the opposite side of the road. If you ride a motorcycle, just "tear along the dotted line"...

And afterwards you will be torn. (Unless, of course, you were ripped before you tear along the dotted line, which would explain why you were doing it anyway. )

What was it that Michel de Montaigne once said?

"I would have everyone write about what he knows and no more than he knows, not only on this, but on all other subjects. One man may have some special knowledge at firsthand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring."

It seems humanity hasn't changed in the past 400 years. (Montaigne's Essays were published in 1580) Of course, here I've quoted Montaigne on one aspect of humanity, and just made a wide-sweeping comment that humanity is the same as it was 400 years ago. It's really difficult not to fall into that trap.

I must write that one down!

(And indeed have, thank you. )

I \always/ tear along the dotted line, but never when ripped. I \always/ get there much quicker, and have far, far more fun. You just have to beware of people whose wing mirrors don't work.

UK highway code says - 'Mirror, signal, manouvre'. Well 1 out of 3 ain't bad.

Motorbikes - you never see a car driver arrive at work after a 25mile drive laughing their head off, simply because of the drive, do you? I regularly pull into the car park giggling like a nutter! (well, not at the moment, but soon again)

H&K
Z

>You just have to beware of people whose wing mirrors don't
work. <

YM "of idiots who don't bother to use their wing mirrors" ... HTH.

HTH? sorry, INU.

H&K
Z

That's OK. IRDE.

WTF...?