[off topic] comptech guys (was Re: TRS-80 emulators)

From: Athanasios Kotsenos <a.kotsenos_at_rca.ac.uk>
Date: Mon Oct 26 07:17:10 1998

>I found that out. I was talking to the comp.tech guy at my school last
>week about getting a copy. He told me he'd be able to get me the new
>version for $50.
>
>Shows just how full of bull _at_#$% he is.
>
>Although he's the same guy that gave me a Tandy 1000TL because the "hard
>drive was shot". The power cable wasn't connected to it <g>

it goes to show just how full of bull_at_#$% they are
and hey that's coming from me - i _am_ a comptech guy!
but i'm not like that - really
i can't stand the ones that lie to make it seem like something really hard
when they could fix it in seconds or they just don't know and they're
trying to hide it
like the person that used to be my superior here...
when some phd student's file had gone corrupt (microsoft access i think it
was) she went into the dos prompt and did scandisk and all this other
totally irrelevant stuff when after i realised that she hadn't a clue i
spoke up and said that either the file is totally trashed (and it's your
problem you didn't keep backups) or the information is still there and you
may be able to salvage some of it or all of it if you open it up in notepad
which she did and it worked
but she couldn't handle the fact that she had to do so much cut and paste
still i think it would be better than retyping the whole thing in, don't u
agree? - it was a 10M file btw

and whenever anything goes wrong with a computer that was incomprehensible
for her - "It's a VIRUS!"
that scares them all
a few times i would discretely go to the student after she would go away
and say, "Well, actually, it's _not_ a virus... Here..." and I'd fix it for
them

that's really a shame 'cause a lot of comp tech ppl do that and it's spread
and a lot of ppl react like that
anything unusual - virus
"Nasos, would you come here and check this computer. I think it has a virus!"
Um, no it just crashed
the cable is loose
the disk drive died (we do have old computers here)

oh well,
nasos
Received on Mon Oct 26 1998 - 07:17:10 GMT