Comments on: Reading Comprehension Skills http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/01/25/reading-comprehension-skills/ Utterly random, incoherent and disjointed rants and ramblings... Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:32:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Luke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/01/25/reading-comprehension-skills/#comment-2603 Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:43:28 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/01/25/reading-comprehension-skills/#comment-2603 Hehe! I've been there! I actually had people ask me to switch them to 600x800 from 1024x768 because "everything was so small" and then complain stuff looks ugly. I got around it by just setting it up so that Windows uses the hueg (not huge, hueg) icon set, and increasing the default font size. Hehe! I’ve been there! I actually had people ask me to switch them to 600×800 from 1024×768 because “everything was so small” and then complain stuff looks ugly.

I got around it by just setting it up so that Windows uses the hueg (not huge, hueg) icon set, and increasing the default font size.

]]> by: Wikke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/01/25/reading-comprehension-skills/#comment-2599 Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:22:20 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/01/25/reading-comprehension-skills/#comment-2599 I encountered something really "wtf" last week. A user wanted to change his 17" crt monitor into a 19" tft one, but wanted to keep the old resolution (1024x768 instead of 1280x1024, which is the tft optimal setting) Then he complained about the screen being fuzzy and irritating :-S "But else it's so small ..." is the answer if you try to explain I encountered something really “wtf” last week.
A user wanted to change his 17″ crt monitor into a 19″ tft one, but wanted to keep the old resolution (1024×768 instead of 1280×1024, which is the tft optimal setting)
Then he complained about the screen being fuzzy and irritating :-S
“But else it’s so small …” is the answer if you try to explain

]]> by: Luke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/01/25/reading-comprehension-skills/#comment-2596 Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:57:14 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/01/25/reading-comprehension-skills/#comment-2596 LOL! :mrgreen: LOL! mrgreen

]]> by: Miloš http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/01/25/reading-comprehension-skills/#comment-2594 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:29:40 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/01/25/reading-comprehension-skills/#comment-2594 Luke, don't forget PICNIC. Problem In Chair Not In Computer lol Luke, don’t forget PICNIC.

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lol

]]> by: Craig Betts http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/01/25/reading-comprehension-skills/#comment-2592 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:18:47 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/01/25/reading-comprehension-skills/#comment-2592 Time to dig out a <a>User Friendly</a> strip that fits the current mood . . . http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/06jan/uf008708.gif Time to dig out a User Friendly strip that fits the current mood . . .
http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/06jan/uf008708.gif

]]> by: Luke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/01/25/reading-comprehension-skills/#comment-2589 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:18:20 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/01/25/reading-comprehension-skills/#comment-2589 Oh man, you are lucky! :mrgreen: It's hilarious the first 20-30 times it happens to you. It gets old real fast though. Oh man, you are lucky! mrgreen

It’s hilarious the first 20-30 times it happens to you. It gets old real fast though.

]]> by: Wikke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/01/25/reading-comprehension-skills/#comment-2587 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 20:59:18 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/01/25/reading-comprehension-skills/#comment-2587 That's kinda funny :-) I've never encountered people like that, but it would be hilarious :p That’s kinda funny -)
I’ve never encountered people like that, but it would be hilarious :p

]]> by: Luke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/01/25/reading-comprehension-skills/#comment-2586 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 20:52:27 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/01/25/reading-comprehension-skills/#comment-2586 The thing is - random people will ask me for tech related advice as soon as they find out that IM a "computer guy". It's like, I meet someone for the first time in my life, I tell them what I do, and then they proceed to give me a vaguest problem description ever, and expect me to instantly come up with a solution for them. By far my favorite is this one: "You know... On my computer... When I open it up, like, this thing pops up and it says something. And then I can't get to my Microsoft... Do you know what that is?" Yup, of course I know what it is. It's PEBKAC also known as the ID.10T code. I also frequently get: "could you send someone a virus that would break their computer?" and "could you hack into my girlfriends/boyfriends myspace/email?" Like Ze said - regardless of what our true specialization is, people just assume that we are IT specialists by day, and hackers by night... Sigh... The thing is - random people will ask me for tech related advice as soon as they find out that IM a “computer guy”. It’s like, I meet someone for the first time in my life, I tell them what I do, and then they proceed to give me a vaguest problem description ever, and expect me to instantly come up with a solution for them. By far my favorite is this one:

“You know… On my computer… When I open it up, like, this thing pops up and it says something. And then I can’t get to my Microsoft… Do you know what that is?”

Yup, of course I know what it is. It’s PEBKAC also known as the ID.10T code.

I also frequently get:

“could you send someone a virus that would break their computer?”

and

“could you hack into my girlfriends/boyfriends myspace/email?”

Like Ze said - regardless of what our true specialization is, people just assume that we are IT specialists by day, and hackers by night… Sigh…

]]> by: Wikke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/01/25/reading-comprehension-skills/#comment-2584 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:34:53 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/01/25/reading-comprehension-skills/#comment-2584 Mostly i'm being spared from all that hassle, but sometimes i have to fix a computer from a friend or close relative. Not for strangers. It's quite fun! You have a little chat, they give you beer, and in the end (after an hour or 2) they insist you to take the money :-). Mostly i’m being spared from all that hassle, but sometimes i have to fix a computer from a friend or close relative. Not for strangers. It’s quite fun! You have a little chat, they give you beer, and in the end (after an hour or 2) they insist you to take the money -) .

]]> by: Craig Betts http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/01/25/reading-comprehension-skills/#comment-2582 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:54:11 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/01/25/reading-comprehension-skills/#comment-2582 <blockquote>But if I can charge them $200, require that they bring all the OEM CD’s and make no guarantees about their data surviving the procedure it might actually be worth while…</blockquote> What can I say? I am a <a href="http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard1.html" rel="nofollow">BOFH</a>! Don't get me wrong, I take care of family. I have gone to both my parent's and my wife's parent's homes and setup DSL and Remote Desktop. I even have a slick SSH tunnel to my house to remote control their systems when they call me at work. I have another friend that I barter with. He is an excellent concrete guy, so I built him a really nice game box w/support and he poured my RV access at my house. My wife's friend that I charge . . . well, sometimes we have to take a stand. She is the type that believes that she won the free <i>{enter hi-tech device name here}</i> and immediately clicks the link, even after I have told her numerous times that they are scams. Might as well make a few bucks for the headaches.

But if I can charge them $200, require that they bring all the OEM CD’s and make no guarantees about their data surviving the procedure it might actually be worth while…

What can I say? I am a BOFH!

Don’t get me wrong, I take care of family. I have gone to both my parent’s and my wife’s parent’s homes and setup DSL and Remote Desktop. I even have a slick SSH tunnel to my house to remote control their systems when they call me at work.

I have another friend that I barter with. He is an excellent concrete guy, so I built him a really nice game box w/support and he poured my RV access at my house.

My wife’s friend that I charge . . . well, sometimes we have to take a stand. She is the type that believes that she won the free {enter hi-tech device name here} and immediately clicks the link, even after I have told her numerous times that they are scams. Might as well make a few bucks for the headaches.

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