Computer Advice

[LostMind]

One thing I find funny about working with PC's in anyway at all is that the average user suddenly thinks you must know everything about computers and be able to solve all their problems. Because of this, I have built and rebuilt many many many computers... for about six months I went on a RH8 kick, and I must have installed it a dozen times for friends and family since I could clean it up and lock it down to the point where the user couldn't do anything on the machine. And, I was even able to all the stuff people wanted (decent email program, decent browser, IM, openoffice, etc). So I thought it was pretty kickass.

I did have to switch most users back to windows xp cuz their son wanted to play games or they needed to install a stock market tracker program on their pc that was only supported by xp, and so on. I do have a few friends though, who have been running my RH8 setups for ages (god, I think it's almost been two years) and I have never received a phone call for computer help from them. And these are people I used to get calls from all the time (help, my the words on my screen are soo big I cant read a website <resolution changed>, my printer doesn't work <they installed a new one for some reason even though they didnt BUY a new one>, theres a purple monkey flying across my screen and talking to me! <banzai buddy was installed>...)

And I am a bit jealous - my grandma wont touch a pc.

Anyways, we've hijacked scales thread enough I think.