Comments on: Things techs hear

By: Mister Snitch!

Mister Snitch! — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:22:52 +0000

All electronics come with manuals, for sure. The great ones, though, find a way to be intuitive. Let’s have a show of hands: Who’s consulted their iPod manual since they bought it?

By: CGHill

CGHill — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:11:02 +0000

Squirrels will work just as hard for less-expensive nuts.

By: Aero

Aero — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:07:20 +0000

I have been putting pecans inside my tower to feed the squirrels I thought were running this thing. Is that wrong?

By: John Salmon

John Salmon — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:43:26 +0000

“There’s a lot to be said for knowing your limitations.”

Yes, I’m reminded daily of mine.

One of my brothers used to be a computer tech at UNC Chapel Hill-you don’t know insufferable till you deal with professors who may know everything there is to know in their field, but don’t know squat about computers, and won’t admit it.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:44:22 +0000

The people that are most bothersome are the idiots who are convinced that they are not idiots. There’s a lot to be said for knowing your limitations; I understand a fair amount about these machines, having assembled a couple, but there are always going to be things which are beyond me, and I’m not too proud to seek out technical assistance. (Those who are? Idiots.)

By: John Salmon

John Salmon — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:23:09 +0000

Man, CGH, you’d hate dealing with me. I’m a complete idiot when it comes to technical stuff.

I make up for it by being an idiot about everything else, too.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:50:13 +0000

I’m a firm believer in RTFM (which Commodore magazine once demurely defined as “Please Read the Manual”).

Diesel-powered vehicles don’t have spark plugs as we know them.

By: Mister Snitch!

Mister Snitch! — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:52:03 +0000

Well, wait a minute. If you have never changed a printer’s cardridges before, it might seem perfectly logical to unplug it first. Do you have to start up your car to change the spark plugs?

(I haven’t owned a car in over 20 years. Do cars still HAVE sparkplugs? How “duh” is that?)