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| Thread ID: 93070 | 2008-09-02 21:56:00 | For us Techs.............. | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 702124 | 2008-09-02 21:56:00 | www.stuff.co.nz "Every day, we see machines come into our workshop in far worse condition than they should be. Why? Because of our "we can fix anything" ethic. This is an excellent attitude to have and is probably why Kiwis are globally successful in a huge range of activities, but there is a downside sometimes, we just end up making things worse......................................" Um, have to agree with that in general. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 702125 | 2008-09-02 22:00:00 | x2. That's a really good article for Stuff, normally their IT stuff is rubbish. :thumbs: |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 702126 | 2008-09-02 22:22:00 | Good article - looks like someone actually researched the facts for once. While most of us are happy to pay a plumber any amount of money to stick his hand down the loo and fish out whatever is blocking it, people often resent paying us to press a few buttons to fix their computer. There is always the look and unspoken mantra: "I could have done that." Thats the truth - how many times have us techs heard the famous words "My Friend/mate/ Husband knows all about computers but cant fix it" and then a real tech comes along and sometimes fixes it in a minute or two :nerd: |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 702127 | 2008-09-02 22:34:00 | The author is connected to PC Anytime Limited. If the Pro's make a mistake you'll only hear that they did their best but (insert explanation here). |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 702128 | 2008-09-02 22:52:00 | The one I see the most is where they fix/improve the old PC by installing a newer version of Windows. Win98 -> WinXP, WinXP->Vista etc. Overwriting the users data, and not installing any drivers ("what are drivers?"), and usually on a PC that hasn't got enough hardware grunt to run it either. And for PaulD: Here's my mistake, although it was my own PC.......... Had C: and D:, Ghost image of C:. Went to Restore it and choose Image to Drive rather than Image to Partition. Why? Just thick I guess. Took rather a long time to re-do all my data on D: I overwrote. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 702129 | 2008-09-02 23:29:00 | Whats the problem? Last month joined this forum, members here helped me with changing hard drive, formating, driver probs, network probs. Will never need a computer tech again if help I have from here continues. You computer techs had better hope the general public never finds this site |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 702130 | 2008-09-02 23:39:00 | The hard drive, for those who aren't aware, is the fuel tank in a computer Hmm.. I would have called the PSU the fuel tank myself... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 702131 | 2008-09-02 23:58:00 | The hard drive, for those who aren't aware, is the fuel tank in a computer Hmm.. I would have called the PSU the fuel tank myself... The HDD is more like the car boot rather than the gas tank.........or for those messier users, the floor. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 702132 | 2008-09-02 23:59:00 | Whats the problem? Last month joined this forum, members here helped me with changing hard drive, formating, driver probs, network probs. Will never need a computer tech again if help I have from here continues. You computer techs had better hope the general public never finds this site I'm not short of work by a long shot. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 702133 | 2008-09-03 00:12:00 | No tech will be short of work as long as MS continues to do whatever it is that they are doing ;) | R2x1 (4628) | ||
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