Shoot Your Computer?
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This seems a bit over the top to me, shooting your computer because it is having issues. Yet according to this blog post, such an event allegedly happened in South Carolina as one ex-law enforcement office apparently opted to use deadly force with his girlfriend’s computer.
What is comical is that this incident, is it had less to do with the OS creating the frustration and more to do with technology’s challenges as it becomes more powerful. The more powerful it gets, the more skilled effort that is required to get things working properly.
Give me ANY OS and I can stump most people off the street by having them try to install something via a driver CD. Even OS X has stumped people in my past work because it requires some level of user interaction in many cases. That and if something else goes wrong, good luck getting Joe Average to fix it with anything other than a large cinder block.
So this brings me to this week’s query. What is the weirdest, most out of this world thing you have seen someone do when their PC was not working right? Speaking for myself, back when I was doing PC repair, I actually drove up to do a house call to witness the client outside with a 20-some-odd pound sledge screaming at his was once nearly new Dell tower. Hit the comments, let’s hear your tale of fright.
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AG Wright
June 3rd, 2008
at 3:50am
I had one customer, a realator, back in the early days of Windows 96 that was trying to make more space on her hard drive, 540 or 860 meg if I remember correctly. What she needed to do was loose some of her big images, they were too big for floppy and there were no writable CDs back in those days, but no she started looking for things to delete. She finally found what she thought she was looking for when she found dill files, or at least that’s what she called them.
For some reason, after she deleted all of those dll files the computer wouldn’t boot any more.
AG
Peter Andrew
June 3rd, 2008
at 5:42am
I had just started working with a company as IT Manager when I had a very ’stressed’ phone call from one of the execs renown for his bad temper. It seems his laptop had ‘broken’. However by the time I got to his office the problem had solved itself. He had thrown it out his window. By the time it made it 2 floors down to the concrete path below any effort to solve the orginal problem was clearly a waste of time!
Mike Weiler
June 4th, 2008
at 12:33pm
I remember when my friends at work took old eqipment out to a shooting range and shot it all up…It was actually registered on a site for awhile http://www.pccarnage.com
I am going to add the pictures tonight to my own site! Check out the link above….BTW Thank you Microsoft for my free website :).