"Can You Put the Internet On My Computer?"
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(Work-safe) I don't mind helping family out with their computers...although questions like "can you put the Internet on my computer?" bother me a little, and messages like "157 viruses found" make me want to vomit, it makes me really sad to see things like this[^]. This[^] is the other thing I LOVE seeing when working on someone's computer... :((
-- "stop thoughting; start thinking, and quit trying to predict unpredictable thinking" - dMoney (2005)
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(Work-safe) I don't mind helping family out with their computers...although questions like "can you put the Internet on my computer?" bother me a little, and messages like "157 viruses found" make me want to vomit, it makes me really sad to see things like this[^]. This[^] is the other thing I LOVE seeing when working on someone's computer... :((
-- "stop thoughting; start thinking, and quit trying to predict unpredictable thinking" - dMoney (2005)
Nothing wrong with old pc's dude ...
Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch
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(Work-safe) I don't mind helping family out with their computers...although questions like "can you put the Internet on my computer?" bother me a little, and messages like "157 viruses found" make me want to vomit, it makes me really sad to see things like this[^]. This[^] is the other thing I LOVE seeing when working on someone's computer... :((
-- "stop thoughting; start thinking, and quit trying to predict unpredictable thinking" - dMoney (2005)
nullGumby wrote:
it makes me really sad to see things like this[^].
Having joe sixpack open his case every six months to blow it out would result in even worse problems from him messing with stuff inside it.
-- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.
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Nothing wrong with old pc's dude ...
Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch
Yes there is, dust, overheating, component failure, outdated peripheral support, no OS support in some cases (win95,win98,winme) and they are just plain slow. I'm OK with a pc that is a few years old, but get back 3-4yrs and you are just torturing yourself.
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Yes there is, dust, overheating, component failure, outdated peripheral support, no OS support in some cases (win95,win98,winme) and they are just plain slow. I'm OK with a pc that is a few years old, but get back 3-4yrs and you are just torturing yourself.
amclint wrote:
I'm OK with a pc that is a few years old, but get back 3-4yrs and you are just torturing yourself.
Yep, as long as it's working OK there's no need to replace it if you're just doing email/web/office but once problems show up you need to cut your losses and replace. My parents PC dates back to Dec 2000, It's been a slowly failing POS for the past year and a half. They don't use it and with my brother going off to college this summer they've been extremely reluctant to buy a new PC when he'll be getting a laptop in the near future. For my part, the only reason I've bandaided it as long as I have have been to keep my brother able to do school work. An ongoing problem with office that I've been unable to reproduce (hmmmm) is finally pushing them to the point that they're willing to consider buying a cheapo replacement. I'm begging my dad to run the details of his purchase past me (including mobo and PSU models if he buys from a local cloneshop) but I suspect he's going to ignore my requests and buy a box of looser components and an extended warantee that costs more than parts that won't fail within 180days. Oh well, once my brothers off to college thier PC will mostly sit dust and run up unattended AOL charges.
-- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.
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nullGumby wrote:
it makes me really sad to see things like this[^].
Having joe sixpack open his case every six months to blow it out would result in even worse problems from him messing with stuff inside it.
-- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.
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(Work-safe) I don't mind helping family out with their computers...although questions like "can you put the Internet on my computer?" bother me a little, and messages like "157 viruses found" make me want to vomit, it makes me really sad to see things like this[^]. This[^] is the other thing I LOVE seeing when working on someone's computer... :((
-- "stop thoughting; start thinking, and quit trying to predict unpredictable thinking" - dMoney (2005)
It's all relative!!! If you never play or work on a computer that is any faster than yours, then what you start on wouldn't seem slow.
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(Work-safe) I don't mind helping family out with their computers...although questions like "can you put the Internet on my computer?" bother me a little, and messages like "157 viruses found" make me want to vomit, it makes me really sad to see things like this[^]. This[^] is the other thing I LOVE seeing when working on someone's computer... :((
-- "stop thoughting; start thinking, and quit trying to predict unpredictable thinking" - dMoney (2005)
I'm sorry, but that is nothing. Really, count yourself lucky it is only spider webs and a little dust... I was once comandeered to fit a new CD drive into a friend's computer. This friend:
- Never vacumed his room (+ fluff + hair + dust)
- Smoked (+ greasy, smelly smoke dust)
- Had cats and dogs (+ hair, + skin)
- Had no curtains on his window (+ dead flying insects)
- Had a flowering tree outside his window (+ pollen)
The result... there was ~5mm of sticky yellow matted gloop on all the interior surfaces of his computer case. The CPU heatsink was solid with the most disgusting substance you have ever had to clean off with a toothbrush. God knows how the machine worked, but it did. Flawlessly.
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(Work-safe) I don't mind helping family out with their computers...although questions like "can you put the Internet on my computer?" bother me a little, and messages like "157 viruses found" make me want to vomit, it makes me really sad to see things like this[^]. This[^] is the other thing I LOVE seeing when working on someone's computer... :((
-- "stop thoughting; start thinking, and quit trying to predict unpredictable thinking" - dMoney (2005)
nullGumby wrote:
it makes me really sad to see things like this[^].
I am, honest-to-goodness, allergic to computer dust. Working on a machine that hasn't been cleaned in a while will actually leave me with rashes on my hands and arms, as well as clogged sinuses for about a day afterwards. Because of this, i tend to disassemble them outdoors when weather permits, and attack first with a few bottles of compressed air. X|
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Yes there is, dust, overheating, component failure, outdated peripheral support, no OS support in some cases (win95,win98,winme) and they are just plain slow. I'm OK with a pc that is a few years old, but get back 3-4yrs and you are just torturing yourself.
amclint wrote:
and they are just plain slow
Barring Windows' ineffectiveness as maintaining the same speed as was when it was freshly installed, computers don't get slower with age. Your expectations increase is all. Also, an older computer can make a great web/ftp/nfs server, etc.
Jeremy Falcon A multithreaded, OpenGL-enabled application.[^]
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dan neely wrote:
Having joe sixpack open his case every six months to blow it out
I don't think Joe owns a PC, he spends all his money on :beer:
led mike
Actually, it would be [:beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer:], given Joe's last name.
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amclint wrote:
and they are just plain slow
Barring Windows' ineffectiveness as maintaining the same speed as was when it was freshly installed, computers don't get slower with age. Your expectations increase is all. Also, an older computer can make a great web/ftp/nfs server, etc.
Jeremy Falcon A multithreaded, OpenGL-enabled application.[^]
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nullGumby wrote:
it makes me really sad to see things like this[^].
I am, honest-to-goodness, allergic to computer dust. Working on a machine that hasn't been cleaned in a while will actually leave me with rashes on my hands and arms, as well as clogged sinuses for about a day afterwards. Because of this, i tend to disassemble them outdoors when weather permits, and attack first with a few bottles of compressed air. X|
