Reading between the lines...questions from non-IT people
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I constantly hear non-IT types misusing terms. My brother in-law just texted to ask 'Does flash drives come from adobe? I cant view ESPN video...etc'. :omg: I showed it to the wife who commented 'what a moron, he means a zip drive!'. :wtf: :~ I tried my best not to laugh, or correct her. :rolleyes: but I couldn't help myself. Other commonly misused terms and what they actually mean to say: 0: upload - download, copy, import, export 1: file - folder (or the other way around) 2: database - any kind of file, but usually not a database 3: memory - hard drive space (or again, the other way around) What are some of the funnier misuses of IT related terms you have heard?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
People misuse "bandwidth" all the time. They confuse real bandwidth with the data transfer rate. In engineering, bandwidth refers to the range of frequencies contained in a given band.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I constantly hear non-IT types misusing terms. My brother in-law just texted to ask 'Does flash drives come from adobe? I cant view ESPN video...etc'. :omg: I showed it to the wife who commented 'what a moron, he means a zip drive!'. :wtf: :~ I tried my best not to laugh, or correct her. :rolleyes: but I couldn't help myself. Other commonly misused terms and what they actually mean to say: 0: upload - download, copy, import, export 1: file - folder (or the other way around) 2: database - any kind of file, but usually not a database 3: memory - hard drive space (or again, the other way around) What are some of the funnier misuses of IT related terms you have heard?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
We have a guy at my job that wants to pull data to the website from excel sheets. The problem though is that he actually means that. :sigh:
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]
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Linky no worky. It's a known problem: if you paste a link onto a highlighted word or phrase the ling can get shortened when it is "linkified" and it stops working. PITA.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Linky no worky. It's a known problem: if you paste a link onto a highlighted word or phrase the ling can get shortened when it is "linkified" and it stops working. PITA.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
should work now (i hope). Just a link to iomega zip drive.
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We have a guy at my job that wants to pull data to the website from excel sheets. The problem though is that he actually means that. :sigh:
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]
So let him do it. We don't get enough code in "The Weird and the Wonderful" as it is these days!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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should work now (i hope). Just a link to iomega zip drive.
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You need to add the "e" to both links:
You should be able to find <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip\_driv">one</a>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip\_drive" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>] for $1 at a yard sale, and show her the difference.
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You should be able to find <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip\_drive">one</a>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip\_drive" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>] for $1 at a yard sale, and show her the difference.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I constantly hear non-IT types misusing terms. My brother in-law just texted to ask 'Does flash drives come from adobe? I cant view ESPN video...etc'. :omg: I showed it to the wife who commented 'what a moron, he means a zip drive!'. :wtf: :~ I tried my best not to laugh, or correct her. :rolleyes: but I couldn't help myself. Other commonly misused terms and what they actually mean to say: 0: upload - download, copy, import, export 1: file - folder (or the other way around) 2: database - any kind of file, but usually not a database 3: memory - hard drive space (or again, the other way around) What are some of the funnier misuses of IT related terms you have heard?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
My best friend for >20 years still calls his tower the hard drive, and asks me how much 'hard memory' he has. I still have no idea what the hell he thinks he means. He won't stop saying it. It means something between drive space and RAM in his head. I've tried the "desk top / desk drawer" analogy. I've tried ripping it apart and showing him the actual components. Nothing works. He also runs a defrag when he thinks he sees evidence of malware, despite my assurances that he's waving a dead chicken at the thing. Technology hates him. I've never seen anyone have so many problems from normal judicious use of a computer or smartphone. It's impressive.
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So let him do it. We don't get enough code in "The Weird and the Wonderful" as it is these days!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
He's not a programmer, he's one of those people that tells the programmers what to do, and how to do it. He's also good with buzzwords, and even if he doesn't always understand them it sounds good to the boss. :sigh:
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]
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I constantly hear non-IT types misusing terms. My brother in-law just texted to ask 'Does flash drives come from adobe? I cant view ESPN video...etc'. :omg: I showed it to the wife who commented 'what a moron, he means a zip drive!'. :wtf: :~ I tried my best not to laugh, or correct her. :rolleyes: but I couldn't help myself. Other commonly misused terms and what they actually mean to say: 0: upload - download, copy, import, export 1: file - folder (or the other way around) 2: database - any kind of file, but usually not a database 3: memory - hard drive space (or again, the other way around) What are some of the funnier misuses of IT related terms you have heard?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
Can I get that in Excel?
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He's not a programmer, he's one of those people that tells the programmers what to do, and how to do it. He's also good with buzzwords, and even if he doesn't always understand them it sounds good to the boss. :sigh:
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]
So teach him some new buzzwords and let his boss look them up rather than admit he doesn't know them...:EvilGrinSmiley:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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So teach him some new buzzwords and let his boss look them up rather than admit he doesn't know them...:EvilGrinSmiley:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
That only worked once.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]
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That only worked once.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]
And you didn't chose words to get him fired? :laugh:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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And you didn't chose words to get him fired? :laugh:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
He's not that kind of stupid, and I'm not that kind of evil.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]
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One of my absolute favorites to this day is still: "I need faster internet or something, my computer keeps freezing on me." While they're not even online. They are under the impression that an internet connection determines how their computer runs, whether it involves the internet or not. What about when most people had dial-up? Did their computers only work when the phone line was free and they could connect? I also enjoy the confusion between memory and hard drive space. I hear that frequently.
djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.
Matt U. wrote:
"I need faster internet or something, my computer keeps freezing on me."
I'm sure that was funny in context... but in reality, everything is starting to run from the internet, and it really is the slowest communication point between all the connections in a computer. This nonsense will become more logical as time marches on.
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My best friend for >20 years still calls his tower the hard drive, and asks me how much 'hard memory' he has. I still have no idea what the hell he thinks he means. He won't stop saying it. It means something between drive space and RAM in his head. I've tried the "desk top / desk drawer" analogy. I've tried ripping it apart and showing him the actual components. Nothing works. He also runs a defrag when he thinks he sees evidence of malware, despite my assurances that he's waving a dead chicken at the thing. Technology hates him. I've never seen anyone have so many problems from normal judicious use of a computer or smartphone. It's impressive.
mikepwilson wrote:
Technology hates him. I've never seen anyone have so many problems from normal judicious use of a computer or smartphone. It's impressive.
So You haven't met MY Brothers. One asked me to fix his email. What happened is he forgot his password. :wtf:
David
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My best friend for >20 years still calls his tower the hard drive, and asks me how much 'hard memory' he has. I still have no idea what the hell he thinks he means. He won't stop saying it. It means something between drive space and RAM in his head. I've tried the "desk top / desk drawer" analogy. I've tried ripping it apart and showing him the actual components. Nothing works. He also runs a defrag when he thinks he sees evidence of malware, despite my assurances that he's waving a dead chicken at the thing. Technology hates him. I've never seen anyone have so many problems from normal judicious use of a computer or smartphone. It's impressive.
mikepwilson wrote:
My best friend for >20 years still calls his tower the hard drive,
I find that to be quite common for people of my parents ages and older (60's plus).
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And you didn't chose words to get him fired? :laugh:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
[C# required] Now you just create a "Excel Uploader" program that uses Excel Interop, and quietly make a CSV and uploads that instead. I actually had to use a website that was too complicated for the end user, so I used a WebX and auto-filled everything it could detect. Unfortunately file open dialogs can't be filled in programatically, so I used SendKeys.Send() on a Timer for that.
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I constantly hear non-IT types misusing terms. My brother in-law just texted to ask 'Does flash drives come from adobe? I cant view ESPN video...etc'. :omg: I showed it to the wife who commented 'what a moron, he means a zip drive!'. :wtf: :~ I tried my best not to laugh, or correct her. :rolleyes: but I couldn't help myself. Other commonly misused terms and what they actually mean to say: 0: upload - download, copy, import, export 1: file - folder (or the other way around) 2: database - any kind of file, but usually not a database 3: memory - hard drive space (or again, the other way around) What are some of the funnier misuses of IT related terms you have heard?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
From tech people (unfortunately): A while ago our company started using Entity Framework and databinding. Completely unrelated I created a library we could use for a certain type of software. Appearently some people thought the one couldn't do without the other. So I got questions like "We can't use EF for this, should we use your library?" or "I need something else than EF, because I can't bind this value" and I'm just sitting there like "What does that have to do with anything?" :laugh: Luckily things have been better lately.
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I constantly hear non-IT types misusing terms. My brother in-law just texted to ask 'Does flash drives come from adobe? I cant view ESPN video...etc'. :omg: I showed it to the wife who commented 'what a moron, he means a zip drive!'. :wtf: :~ I tried my best not to laugh, or correct her. :rolleyes: but I couldn't help myself. Other commonly misused terms and what they actually mean to say: 0: upload - download, copy, import, export 1: file - folder (or the other way around) 2: database - any kind of file, but usually not a database 3: memory - hard drive space (or again, the other way around) What are some of the funnier misuses of IT related terms you have heard?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
My brother usually has these problems: - Microsoft is not working (he means Word) - Mozzarella is not working (that is Firefox, apparently the cheese name is easier to remember than the actual company name)
Make it simple, as simple as possible, but not simpler.
