Computer Half-wits

MercilessKiller

superscaper wrote:

You have to open up your case take off the heat sink and press down the side of the cpu with a pencil to switch it on. I'm surprised you didn't know P4's have switches. Must admit haven't heard people refer to a pc case as a cpu in quite a while. Confusing terminology.

Most common things i've heard it being called is the Hard Drive and the CPU. Once someone called it the power adapter which wasn't necessarily wrong yet still amusing

See this is fine.. but then when one is insulting people for asking questions, rather than insulting the questions, thats what I dont like

superscaper

MercilessKiller wrote:

Most common things i've heard it being called is the Hard Drive and the CPU. Once someone called it the power adapter which wasn't necessarily wrong yet still amusing

See this is fine.. but then when one is insulting people for asking questions, rather than insulting the questions, thats what I dont like

MercilessKiller: Fighting for Truth, Justice and the Techie Way

MercilessKiller

superscaper wrote:

MercilessKiller: Fighting for Truth, Justice and the Techie Way

Lol.. just defending my Grandmother. I am actually rather impressed She is 70 years old and has a home network with a pc, wireless laptop, and printer.. and can very easily use the WEP, disconnect/reconnect etc etc.. she does online banking, uses emails a lot, and my grandfather is now a photoshop obsessive (he's 74!).

At first I got silly phone calls. But now aint heard from them in, well, nearly years I suppose! Think its amazing

And if they read posts like this from Lee, I don't think they'd feel too good about it as they were asking stupid things but now use the computer without problems!

mig25_foxbat2003

Tallymanjohn wrote:

Don't knock the average PC buyer - they are a nice source of income for techies!! :T

Yeah, the day people learn to operate their computers properly is the day I stop getting bottles of whisky for very little work :beer:

ts_aly2000

MercilessKiller wrote:

Right so I'm an obvious user not a teccie right? Do us a favour... seen how many posts ive done? all the thanked ones are from this teccie forum for HELPING people thanks very much.

(medal deleted, original post reinstated)

LEA DX, @string@
MOV AH,09H
INT 21H

Apologies to MercilessKiller

MercilessKiller

MOV AH, 09h INT 21h

I believe thats code from .ASM files? Dont quite see the point but hey

csarge

ts_aly2000 wrote:

V22/V23bis

Surely you mean v32.bis
Let's start setting jumpers on the modems! Oooh I remember getting a 33.6k modem and connecting at 31200 and thinking wow.

Oh downloading at 3k a second was amazing.....playing doom 2 over a phone connection... ah those were the days.

(I'm a real sad geek)

MercilessKiller

ts_aly2000 wrote:

Here!! Have a medal. You sure have earned it you hardened techie you.

First you call me a dumb "user" as such.. then you sarcastically give me a medal for saying I'm a techie.. !!!!!!? Make your mind up.....

leesmithg

ts_aly2000 wrote:

Here!! Have a medal. You sure have earned it you hardened techie you.

Put me in my place, I am meerly the carpet he walks upon.

I have emailed PC World asking for them to take him on.

MercilessKiller

leesmithg wrote:

Put me in my place, I am meerly the carpet he walks upon.

I have emailed PC World asking for them to take him on.

......lee, get off the forums if you ain't going to help people.