Game: You Know You're a Computer Tech When...

[Vicenarian]

You Know You're a Computer Tech When:

- You consider an anti-static wristband a fashion accessory
- The Microsoft Activation hotline is on your phone's speed dial
- You know actually know what the acronym DOS stands for


Keep adding them folks

 

[Xander]

...when you see someone on TV being told to "disconnect from the network" so they unplug a cable from their monitor and you die a little inside.

...when you see an IP address on TV with a number over 255 and you scream "Shenanigans" at the screen.

...when you see a reference to "Bonzai Buddy" somewhere and feel all nostalgic for it.

 

[Crgky127]

...when you know more about what to do with broken computers than how to use functioning computers.

...when you see someone on TV being told to "disconnect from the network" so they unplug a cable from their monitor and you die a little inside.

Saw that on White Collar recently. A couple other places I saw the back of desktops with invisible cables!

 

[Rob]

...when you see a reference to "Bonzai Buddy" somewhere and feel all nostalgic for it.

Ha!

...when you keep finding those little hex/phillips head screws in your underwear drawer, shoes, hair etc...

 

[Martyn]

When you're out at a dinner part etc and friends ask you questions about their computer but have nothing further to talk about.

You have more email addresses than pairs of shoes.

 

[Knightsman]

When you're out at a dinner part etc and friends ask you questions about their computer but have nothing further to talk about.

You have more email addresses than pairs of shoes.

Its ridiculous how true this is. That crap ruins relationships.

 

[DavidF]

You can walk an end user through a factory reset and complete re-config of their wireless modem/router without screen captures while playing (insert favourite game) on your phone and eating lunch.
Bonus points if you're working on another PC on the bench or doing a remote session at the same time.

You have a set of stock answers for end user phrases like "But my hard drive was fine yesterday, why is it dead now?" or "How did this virus get on my computer?" or "But I don't have a password for my email"

You have acquired an almost telepathic empathy with end users and understand that a phrase like "I can't get any email" is just as likely to mean that the computer has a blown PSU.

You know the DNS ip's for the 3 largest ISP's

You catch yourself in the verge of trying to scratch inside your ear with the cursor arrow.

 

[Elemdee]

While watching NCIS, you get mad at Gibbs when he stops Abby and McGee during their tech talk about how they discovered their data because YOU want to hear all about it and/or you finish their sentences after he stops their chatter.

 

[Vicenarian]

You have a set of stock answers for end user phrases like "But my hard drive was fine yesterday, why is it dead now?" or "How did this virus get on my computer?" or "But I don't have a password for my email".

Hahaha, so true!

You catch yourself in the verge of trying to scratch inside your ear with the cursor arrow.

LOL!!!

 

[strollin]

While watching NCIS, you get mad at Gibbs when he stops Abby and McGee during their tech talk about how they discovered their data because YOU want to hear all about it and/or you finish their sentences after he stops their chatter.

My favorite was when Abby was telling Gibbs how to shut down a Unix system displaying a doomsday countdown but Gibbs instead saves the day by putting a number of rounds into the MONITOR.

 

[AFCSOFME]

...when you ask a customer how much RAM they have and they put the phone down to ask the wife "This guy wants to know how much sheep we have"

...when you ask a customer what version of windows they have and they tell you "I have all sorts of windows in this house, yes"

...when a customer calls you and explains they are getting an "Illegal operation message" and are panicking because all they did was double click on Internet Explorer and they never been to jail before and are worried the cops will jail them for something they never did wrong

..when an intoxicated customer calls you to explain every time they dial up to the internet the cops show up accusing him of dialing 911. (that cop then calls you asking if you can make their computer stop doing this after 4 calls in a half hour as he has better things to do)

...when someone tells you they are mad they run a system restore because their system was slow and it erased everything when yet they though it would only delete the files making the system run slow and now wants to hire you to "undo it"

....(my favorite) when someone (such as a male) calls you in a panic their wife will be home any minute and well, they want to know if they can find a way to make sure they can erase websites they visited....

...when you ask a customer to shut their computer off and they press the power button on the monitor, and then push it again and tells you it is back on.

 

[Rosco]

While watching NCIS, you get mad at Gibbs when he stops Abby and McGee during their tech talk about how they discovered their data because YOU want to hear all about it and/or you finish their sentences after he stops their chatter.

thought that was only me!

 

[iisjman07]

... when you think 'WTF' at scenes like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU

 

[J-Bob]

When you wonder what resolution the sky is.



(that's one that invades my thoughts often)

 

[Xander]

...when you see an IP address on TV with a number over 255 and you scream "Shenanigans" at the screen.

Examples:
http://youtu.be/5ceaqtWhdnI?t=17s
http://youtu.be/f5XOxuZ_f0s?t=19s

 

[NETWizz]

You love scenes like this...

http://273.3.6.28

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=5ceaqtWhdnI


It is always fun to watch... especially if you know what a Private network is i.e. 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255

172.16.0.0 -172.31.255.255

192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255

Yeah, you can never use the first (network number) or the last (broadcast) on a sub-net for hosts.



Also makes you wonder what they think of us... Strange seeing C code in the browser. They could have at least displayed JavaScript/CSS/HTML simply by displaying a View-Source.

 

[Martyn]

You love scenes like this...

http://273.3.6.28

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=5ceaqtWhdnI


It is always fun to watch... especially if you know what a Private network is i.e. 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255

172.16.0.0 -172.31.255.255

192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255

Yeah, you can never use the first (network number) or the last (broadcast) on a sub-net for hosts.



Also makes you wonder what they think of us... Strange seeing C code in the browser. They could have at least displayed JavaScript/CSS/HTML simply by displaying a View-Source.

yes it's a geek equivalent mistake of wearing a digital watch in a typical Victorian scene.

 

[grayfoxcomputing]

While watching NCIS, you get mad at Gibbs when he stops Abby and McGee during their tech talk about how they discovered their data because YOU want to hear all about it and/or you finish their sentences after he stops their chatter.

+1

I hate when he does that.

 

[dk564]

...Wake up in the middle of the night thinking of other ways to mod your system

 

[Methical]

I used to always do that when I was scripting here for the Forums. I would be working all night long on a specific problem in my code; and go to bed, and wake up in the middle of the night with the solution.

I felt i needed to implement that solution straight away, and test. So that I could go back to sleep and think of the next implementation..

It did my head in. Even @ my old job, I changed my cubicle walls to whiteboards, so I could write code down as I thought of it.

In the end, my batch file was 3,000+ lines.

@OnTopic
My favourite one so far was "the resolution of the sky".