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

[Elemdee]

This one is mostly unique to me (I would imagine!!!)

... When you realize your fetish for buying new lip gloss has been replaced with buying new flash drives and now you can't stop buying them.

 

[ProTech Support]

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.

LMAO - that episode cracked me up.

 

[bertie40]

....... When you are on holiday, and the highlight of the day is checking these forums.

..... When you are sick and tired of explaining the difference between memory size and disk space.

..... When your gaze is drawn to the bottom right hand corner of the toolbar, of absolutely ANY computer monitor within sight.

... When you have successfully fixed a machine, yet there is just ONE LAST THING you decide to do, which invariably screws it up again.

... When you wander around a computer shop wearing a particularly smug smile, and casually mention to a newbie shopper that THAT particularly model/package is rubbish, because you are "in the biz".

Regards.


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[bertie40]

.... And when your favourite necklace is composed of half a dozen USB sticks.


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[bertie40]

.... And when you carry a mini DVD boot disk within your wallet at all times. (like me)!


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[bertie40]

..... And when you see a discarded PC at the side of the road, so you pull over and attack it with a screwdriver, to see if there is anything salvageable from it.


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[bertie40]

..... And no matter how well a machine is running, you just CAN'T leave it alone, so you tweak it to the point of failure.

... and you heavily criticise a customer for NOT having an up to date backup, then run home and promise yourself you really will do your own tomorrow..... Or the day after..... When you get chance.


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[bertie40]

.... When you are using someone's WiFi (Pub/ Bar/ Hotel) and you are given a WEP code comprised of a zillion characters,.....
using a weird SSID, .....
On a channel used by most of the population of planet earth ....
And you can't help yourself offering your services to "tidy it up" for them ......
FOR FREE. !!!!!



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[bertie40]

...... And finally, when you spend a disproportionate amount of your life sweating over an awkward machine in order to fix it, ...... pulling what's left of your hair out and looking for a small furry creature to chastise, .......when you know full well that there is no important data on the machine, the recovery partition is intact and you could easily N&P it.

..... And you know what N&P, SAS and MBAM stand for.

That's all folks.


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[Paul Rodgers]

Building a computer is more fun than using it.

 

[bertie40]

....... And whilst EVERYBODY criticises Norton products, you can actually argue that the standalone AV product is actually pretty good.

Seriously, that all now.


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[ProTech Support]

....you know the best anti-virus software for your personal computer, is no anti-virus software at all

 

[ATTech]

When you're so excited about a thread like this, that you forget this forum has an edit button...

 

[classonepc]

... When you start looking at your appliances and wondering if you can upgrade the bios.

(on a side note, I did upgrade the bios on my surround sound system last week. Didn't even know it had one!!)

 

[bertie40]

An edit function. Live and learn


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[Vicenarian]

BUMP

...When you know how to properly pronounce linux and ubuntu

 

[TechLady]

This one is mostly unique to me (I would imagine!!!)

... When you realize your fetish for buying new lip gloss has been replaced with buying new flash drives and now you can't stop buying them.

Not alone on that one!

 

[TechLady]

Whut?

It means you get jokes like this.

 

[Xander]

It means you get jokes like this.

[THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE 127.0.0.1]

I have that t-shirt.

The wife and I are considering moving to a house that's more accomodating for a shop setup.
I've suggested we look for one with "127" as its street number so I can tack on a ".0.0.1" sign after it.

 

[TechLady]

Now THAT would be amusing.