Uh, Tim I don't know how to send a screen capture. In fact I don't
know precisely what you are talking about. I am really truly someone
who believes in using the computer without knowing very much about what
the heck I'm doing. But I don't do ANYTHING unless I am pretty sure I
know how to do it because it's my husband's computer. However he is
not one to do much modeming these days - not with twelve hour workdays
five days a week, sat. spent with me and Sun. tied up in Church and
trying to catch up on sleep. When he did it was all paid services like
Q-link on his old commodore and Prodigy when I first met him. (In fact
that's how I met Phil B. from this area and got back on the local Fido
boards, as I no longer had any numbers for them - having been without a
computer to use for two years at that point)
All I really know how to do is reply to messages on-line. I can't even
figure out how to upload and download.
But recentally some calls my husband got at work told me that I am NOT
the least computer literate person to ever touch a machine. I AM NOT
KIDDING ABOUT THIS. He recentally got one call from a woman who had
been told that her computers eccentricities were due to a "bug" in it -
so she sprayed it with Raid or some such thing and couldn't figure out
why it wouldn't work at all. She called wanting to know if her
warranty would help her out. The same day another woman called and
threatened to sue the company because someone had told her that her
computer's problems were due to a virus. Her kids had been playing on
these computers for weeks and she was absolutely certain they must have
that virus too by now.
A few weeks later a man called - proving it is NOT just us gals that
miss the point. He had spilled coffee into his computer while using
it, lovingly shut it off opened it up, and washed everything in it with
a soft cloth and soapy water, then rinsed it - and the computer
wouldn't work. He also wanted to know if the warranty held up.
Of course this is a warranty for manufacturer's defects in the parts or
from their labor - you open the critter and the warranty is void.
I don't think ANY of the people liked the answer they got.
Of course every week he gets one or two calls from someone who have had
their computer for over three years and claim it NEVER worked right, it
is now one month past the 36th month warranty. But they think it
should be fixed anyway since it "never" worked right. They can't
understand why the standard answer is that they should have called from
day one - not after the warranty expired.
I love it when he tells me such stories because it makes me feel like a
technogenius - and I think that is why he does so.
But the truth is, I really don't know my RAM from my Modem, I don't
know what megahertz is and I belief a protocal is something they have
at the Whitehouse so as not to offend visiting dignitaries from far
away. Therefore I have no Flipping idea what it has to do with
downloading.
(For a long time I thought downloading was something one did in the
ladies room - and uploading too, if one was bulemic)
Hey, what are you doing on the floor rolling around, it's not that
funny, is it?
Stop laughing!
(GRIN)
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