Date: 21 Jun 2001 20:54:43 GMT
From: Michael Hoye <mhoye@prince.carleton.ca>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan
Subject: Re: TAN: Movies, movies, movies


In article <3B325B5C.2072E0FE@wanadoo.nl>,
Frank van Schie  <fvschie@wanadoo.nl> wrote:
>
>But this is as nothing compared to people who:
>- Are told by computer to store to place the network card, take the
>driver CD, and install it. And who then screw open their case, put the
>CD in a PCI slot, close the case, start up the computer, and then call
>their ISP to ask them why it won't work.
>- Manage to stick a MAC serial plug (MiniDIN-8, size of a PS/2 plug) in
>a USB port.


I had a guy unscrew the faceplate on a PCI ethernet card and plug it
backwards into the back half of an EISA slot once. 


That was memorable. 


"Sir, can you tell me what lights are on on your ethernet card?"


"Er, do I have to? I'll have to unscrew the case and everything to
do that..."


"Er, what?"


"Yeah, the cable you gave me goes right in through a slot at the back
of the computer, around to the back of the ethernet card and
then into the slot."


"Sir, turn your computer off right now."


"But I -"


"Now."


--
Mike Hoye