Well that was an interesting phone call...

[vi edit]

Mom: So and so coworker wants to bid on DVDXCOPY Version XX.XX.XX Pre-Ban....Is that bad?

Me: Define bad?

Mom: Bad as in illegal?

Me: Well, what does she plan to do with it?

Mom: She wants to make copies of movies to keep in the car so the originals don't get lost or destroyed

Me: Well that's fine, nobody is going to arrest her for that

Mom: Ok, well how easy it to use?

Me: Well, pretty easy and doesn't take to long depending on how fast her DVD burner is.

Mom: How does she know that?

Me: Well, it should say on the inovice of the computer if she bought it from Dell or the like. How old is the computer?

Mom: Well, it's 5 years old and it's a Compaq, that should have a DVD burner right?

Me: *BANGS HEAD ON TABLE*

Me: Well, if she hasn't put one in herself, she's definitely not going to have one.

Mom: Oh. So what should she do?

Me: Call Dell and buy a new one with a DVD burner.

Mom: Oh, ok.

*sigh*

 

[lancestorm]

Be nice to your mother!

She brought you into this world. If you act up again, I'll take you out of it!

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: lancestorm
Be nice to your mother!

She brought you into this world. If you act up again, I'll take you out of it!

Well, actually my Mom was just a middleman...er middlewoman in this whole thing. She was just playing operator between me and the coworker.

The coworker was actually the one who was clueless.

 

[shenaniganz]

Me: Call Dell and buy a new one with a DVD burner.

Good advice. :thumbsup:

 

[MrBond]

I called my parents the other day for some reason, I was talking to my Mom and she goes "Oh, your Dad wants me to ask you, where can he download movies illegally from".

I just told her to tell him that it was very unsafe and he was likely to get busted for it. I think that deterred him, I'll find out for sure next time I go visit. If he insists on doing it, I'll just tell him there's no better way to get the Feds out searching your house and he'll avoid the topic then

 

[TOPACTION]

was around 11 pm at night did like 12 hour non stop so I was really tired. But here what make my really damn busy day.
ME on phone with a girl around 40-50 of age.

ME: ok madam you can you restart your computer

* 2-5 second later

client: Ok I just did...

ME: heuu OK ? what do you see now ?

Client: well windows desktop.

ME: I still can't conect can you reboot it again ?

*2-5 sec later

Client: Done its rebotted.

ME: heuu wtf what kind of computer do you have

Client: Well standard Dell

ME: ok well how do you restart your computer ??

client: Just like you told us... I push the on/off button and I wait 3-5 second then I push it again to open it again...

ME: OK but a computer canot restart in 2 , 5 second... except if you got a quantic processor who is not even made!!

client: HEY I am doing what you are telling us to do this is not our fault if your thing its not working as expected..

ME: !*?&"&*?"*?" Can I ask you where do you push the on/off button ?

client: WHERE do you think on the computer !!

ME: WHERE ON THE COMPUTER !!!!!

Client: WELL just on the buttom right corner of the DELL you got the on/off button! * <= the god damn monitor

ME: *bangs HEad on table* 3 time then hang off and go to sleep..

 

[nycxandy]

LOLOL!!1 !A DS 2!!@@$XZxz

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: TOPACTION
Client: WELL just on the right corner of the DELL you got the on/off button! * <= the god damn monitor

ME: *bangs HEad on table* 3 time then hang off and go to sleep..

heh wow. That's just beyond n00bness.

 

[40Hands]

Originally posted by: TOPACTION
was around 11 pm at night did like 12 hour non stop so I was really tired but here what make my really damn busy day.

ME: ok madam you can you restart your computer

* 2 second later

client: Ok I just did...

ME: heuu OK ? what do you see now ?

Client: well windows desktop.

ME: I still can't conect can you reboot it again ?

*2 sec later

Client: Done its rebotted.

ME: heuu wtf what kind of computer do you have

Client: Well standard Dell

ME: ok well how do you restart your computer ??

client: Just like you told us... I push the ON/off button and I wait for 2 second then I push it again to open it again...

ME: OK but a computer canot restart in 2 , 5 second... except if you got a quantic processor who is not even made!!

client: HEY I am doing what you are telling us to do this is not our fault if your thing its not working as expected..

ME: !*?&"&*?"*?"HAGS I ask where do you push the on/off button ?

client: WHERE do you think on the computer !!

ME: WHERE ON THE COMPUTER !!!!!

Client: WELL just on the right corner of the DELL you got the on/off button! * <= the god damn monitor

ME: *bangs HEad on table* 3 time then hang off and go to sleep..

Hahahaha....you have to be kidding! Some people do not deserve to be seated in front of a computer.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: TOPACTION
Client: WELL just on the right corner of the DELL you got the on/off button! * <= the god damn monitor

ME: *bangs HEad on table* 3 time then hang off and go to sleep..

heh wow. That's just beyond n00bness.

Heh. I was walking a guy through how to reseat his modem over the phone. Told him to shut down the computer and then walked him through how to take the case apart and pull the card and plug it back it.

We get to the part where we yank the modem out of the slot and over the phone I just hear the fault alarm on the PC go berzerk. I ask him what's up and he says "Well the computer is beeping like crazy". I ask "You did turn it off right" and he says "Well I turned off the monitor, that's what I was supposed to do right?"

So yeah, he yanked out an ISA card with the power still on.

DOH!

 

[Baked]

People still use that stolenwear? And actually pay for it too? Wow.

 

[Gooose]

wait you talk to your self in your own VMs?

 

[sswingle]

Why not suggest she buy a DVD burner and download DVD shrink? DVD drives are NOT hard for even mentally challenged people to install, just slide out old drive, slide in new drive, connect wires like they were to the old drive.

 

[OrByte]

so your moms teh h4x?

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers
Why not suggest she buy a DVD burner and download DVD shrink? DVD drives are NOT hard for even mentally challenged people to install, just slide out old drive, slide in new drive, connect wires like they were to the old drive.

Simply because if she doesn't even know that she HAD a burner I'm not even going to begin to tell her how to buy one, install one, download DVD shrink and nero, walk her through how to use it, ect.

Then there's the question of if the machine would even do it. I know on my Athlon 1600+ and 8x burner DVD shrink encoding and burning takes up 4.5gig a movie and well in excess of 3 hours of total time.

She probably doesn't have the extra space on the HD to do movies and the 5 year old machine she was running on would be an absolute dog.

It just isn't worth the battle.

 

[CVSiN]

Originally posted by: vi_edit

Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers
Why not suggest she buy a DVD burner and download DVD shrink? DVD drives are NOT hard for even mentally challenged people to install, just slide out old drive, slide in new drive, connect wires like they were to the old drive.

Simply because if she doesn't even know that she HAD a burner I'm not even going to begin to tell her how to buy one, install one, download DVD shrink and nero, walk her through how to use it, ect.

Then there's the question of if the machine would even do it. I know on my Athlon 1600+ and 8x burner DVD shrink encoding and burning takes up 4.5gig a movie and well in excess of 3 hours of total time.

She probably doesn't have the extra space on the HD to do movies and the 5 year old machine she was running on would be an absolute dog.

It just isn't worth the battle.

very smart man.