What is the worst computing advice you have ever recieved?

[GoingUp]

I love getting the e mails about the viruses that will destroy my motherboard, soundcard and speakers.

 

[Swag1138]

"Oh, well theres your problem. Your using a NIC, What you need is an ethernet card"

from a loser in my class who overheard me talking to somone about a DSL problem I was having.

 

[TNTrulez]

Originally posted by: Adul
some good ones here.

yep especially the one above this

 

[fyleow]

Originally posted by: ChefJoe

Originally posted by: Jmmsbnd007

Originally posted by: klah "Running your motherboard in a tank of water is fine as long as it is distilled."

That's actually true. Distilled water does not conduct electricity, although there could be some problems that I am not aware of.

So very false. Distilled water doesn't conduct electricity as well as non-distilled, but it does conduct. If what you were saying were true there would be little or no lightning over the ocean because the bolt would have to hit the sea floor to ground (granted salt water but it's water all the same). You'd also be perfectly safe using a hair-dryer in a distilled water bath.

We'd all agree that air is a poor conductor of electricity, but in said lightning strike, it's enough.

What you end up doing is having electrons conducted through a string of H2O molecules to chain the current through... the presence of extra ions (dissolved stuff in non-distilled water) helps with carrying those electrons, but a high enough potential will allow water molecules to conduct (and ionize to eventually for H2 and O2).

Seawater isn't distilled water....it has a very high concentration of ions, of course it conducts electricity....

 

[MrPhelps]

Yeah cable is 100 times faster.

Maybe than a 14.4



Even though I have cable and my speed down is usually over 2.1, I want more speed....more more more

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: Radiohead
You'll want a Pentium 3 so you can play all those MP3's, if you get a Pentium 2 you can only play MP2's. :Q

I overheard some sales guy give this pitch to an elderly couple at Futureshop, the funny thing was, an hour before he was trying to sell some fridge to another couple.

OMG, I think I would have actually blurted out laughing if I overheard that

 

[globalstud]

Installing WINMX and showing a friend how to use it. I tell him big files just download overnight.
Get a call about a week later:

Him: That stuff you showed me doesn't work.

It's a long story to figure out what's wrong, so after some prodding:

Me: You have to leave your computer on while it downloads

 

[BeauJangles]

The advice my dad recieved from a kid doing some computer repairs for him: "Go find an AOL cd and install AOL, it will fix your modem problems" - LMAO!

 

[acidvoodoo]

i was setting up my broadband router and had to find out whether i had a static or dynamic ip address so ring tech support

after waiting in line for 30 min

ME:hi i'm just setting up my router and...
TECH:i'm sorry we do not support home networks
ME:Ye but i just need to know
TECH:We do not support home networks, to find out information please go to www.practicallynetworked.com (sounded like a recorded message)
ME:I JUST NEED TO KNOW IF I'M ASSIGNED A STATIC OR DHCP IP
TECH:well...........ye assign our ip address dynamicly
ME:THANKYOU!

 

[Geekbabe]

"Why are you wasting all of your time on that computer instead of doing something productive ? it'll never pay the bills "

 

[DrumminBoy]

Originally posted by: brtspears2
"Packard Bell is the best computer you can buy!"

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Buy Microsoft at 90

 

[CaptainGoodnight]

Buy cheap RAM


<---- Me

 

[Legendary]

Sure, the old MS-DOS provided anti-virus picks up all the viruses!

 

[Zenmervolt]

"I could have built you a 486DX/4-100 but you'll never need that kind of power." - The guy who built our 486DX/2-66

"I'll never use all these." - My thought after purchasing a 50 pack of 1.44MB floppies about 7 years ago.

"I'll never use all these." - My thought after buying a 50 pack of CD-R's about 3 years ago. (I don't seem to learn from past experience.)

ZV

 

[ChefJoe]

Originally posted by: CaptainGoodnight
Buy cheap RAM <---- Me

Lol. Reminds me of my father who said "ram is ram... as long as it works it'll be fine - go ahead and buy commodity grade".

Yeah Dad, that's why you still have a Dell XPS.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: Scouzer
"Don't format your hard drive! It will cause permanent damage to the hard drive. I suggest you never do it"

--Certified ZDNet Tech

Heheheh....he might have meant "Never LOW LEVEL format your drive". Old MTM drives used to require this. It's not needed on IDE drives.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: yobarman
"just turn off your DSL modem and computer all the way and turn them back on" - verizon tech on my DSL not connecting.


unfortunately this sometimes works.

This actually works 9/10 times when this problem occurs. It's mostly caused by your IP address expiring and your modem can't accept a renew request.