[RESOLVED] Could you Re-load my machine?

[procrastination]

I know that people who work at the same location as you often times think that you are their best friend when it comes to computers, but I have discontinued my "free service to people who think that I owe them something because we work together"

Now my answer goes something similar to this: Sure, just go online tonight, and download ALL of your drivers, next backup EVERYTHING you want to keep in a folder called C:\backup.

After that I would be glad to do a reload for you, and I will attempt to do whatever else it is that you "think" your computer can do.

"Oh you have a PII400 that you would like overclocked to 1gig? Sure, not a problem. Oh, you have a 4 meg video card that you want to play Unreal Tournament with? Sure, I can just install more ram on it... Oh, you have a 9600 baud modem that you want to make perform as well as so and so's Cable? I can just fix that right up. Whats that? Your 15 inch monitor is just not big enough anymore? Alright, I will just GIVE you my 21" trinitron. Is there anything else I can do for you?

Price? Well for you my dearest friend who I have talked to all of one time (including today) FREE!!!

Its easier to say: "I don't know anything about computers."
This usually follows a question similar to: "I need more memory, do you think 20Gig is enough?"

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[Scuba]

Originally posted by procrastination:
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Its easier to say: "I don't know anything about computers."
This usually follows a question similar to: "I need more memory, do you think 20Gig is enough?"

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I need more Ram and i know that 20G is not enoth <IMG SRC="smilies/frown.gif" border="0">

[Darren Wilson]

I know exactly how you mean, and even if you 'could' manage to do what they wanted done, they still wouldn't be happy with it. These sort of people are the ones you give an 'accidental' wrong phone number to <IMG SRC="smilies/wink.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/wink.gif" border="0">

[Auric]

im with rocco on that
i don't mind helping friends and stuff once and a while, for nothing, or a beer or whatever u know, lil problem, like oh i got a virus , nothing important on my HD format and put windows back on please.. That i'll do for friends for like $20 and they are generally happy! but there are a few people that get me annoyed!

[ShadowKing]

I tell them that I don't have time. If its family, then I do it, because my family has done so much for each other.

If its someone that I don't know too well who is offering to pay me, I tell them that they cant afford me. I get $60 an hour for OT at work, and I already don't have much free time, (Except to get fragged by Auric in UT...) so if they want to give me $100 an hour to be away from my family I might be able to be motivated, but otherwise NO.

[idfx]

OK, call me an ideallist if you must, but I
actually will help pretty much anyone who asks
for help. And they don't have to give me
money, either. I don't do it for free, though.
With me, they have to *PAY ATTENTION* !

Kinda like that guy in any military outfit
who will eventually say to you, "I'd be happy
to show you how to do that. ONCE."

// Virtue is its own reward
// And a pretty crappy tipper, too.

[geeksRus]

when someone tells you they just need a 'few' files moved to their new machine, it's a friggin' trap!
how about a gig of mp3's, 500 megs of Word docs. gee, why can't you just copy all of my old software that i never had the installation disks for?
all this AFTER the new machine is delivered and set in place.

[RaFaD]

Originally posted by procrastination:
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Its easier to say: "I don't know anything about computers."
This usually follows a question similar to: "I need more memory, do you think 20Gig is enough?"

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I once hered a friend of mine (that calls himself a computer guru) talking about his brand-new K6-II (some years ago):

F: The K6-II is much better than the PII cause it has 32 MB <IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0"> of L1 cache <IMG SRC="smilies/mad.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/mad.gif" border="0">
I: you mean 32 kb...
f: NO!!! MB's!! you say that cause you have a PII
[...]

You can hear this usually from small kids, but this morron has 27 <IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/rolleyes.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/mad.gif" border="0">

[procrastination]

Thats pretty impressive, although I have had someone tell me that they wanted me to OverClock their computer From 10gig to 20gig.

WOW... Those new processors are getting faster and faster... I would like to have that kind of turnover in my home system...

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