Computer Stupidities

[xmastree]

Not sure if this has been posted here so...

"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
-- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)


http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/im/compbnnr.gif (http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/)

# Tech Support: "What seems to be the problem?"
# Customer: "When I change my font sizes, the letters change size."

:rolleyes:

[crenn]

I love that site!

btw, this belongs in the Videos and Links subsection.

[noopypoop]

My favorite one so far.

Two girls walked into the University's Linux cluster one time. They were obviously unfamiliar with computers and chatted with each other trying to figure everything out. I was doing my own work and had tuned out a lot of the conversation, but at one point one of them turned to me and asked how to get into Windows. "Type startx," I replied, for the Linux machines booted to a shell prompt, and you had to type "startx" to get into X-Windows. I never did find out if that worked for them or not, but they spent quite some time trying to correlate the instructions they had on paper (presumably given out in one of their classes) with what they were seeing on the screen. A full hour and a half passed, and finally one of them turned to me again and asked if this was the Microsoft Windows cluster. "No," I replied, "that's downstairs." It was hard to stifle the laughter until they were gone. An hour and a half before they realized they weren't even using the right operating system. Wow.

[IndyRacer27]

My wife got a job in an accounting department about 10 years ago. At the time, she was computer illiterate, but was going to need to use computers for the job. While one of her coworkers was teaching her how to use some software, she was told to right click on the mouse.

She sat back puzzled.

Her coworker asked again, "right click on the mouse"

My wife actually asked, "You want me write 'click' on the mouse? What's that going to do for me?"

At the time, I was taking computer programming courses in college and we had just started dating. 10 years later I still tease her for it whenever I think of it. Where is she......;)

[.Maleficus.]

Some friends of mine were bored and wandering around in some big chain store when they saw what was labeled as a Y2K-compliant flashlight.

The only thing I can't figure out is whether this was just stupidity or clever marketing aimed at stupid people.
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[noopypoop]

Nevermind, my new favorite, THIS WHOLE PAGE

http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_obvious.shtml

[slytherock]

Customer: "How long is the 14 foot ethernet cable?"

[noopypoop]

I was teaching an email course to novice users -- some of them I was explaining how to enter contact information in the address book, so the program could "look it up" for them. Bad choice of words.

Student: "So it'll look up phone numbers for me?"
Me: "That's right."
Student: "Does it have to be on the right page?"
Me: "Uh, do you mean the right screen, or...?"
Student: "No, I know it has to be my own computer screen. But when I hold the phone book up to the screen for the computer to look up the number, does it have to be on the right page?"


BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Omega]

* Customer: "There are smoke and flames coming from my computer."
* Tech Support: "Uh, hang up, unplug the computer from the wall, and call the local fire department."
* Customer: "That's not the problem. I need to know how to do a backup. Fastest possible method."

[crenn]

Lol!

[xRyokenx]

This site ate up somewhere around four hours of my time yesterday, lol... good times!

[xmastree]

"A few years ago my cousin came home to find about six mouse pads lying around the house, one in the corner of each room.

When he asked my aunt why, she told him she had gone down to the shops and seen them on sale, so she bought some. But she couldn't work out how the mice's feet stuck to them, because they didn't feel that sticky."