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I like that one better! Subspace transceiver it shall be.
osirisX, it sounds like your Mac Basher has all the makings of an IT guy.
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I like that one better! Subspace transceiver it shall be.
osirisX, it sounds like your Mac Basher has all the makings of an IT guy.
Here's another one. And it happens with many Windows users.
If I tell them that I don't use Windows, they get almost flustered. They can't understand how I could possibly run a computer without using Windows. And a start menu! And desktop shortcuts!
If I tell them that I don't use Windows, they get almost flustered.
They can't understand how I could possibly run a computer without using Windows. And a start menu! And desktop shortcuts!I was having problems with Entourage at home, trying to access the Exchange server at work, where it was taking ages to download emails, and also had problems with the certificate. I asked our IT manager at work if he'd changed any settings, and he started going off at me saying "we are using Outlook, not whatever it is you're using. You have to use Outlook." I told him that Entourage is basically Outlook for Mac, and he said "you shouldn't use macs".
The comments get so bad about how I mustn't know anything about computers (BTW, I'm a Software Engineer) because I use macs, that now I don't tell people until after I have done something really cool in windows or told them that I'm an IT professional. That usually wins at least some of them over. Others just look at me as if to say "you're a what??".
Believe it or not, all my lecturers switched to macs in my final year (they were linux gurus, but found macs nicer to use of course), and two of my co-workers in the Programming dept at work have macs at home too.
The comments get so bad about how I mustn't know anything about computers (BTW, I'm a Software Engineer) because I use macs, that now I don't tell people until after I have done something really cool in windows or told them that I'm an IT professional. That usually wins at least some of them over. Others just look at me as if to say "you're a what??".
Believe it or not, all my lecturers switched to macs in my final year (they were linux gurus, but found macs nicer to use of course), and two of my co-workers in the Programming dept at work have macs at home too.
This isn't a question, but it's a funny story, so I'll share...
My dad was talking to a colleague in his colleague's office, and my dad noticed these two huge PC towers on his desk, and my dad asked him,
"I bet those things don't get any processing speed."
The colleague, in all seriousness, replied,
"Actually, they're Pentium 3's."
My dad was talking to a colleague in his colleague's office, and my dad noticed these two huge PC towers on his desk, and my dad asked him,
"I bet those things don't get any processing speed."
The colleague, in all seriousness, replied,
"Actually, they're Pentium 3's."
I work in a school district as a PC/Mac tech. Here is some of my favorite lines.
User: I can't find my files.
Me: Where did you save them? To your machine or to the network drive?
User: I saved it in Word.
Me: Alright....but when word asked you where to save it where did you put it?
or
User: I can't check my email
Me: Do you use Outlook or WebMail?
User: I don't know
Me: Do you get to your mail via internet explorer?
User: I don't know.
Me: ::sigh:: do you click a little yellow icon or do you use the fovrites menu?
User: Favorites!!!!
Thats all i can remember now.
User: I can't find my files.
Me: Where did you save them? To your machine or to the network drive?
User: I saved it in Word.
Me: Alright....but when word asked you where to save it where did you put it?
or
User: I can't check my email
Me: Do you use Outlook or WebMail?
User: I don't know
Me: Do you get to your mail via internet explorer?
User: I don't know.
Me: ::sigh:: do you click a little yellow icon or do you use the fovrites menu?
User: Favorites!!!!
Thats all i can remember now.
Wow, students can check their e-mail at your schools? At mine, you'll get suspended for using anything password-related! Too bad the computer teacher doesn't realise that AIM is installed on all of them, which is how we talk to each other and maintain silence.
Wow, students can check their e-mail at your schools? At mine, you'll get suspended for using anything password-related! Too bad the computer teacher doesn't realise that AIM is installed on all of them, which is how we talk to each other and maintain silence.
The students don't have email access (well they're not suppose to). The users i was referring to were the teachers/staff
Wow, and I though my school comps were bad (apart from they use Windows, they crash, are really slow, all the 1st years go games which slows everything down, the printers are always broken, any student can control any computer remotely, etc)!
Wow, students can check their e-mail at your schools? At mine, you'll get suspended for using anything password-related! Too bad the computer teacher doesn't realise that AIM is installed on all of them, which is how we talk to each other and maintain silence.
Meebo.com, who needs a downloaded AIM.
Silly corporate/education world.
First, a brief follow-up to one of my earlier posting, from March 11th.
That guy with the "crazy eyes" I mentioned, the one who loudly expressed his opinion that all mac users should be shot,, well it seems he is no longer with us. I have not seen him for several weeks, so I asked around. " Oh, he left, he didn't like us", I was told. Someone more intimate with the situation said he gave proper notice, but was called in shortly after giving notice and was told he was free to go. Hmm, I guess I'm wasn't the only one who thought he had crazy eyes.
Last Friday, I was asked to install parallels and Win XP on our office secretary's fairly new Intel Mac. She has some apps that are windows-only. I had never done this before, and I welcomed the chance. Our department had bought several licenses for parallels, and one was not used yet.
I was pleasantly surprised at how easy this is to install and get running. Once parallels was installed, the Windows installation went perfectly, and all is fine indeed.
So, she now has the windows desktop and several windows apps open. In strolls one of our resident "I'm strictly a PC man" characters. He sees it and dons a rather constipated look. I say "On the Intel powered Macs, we can run Windows with no problem". His response? It was textbook!
"Well that doesn't prove anything." Then, to our hard-working secretary,,"They should get you a real computer". (we're a Mac dominate work group, luckily) He seems to forget who makes his airline reservations.
What was funny, was how I predicted, with almost dead-nuts accuracy, what he was going to say.
It's amazing, isn't it?
I'll readily admit to being older than the demographic here, so I've seen quite a bit of this nonsense. Folks, it's been going on since the platform was introduced in '84. In fact, there were some people who were "Apple Bashers" back in the days when the hottest computer on the planet was the Apple II, well before the Mac. "Uh, that Apple,, They suck!"
Who knows what drives these people? I guess that's one for the Harvard Grey beards.
That guy with the "crazy eyes" I mentioned, the one who loudly expressed his opinion that all mac users should be shot,, well it seems he is no longer with us. I have not seen him for several weeks, so I asked around. " Oh, he left, he didn't like us", I was told. Someone more intimate with the situation said he gave proper notice, but was called in shortly after giving notice and was told he was free to go. Hmm, I guess I'm wasn't the only one who thought he had crazy eyes.
Last Friday, I was asked to install parallels and Win XP on our office secretary's fairly new Intel Mac. She has some apps that are windows-only. I had never done this before, and I welcomed the chance. Our department had bought several licenses for parallels, and one was not used yet.
I was pleasantly surprised at how easy this is to install and get running. Once parallels was installed, the Windows installation went perfectly, and all is fine indeed.
So, she now has the windows desktop and several windows apps open. In strolls one of our resident "I'm strictly a PC man" characters. He sees it and dons a rather constipated look. I say "On the Intel powered Macs, we can run Windows with no problem". His response? It was textbook!
"Well that doesn't prove anything." Then, to our hard-working secretary,,"They should get you a real computer". (we're a Mac dominate work group, luckily) He seems to forget who makes his airline reservations.
What was funny, was how I predicted, with almost dead-nuts accuracy, what he was going to say.
It's amazing, isn't it?
I'll readily admit to being older than the demographic here, so I've seen quite a bit of this nonsense. Folks, it's been going on since the platform was introduced in '84. In fact, there were some people who were "Apple Bashers" back in the days when the hottest computer on the planet was the Apple II, well before the Mac. "Uh, that Apple,, They suck!"
Who knows what drives these people? I guess that's one for the Harvard Grey beards.
One I heard yesterday:
You know first version of Windows, Windows 3-1 (I know it wasn't the first, but it gets better ), well they (Apple) have taken that and based the Mac on it.
I'd love to know where the person in question got that little nugget of mis-information from. Probably PC World.
You know first version of Windows, Windows 3-1 (I know it wasn't the first, but it gets better ), well they (Apple) have taken that and based the Mac on it.
I'd love to know where the person in question got that little nugget of mis-information from. Probably PC World.
Maybe people who's school's have blocked websites portaing (is that even a word? i dont care)to the description "Fun and games."
was getting some pictures from my macbook pro in school and giving them to a teacher. This is the conversation that followed after showing off a bit in aperture and generally on the whole os.
himh thats [aperture] good can you get it on this (points to school windows box)
me:no sorry its mac only
h: well thats strange, i thought windows owned apple
m:no...pretty sure they dont
h:yeh, they do
m:they held some shares in apple a few years ago, but never anything close to owning the company
anyway this continued for some time
the worst are the techs in the it dept
they hate macs with a passion, fortunately our school has been getting more and more but they have had an intel imac sitting in their room in its box for 8 months because 'they cant get the right software to make it compatable with the network' and they constantly make loads of compatability.etc. excuses.
i guess the usual stuff really.
him
h thats [aperture] good can you get it on this (points to school windows box)me:no sorry its mac only
h: well thats strange, i thought windows owned apple
m:no...pretty sure they dont
h:yeh, they do
m:they held some shares in apple a few years ago, but never anything close to owning the company
anyway this continued for some time
the worst are the techs in the it dept
they hate macs with a passion, fortunately our school has been getting more and more but they have had an intel imac sitting in their room in its box for 8 months because 'they cant get the right software to make it compatable with the network' and they constantly make loads of compatability.etc. excuses.
i guess the usual stuff really.
I just got off the phone with my mom about how her iMac's being weird, so she could use that iMac if the school's not going to.
Not a silly question, but I moved to WV from FL and I knew how to use Macs. Well it turns out my new school got a brand new iMac C2D 2.16 Ghz, 2 Gigs of Ram and a 500gb hard drive. None of them knew how to use it! So I started showing them how and in Final Cut Pro I was teaching them how to edit well some idiot got on it and closed all the windows of the application out... I was mad because I told him not to and he does it anyways...
I was looking at dell displays at the mall and asking about prices, i had my macbook pro under my arm and the salesman was trying to sell me a computer instead by saying why would you ever own a mac they can't access the internet or use any displays other than apple's
So does Google. A friend of mine was hired in late '05, and chose a ThinkPad over a PowerBook. A couple months later when the MacBook Pro came out, he was drooling, wishing he could trade in his ThinkPad and choose again. (Apparently he'll get the chance in a couple years.)
I agree, at least we can laugh off the pcers, but I hate it when a mac person doesn't try to learn how to use their own computer and then proceeds to do apple bashing
One of the most irritating I ever heard was from a Mac user at my school. His parents used Macs, so he has to use them at home too. Now they didn't install Word or anything on their Macs, so had no apps that would open .doc files. He bought his PC laptop into school and I asked him why he went to a PC. He said because Macs can't do Word files. Anyways, this was before I got my MacBook Pro.
Just before the end of last year I was using it next to him in English (he was on one of our school PCs) and he looked across at my screen and saw Word open. He said something along the lines of "what did you do to get Word on there?".
I mean it's sure irritating when PC users don't know anything about Macs, and when Mac users don't know anything about PCs, but Mac users not knowing anything about Macs? That's just wierd...
All was well though because the machine he was on crashed at the end of the session while he was saving his work
They monitor the sites we go to. 600 people going to the same site is going to attract some attention.
used to get this everyday my number pad isnt working lol job security lol. Or my monitor isnt showing windows. turn the thingon you f-tard lol.
lol job security lol. Or my monitor isnt showing windows. turn the thingon you f-tard lol.
How do I change the desktop?
You know though, not all PC users are hopeless people. Some o us just are forced to live with it.
You know though, not all PC users are hopeless people. Some o us just are forced to live with it.
I hate that. one of my good friends told me to talk to one of his other computer nerd buddies (he new nothing about them bar specs) and I said i had a mac, then he goes on bashing them saying that his friend threw his "I Mac" out because of how sh*t it was. He bashed macs a little more then I asked him the question: "Have you even touched, let alon be in the same room as a mac?" guess what the answer was
"ummm... maybe..."