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#415505 10-Dec-2010 13:00

Probably my main peeve has to be doing accounts on my buggy (but free) accounting software, trying to work out what is supposed to be charged to where, whats the difference between debit and credit, why it doesnt balance, and why it calculated my tax all wrong when the IRD deadline is getting closer. Rubbish in, rubbish out... Yes I know I should just pay someone.

I don't like salespeople who BS when they have no idea what product specs mean, but I do appreciate the ones who offer to find out and come back with some useful comparison from their resident expert.

I find it really annoying when people complain that I should join facebook as if its some mandatory requirement. I'm not interested in facebook or status updates sorry, why do people seem to assume that facebook is somehow compulsory?

I was annoyed at my apartment with Cat5 wiring thats all connected to a voice block and no space for modem or anything else. But thats ok now, found a sneaky workaround.

My newest annoyance is Nokia smart phones that install apps to the very limited main memory by default, and then just run out of memory to do anything.

Time to find a new industry!

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#415507 10-Dec-2010 13:06

Oh and people that B**CH and complain that something didn't work, when they are too lazy/greedy/silly to do a few tests that might isolate the problem, and they refuse to accept that technology does have real world limitations, and become obstructive whenever someone tries to help them.

Time to find a new industry!

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#415515 10-Dec-2010 13:21

+1 @ Jaxson although win 7 is a wee bit better on slightly older/slower hardware than Vista ever was

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#415517 10-Dec-2010 13:26

Oh I just thought of a new one

Businesses that require you to work out what the GST is on a product they sell errr HELLO it's 2010 you lazy Bstards just give me the GST inc price please

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#415659 10-Dec-2010 18:38

SepticSceptic:
Kaos36: the other day he told a staff worker that if you want your program to run faster you need to buy a faster cd drive. I nearly chocked on my coffee but yes cause hes the boss I can't tell him to STFU!

In a round-about way, it's not that far off the mark, especially if the optical drive and HDD are sharing the same IDE cable ... data I/O will slow down to the slowest device.
Not to mention the annoying habit of WinXP forcing the IDE channel to PIO mode if there are too many errors from the optical drive ..

But as usual, a little knowledge is totaly misconstrued ....

Yes I know where your coming from but this was his answer to Adobe Photoshop, you don't even need a cd to run it. The Tech Guru is a total farking clown who is always right, if someone else proves him wrong he will steal his idea. Cause hes the Tech Guru Master. I'm hoping he'll get busted downloading his movies see if his tech guru-ness can get him back on the net once hes disconnected. :D

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#415672 10-Dec-2010 19:24

Just in regards to what Jaxson said about the assumption that the computer world has moved on. Shame they have not thought of that when it comes to digital movies. We have dvd players with usb inputs and divx capabilities and same with multimedia players too but finding one that accepts any file on a NTFS system is near impossible.

Sure it's great if it supports HD content but at under 4 gig a file really how good is that digital rip or download really gonna be. It's a complete joke it must be close to or over 10 + years that NTFS has been around now yet they all default to FAT32.

Just crazy and annoying as f***.

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#415748 11-Dec-2010 01:31

Another pain-in-the-neck thing was mentioned a few times... People who need to know how to do something,which can be done in a few clicks, but they don't do anything but ask.

Example: When I use an application, I check out all the menus and dialogs, if there's something that pertains to me as interesting or pertinent to what I'm doing, I'll see what it does. [If I'm pretty confident I can fix it if need be, I'll just mess around with all the settings and parameters ;D ] Like, in Lubuntu I pressed good ol' Ctrl-Alt-F1 and tried to see what I could do in the shell. I even use Terminal to update. (sudo apt-get dist-upgrade) but I digress.

Just today I was asked how to blank a CDRW in ubuntu. This, to me, was a no-brainer, as when you insert the CD, it'll mount itself, placing an icon in the Nautilus desktop. I, being me, would right-click this, to see what the system'll let me do to the CD. And lo, "Blank CD-RW" was a menu!
But alas, my brother (who asked) is more of a gamer (while I dabble in both gaming and geekery), and is not so inclined to browsing menus of stuff. So I had to show him ("Right-click the CDRW icon" was insufficient instruction)

Sometimes when someone needs my help with a similar thing, they expect me to be able to tell them, step by step. Usually it's not something I'm familiar with, but all it takes is about twenty seconds' wait while I flick through menus and stuff for something relevant. But alas, this is unacceptable; I am to stand behind them and, rather unprofessionally, point at each menu and be all like, "Okay try that one... Now click Preferences... No, okay it's not there, close that -- click Close... Now try the Tools menu.. Yeah, that one, next to Help..."

It's not quite the same as total noobs, or noobs who think they're computer-savvy ('course, no one really uses the -savvy suffix these days..), but more those who are nestled deep in their technological comfort zone, unwilling to risk the chilly draught from reaching into the menus just outside.

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#415750 11-Dec-2010 01:35

jtbthatsme: Just in regards to what Jaxson said about the assumption that the computer world has moved on. Shame they have not thought of that when it comes to digital movies. We have dvd players with usb inputs and divx capabilities and same with multimedia players too but finding one that accepts any file on a NTFS system is near impossible.

Sure it's great if it supports HD content but at under 4 gig a file really how good is that digital rip or download really gonna be. It's a complete joke it must be close to or over 10 + years that NTFS has been around now yet they all default to FAT32.

Just crazy and annoying as f***.

Here's hoping exFAT takes off... If Microsoft's licensing allows it. ><

Sorry for the double post btw..

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#415752 11-Dec-2010 01:42

1) Ringing Vodafone to be treated like a absolute noob, if only they had a helpdesk for people like me who know what are talking about.

2) When my phone explodes, really not fun living with a Nokia 1100i for 2 weeks before HTC sort anything out.

3) OSX - has got bloated over the years, iTunes taking 4mins to load, me getting angry and going back to Linux only to remember it's a Mac, and it don't like Linux too much (but it works to a degree)

4) People who think they know what they are talking about, but know crap all.

5) Trolls

6) Spammers

7) Fanboys

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#415773 11-Dec-2010 09:03

Your iTunes takes 4 minutes to load on OSX?
Holy crap... what have you done to your computer? Filled it with sweet, sweet, sticky honey?

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#415779 11-Dec-2010 09:13

Dunnersfella: Your iTunes takes 4 minutes to load on OSX?
Holy crap... what have you done to your computer? Filled it with sweet, sweet, sticky honey?

Evidence that even the best OS in the world (TM) can fall to user's dumb actions ;)

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#415992 11-Dec-2010 22:08

johnr: RNC experts that work in the media

Haha ;)

freitasm:
Dunnersfella: Your iTunes takes 4 minutes to load on OSX?
Holy crap... what have you done to your computer? Filled it with sweet, sweet, sticky honey?

Evidence that even the best OS in the world (TM) can fall to user's dumb actions ;)

I have never had this problem even on older Macs.. I don't know what this user has done to their mac.. but I would suggest they get it looked at O__O My iTunes opens in just 2 seconds. If that.

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#416026 12-Dec-2010 02:19

Nokia.

Everything they make sucks basically. Especially software both for phones, and PC's to try to work with their substandard software on their phones.

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