Reply 40 of 140, by brostenen
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Dump things that other have been doing..... I have a few to shake out of the sleeve. 😀
Once when I did computers, a customer brought in a computer for repair.
He was 14 years old, and he had spend all his money on a brand new laptop (1800 US Dollars in 2005)
He admitted his mistake, that he had used it for a "jukebox" at a party and someone had spilled Rum+Coke on the keyboard.
He was in luck, as the keyboard was dead. Nothng else.
Another story... A little more severe one of the kind.
We sold a special machine to an architect, who was sitting with drawings for like millions of dollars.
He wanted something reliable and we did a RAID setup for him. Raid5 + Spare.
It turned out, that he never took any backup, because well... He claimed that us saying that it was reliable and safe,
ment that he had no reason for doing any backup at all. He thought that this setup ment that the data was indestructable.
Now... Here is the fun part. He let his son at the age of 12 play with the RAID controller's bios.
Wich in the end resulted in the son formatting 3 of the drives. Nothing could be saved.
He learned his lesson the hard way, as 10+ years of building plans went out the windows this way. And no backup existed.
Just had this popping up...
As we sold a lot of computers, people wanted to buy those cheap ones for their childrens christian confirmation.
And a father came in, friday 5 minutes before closing time, and wanted a machine for sunday.
And as we did not build machines in advance, I was asked to build one and test it in 30 minutes.
The father was asked if he wanted WinXP, and he said no, because he had bought one in advance. Oh well....
Monday, he came back, claiming that we had installed gay-porn on the machine, just to piss him off.
And we thought that there might accidentially have been something on the harddrive. Wich we highly doubted.
Just to make shure, we took a fresh from the storage and broke the seal and installed it in front of the man.
Later he came back and claimed that we had installed gay porn again. Well... That was strange, and we explained
to him how computers worked. Just in plain loose terms. Then he claimed that we had installed it in the ram.
And then he claimed that we had installed it in the BIOS. We used a lot of time to explain otherwise to him.
Now.... The sale was temprarly taken back and we took it to the workbench to see what all the fuzz was about.
(We promised him that if this was our mistake, we would give him money back)
What we saw, explained everything about that porn.
First, he had used a pirated WinXP. Yup... The one he aparently had bought.
Second, it was a Windows without any service pack's, and one that was modded to not use any serial number.
This was all in 2006, and well... SP2 was out. He had actually used it for downloading zip programs and such,
without even updating it to SP2. Not even SP1. Clearly we were at fault about that porn stuff-popups.
The porn was not even on the machine, it was all Pop-Ups....
We dialed his number and asked him to pick up his machine, after doing a complete wipe of the machine.
To my surprise, he still did not want to buy XP, even though I gave him a discount. (OEM price for a Retail-XP)
He kept claiming that the XP he had, was bought and therefor a legit edition.... Hmmmm!!!
When he came in the door and was presented with the machine, he took it an threw the entire machine across
the store-room. And screamed that we were only out to screw him for his money, and that he wanted all back.
Because his daughter had suffered mentally from all the gayporn that we had installed.
He went home, without both machine and money.
Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....
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