The greatest threat to cpus everywhere

[Armok]

No I'm not talking about viruses or even terrorist attacks. I'm talking about dumbasses that start tampering with setting and altering things. I came home today to find my computer had the following things changed on it.

A, the background was coloury flowers
B, the homepage was set to fashion buys dot com
C, The keyboard had been changed to a wireless with no batterys
D, a scanner had been loaded which proceeded to load up like 8 scanning programs every time you turned the cpu on so making it take 12 minutes or so to load up.

This is already after they changed the ISP to totally fuck me over. God why do my moron family have to fuck about with it. Any download the lastest version they feel obliged to download to help me out. My last computer was killed by a combo of AOL being installed/uninstalled various times and aload of programs it was to slow to run. Just leave it alone it works fine as it is.

[Gnarled_rose]

Sounds rough, brother. What are the ages of your siblings, 'cause I've found that it's usually the 'rents who "want to help" and screw you over.

If you want, I know this guy who can sneak into your house, crawl through the ceiling, and drip some poison down a string and....oh, nevermind.

[KodiaX987]

You can never beat the stupidity I had once witnessed.


I was having a friend over, and he came home while I was playing the computer downstairs. I couldn't hear the doorbell from there, so mom answered and said friend came down to see me play.

I talk a bit about the game, and then out of the blue, my friend says "Hey, what does that thing do?"

...And he presses the ON/OFF switch, effectively stopping my game in its tracks.

I don't think he ever quite recovered from my rage.

[Deathscythealpha]

I hate it when people claim they can fix PC's when they dont have a clue. One of the guys on my flat has somehow got himself the reputation of being th guy to see when your PC messes up.

Ive seen him ruin 3 laptop's so far and fill countless others with software the users will never need.

How they can trust a guy who quit a computing course over a guy who passed with loads of grades from his (that would be me) i dont know.

[Atax]

Two words Armok: Password protection

[Kizaragu]

My brother willingly downloads Viruses and MSN hacks which royally screw over my computer on a daily basis. He wants to seem 1337, but in fact he has no clue as to what he's doing.
Go figure.

When I get my own PC, he can go f**k himself if he thinks I'm letting him any where near it.

[Outrider]

Two better words, Armok: Baseball Bat

[Armok]

Heres an example:

My dad has a digital camera after I set it up and loaded the 6 mini videos (5 seconds each) he'd made onto the camera he desided that he wanted to show these videos to my uncle. So he downloaded each of them onto a separate blank cd (taking 6 cds and around 5 hrs to do so).

[Sharkyland]

Oy... I know this feeling too well. I'm not expert on fixing PCs, but I can offer my help, but like I said I'm not computer expert.

[derBauer]

You can sum it up much easier:

The greatest threat to any computer is a dumbass.

I have a friend who when online likes to click "yes" and "ok" to all popups. That fucking idiot had me deleting porn and all sorts of useless files for about a month. I couldnt believe it! He had only used the thing for about 5 minutes to "check his email".

[opaopajr]

now, when tech-ignorant ask me what product they should get or, my fave, "the best machine" i now just say "Apple."

giving choice to the ignorant or plain oblivious is a bad thing. they are only going to get themselves in trouble.

i know my way (moderately) around a PC (PC all my life), changing hardware, setting BIOS, fooling with software, etc. but i know perfectly well that what i can do is not what most of the non-tech capaple (let alone savvy) people can do. there's no reason to fluster them with things they don't understand or (and this is very important, pay attention) *don't want to* understand. so with these people i find that all the customization and options integral to PCs is just fireworks and a lighter in a naughty kid's hands. it's bound to be set off and no good will come of it.

so to avoid all that i just say get a Mac. they'll do what they wanna do and won't get in as much trouble. last thing i wanna do is be stuck with their pleas for repairs.

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[Nai_Calus]

"I can't get my e-mail."
"Hotmail is down."
"But I can't get my e-mail."
"Right. Because Hotmail is down.
"I NEED MY EMAIL! FIX IT! NOW!"
"Fuck you." *slams door to bedroom, locks, plots ways to remove mother from computer permanently*

Mom's also called Mozilla a piece of shit because AOL's website was on the blink.

Trying to explain Charter going to shit is fun, too. >_<

"Why isn't the internet working?"
"Because Charter is down."
"Well why isn't it working?"
"Because it's down."
"Well fix it! I want my internet! You broke it!"

Yes, I personally broke the internet.

She also makes me make her an administrator. She has no idea what this is, doesn't download and install programs(Except for spyware that tries to hijack everything), and has no earthly clue of anything. She knows only her e-mail and Spider Solitaire.. Reminds me, I need to set her back to being a limited user again. Something tells me she's too stupid to know any better.

[navci]

Ah.
Lovely. Once I know this girl, she is so cute and lovable and everything. She likes to randomly hop over and use my computer. Proceed to download whatever software she sees fit, without notifying me ever.

When I do complain, she looks so sad and poor and like "what did I do" and then accuse me of being anal and stubbon, it's just a computer. ... Stuff like that. Yes. :/

My computer, I get to do whatever the fuck I want with it. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

Said person also once deleted my game file of a card game (card Fighters 2 on the NGPC) which has 99% card collection and 99% backup rate. (and it's hell to get to 99%) When I freaked out, she proceeded with the same process. Eventually ends up accusing me for being some sort of freak.

I moved away from that city. But recently she informed me she is going to move to Vancouver. Someone save me? Please?????

[DarthFomar]

Armok....you should tell your parents to back off, or you will murder their Computer {if they have one} http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif

[Kuea]

On 2004-05-08 13:07, navi wrote:
Ah.
Lovely. Once I know this girl, she is so cute and lovable and everything. She likes to randomly hop over and use my computer. Proceed to download whatever software she sees fit, without notifying me ever.

When I do complain, she looks so sad and poor and like "what did I do" and then accuse me of being anal and stubbon, it's just a computer. ... Stuff like that. Yes. :/

My computer, I get to do whatever the fuck I want with it. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

Said person also once deleted my game file of a card game (card Fighters 2 on the NGPC) which has 99% card collection and 99% backup rate. (and it's hell to get to 99%) When I freaked out, she proceeded with the same process. Eventually ends up accusing me for being some sort of freak.

I moved away from that city. But recently she informed me she is going to move to Vancouver. Someone save me? Please?????


catch a ferry to Sechelt or halfmoon bay.
it's really nice there.
the beaches are so nice.

but for me, my mom and brother download so much crap it takes literally 10 minutes for it to load then I have to clear thei crap off.(well mostly the spyware and junk)

[Zzzzzz]

My bro liked to hijack the laptop wallpapers alot. It's both mine and his, but it goes like this:
He puts up a wallpaper
I let it stay there for at least two days
I put up my wallpaper
He multilates it the next time he goes on and then puts it up

And what I mean multilates it I mean take screenshot of laptop desktop and then adds something to it. Like, for instance, the last one he did, navi's group wallpaper. he puts in big letters
"THIS IS DISTURBING. THIS IS VERY DISTURBING."
I removed it and put up the original one, and then he decides to replace it. I put up a link wallpaper I use alot. The next time he went on, and he gets mad (well, upset) that I replace his "bloodspot" wallpaper. His friend heard this, and said it (with a "cool Link!") was unfair of me to do change it so soon, until I point out the "mutilating" thing. Then with a "Oooooh" he told just told my bro he shouldn't do that, and he stopped.
Odd how I told him to stop several times and he didn't listen but his friend (our, eh, our friend) tells him once and he stops.
The morale of the story: Eh, friendship is a great thing?

[KodiaX987]

You wanna totally screw your brother? Then to this.

1) Hide your cursor in a corner of the screen and take a screenshot of your desktop. Make sure no programs are open.

2) Set this screenshot as a wallpaper.

3) Cut & paste all the desktop icons in a folder you'll carefully hide somewhere in your hard drive.

4) Your bro will think the computer's always frozen.




Or, if you are really, really evil:

1) Set the colors to all black on black background.

[navci]

Kodi, you are evil. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

[Armok]

If u really wanna annoy other computer users. Change The symbol and name of Words on the desk top to the Internet Explorer one and viceversa.

Idiots even run a virus check thinking their computers been hacked.

[Eihwaz]

Yeah, I know what you mean.

On our new laptop (currently sitting on my desk, in my room), my dopey little sister comes and uses MY Windows account (she has her own, dammit), changes my desktop to something stupid (like William Hung, or some other musical-dipshit), cranks the volume up to MAX so when I play some music, it liquifies my eardrums...

Grah. So annoying. >__<;

[KodiaX987]

On 2004-05-09 14:53, Eihwaz wrote:

On our new laptop (currently sitting on my desk, in my room), my dopey little sister comes and uses MY Windows account (she has her own, dammit),



Password, motherfucker.

Use it.

[Deathscythealpha]

On 2004-05-09 11:38, Armok wrote:
If u really wanna annoy other computer users. Change The symbol and name of Words on the desk top to the Internet Explorer one and viceversa.

Idiots even run a virus check thinking their computers been hacked.



Or another great one is to ramp the mouse speed up to max so is just a blur as people move it, hehe, great fun for someone whos not expecting it.

Ive also found out that several dipshits on my Uni Server havent been suing firewalls to connect to broadband internet. I cleared off 687 Spyware files from someones laptop the other day, but couldnt do anything about the two Trojans and some other wierd virus he had sitting on it.

[Rainbowlemon]

On 2004-05-03 05:07, KodiaX987 wrote:
You can never beat the stupidity I had once witnessed.


I was having a friend over, and he came home while I was playing the computer downstairs. I couldn't hear the doorbell from there, so mom answered and said friend came down to see me play.

I talk a bit about the game, and then out of the blue, my friend says "Hey, what does that thing do?"

...And he presses the ON/OFF switch, effectively stopping my game in its tracks.

I don't think he ever quite recovered from my rage.



Can't beat it? My friend conveniently decided he wanted to find out what 'this button' did as my PSO was saving, deleting all 5 of my 100+ characters on the cube. Needless to say he never saw the light of day again.

~ Antimony

[Armok]

The most simple yet easy way to annoy is.

While they are doing a piece of work walk in and press the good old insert key. you wouldnt belive the number of ppl to thick to work out how to stop the annoying features this button causes.