Comments on: Shut I.T.

By: Alison

Alison — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 06:59:55 +0000

Right, I feel I must join it at this point!

Being the person who sits next to the above mentioned profanity emitter, I feel I must in some way jump to his defence! Having recently been”XP’d” at work, our entire batch of PCs have suddenly become what I can only describe, at the risk of sounding xenophobic, Yankified. XP (Xcruciatingly Painful) was developed and distributed by the Americans. XP itself (Xtreamly Ponderous) is, like it’s creators, large, dim and incredibly slow!!!! (And full of holes, but that’s an entirely different matter!) Yes, it’s just a machine and as such shouting at it is pretty inneffectual. However, I like to think that when I, or my colleague are shouting at it we are in fact having a quiet word in the ear of the stupid poxy Americans who designed the blinkin thing so badly in the first place!!!

And anyway, at least he’s not shouting at me….which is nice.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 06:48:38 +0000

OK,
I put my hands in the air.
I admit it was me giving the box grief. But I still maintain as all machines are made, maintained & programmed by humans, and, therefore have inherited all our inadequacies, which through no fault of the machine, manfest themselves in a numbingly frustrating manner.
PC rage is like road rage, where you can rip the liver out of your(perceived) enemy, whilst comfortably sat behind the screen, safe from the other party who by direct, or indirect, means has caused your day to be slightly less fulfilling than back seat tickets at an Whigfield gig.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:26:48 +0000

I bitch to my friend at work because my computer at work is slow… However, I don’t directly shout or scream at it, as it won’t serve any purpose. I agree with you, however. Garbage in, garbage out, as they say. :)

On a side note, the above says nothing for me calling myself names for doing something to make my computer do something retarded.