{"id":220,"date":"2007-05-11T03:06:19","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T09:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/archives\/220"},"modified":"2007-05-11T03:09:06","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T09:09:06","slug":"techamok-view-topic-10-reasons-it-doesn%e2%80%99t-pay-to-be-%e2%80%9cthe-computer-guy%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"TechAmok :: View topic &#8211; 10 Reasons It Doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Pay To Be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Computer Guy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techamok.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?t=3513\">TechAmok :: View topic &#8211; 10 Reasons It Doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Pay To Be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Computer Guy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Man people just don&#8217;t get it.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI read once that the computer is the most complicated device you have in your house.<\/p>\n<p>If you have 1 digit an 8 instead of a 9 it can totally bork things up, and this is why working with computers and giving advice is so hard.<\/p>\n<p>90% of the time the solution is just looking at the screen.  Much like test driving a car to find the problems.<\/p>\n<p>I figured I&#8217;d make some pointers for asking for help from your computer friends &#8230; who you&#8217;ve drafted to be their tech support.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Do some research first.\n<ul>\n<li>\n    \tGoogle It<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>So many times a simple trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/\">wikipedia.org<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\">google.com<\/a> or even <a href=\"http:\/\/ask.com\">ask.com<\/a> can solve all your problems, and you&#8217;ll possibly learn more about a given subject than your computer friend can convey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Read The Manual\n<ul>\n<li>You decided to install ____ OS\/program on your machine, learn about it on your own.  Don&#8217;t expect your computer friend to know all about it, and hold your hand through your experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Irc\n<ul>\n<li>If you run linux, then get an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IRC_Client\">irc client<\/a> and head over to irc.frenode.net.  People sit in these rooms and talk about their distro all day long, and the great thing about these rooms is once you&#8217;re done with giving\/receiving support You can leave.  This is great because you&#8217;re not asking your computer friend the same question over, and over again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t expect them to know the answer.\n<ul>\n<li>You computer is the most sophisticated device you own.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t ask the same question over and over and over.\n<ul>\n<li>You computer is the most sophisticated device you own. &#8211; If you haven&#8217;t noticed that&#8217;s the 3rd time I&#8217;ve mentioned it.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes it&#8217;s so incredibly stupid that #1 &#8211; research &#8211; would have answered all your questions more completely than if you ask your computer friend.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes we just don&#8217;t know the answer.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes we just have a basic understanding, and can&#8217;t put it into words, and even then it&#8217;s so full of holes that #1 &#8211; research &#8211; is much better information, and more reliable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The movie hacker does not exist!\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s fictional plain and simple.<\/li>\n<li>You can&#8217;t type 80 WPM without using the space bar.<\/li>\n<li><b>Normal<\/b> people can&#8217;t just pull up all you information in seconds.  In most cases you need Clarence from some government agency\/financial Institution to access that information, and if you don&#8217;t it&#8217;s a felony.<\/li>\n<li>Seriously &#8230; some of the stuff they show you in the movies about computers is about as possible as making a nuclear power plant from a paper plate, and a cardboard tube.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TechAmok :: View topic &#8211; 10 Reasons It Doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Pay To Be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Computer Guy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Man people just don&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24,10,30,8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insanity","category-life-stories","category-linux-2","category-stupid-linux-questions","category-tech","category-things-that-get-me-mad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}