You know you are a stupid computer user when...

[julio_cortez]

Lady: YOU SOLD THIS TO ME CLAIMING IT WAS WIRELESS! NOW YOU TELL ME I HAVE TO PLUG IT IN!! ..RANT...RANT..
Me: --=SIGHS==-
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No, really, this happened!
Quite the same thing happened to a colelague of mine.

He bought a wireless Keyboard/mouse set (it had an USB receiver) and suddenly the batteries of the keyboard died.

He was then complaining that the keyboard wasn't working anymore and when I suggested him to change batteries he answered
"batteries? don't USB peripherals take power from the USB plug?"

I was about to cry.
But I had to explain him what "wireless" means. If it has no wires, where exactly is it supposed to get energy?

[CompyTheInsane]

I don't remember if I mentioned this...
When you almost end up restarting GDM instead of restarting Apache because you fail to pay attention to what you are typing. I do this sometimes.

sudo service gdm restart

[jerenept]

Hey... Don't be so hard on yourself. There are stupider people out there. Don't wish to work in tech support...

[pizza-is-good]

you need a tutorial (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86816) to move your computer.

Nice one.

You know you are a stupid computer user when...

you tell your friend that has a laptop with a big HDD that he is going to need to delete a lot of his data, otherwise his laptop is going to get too heavy to carry around. (I sadly know someone that knows someone who was told this.):confused:

[pizza-is-good]

Quite the same thing happened to a colelague of mine.

He bought a wireless Keyboard/mouse set (it had an USB receiver) and suddenly the batteries of the keyboard died.

He was then complaining that the keyboard wasn't working anymore and when I suggested him to change batteries he answered
"batteries? don't USB peripherals take power from the USB plug?"

I was about to cry.
But I had to explain him what "wireless" means. If it has no wires, where exactly is it supposed to get energy?

That reminds me of a friend I had some time ago. He was very computer savvy. His wireless USB mouse was fairly old, so the receiver was huge. Almost as big as the mouse. When people would tell him that his wireless mouse was lame and so forth, he would say that he preferred that because it charged the mouse. (obviously sarcastic).

Everyone but me believed him... :(

[sqrooup]

.... you think BSOD is open source software!

[warfacegod]

You use Compiz and create a new transparency with the slider defaulted at 0 and type "title=" ...and then switch Workspaces turning your entire desktop invisible.

And once you get it fixed?... You do it all over again!

I categorically deny ever having done this.:-\":rolleyes:

[jerenept]

You confuse HTML and Hotmail.
That happened to some of my classmates.
They did not realise that HTML is a programming language, and hotmail is a service provided by Microsoft.
Neither did they care when I told them.
"What does hotmail have to do with programming?"

[sqrooup]

.... You go onto Yahoo Answers, asking for the best place to stage your Junior Prom in Birmingham, Alabama, IN THE BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND SECTION!

[Austin25]

You want to throw a computer out a window when Windows crashes.

[sqrooup]

You have correction fluid on your monitor!

[jodonald]

you brag about how much better apple is when all you use is mozilla and garageband.

[julio_cortez]

You have correction fluid on your monitor!
Oh funk.. This is one of the most weird things I could think of :D
And maybe you also hit the monitor on its side "to make it return" when you end a line in Word.. Don't you? :D

[rey1321]

I know I'm a stupid linux user , cause I've been reading 5 pages of this stupid thread, keep your crap to yourself!!


AM I THE ONLY ONE WORKING HERE???????????:(

[CompyTheInsane]

When I...
- Copy a "Under Maintenance" page from the previous website I worked on to my website, change the content of the page and bring the page online not knowing that I forgot to change the title of the page, which has the name of the previous site.

- Connect my old laptop's SATA hard drive to my PC without patience and end up with one of the CPU heatsink fan's blades being damaged.

[fancy_ninja]

When I...

have unplugged my printer and yet still wonder why CUPS is messing up...

[tkoco]

you throw a computer out when Windows screws up(I know someone like that)

Or worse, you throw out the computer because the DVD does not work. A young lad brought me the computer after it was thrown out. Of course, I replaced the DVD drive and gave it back to him. :D

[tkoco]

you're this guy (http://www.adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html). http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee303/Dngrs_1/rollin.gif

The writer of the article needs to spank himself. He obviously did not do his homework.

[Austin25]

You know you are a stupid computer user when you are referred to as a "luser."

[iPadFanboy]

You know you're a stupid computer user when you:

Don't use Unix
Think gparted splits you in half.

And most of all,

Like Windows.


Sorry, I have a really strong opinion on this... :D

[iPadFanboy]

Linyos Torovoltos? That can't be right. It's too similar to Linus Torvalds. :lolflag:

[Thewhistlingwind]

You write this:
http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html

Seeing how they deliberately misspell Linus Torvalds name, cite "Flash" as a hacker program, and posted it to a website with "How to write tech satire" in the related articles, my verdict is that it's a joke written from the point of view of your clueless parents on why they're so darned annoying when it comes to computer related tropics.

EDIT: Oh, and they totally fabricated that AMD chip thing from nowhere, theres not even a parody website to reference on that one.
EDIT2: The fact that they even knew Linux existed should be proof that it's fake. (And that every reference pretty much was a parody site.)