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When Users Attack
AdmiralKit writes "Ever wonder how much damage some users can inflict on their computers? This site documents the cream of the crop of parts that have been returned because they are "defective" or "broken." Pretty amazing what people can do to computers in the middle of the information age."
I had a relative (not by blood thank goodness) who just became an MCSE. He decided to celebrate by buying himself a really expensive system on credit, that had way more power than he was really going to use. I figured I would test his abilities, so I gave him an older SCSI hard drive to install on his system as an extra drive. When he opened up his box, he knocked his ram half out of it's socket. The system naturally wouldn't boot. He spent weeks trying to fix the computer himself in embarrasment. After a month of this computer sitting useless, and his wife getting angry seeing bills come in on a useless computer, she ordered him to call me. Right in front of him, I opened the case, looked around, noticed the ram, pushed it in, closed up, and the system booted just fine. It took me perhaps 5 minutes, and he was red faced.
It just goes to show, you actually need brains behind the MCSE to make things work. Apart from a semester of a 9th grade computer class which taught me how to use obsolete Apple II's and program in BASIC, I havn't taken a single class.
Bork!