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Wasting Time Fixing Computers

Posted by michael on from the get-a-bigger-hammer dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Interesting experiment by Marshall Brain, where he tracked every time-wasting error, repair, annoyance on his home network for one month. He logs 11 hours and 20 minutes of crap, everything from driver problems to forced upgrades, spam overflows... you name it. Anyone on /. is experiencing the same thing. Is it going to get better or worse in 2004, and how much time are we all wasting?"

7 of 613 comments (clear)

  1. fp! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post!

  2. UGh by madskills · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I motion to vote this as the most silly Slashdot posting of 2004 :p

  3. Poop by Flannelbum · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I got paid by my company around $765 USD for pooping on company time last year.

    And it just keeps comming!

  4. Think about this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Next time you bitch about the expense of a Mac.

  5. DAMN IT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why can't I have a cool name like "Marshall Brain"?

  6. buy a mac! by autopr0n · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    heh, actualy I'm not really an apple fan. I just want some karma.

    Gimmy!

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  7. Re:How is it wasted time? by IntlHarvester · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I would disagree. I ran the same Windows 2000 install for about 4 years (it was even upgraded from NT4). I swapped hardware, installed and uninstalled tons of software and never had any unsolvable problems.

    Recently, I reinstalled the box to give to a relative. It didn't seem any "snappier" with the new install.

    Although, maybe I was just lucky because the box was a very dull PIII/BX system with no funky vendor chipset drivers.

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