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BBC Writer Tries PC Repair, Finds Poor Software
twitter writes "BBC author Paul Rubens tried out amateur computer repair and wrote about it. All of the software was for Windows, and he finds what most of us do: "Most of the problems I've been called to look at have been caused by viruses and spyware, some by strange software [conflicts], and only one by faulty hardware." He then flames the whole world of computer repairmen as 'a bunch of unqualified amateurs.'"
Welcome our new amateur computer repairman overlords.
Well, Paul should stop touching little boys. I've tried working in the world of ametuer pædophiles, and they're all a bunch of unqualified ametuers. They can't do anything right.
The thing about repair computers, on whatever level it is, it pays the fscking bills. That's really all that matters.
Yeah, look what they've done: Created a nasty conglomerated mess of spaghetti dependancies, incompatibilities, and forking that would make even parallel universes envious.
He should have called GeekSquad!
[rant on]
If you can't change the oil in your car or fix a tail light, then it's because your lazy and not because the "concepts are completely alien to them."
It's the same thing about programming a VCR or even turning on the TV. It's not that it's hard, it's that they are too lazy to either learn or remember.
Heck, my wife can hang sheet rock, texture it, and paint it, and she learned it in a day by herself. She can repair hole in walls and build window frames. Why, because she is not lazy.
I'm a computer programmer, yet when I had engine problems in my car, I was able to switch out the entire engine in a day with never doing it before.
I really look down on people that need to call a service person to change a light bulb.
[rant off]
The above is not worth reading.
Get a mac.
Call me a troll if you want but mere mortals can not deal with all of the crap that windows exposes them to.
If they want to listen to music, email, surf, and write the occasional document, the mac IS the most painless way to go.
If they want to game, or watch the latest in WMV, then they'll need to deal with the pc world.
I work on win 2000 all day but take my Ti with me most everwhere I go. No spyware, popups, or viruses and with PithHelmet, almost no ads on web pages either.
Use your money and time wisely.
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...