Why can't people just listen!

[Buzzfuzz]

Yep, I can understand you all on this matter.

Some people are hopeless, you repair their mistakes which is usually spyware/virus related, but they keep getting it even if you advise certain programs.

A few months ago I got a PC dumped here again, well I thought, I can have a quick look.
So turned it on, heard the drive ticking, ok, turned it off, brought it back again and said it had a dying HDD.
Total time spent, less than 5 minutes :-D

And yeah I'm now going to start charging @ 50 euro's an hour, if it takes more than 2 hours, every hour then it's 100 euro an hour.

I know the thing of 'friends' who you never hear from and then call you up for pc problems.
Certainly those I will charge, but not direct family and close friends.

But I just said to a bunch of people that I'm not going to do it anymore, and it has been quiet since then :-D

 

[AmiNeo]

...I can only take so much of my time being consumed to help others when they don't appreciate or respect my own time or goals. Especially when I'm taking time out of my own study and missing lectures for them and they keep coming back for more like I have nothing else to do.....

This is absolutely spot on for some people I have helped out. If I get the impression that they are just using me because they are either to lazy to sort it out, or to tight to take it to a Pro, then I turn them down. I have better things to do.

....But next year I'm going to have to say no as things will be tougher, and yet I'm going to feel responsible for her failing.

Don't feel guilty at all mate, it's on her. It's her degree at the end of the day. What is she going to do in the big wide world? Phone you to help with her job?

You're right Phil! Thanks for that. I just feel part responsible for letting her start depending on me in the first place. icard She prob wouldn't have got through the first year without my patience and in retrospect, that would have been more preferable because she'd already have learned by now one way or another.

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Yep, I can understand you all on this matter.

Some people are hopeless, you repair their mistakes which is usually spyware/virus related, but they keep getting it even if you advise certain programs.

A few months ago I got a PC dumped here again, well I thought, I can have a quick look.
So turned it on, heard the drive ticking, ok, turned it off, brought it back again and said it had a dying HDD.
Total time spent, less than 5 minutes :-D

And yeah I'm now going to start charging @ 50 euro's an hour, if it takes more than 2 hours, every hour then it's 100 euro an hour.

I know the thing of 'friends' who you never hear from and then call you up for pc problems.
Certainly those I will charge, but not direct family and close friends.

But I just said to a bunch of people that I'm not going to do it anymore, and it has been quiet since then :-D

Just goes to show how much they value the 'friendship' though eh?

 

[Justin]

there is my biggest bugbear as well, so called friends that only call when they have a problem.

the other issue i have is family members that don't learn and keep coming back with the same problems, 1D TEN T errors, same viruses, same missing files etcicard

 

[Bad_Ad84]

I moved from Birmingham to Burton on Trent when I was around 17.

I got a phone call 2.5 years later from a "friend" asking if I wanted to pop round. He had no idea I had moved and it turns out he had computer issues. Told him I had moved a couple of years ago...

I have not spoken to him since (so near 10 years or so?).

As I said previously, I learned long ago people will just take advantage. I have no problems with favours if you get them back. However, most people do not have anything worth being owed.

 

[Justin]

I moved from Birmingham to Burton on Trent when I was around 17.

I got a phone call 2.5 years later from a "friend" asking if I wanted to pop round. He had no idea I had moved and it turns out he had computer issues. Told him I had moved a couple of years ago...

I have not spoken to him since (so near 10 years or so?).

As I said previously, I learned long ago people will just take advantage. I have no problems with favours if you get them back. However, most people do not have anything worth being owed.

yep, that deffo sucks the big one!!

 

[Wolfy]

I love the parasites who change tactics when you don`t play ball
Had one of em turn up on monday with a nice looking dell pc "for me"! (yeah right), all enthusiastic that I should take a look, so I set up on kitchen sideboard, fired it up with xubuntu dvd, "why are you not booting it into windows?" he asks, and of course I point out that I have no need to, and that now I know it is a p4 machine (core1 I think) with 2 gigs ram and a 500gig hard-drive, it`s gonna get wiped... plug was out of the wall faster than can blink

Nice little pc, he will be learning to use linux on it, when he accepts thats all he`s getting, may take a few more weeks but I have all the time in the world

 

[Bad_Ad84]

Core Solo/Duo were laptop only and not P4. First Core processors for Desktops were Core 2 Duo (Core 2 Solo was Laptop only too). Although I suppose technically you could have used an adapter to make it work on a desktop board - I doubt this was the case.

Core (including upto the i7) are based on the Pentium M (which in turn was based on the P3).

They dropped the P4 architecture as it sucked.

 

[AndyLandy]

I have a Core Duo desktop machine...

OK, it's a technicality, it's an iMac with a laptop CPU in it, but it's still a 'desktop' machine.

 

[Bad_Ad84]

I did cover that part, but Apple were unique at that time for using laptop processors in desktops to save space. But he mentioned Windows - hence assuming it wasnt a Mac.

But it seems to be more common these days with nettops etc using mobile processors.

 

[AndyLandy]

I did cover that part, but Apple were unique at that time for using laptop processors in desktops to save space. But he mentioned Windows - hence assuming it wasnt a Mac.

But it seems to be more common these days with nettops etc using mobile processors.

I was merely making a joke. I'm well aware that Macs are fairly unique in this (Although I'm fairly certain there were some Sony Vaio desktops that were modelled around laptop chips)

Of course, Wolfy's system might well have been a laptop. I don't think he specified.

But besides, all are agreed, the P4 architecture is a ball of poo.

 

[Bad_Ad84]

I wasnt taking offence - although I know my "matter of fact" style posting can come across like it.

You are actually right, he didnt specify - I personally have always refer to desktops as PC's and laptops as laptops, hence the assumption. But you are certainly right that it could have been a laptop.

Still not a Core though (if it was a P4) which was initially the point (before I went on a tangent!)

Regarding desktops - yes, there were certainly the odd few. It was actually quite popular with home PC builders too - the Pentium M Mobile processors were actually pretty good, even in a desktop. As such, adapter boards sprung up so you could use them in proper desktop boards.

 

[AndyLandy]

No worries, no offence either intended or taken.

Yeah, I remember being surprised when I replaced a "Pentium 4 M" laptop with a newer "Pentium M" one, to learn that "Pentium M" was based on the old P3 architecture, rather than the P4.

Still, the old P3s were rock solid. I used to run a 600MHz Katmai as my main machine for a long time!

And the whole Centrino brand was a cunning move on the part of Intel, meaning that you had to use their chipset and wireless controller as well as their CPU if you wanted the new "Intel inside" badge. Still, it made it easier for Linux devs to write drivers for!

 

[Amiga Forever]

I remember long time ago when I was helping my friends on their computer as it cover with All Computer Virus and when the window start....It was like going through slow Motions :roll:

That how slow the computer was thanks to bloody Virus icard

It took me half day to get rid of everythings and I was hoping that my friends learn from me and listen to me on what I have said!!!

Everythings is running fine then!

Few Months later.....the same things have happen again and I for one...Should be charging him for getting rid of the Virus again as they dont learn anythings these day :roll::double

All you need is

Malwarebyte

microsoft security essentials

You would have NO WORRIES Whatever

 

[Harrison]

The scanners people use drives me mad more than anything else. So many people keep insisting on buying McAfee and renewing the license every year, even though I keep telling them it is complete rubbish and doesn't stop anything infecting their machines. Nearly every virus riddled PC I've had to disinfect has been running McAfee.

And I totally agree. For general home users the free M$ Security Essentials, Defender and Malwarebytes is all they need. Why buy anything when the free programs do a good enough job for anything but a business.

 

[Wolfy]

Matter of fact posting is the best sometimes

It is an LGA775 P4.

He`s still an ass for trying to get me to fix it for £0 tho...

 

[80sFREAK]

I solved this "issue" very easy: "friend": Can you have look my computer? me: Sure, which system is on? "friend": Windows(choose one) me: Sorry, i am under Linux since xxxx. "friiend": ........

 

[AmiNeo]

I solved this "issue" very easy: "friend": Can you have look my computer? me: Sure, which system is on? "friend": Windows(choose one) me: Sorry, i am under Linux since xxxx. "friiend": ........

Or... "Sorry I only do Commodore stuff... "