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Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece?
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 16 Dec 1999 21:00:17 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jasper Janssen wrote:
> Well, yes. But people for some reason think that they _do_ know all
> about computers. So you get the "I'm a leet hacker" type people who,
> it turns out, have the caps lock key on while typing their password.
> And worse, the ones who call back with the _exact_ same problem again.
> And again. Or the ones who don't know what "click", "double-click",
> and "right-click" mean, and don't want to learn. I have one of those
> in rather close proximity, which I _have_ to support. He's my bloody
> father. Whenever I suggest that maybe, just maybe, if he's having to
> try for five minutes to double-click on his WP 5.1 icon, moving it all
> over the desktop in the process, that it might be a good idea to just
> spend half an hour or an hour playing Solitaire, even offering to
> coach him through that, he get's this "I can't hear you la-la-la" look
> on his face.
You ever thought about sneaking in, and lowering the drag sensitivity for
double-clicks?
Steve
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| (...) The problem is that a) the minority completely ruins your life as a support person and b) in the end, it's cheaper in terms of time and material to just treat _everyone_ as a total idiot because it costs only a little extra, compared to when (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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