一个老愤青的独白

看专辑封面小字，还有那只绵阳

震惊了……

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/12/computing-for-dummies-five-ways-that-n00bs-annoy-geeks/

Many of you will be the go-to tech-guy-or-gal for your family and friends, and with the holiday season in full-effect, the number of gadgets you’ll have to troubleshoot is likely to multiply. And, like the IT guy at your office, you will take your turn rolling your eyes at the moronic behavior of your “clients”.

Here, we take a look at the most ridiculous and frustrating things that gadget n00bs do and say. Feel free to laugh cruelly along.

RAM vs. Hard Drive

You have just gotten through a troubleshooting session and your friend decides to throw one more problem at you. “My computer is running a bit slow”, they say. Instead of just checking for yourself, you instead ask how much RAM they have. The blank stare tells you that you have just entered, as Walter Sobchak would say, a world of pain. “I do have a lot of photos,” they say, “is that making it slow?”

You employ your best explanation about the difference between HD gigabytes and RAM gigabytes (my favorite is to say that RAM is the kitchen countertop and the HD is the store-cupboard. The bigger the countertop, the less trips you make to the store cupboard, and the faster you cook). You’re done, happy that you have made things clear. “So if I add more RAM, I can keep more photos?” Gah!

Wi-Fi is Not the Internet

Family Member: I can’t get the internet.
You: Are you connected to the Wi-Fi?
FM: Yes, but I can’t get Google.
You: I think maybe your router isn’t connected to the internet.
FM: (Pause) I am connected. I can see all four bars of the signal.
You: I can’t breathe.

Double Click Single Click

This isn’t a troubleshooting request, but it drives me crazy: watching people double-click links in web browsers. Why? WHY?

Breaking Things Through Excessive Neatness

This one takes many forms, but usually involves those who know just enough to be dangerous. It might be applications sorted into folders, either alphabetically or by purpose. It may also be the renaming of essential system files an folders (I have one friend who decided her iPhoto folders, created by the system, would look better with names in all-caps).

There are two things you’ll always find with these people: One, they never, ever put pictures and documents in the Pictures and Documents folders (instead they create new folders at the root level of their computers). And two, when they come to you for help, they will never, ever admit to doing anything wrong, even when you have busted them.

The “Mystery” Hot Computer

Friend: My computer gets very hot. The fan is very noisy.
You: I’ll come check it out. Bring it to [insert favorite bar here].

You get to the bar and they are waiting at the smooth, clean, marble-topped table. Their laptop is open, and it is sitting on top of its soft, insulating, neoprene slipcase. The problem is solved.

This is just the beginning, and now it is your turn. What are the most annoying, funny or just plain bewildering things your friends and family do to their machines? Put them in the comments.

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讲得太好了！

我花了四年的时间，都没办法向老妈解释清楚，内存和硬盘的区别…………-____-#

临睡前转个新闻

http://www.jlmpacificepoch.com/newsstories?id=160439_0_5_0_M

Google (Nasdaq:GOOG) China will introduce a new business strategy, under which it will use its international technology to serve Google users in China -- "not Google China, but Google in China," Google China CEO John Liu said in an interview with CBN Weekly published December 10. Under its new strategy, Google China intends to reduce investment into wholly localized products but continue to offer its global products in China, the report said.
According to an unnamed Google China engineer, employees including tech chiefs and project managers from webpage, maps, mobile search and other teams have left in the past few months, according to the report.
Google China announced in early December that it planned to suspend its free weather forecast short messaging service in 2010.

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反了吧！

气死……