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[endotoxin.livejournal.com]

Customer: Macs NEVER need to be rebooted!
Me: Humor me.
Customer: Oh look, now email resolves!
Me: Right, sometimes, even Macs need to be rebooted.
Customer: Oh, I never said that Macs never need to be rebooted.
Me: ...
Customer: You know, I work at [NATIONAL ENERGY RESEARCH LAB]. I know all about computers!
Me: That's nice, ma'am.

At work, we like to assume that these customers are smoking blue crack. Howdy, techs!

Comments

[synesthesiatic.livejournal.com]

... But what I love about MACs, is that rebooting them often fixes just about any issue with ... just about anything.

[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

Indeed, I often find that rebooting resolves issues with my Media Access Control address :P

[kageneko.livejournal.com]

Um... I had to reboot my MacBook Pro just the other day :P

[anivair.livejournal.com]

Don't i recognize you from that commercial where you bought a PC?

Seriously, though, rebooting works a lot. In theory my linux machine should never need to be rebooted, and that is often true, but sometimes it works. And sometimes it fixes what's wrong fast so i don't have to restart 20 services one at a time and test after each.

[kageneko.livejournal.com]

I am a multi-platform kinda girl. I go both ways ;)

I have a PC at home (which I use for gaming and such) but my office is a Mac shop. Imagine my surprise when my first day of work they bring me my new laptop and... it's a MacBook Pro. It's taking some adjustment, but I love them both :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

You'd make jealous all these people stuck with Windows at work...

[kageneko.livejournal.com]

Should have seen the initial look on my face though. "WTF do I do with this?!"

[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

I imagine, I'd do the same facing a Windows machine.

Believe it or not, I have never used Vista, barely XP[1], and have yet to see WinDOS 7 running beside in the commercial.




[1] that was back then to run Office 2007 so I could write the import fitler for OOo (for PPTX)

[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

The have never run Software update, haven't they? Even updating Safari or Quicktime requires a reboot.

[historychick49.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no kidding. And the Software Update icon bounces at you until you reboot.

[toxico.livejournal.com]

...like a Jack Russell fucking Terrier?

(omg old video reference)

[historychick49.livejournal.com]

Not a clue what video you're talking about, but yeah, that sounds about right.

[endotoxin.livejournal.com]

Enjoy!

[historychick49.livejournal.com]

..... Wow. That's definitely dated, but it's hilarious!

[toxico.livejournal.com]

Beat me to it. That's what I get for driving home from work.

[endotoxin.livejournal.com]

Boat anchor!

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

I know all about computers!

"And that's why, when you get a problem a six-year-old could fix, you have to phone us to ask which button to press, is it?"