Die damnit! Die!

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

Why do I have to be stuck on the AOL queue? We don't really have an AOL queue, but I seem to be getting all the peons with that at the tail end of their address.

Yes your printer needs to be plugged in for you to print. I know it says print wirelessly on the box but they didn't mean with out the power cord.

I don't care if you scanned with Norton Antivirus this morning and updated this week, if your scanner in device manager says code 19 or 28 you have a virus 80% of the time.

I don't care what the sales man said, 128-256megs of ram is not enough for XP, and that is why your computer is stalling and print jobs take 20 minutes per page to complete if they start in the first place. Sales people lie to make the sale, deal with it.

Ram/memory is not hard drive space. I don't care if you have 180 gigabyte drive, 128-256 megs of ram is still not enough for XP, specially when you install our bloatware on your computer.

I don't need to know every thing on your install screen. I've seen/heard it a thousand times. I only want to know when it has an error.

You don't need to ask me what to do when it says "click next to continue".

Don't argue with me over what the trouble shooting steps are, if you don't want to follow my instructions don't call me.

Yes, if you wish to speak to some one else I'll be glad to faciliate that. If you're nice I might even send you to the correct queue. If you're really nice I'll send you to the correct queue in the right country. If I'm in a good mood they'll speak english.

If you don't have admin rights on your company computer I can't help you, really, I'm not just saying that to give you the punt, I've got better lines for that.

If you let your kid take away your admin rights and they're not home I can't help you. Learn more about your computer.

If you can't find your start menu I can't help you, either take the crappy thing back or get a tutor, you're too dumb to take the community college course.

Comments

NOT THAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT RAM HERE

[zig-mover.livejournal.com]

But 256 is fine for XP for me.

Re: NOT THAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT RAM HERE

[gholam.livejournal.com]

256MB, or even 192MB is fine for XP, but only as long as you kill all the unnecessary crap. My secondary system at work, the one I use only to plug into company email (Outlook 2002) and two databases (Zoom and Access) is a PIII/733 with 192MB RAM, and it runs fine, but that's because that's all it ever runs.

However, on a typical user's system, you have two to four instant messaging clients running simultaneously, Date Manager, Precision Time, a dozen ad-serving robots, Kazaa with all it's friends, eMule, etc, etc, etc... PLUS XP is running with the default settings that eat up a couple hundred megabytes of RAM all by themselves.

Re: NOT THAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT RAM HERE

[kostika.livejournal.com]

Actually i ran XP for a long time on 256 as my regular machine. Worked fine. Nothing was slow, programs, printing, all a dream.

So actually you can run a regular user machine with XP and 256 RAM.

Re: NOT THAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT RAM HERE

[gholam.livejournal.com]

As long as you keep it clean, yeah. For multitasking, however, it does get quite sluggish. My previous home system, a Duron 1200, I upgraded from 256 to 512MB as soon as I could afford to, and for my current home system (about a month old by now, A64/nForce4) a gig wasn't even a question - it was a given :)

Re: NOT THAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT RAM HERE

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

I used Windows 2K up to the point where I was able to get a box w/512 of 533Mhz DDR2 memory. Nothing less would I run WinXP on.

Re: NOT THAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT RAM HERE

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

I doubt I'll ever see a nicely configured xp system... most of the systems I deal with are screwed by OEM crap before you even get the spyware/adware/spamware installed. Plus word, QT, quicken, ete.

Mind you a system configured the way you just stated probably isn't useful to most people.

Re: NOT THAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT RAM HERE

[jjjiii]

My XP machines are configured very nicely.

Re: NOT THAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT RAM HERE

[jacobine.livejournal.com]

I didn't have a problem running XP with 256 MBs of ram, on a 1.2 Athlon processor. But then, I run a clean machine. Granted, it had started to drag a bit, but was better once I stopped using Eudora; Thunderbird loads a lot cleaner!

Of course, now I have 512 MB and it's much better. I had 768, but I recently upgraded the processor and the barebone deal I got (P4 3.0 + MB for $150) didn't have as nice of a board as I'd had before. Oh well. 1 GB chips are in my future!

[infy.livejournal.com]

> Yes, if you wish to speak to some one else I'll be glad to faciliate that. If you're nice I might even send you to the correct queue. If you're really nice I'll send you to the correct queue in the right country. If I'm in a good mood they'll speak english.

I envy you the ability to do that. We're a "single point of contact" shop, so if I transfer someone, especially at night, they'll most likely end up with me again. And they so frown on me altering my voice when I answer my calls. Jerks.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

"Please hold while I transfer you to Mr Dialtone."