well, i was at this friend's tonight.
he needed to give me some software i need to rewrite for him.
he is a psychologist.
of course he uses windoze (xp, in this case; cracked, obviously).
of course i have never used windoze in me life and i don't know (almost) anything about it.
watching a real world user use windoze was...well: fun!
a) copy the content of one cd over to another one.
first he needed to solve the problem of identifying which drive was which.
it was i: and j: for windoze, but inside the gui he only had a drop down
with the devices' brand and model. the two devices being exactly the same,
it took him a good 10 minutes of playing around with control panels and stuff
to sort the thing out.
he tried very hard to have the program he was using do the on the fly
copy from one cd to the other, but, after a half hour, he gave up.
he downloaded the content of the source cd to the hard drive and then
burned a new cd with that.
b) email problem
during the last thunderbird upgrade all the guy's email config got screwed.
he can neither receive nor send nor access his emails anymore. he told me
he didn't know what to do and so he tried to uninstall thunderbird and then
install it again.
now some dirt was left behind, some thunderbird stuff is still there. if he
tries and remove it, the bloody thing says it's already been removed and if
he tries and install it again the bloody thing says it's already installed.
the result is that the guy is now forced to use outlook express or, he said,
reinstall the whole operating system.
if it was this one night game, i guess we'd be at least two-love up.
he needed to give me some software i need to rewrite for him.
he is a psychologist.
of course he uses windoze (xp, in this case; cracked, obviously).
of course i have never used windoze in me life and i don't know (almost) anything about it.
watching a real world user use windoze was...well: fun!
a) copy the content of one cd over to another one.
first he needed to solve the problem of identifying which drive was which.
it was i: and j: for windoze, but inside the gui he only had a drop down
with the devices' brand and model. the two devices being exactly the same,
it took him a good 10 minutes of playing around with control panels and stuff
to sort the thing out.
he tried very hard to have the program he was using do the on the fly
copy from one cd to the other, but, after a half hour, he gave up.
he downloaded the content of the source cd to the hard drive and then
burned a new cd with that.
b) email problem
during the last thunderbird upgrade all the guy's email config got screwed.
he can neither receive nor send nor access his emails anymore. he told me
he didn't know what to do and so he tried to uninstall thunderbird and then
install it again.
now some dirt was left behind, some thunderbird stuff is still there. if he
tries and remove it, the bloody thing says it's already been removed and if
he tries and install it again the bloody thing says it's already installed.
the result is that the guy is now forced to use outlook express or, he said,
reinstall the whole operating system.
if it was this one night game, i guess we'd be at least two-love up.
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