Idiots on parade......

In the "clueless idiot" department, I submit, for your observation, the twit grad student of the month.

When the researchers aren't using their computers, I tend to do routine repair and upkeep on them. Well, I had one machine that I had did system repairs and upgrades to, and now was optimising the hard drive to improve speed.

Well, clueless twit decides to come in and check her mail. She's a self-professed "Computer Idiot". She sees her computer, booted off of a CD and running something called an "Optimizer". Well, a actual human being would have done something smart and came in to ask me about what was going on with her system. But we're not dealing with a human being, we're dealing with a research graduate student. She decides that if she doesn't know what is going on, it can't be important. So she reboots her computer without stopping the optimizer.

To those who aren't familar with computers, this is A very BAD thing to do. It can cause the loss of most or all the data on one's hard drive, corruption of the drive past the ability of a disk utility programme to recover, and other not nice nasty bad things.

So, of course, her system doesn't boot up. So she comes to me. When I ask her if she exited the optimizer programme, she told me she just hit the power button and restarted the computer.

After I gave her the look o' doom, and explained in words that would be condensenting to a teletubby exactly *what* she did and why it Was A Very Bad Thing For Ms. Idiot To Do, I went to go see what I could salvage. Thankfully, all that was corrupted was the hard drive drivers, and I was able to redo those and mount the disk again.

And, of course the whole thing was, (in her view), my fault because I didn't have the *courtesy* to email her 2 days in advance to say I was going to be DOING MY FREAKING JOB !!!!!!!!!!! (SIGH!!!)

Star's right. People are assholes.

Idiots on parade......

In the "clueless idiot" department, I submit, for your observation, the twit grad student of the month.

When the researchers aren't using their computers, I tend to do routine repair and upkeep on them. Well, I had one machine that I had did system repairs and upgrades to, and now was optimising the hard drive to improve speed.

Well, clueless twit decides to come in and check her mail. She's a self-professed "Computer Idiot". She sees her computer, booted off of a CD and running something called an "Optimizer". Well, a actual human being would have done something smart and came in to ask me about what was going on with her system. But we're not dealing with a human being, we're dealing with a research graduate student. She decides that if she doesn't know what is going on, it can't be important. So she reboots her computer without stopping the optimizer.

To those who aren't familar with computers, this is A very BAD thing to do. It can cause the loss of most or all the data on one's hard drive, corruption of the drive past the ability of a disk utility programme to recover, and other not nice nasty bad things.

So, of course, her system doesn't boot up. So she comes to me. When I ask her if she exited the optimizer programme, she told me she just hit the power button and restarted the computer.

After I gave her the look o' doom, and explained in words that would be condensenting to a teletubby exactly *what* she did and why it Was A Very Bad Thing For Ms. Idiot To Do, I went to go see what I could salvage. Thankfully, all that was corrupted was the hard drive drivers, and I was able to redo those and mount the disk again.

And, of course the whole thing was, (in her view), my fault because I didn't have the *courtesy* to email her 2 days in advance to say I was going to be DOING MY FREAKING JOB !!!!!!!!!!! (SIGH!!!)

Star's right. People are assholes.