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- From: hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: "Upgrades"
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 08:44:00 GMT
- Organization: Legion of Underworld Cheese
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- In article <1jvg1mINNbfm@lynx.unm.edu> baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris "Jabba the Hut of Usenet" Baldwin) writes:
- >
- >ObPeeve: The computers around here were just "upgraded", the macs to
- >System 7 and the IBMs to Windows(tm). So now, we have machines that run
- >a lot slower, don't do as much as they used to and no one knows how
- >to do anything on them. Some upgrade.
-
- I hear ya, dood.
-
- A few months ago I was teaching some Mac classes on SEs that had been
- "upgraded" to System 7. Besides having to do the translation of System
- 6 *and* System 7 "...and if you're using System 6 you'll see this, but
- since the university here has graced us with System 7...", I had to
- explain a *minimum* of three times a class that yes, the machine would
- respond slowly to commands, and no, hitting the key *several* times
- would not make it go faster.
-
- ObDanClassComment: "*Select* what you want to change, say *how*
- you want it changed, *then* go and get me a Pepsi or something while you
- wait for it to happen."
-
- But System 7 is kinda cool for several reasons:
-
- !Peeve: Cool noises. There's something delightfully silly about a room
- full of computers quacking.
-
- !Peeve: Easy networks. C'mon, Chris, make sure all of the Macs on the
- network are set so you can access any file. Delete files from disks
- without having to leave your desk! Insert rude suggestions in the
- middle of users' documents! It's fun!
-
- !Peeve: It's winter. Tell naive users that the computers are taking longer
- to work because they're cold. Tell them that rubbing the computer while
- they work will make it go a lot faster.
-
- And whatdayaknow, in the summer the computers will be too warm. Better
- blow on them to speed them up.
-
- --
- "What one must not do, no matter what, is to keep kneading the penis as if one
- were preparing dinner rolls. This will only make him sad. Also refrain from
- saying wistfully, "Do you think it will go up soon?"" --Cynthia Heimel
-