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= F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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Com-pyoo-ter
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A few years ago, a very small percentage of society actively
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used computers. Today, thousands of people purchase computers for
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their home or small business to do a multitude of tasks or for home
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enjoyment. In the past, it was TV's, stereos, microwaves, and other
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inventions that changed our lives. As more and more people began to
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use them, more and more people learned about them. The average family
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has a TV, stereo, and a microwave in their house right now as well
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as a Personal Computer.
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You take any active member of that family and ask them to
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program their VCR to tape a show at 1:39am on the Tuesday of next
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week, and five seconds later they have that done, and are asking if
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you want it in SP, LP, or ELP. Take them to the stereo and tell them
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to pick 5 CD's, put them in, and make the stereo play them randomly,
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in order, reverse order, or skip certain songs, and they will have
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it done. Now, ask them to add a program to Windows and create an
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icon for it. Hours later after several calls to Microsoft, they are
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still having problems. Why is that?
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Millions of Americans own personal computer now. Each system
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worth thousands of dollars. More expensive than any other item in their
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house usually. Even thought they spend all those dollars on this new
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machine/toy, they don't take the time to learn how to use them. They
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would much rather jump on the bandwagon and learn the programs that
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they actively use. It is kind of ironic that you have a machine that
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is based almost 100% on logic, is being used by a person based on
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1% logic.
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Working in a computer store, I now get to deal with more of
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these people. Not only do I deal with their problems, but I have to
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try and guess what they did to mess things up. These people run into
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a problem and the first thing they do is call a computer store, the
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manufacturer of the software, or whatnot. No need to break open the
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manuals and see what is causing the problem. Let someone else do it
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for you.
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I think that everyone who owns a computer should know the basics
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about it. After paying thousands of dollars for a computer, why not
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pay fifty bucks for a class that teaches the fundamentals of PC's?
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Welp, here is a good lesson to begin with. The following applies to
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IBM compatible computers and their users.
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DOS. An 8 bit operating system. When you boot your computer, DOS is
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loaded. DOS is loaded before windows, before everything else.
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It stands for Disk Operating System. It is a stand alone, operating
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system. It requires no other software to launch itself from. It
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uses a "command line" environment, no point and click bullshit.
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Windows. A program, NOT operating system, that is a platform to launch
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other programs off of. Windows boots up because your AUTOEXEC.BAT
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and CONFIG.SYS tell it to(*). It gives you a "point and click"
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environment to run your applications and organize stuff. If windows
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has a problem, it crashed to DOS because it requires DOS to run it.
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OS/2. Operating System 2. This is kind of like windows, but a little
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more reliable. You have icons representing applications in a
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point and click environment, but it is a stand alone 32 bit
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operating sytem(*). You do not need any other software to use it.
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Disks. Disks commonly come in two forms. A "five and a quarter" or "three
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and a half". This refers to the size of them. Both are used to store
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programs on, and can be written to so as to copy software from one
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computer to another.
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CDRom. This is an optical disk with information on it. Most CDRom drives
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can not write to a CD. These are really good for programs that
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require a lot of space for information. Encyclopedias, factbooks,
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games with a lot of graphics etc.
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Knowing that, how can you explain some of the crap that goes on
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regarding computers today? Why do people demand softare made for windows?
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DOS applications can run through windows believe or not. Why do people
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go to stores, buy software, come back the next day saying "this isn't
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for windows, I need windows" acting like no one uses anything else?
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True, windows is popular right now, and used by millions. Millions of
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computer illiterate people I imagine. These are the people that buy
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software without reading the system requirements first. Yes...99% of
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software packages tell you what it needs to run on the side or the back
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of the box. Why are so many programs returned for these reasons: Mac/IBM,
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DOS/Windows, Disk/CDRom, etc. It tells you on the front of the box exactly
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what is in it. "IBM 3.5" or "IBM Win 3.1 Compatible CDRom" or whatever.
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Anyway, so people can't read. Forget that. Now, they get home
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and can't install it. They choose to go with software that is known to
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have many problems, especially compatibility, and then bitch to the
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store that it won't install? Computer companies shouldn't have to hire
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several people full time to answer questions about their problems.
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Software companies already do that because they know people will have
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problems with their software. Don't bother the store who sold it to you
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because they don't have the author's their to trouble shoot for you.
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Why are people so insistant upon having any/all programs on
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CDRom? More and more people find software, read that is on disks, and
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don't buy it because it isn't on CD. Granted, games or applications that
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require 30+ megs shoud be on CD, and they are. You won't find the KGB/CIA
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world factbook on disk. Too big of course. That is why they made CDrom.
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But more and more people are complaining that these little 1 and 2 meg
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programs aren't on CDrom. Either way, they are going to have to install
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it to their hard drive from CD OR disk, so why does it matter?
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All these people that own these computers, and that rely on
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windows have a problem. If I were to delete ONE line out of their "autoexec"
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or "config" file(*), they wouldn't know what to do. It would take them hours
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to get windows up and running again. That is so lame. If you are going
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to rely on this program, you should be familiar with the operating system
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that is running it. Simple DOS commands should be natural. Knowing what
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each line in your config files should be the first thing you learn so
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that when you can't load windows, you can go and figure out what is wrong
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with it and fix it. Yes, fix it yourself. It isn't that hard.
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Even though it is simple to learn, a majority of computer users
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don't know about their system. They don't use common sense when it comes
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to using their machine. If you have a problem, the first thing that should
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come to mind is reading the manual. At the store I work at, it is quite
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common to find someone returning an entire system because "it wouldn't
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work". As someone opens the box to make sure everything is their, the
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first thing that they pull out are the manuals, still shrink wrapped.
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80% of the answers to your problems can usually be found in the books
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that comes with software or your system. All it takes is the time to read
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that book, and experiment. Take the time to poke around in applications
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you have never played with. The most that will happen is that you will
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delete something or mess up an application. Just reload it and try again.
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I could go on and on about the yuppies that come into the store
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and do this and that, but I won't. Suffice it to say that a majority
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of computer users these day are ignorant when it comes to using them.
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Quit relying on other people in computer related matters. Don't expect
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an employee to know all 5000 pieces of software in a store. Don't expect
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them to know all about networking when they sell mostly individual machines.
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Don't expect each and every employee to know about Winfax Lite and how
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to set up a fax init string for it without first asking if they are a
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windows user. Bottom line: Use your head.
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* Don't know what that means? You need to learn more about the machine
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in front of you.
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= Knowledge is power... =
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