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teyla ([personal profile] teyla) wrote2007-01-10 01:26 am
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I am in no way a computer genius. I can't even write applications. I can install programs, and I can follow a file path, but that's about it. Which does not keep people - or rather one person - from constantly bugging me to help her doing this and that on her computer. I usually don't mind, because hey, she's my friend, and I like tinkering with computers, anyway.

Today however, I had told her in the afternoon already that today was the first day I took off from the constant histology and anatomy studying since Christmas, and that I was planning on spending it reading, writing, and being left alone. On 11.30pm, she IM's me that she's got a bunch of flac files that she would like to convert into mp3's.

I just came off the chat now, at 1.30am. All I tried to explain to her was how to install a program, crack it, and convert the files. That just cannot take 2 fucking hours to do! I know, because I simulated it here on my computer. It is just so frustrating to wait for someone to do something that you could have done yourself in, like, the tenth amount of the time.

And the worst about it is that I can't even yell at her, because it's not her goddamn fault that she doesn't know a thing about computers. She's just not into them. I'm not into spanish grammar, so that's where she could outtalk me without moving as much as a finger. So, I continue to be nice and friendly, but like everybody else's my patience is limited, especially on days like today. So, when she has finally installed the program, and eventually managed to paste the crack, and the damn thing refuses to do its work - probably because of some missing codec, or maybe it doesn't like her OS of the stoneage - I just cannot take it any longer and tell her, well, sorry, can't help you. And what does she do? Instead of saying, oh, well, thanks anyway, she starts complaining that I sure know what to do, but just don't want to tell her.

I did not yell at her at that point, but I was soooo close.
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[personal profile] thelibraniniquity 2007-01-10 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, I sympathise completely. I get exactly the same kind of time-consuming grief off my mum or grandparents everytime there's some computer problem needs fixing and it's beyond my admittedly limited capabilities too o.O

*hug*
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[personal profile] teyla 2007-01-10 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
:)

Well, usually I don't mind that much being consulted about computer problems. But it's always hard to explain something to someone per ICQ, and if that someone has no clue about what you're talking about, it gets very frustrating.

Fortunately, the only one who drives me on the edge and over it like this is her. My parents and my sisters are usually able to fix stuff themselves, and if not, they usually ask my dad first because they don't trust me not to kill their OS's ;) (all I ever do with computers is trial and error... and if that doesn't fix it, then there's always Format: C:\ - works for me every time ;) ).
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