Geek Pet Hates.

friends/relatives who demand that you fix their virus infestation and get mad at your suggestions of formatting their un-backed up hard drive and spending 50 quid on installing a decent firewall/anti-virus product.

IE 6 in general

Having to code in open plan offices.
 
You ALL sound like alan partridge on "tannoys are a brand of announcement systems not the only one!" :D (makes me smile on the inside)
 
Manlove is my forte said:
  • Ye olde RAM != Storage conundrum.
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This has come up a few times in this thread but I don't think you can blame people for this mistake all the time. I have seen several places when an MP3 player has been advertised as having "4GB of Memory" or a camera with a "1GB memory card". It's due to the use of solid state flash being called memory that has caused some of this confusion.
 
Manlove is my forte said:
My list of geeky hates in no particular order:
  • Ye olde RAM != Storage conundrum.
  • People who know SFA about computers pretending to know loads. Or worse demonstrating the worst possible way of doing something. The missus is chronically guilty of this.
    ome tasks for which Mainframes are still heavily relied upon
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I think these two are the worst particularly the second one, I know someone who pretends he knows loads and pretended he knows how to overclock and was trying to explain that you should just raise the voltage to make it go faster.

Another annoying one is the people that add up the frequencies of the individual cores of their cpu to say that my q6600 would be running at 9.6GHz wow. Also people that can't comprehend the clock speed isn't the be all and end all of performance and that frequencies for different types of chips can't be compared, the type of person that will think their p4 is faster than a core 2 duo for example.
 
Sites that stick watermarks on images they didn't create. :mad:

Also watermarks on art. Unless you are selling digital copies of the image, don't watermark it. >:|
 
My business teacher calls computers hard drives! i have to calm myself down every time she says that. also she sometimes calls the destop a laptop haha
 
ScarySquirrel said:
People who say "Cut, copy and paste it".

No, you either cut and paste it, or copy and paste it!
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I know a few people who do this though, its not annoying though. Just saying, either cut or copy it and then paste it here. Thats how I interpret it....
 
My parents who still refuse how to use cut and paste. I regularly get calls to surf to a particular website --> search for ABC --> filter on XYZ. JUST PAST THE URL INTO AN EMAIL YOU FOOLS!!!
 
One of my pet hates is my grandad, for an old bloke he is fairly compter litterate. But he is the most parraniod person I know while on the computer he seems to think everything is "out to get him". He is so parranoid he wont even get wireless because he thinks that people will "hack" his home network. He has also got countless icons on his desktop and toolbars on his browser for all sorts of security and antivirus gimmicky rubbish. there is no need!

Another one of my hates is at school in i.t lessons when the teahcer blocks the internet people all ask me "your good with computers, can you hack your way round this" I just laugh to myself.
 
on a well known site around the world, people selling new pc's stating the CPU speed is 12GHZ!!!!!!!!!

Oh and when people hover over the keyboard trying to find a letter saying... I KNOW where the letter is dont tell me. *facepalm
 
PapaLazaru said:
My mother typing in entire web addresses into Google.

She just don't get it. :confused:
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google use to say: 'this looks like a web address address, in fact it is - click this link to visit it' in a kind of offset box thing as the first search result.

Now it just performs a search for that url and sometimes it appears at the top and sometimes it doesn't.

That change in behaviour is quite annoying, as I often found that feature quite useful.
 
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