my rant why do we do it
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I don't charge cash, I just ask for a case of beer or a bottle of whisky if I'm sorting something out. Someone is giving me a bottle of whisky to setup wifi in their house - £25 bottle for what should take about 30 minutes including teaching time!
I go on the I'll tell you I dont want money to fix it.
Then if I fix it I make a point of telling how long it took and hinting it was a time consuming and hard job.
Then if they buy me a few beers down the pub / bottle of whiskey / meal etc they go into my I'll do it again file.
If they let more than 2 weeks go bye with nothing at all coming my way they go into the when hell freezes over file
It is possible to get yer name taken out of this file however it costs considerably more than a bottle of cheap whiskey
Then if I fix it I make a point of telling how long it took and hinting it was a time consuming and hard job.
Then if they buy me a few beers down the pub / bottle of whiskey / meal etc they go into my I'll do it again file.
If they let more than 2 weeks go bye with nothing at all coming my way they go into the when hell freezes over file
It is possible to get yer name taken out of this file however it costs considerably more than a bottle of cheap whiskey 
that wasn't the first time i had looked at this pc ,it seems my job to be the permanent support line for it let me explain that he was given this pc about two years ago and its the only one the family have got (he has got 2 daughters )and doing anything on it is a real pain i mean it took over two hours to defrag its ten gig hd. so when he asked again if i could sort it out i said tell you what i have got spare motherboard and bits all i need is cheap case cheap processor (3000 venice on ocuk at £41)and cheap graphics card i said no more than £100 and ill build you a nice pc .to which he said nah can't afford £100 just fix this one, he expects miracles . 
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if it takes 2 hours to derfag methinks you need to download a better defragger like Diskeeper Free Edition.
The in built widows defragger sucks and takes ages to do.
also to avoid having to fdo it in the future you could put a free firewall and viruschecker on there ?
The in built widows defragger sucks and takes ages to do.
also to avoid having to fdo it in the future you could put a free firewall and viruschecker on there ?
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Remember now you will be on the hook for the rest of time, if this machine so much blinks they will be on the the phone saying "well it didn't used to do this before you came around"!
I set up a network for a friend recently and he called me because he couldn't install a keyboard which it turned out wasn't compatible with Win98!
It's just a thankless nightmare I tell thee!
HEADRAT
I set up a network for a friend recently and he called me because he couldn't install a keyboard which it turned out wasn't compatible with Win98!
It's just a thankless nightmare I tell thee!
HEADRAT
You can talk Clampy (Slap ed)....i was forever a support hotline for you and often still am! I dont mind though
Sounds like your having a real mare with Wozzer's computer. Just tell him that your not being funny but this is the last time you do anything with this computer as youve already told him its a bag of bolts etc.
p.s dont forget my tyre voucher and take it steady on that suzuki!
Sounds like your having a real mare with Wozzer's computer. Just tell him that your not being funny but this is the last time you do anything with this computer as youve already told him its a bag of bolts etc.
p.s dont forget my tyre voucher and take it steady on that suzuki!
