Ever heard of those computer myths? For example.
Placing a hard drive vertically in a pc is bad luck (I had a Packard Bell when I was 8 and I always ended up hitting it with something hard, Packard Bell always places a hard drive vertically for some reason)
Ghost in the machine - something random happens (computer freezes or so) people think it's caused by random strings of data accidently coming together thus creating an unpredictable outcome (some people even believe a computer is self conscious this way).
Computer sensativity to vibrations - a friend of mine walked out of her room and back in, when she walked back in her computer rebooted, probably caused by some kind of vibration or pulse.
That's all I know, I hope there are a few more funny computer myths out there.
Computer Phenomena~
Alexandra-Sweet
Brianna
I haven't heard of any myths personally, but with computers there is always a logical and realistic reason for why something happens so for me the Myths would purely be for fun, which is what I see this thread for.
Omg wait I do know one, the CD Drive eating CD's. I used to think that could really happen, like it'd get stuck inside, cause a lot of my CD's would go missing, hehe.
Omg wait I do know one, the CD Drive eating CD's. I used to think that could really happen, like it'd get stuck inside, cause a lot of my CD's would go missing, hehe.
Kattar
This probably belongs in OT, but I'll leave it up to someone else's discretion.
Yeah, I've heard those. I love it when a user tells me the PC "just did something." It's never there fault. Some people know that a machine never does anything you don't tell it under normal circumstances. Most people don't, alone the lines of the deux ex machina reasoning.
User: "Now (insert random computer feature) doesn't work!"
Me: (Usually to myself) "Well, what did you do to it?"
They normally never know. lol.
Yeah, I've heard those. I love it when a user tells me the PC "just did something." It's never there fault. Some people know that a machine never does anything you don't tell it under normal circumstances. Most people don't, alone the lines of the deux ex machina reasoning.
User: "Now (insert random computer feature) doesn't work!"
Me: (Usually to myself) "Well, what did you do to it?"
They normally never know. lol.
Fril Estelin
A few year ago, I used to teach computers to early students in a vocational unit to train them to become librarians. It was tough, because 1) most didn't know how to use computers; 2) most only cared for computers to do the specific job (i.e. library applications). Believe me, some really believed in strange stories, but mostly as explanations of what they didn't understand. What a revelation it was for them when I opened the computer and showed them all the components.
willypiggy
Ghost's in the machine aren't really a myth, its just random sections of code that come together, like you said. My grandad worked on computers back since they we're able to store 10kb of data on a 20" disk. He explained that it just happens, its not something that can be forced and cant really be stopped, its just unexpected phenomenon.
Brimstonez
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Some people know that a machine never does anything you don't tell it under normal circumstances.
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Painbringer
What about the 1999 crunch to fix the Year 2000 fiasco? I remember lots of people saying that there personal computers will not work when the clock hits 2000.
On a side note at the same time there were also people running to hide in the hills and hording food because the end of days was coming as well
On a side note at the same time there were also people running to hide in the hills and hording food because the end of days was coming as well
Kattar
lolol, true Painbringer. I remember that fiasco. I also remember nothing happening.
Mods mentality FTW.
Mods mentality FTW.
Stockholm
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What about the 1999 crunch to fix the Year 2000 fiasco? I remember lots of people saying that there personal computers will not work when the clock hits 2000.
On a side note at the same time there were also people running to hide in the hills and hording food because the end of days was coming as well |
Kattar
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There was a legit concern regarding that since the year was only stored as a 2 digit value in older computers.
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running to hide in the hills and hording food because the end of days was coming as well.
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Stockholm
Hey, Hillbilly's will run for the hills if you mention anything developed after the civil war.
No, but the way the media put it, people who new nothing about computers thought the end was coming.
for example According to the media airplanes was expected to crash because of the glitch
No, but the way the media put it, people who new nothing about computers thought the end was coming.
for example According to the media airplanes was expected to crash because of the glitch
Painbringer
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There was a legit concern regarding that since the year was only stored as a 2 digit value in older computers. The thing people was never told thoug was that it had more to do with mainframs than PC's
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I was remarking on the home user that really did not do anything that was time orientated.
Kattar
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No, but the way the media put it, people who knew nothing about computers thought the end was coming.
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Chthon
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Ever heard of those computer myths? For example.
... Computer sensativity to vibrations - a friend of mine walked out of her room and back in, when she walked back in her computer rebooted, probably caused by some kind of vibration or pulse. |
New Myth: My Grandmother believed that people on the internet could always see her through her webcam, even when the computer was off.
Also, [Grammar Nazi] "phenomena" is the plural of "phenomenon," not "phenomenons." [/Grammar Nazi]
Admael
I mount my drives vertically! They can be mounted any which way you please, it's just not wise to move them while they're on... that's all!
Franco Power
It's a machine. I know some of you see it as a baby or life partner in this sub-forum but I can guarantee you it's all metals and screws inside. Also pretty flashy lights on the MB.
Dark Kal
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Computer sensativity to vibrations - a friend of mine walked out of her room and back in, when she walked back in her computer rebooted, probably caused by some kind of vibration or pulse.
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Brianna
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Something that vibrates in a girl's bedroom? Mm, I wonder what it could be?
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Dark Kal
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Spot the perv!
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Tarun
http://wiki.lunarsoft.net/wiki/Myths
Talks about Prefetch myths, RAM "optimizers" and a few other myths.
Talks about Prefetch myths, RAM "optimizers" and a few other myths.
Friday
My father believes his PC loses his stuff because it's filing clerk hasn't got a proper filing system, and shreds stuff just to spite him. Despite me telling him countless times that it wont delete something unless it is told to by him.
After one particularly spectacular loss of 200 photos from an expedition trip he did, I networked his PC to mine (he doesn't know this) - and now I back-up his stuff to my external HDD as soon as he downloads photos or saves a document. I manage to catch most things this way and just restore it across when his PC "loses" it. But I cant catch the things he doesn't actually save... "I sent that e-mail, I did press send!!"
I suppose this is my fault, because I explained a PC to him as a huge filing cabinet, the folders being the drawers and the sub-folders being the files, and each document in it's file; with a filing clerk that he tells to bring him the document to read - he needs to tell the clerk which file and which folder it's in.
Now i just tell him to work on bettering his employee relations so that the clerk wont sabotage his stuff out of spite because he swears at the clerk too much -.-
After one particularly spectacular loss of 200 photos from an expedition trip he did, I networked his PC to mine (he doesn't know this) - and now I back-up his stuff to my external HDD as soon as he downloads photos or saves a document. I manage to catch most things this way and just restore it across when his PC "loses" it. But I cant catch the things he doesn't actually save... "I sent that e-mail, I did press send!!"
I suppose this is my fault, because I explained a PC to him as a huge filing cabinet, the folders being the drawers and the sub-folders being the files, and each document in it's file; with a filing clerk that he tells to bring him the document to read - he needs to tell the clerk which file and which folder it's in.
Now i just tell him to work on bettering his employee relations so that the clerk wont sabotage his stuff out of spite because he swears at the clerk too much -.-