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Article #3725Re: Stupid Users
From: sau... Steve Austin
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 1990 23:35
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 1990 23:35
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But we have to realize that stupid users do have their uses. I worked in a lab once, where some of the machines were not covered under a maintenance contract. One day a workstation's screen remained blank when it was turned on and rebooted after being turned off for a while. After the engineers and maintenance people had checked all the obvious things like power supply etc, they concluded "the tube's gone" and abandoned it. After a couple of weeks, when most workstations were in use, a novice walked in, found the abandoned workstation and switched it on. All the engineers around chuckled under their breath as the novice sat looking at the blank screen and waited and waited. Nothing happened. Then this "stupid user" turned round and asked his neighbour, a hardware wizard, "Where's the brightness control, on this thing?" As the chilling truth dawned, the wizard reached round the back and - voila! Steve Austin
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!decwrl!apple!bbn.com!saustin From: sau...@bbn.com (Steve Austin) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Stupid Users Message-ID: <58950@bbn.BBN.COM> Date: 15 Aug 90 23:35:34 GMT References: <6889@helios.TAMU.EDU> <10353@stiatl.UUCP> <MIKEG.90Aug15085313@c3.c3.lanl.gov> Sender: ne...@bbn.com Lines: 20 Posted: Thu Aug 16 00:35:34 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit