Also cementing the fact that I am not bald and wearing a hat.
People seem to get confused around computers, it’s not like they’re “bad” with them, it just seems they’re not talking the same language.
I always try to understand what is going on inside the computer, I mean, if you (the operator) doesn’t know what’s going on, who will?
When I sit down in front of my computer it is often to surf on the internet, here I understand both JavaScript and HTML well enough to build my own website, and I am also starting to grip other languages that the browser “talks”.
But sometimes I open my notepad++ it is a nice application for text editing, like notepad, but it has some features that really makes it very good for code. Back to my point, whenever I pull out notepad++ people look at it and ask “are you a hacker Mark” and honestly, I just laugh at them, A HACKER!? Noo, not in the sense you think at least, I do try to hack stuff and have ruined stuff before, but I am not trying to access other peoples computers or trying to kill their systems, I am just a good old nerd who is doing some coding, admittedly it’s all very bad, I mean I can hardly do hello world in python (obviously a joke, right?).
Sometimes I have to help people with their computers, one reason or another, and when I do so I nearly always have to install stuff, never fails, but I like to try to show people how it’s done so that next time there is a problem, maybe they would consider fixing it themselves OR pay me to do it. In my class (math class) we use a nice little program which does most the math for us, we just have to type in the right stuff, well this program comes on a disk but it was apparently applied in some wrong way (it doesn’t work for installing later than xp) so I had to find an .exe version that worked for installing on Vista (people were buying new laptops for class, dunno why, xp was great, no need to get Vista) and this install was called xxx-xx-vista.exe, naturally, I didn’t want to spend all my time installing it on their computers (4-7 of them) so I put it on out internal network (works out great they get it installed), but now, 5 of them get win7 machines, this was a bad day, I had to walk around to every person and show them how to install this program, which they a year ago could install just fine on their vista machines…but of course the problem was that it wasn’t “win7.exe” but “vista.exe” ARGH!
I just realized that this is more of a “I hate my class mates and why can’t they just be nerdy like me”-blog post, but I guess that’s what happens some times…
Really I just can’t understand why people don’t take the time to try to understand computers, and if they have a problem, try to fix it in a logical way, of course some times this doesn’t fix the problem, noo, makes it worse, but those few times it works, it’s nice to feel you did something by yourself.
