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[kurupetos]

Should one read something Freudian into the descriptions of the wet seat?

I thought of that but decided to leave it there…

You are a teCHIeCKEN.

[Get Real!]

Part #7: The commotion…

A little intro…

Some of you may recall Cyprus Airways going through a LOT of general managers… it seems that our government couldn’t figure out why the company wasn’t profitable and just kept changing the management in the hope of a reversal of fortunes which never came to pass as you all know.

Onto the story…

One time, the wife of one of these general managers came to our workshop with her faulty laptop. Once again I was called to the front desk to serve. She was a very attractive 40 year old, proud of her body, dressed to impress and rather full of herself.

A little while after she left I threw her laptop on the bench and fired it up to get to work.

Her desktop was very tidy; you could tell there wasn’t much activity on that machine except for some loose images that looked totally out of place.

I instinctively doubled-clicked on an image… couldn’t understand why they were there… and two seconds later my jaw dropped!

It was HER, stark naked and posing! All the images were nude pictures of her in a variety of weird sexual poses that someone was taking… I assumed her hubby.

While I sat there staring at the naughty pics and for a moment forgetting that I was at work, a colleague walked past from behind and seeing what I was seeing recognized her and then started calling out to all the others…

“Hey everyone, come and see Mr X’s wife stark naked!”

And I’m like… “Shut up!” but lo and behold around 10 guys came around me eager to feast their eyes on the entire set! The commotion was too much and by now everyone knew she was naked on the desktop!

Some days later when she returned to collect her laptop every guy in the shop who noticed rushed to go to the front counter to serve her... it was ridiculous…

And she probably couldn’t figure out why so much attention… or maybe she did!

Tip: Never leave images on the desktop… techies tend to click on them but they haven’t got time and thus don’t bother going through your Pictures folder.

[Sotos]

...but they haven’t got time and thus don’t bother going through your Pictures folder.

Yeah right! I bet the first thing you do is a search for image and video files And it isn't just that ... on those computers there can be lots of work related info, as well as cookies that could auto-login anybody using that computer on various websites that don't check for IP. And deleting certain things just before you give your computer is not safe either, since it is very easy to retrieve deleted files especially ones that were recently deleted. Personally I never gave a whole computer for repair, and I wouldn't sell a computer that I used that contains a hard drive. Once I had to throw away a hard drive which failed in a way I couldn't repair, but even then before I thew it away I opened it and hammered the plates.

[Get Real!]

...but they haven’t got time and thus don’t bother going through your Pictures folder.

Yeah right! I bet the first thing you do is a search for image and video files And it isn't just that ... on those computers there can be lots of work related info, as well as cookies that could auto-login anybody using that computer on various websites that don't check for IP. And deleting certain things just before you give your computer is not safe either, since it is very easy to retrieve deleted files especially ones that were recently deleted. Personally I never gave a whole computer for repair, and I wouldn't sell a computer that I used that contains a hard drive. Once I had to throw away a hard drive which failed in a way I couldn't repair, but even then before I thew it away I opened it and hammered the plates.

Nobody’s got the time for that Sotos… it would take ages to open and close someone’s files which can be in their hundreds and not to mention a lack of interest.

A good techie should average 5-6 computer repairs a day so the pressure is tremendous. Bad techies only manage 1-3 but they still use up the same amount of time.

Only famous people should be worried about privacy and should therefore use an alias and disguise when handing a PC to a workshop, or just move all their stuff to an external HD.

[Get Real!]

...as well as cookies that could auto-login anybody using that computer on various websites that don't check for IP.

Well, if only you’d use a browser that blows away each browsing session upon exit, you wouldn’t have to worry about that!

[Pyrpolizer]

...but they haven’t got time and thus don’t bother going through your Pictures folder.

Yeah right! I bet the first thing you do is a search for image and video files And it isn't just that ... on those computers there can be lots of work related info, as well as cookies that could auto-login anybody using that computer on various websites that don't check for IP. And deleting certain things just before you give your computer is not safe either, since it is very easy to retrieve deleted files especially ones that were recently deleted. Personally I never gave a whole computer for repair, and I wouldn't sell a computer that I used that contains a hard drive. Once I had to throw away a hard drive which failed in a way I couldn't repair, but even then before I thew it away I opened it and hammered the plates.

Nobody’s got the time for that Sotos… it would take ages to open and close someone’s files which can be in their hundreds and not to mention a lack of interest.

A good techie should average 5-6 computer repairs a day so the pressure is tremendous. Bad techies only manage 1-3 but they still use up the same amount of time.

Only famous people should be worried about privacy and should therefore use an alias and disguise when handing a PC to a workshop, or just move all their stuff to an external HD.

Let aside the fact that if the computer doesn't work 99% of the people don't know how to remove personal information.
I am wondering what are most usual repairs about? Hardware or software?

[Get Real!]

Let aside the fact that if the computer doesn't work 99% of the people don't know how to remove personal information.
I am wondering what are most usual repairs about? Hardware or software?

Most faults are a screwed up Windows as a result of long term daily Internet surfing via programmable browsers like Chrome/Edge/FF which fill up the hard disk with malicious junk and never clean up afterwards, so the next time the computer reboots nasty junk can start installing themselves and making system changes like the Home page getting modified into some weird search page, and a whole bunch of other unsolicited system changes.

Eventually there’s so much crap taking over control that the system becomes too slow and unusable. So a poorly maintained Windows is the most frequent technical problem.

Hardware-wise…people (usually carefree teenagers) dropping laptops and pads on hard floors and smashing screens and/or breaking the power jack, is pretty common.

I had a customer whose 14-15 year old son would fall asleep and then fling the laptop off the bed smashing it on the floor... three times in a row in one year! Ridiculous…