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QQ
edited August 2004 in Software
For lack of a better forumn I'm gonna post this here.

So I'm in OH, and I'm told that the guy next door wants me to come over and look @ his machine(s).

So I go over and:

Get his P PC (The one I posted from) online via MS ActiveSync (Using Pocket Internet Explorer UGH!).

Get the P PC and his phone talking over bluetooth (The phone didn't have a the requisite capabilities (And the password was 000000)).

Install XP SP2 (NEVER use SBC DSL, it's POOR).

Wean him from IE (Well, that's not the best word for it, it was really painless, except it took a few tries to import all the stuff)

Get rid of AOL Spyware Protection and install Spybot and SwB.

Get rid of Crackafee and install NOD32.

And get 60 US $ for it!

-Q

Comments

  • stitchstitch
    Q wrote:
    (NEVER use SBC DSL, it's POOR).

    yes. yes it is but i have no choice so i have to use it.
  • SurfinShell23SurfinShell23
    Nice! I should go NOD....
  • BODBOD
    mmm money.... if only ppl would ask me to do stuff for them so i could get money
  • RNRN
    SurfinSHELL23 wrote:
    Nice! I should go NOD....

    Don't say you should. Say you are.
  • SurfinShell23SurfinShell23
    OK....
  • SlashSlash
    60 $ is much for such a little job... I usually do such crap and earn nothing.
  • BODBOD
    Slash wrote:
    60 $ is much for such a little job... I usually do such crap and earn nothing.

    sounds VERY familiar
  • SlashSlash
    Hey BOD, aren't you helping your friends with Computers for free, like me?
  • BODBOD
    yea i help them for free (so foolish, i could make a fortune)
  • QQ
    I wasn't thinking about money and when SP2 was taking forever to download he said "So how much do I owe you?" and that's how I ended up with the 60.

    For small jobs I don't usually charge.

    -Q

    PS. Then again for me, small means I don't go to sleep there.
  • SurfinShell23SurfinShell23
    So you just said $60 and he was like "OK!"?
  • QQ
    I said 10 US $/Hr and I was there for 5.5Hrs so he said 60 was fine by him.

    -Q
  • WinboyWinboy
    wow Q got a good deal out of it
  • QQ
    Yea I think he'll get more fun out of the new setup (He's useing Ffx now, IE had 3 toolbars in it) then I did setting it up.

    -Q
  • WinboyWinboy
    good god IE with 3 tool bars (fail) good thing u installed ffx for him
  • QQ
    Yea and I told him the truth about "AOL Spyware Protection". And I showed him about Ffxs popup blocking AND adblock, so I think he'll find it a comfortable change.

    -Q
  • nighticenightice
    What's the truth about "AOL Spyware Protection"? Last time I used AOL (about 3 1/2 months ago (hey, I'm 13 and don't have much say in things like ISP choices)) I left everything at the defaults and never saw an ad for it. (usually they put them on the welcome screen)
  • QQ
    The truth is that it does a
  • stitchstitch
    well anything with the :puke: ol name on it is shit.
  • QQ
    Like "AOL Toolbar" ? I went through his Add/Remove programs and there was like a page of "AOL" this and "AOL" that.

    -Q
  • DevilsJim89DevilsJim89
    He don't need AOL if he's got SBC DSL...

    nice job tho Q...$60 - not bad.
  • ThumpThump
    Q wrote:
    I wasn't thinking about money and when SP2 was taking forever to download he said "So how much do I owe you?" and that's how I ended up with the 60.

    For small jobs I don't usually charge.

    -Q

    PS. Then again for me, small means I don't go to sleep there.
    Yeah you did fine Q and that's what I would have
    said if I were him. I'm not really sure you did any
    good by converting him to FireFox. I think you
    should have put his I.E. in the best possible state
    and added FireFox and just instructed him just a
    little about it and push maybe no popups in case
    he's watching P*r_N stuff.
    I got stuck with the old crazy lady across the street
    and no I don't charge her and she knows it and
    abuses it. She did tell me the other day after I'd
    been there about four hours that she'd be glad to
    give me 20 dollars and I just said of course not
    and thought "I'd give 40 dollars just to be able to
    slip out of here.
    guzzle.gif
    Thump
  • QQ
    I got rid of the toolbars of that's what you mean, and I don't think he's watching porn or IE and Windows would be in a FAR worse state. However he was asking about security and such and I mentioned that Ffx was a more secure alternative version of IE and he said he wanted to try it. So I installed it and the Import thing crashed like 5 times before I got it to work right. I think it'll server him well.

    -Q

    PS. Thankfully I haven't yet run into someone like the woman you keep taking about.
  • ThumpThump
    Q wrote:
    I got rid of the toolbars of that's what you mean, and I don't think he's watching porn or IE and Windows would be in a FAR worse state. However he was asking about security and such and I mentioned that Ffx was a more secure alternative version of IE and he said he wanted to try it. So I installed it and the Import thing crashed like 5 times before I got it to work right. I think it'll server him well.

    -Q

    PS. Thankfully I haven't yet run into someone like the woman you keep taking about.
    Sorry, that's great then. I'm afraid I got carried
    away and was just kidding about the porn part.

    I hope you never run into someone like her.
    She has had no dial tone for at least a week
    and called her ISP and had them trying to get
    her on the net again for hours.
    Thump
  • BODBOD
    Thump wrote:
    I hope you never run into someone like her.
    She has had no dial tone for at least a week
    and called her ISP and had them trying to get
    her on the net again for hours.
    Thump

    shouldnt she be calling the phone company if she has no dial tone?
  • ThumpThump
    BOD wrote:

    shouldnt she be calling the phone company if she has no dial tone?
    I just said it wrong BOD. We plugged in a phone and
    it got a dial tone. But when the computer trys to get
    on it says "No dial tone detected" and we had a bad
    surge when our electrical transformer blew up on the
    pole so I figured the modem is shot.
    She spent days talking to the techs at her ISP and
    they've given her four free months use.
    Thump
  • TCPMetaTCPMeta
    Come to think of it a similer thing happen to me back in the day. I had to end up buying a new modem and rewire most of the house phone cable. The phone still worked but it was on the fuzzy side. Like if I was to call or pick up the phone it would be fuzzy for like 10 minutes then it would clear up. After I rewired the house it worked fine.
  • BODBOD
    TCPMeta wrote:
    Come to think of it a similer thing happen to me back in the day. I had to end up buying a new modem and rewire most of the house phone cable. The phone still worked but it was on the fuzzy side. Like if I was to call or pick up the phone it would be fuzzy for like 10 minutes then it would clear up. After I rewired the house it worked fine.

    i got that kind of problem but its something to do with BT. yet they still deny theres a problem.....
  • Ka0sKa0s
    Mine WAS fuzzy for a while, turns out the phone line going to my DSL modem had two wires in it touching, so the DSL was leaking onto the phone. I changed the phone line and fixed the problem. But my neighbor, on the other hand, had a problem with his phone and he doesnt haev DSL on it. Apparently the phone line going to the telephone poll was frayed where it connected, so Verizon had to fix it.
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