On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 03:25:52PM -0500, Robin (Roblimo) Miller wrote:
>
> > First dumb question: what kinds of questions will they be asking? I guess
> > I've not been an AOL user so I don't know. (I've never been completely
> > clueless, either :-)
>
>
> Paraphrases that capture gists, not necessarily from AOL accounts:
>
> "I have down loaded Linux 6.0 it will not run Photoshop you must help me
> because I need to use Photoshop, my cousin gave me a copy of his and I
> can only run it on Linux not Windows because Linux is free and Windows
> isn't, how do I open Photoshop wiht Linux?"
>
> "I see that Linux is free. Could you please send one of your engineers
> to my house to install it and teach me how to use it? Thank you..."
>
> "My modem won't work in Linux, I downloaded it off the Internet this is
> bad you guys suck you will never take over from Windows."
>
> "I put Linux on my computer now I can't get it off and windows wont boot
> if you dont fix this i will call the better business breau i got linux i
> downloaded it free i am going to sue if you dont make it work right."
>
> And the beat goes on...
>
Don't know if anyone takes ComputerWorld, but on the back page every
issue, they have a group of bizarre incidents sent into them by real
techs. Things along the lines of some of the above, like: "My computer
doesn't work!" "Did you plug it in?" "Oh." Hilarious.
Paul
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