I had a good laugh today. Seriously, it was that or I would have broken down. On Wednesday I wrote about how my colleague at work had purchased himself a £1400 laptop so he could continue his work at home without having to figure out how to write the data to a ~35p CDRW disc. Well today he had to face the issue of getting the files from the work computers and onto said laptop. Earlier in the day I had setup our user accounts and software so that it was fully useable and would integrate into the LAN.
One may be forgiven for assuming the laptop would be plugged into the hub so files may be transferred across. Eventually, this was to be the method used. Nonetheless, my colleague’s instinct was to find the CDRW discs in order to write the files from his workstation onto disc and work on them on the laptop at home. This was the whole purpose, over two years ago, of the office buying him a workstation to keep at home. I'd guess it's never been used, seeing how he takes his office workstation home most weekends.
Sadly, he was certain this would be impossible. The laptop doesn't have a FDD so how would he be able to insert a rewritable CD into it? No, I kid you not. This machine has a DVD-RW built into it, yet it was his belief that not having a floppy disk drive meant he couldn't use a CD. Makes you wonder...
After reassuring him that he was wrong, I decided to humour him and go with his instinct. Unfortunately for him, finding the discs was trouble enough, followed by the painstaking process of getting one out of its wrapper. Short of asking me how to put the CDRW into his workstation, he had no idea how to format it ready for use and then how to copy files onto it. I quickly ran out of patience trying to get him to use the right mouse button, not the left...not double-clicking the right...not throwing the mouse at the wall...sooooooo I told him to plug the damned thing into the LAN. I was fed-up, told him what to do and left him to it. Joke over. Off home I went.
Monday morning I'm almost certain he'll tell me he failed to do anything, probably due to ignorance...
One may be forgiven for assuming the laptop would be plugged into the hub so files may be transferred across. Eventually, this was to be the method used. Nonetheless, my colleague’s instinct was to find the CDRW discs in order to write the files from his workstation onto disc and work on them on the laptop at home. This was the whole purpose, over two years ago, of the office buying him a workstation to keep at home. I'd guess it's never been used, seeing how he takes his office workstation home most weekends.
Sadly, he was certain this would be impossible. The laptop doesn't have a FDD so how would he be able to insert a rewritable CD into it? No, I kid you not. This machine has a DVD-RW built into it, yet it was his belief that not having a floppy disk drive meant he couldn't use a CD. Makes you wonder...
After reassuring him that he was wrong, I decided to humour him and go with his instinct. Unfortunately for him, finding the discs was trouble enough, followed by the painstaking process of getting one out of its wrapper. Short of asking me how to put the CDRW into his workstation, he had no idea how to format it ready for use and then how to copy files onto it. I quickly ran out of patience trying to get him to use the right mouse button, not the left...not double-clicking the right...not throwing the mouse at the wall...sooooooo I told him to plug the damned thing into the LAN. I was fed-up, told him what to do and left him to it. Joke over. Off home I went.
Monday morning I'm almost certain he'll tell me he failed to do anything, probably due to ignorance...
posted by Matthew E Cornish at
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