"There are three kinds of death in this world. There’s heart death,
there’s brain death, and there’s being off the network” said Guy Almes,
and I must say that he is right. I just can’t imagine what would happen
if my computer would stop working, even for a nano second. We as
students are dependent on these machines for each and everything, and
they are nothing less than a demi God for us.
Computers are fickle machines. Sometimes they work like a dream and sometimes they are really a pain. A bad computer day is even worse than a bad hair day for girls. When it doesn’t work, we scream and shout, through a fit, give the computer a kick, bang it a couple of times and when even this doesn’t work our last resort is to pray to the “Computer Deva” who in his mechanical glory has chosen to show ire today. We sit and ponder as to what our folly is which has invoked his wrath. Is it the fact that we yet again forgot to switch off the computer all night or dropped the monitor’s sibling, Speakers, too many times today? Has the computer come down with a bad case of “viral” fever which cannot be controlled by the best medication i.e. my antivirus program. You can try and cajole, plead, beg and even threaten (not necessarily in that order) your computer but the point is that it won’t work. So what can you do?
The first and foremost thing that would come into your head would be to call in all the favors and goodwill that you have accumulated throughout your semester and gatecrash at someone’s place. If you are the angry young man kind or the one who believes that silence is golden (basically you don’t interact much) then you may err… not have anyone to depend upon. In that case your second best option would be going to a cyber. Now a cyber has its own set of limitations. First of all it will burn a mammoth hole in your pocket. You wouldn’t probably be able to shell out 60 bucks for a two hour session.
Here are some things which you must AVOID doing with your Computer!!!
Computers are fickle machines. Sometimes they work like a dream and sometimes they are really a pain. A bad computer day is even worse than a bad hair day for girls. When it doesn’t work, we scream and shout, through a fit, give the computer a kick, bang it a couple of times and when even this doesn’t work our last resort is to pray to the “Computer Deva” who in his mechanical glory has chosen to show ire today. We sit and ponder as to what our folly is which has invoked his wrath. Is it the fact that we yet again forgot to switch off the computer all night or dropped the monitor’s sibling, Speakers, too many times today? Has the computer come down with a bad case of “viral” fever which cannot be controlled by the best medication i.e. my antivirus program. You can try and cajole, plead, beg and even threaten (not necessarily in that order) your computer but the point is that it won’t work. So what can you do?
The first and foremost thing that would come into your head would be to call in all the favors and goodwill that you have accumulated throughout your semester and gatecrash at someone’s place. If you are the angry young man kind or the one who believes that silence is golden (basically you don’t interact much) then you may err… not have anyone to depend upon. In that case your second best option would be going to a cyber. Now a cyber has its own set of limitations. First of all it will burn a mammoth hole in your pocket. You wouldn’t probably be able to shell out 60 bucks for a two hour session.
Here are some things which you must AVOID doing with your Computer!!!
- Well firstly, stop treating your computer like a football. Kicking your machine, when it does not work is not a great way to show your love and respect for the machine.
- Irritating it by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del again and again is a sure shot way to send it into sulk mode, where it will remain for at least a week.
- Allowing dust to accumulate on your CPU, and writing your name on it will not exactly please your computer, nor will grossly mistreating your keyboard while playing Mafia wars.
- Eating and typing with greasy fingers is a big no no.
- Banging the monitor if it has inexplicably shut down or throwing your mouse in a fit of anger will not really make your computer happy too.
- Not giving its overdue forty winks too is a taboo.
- Leaving the switch on all night and letting the CPU simmer and heat up is banned.
- Constantly pressing the print button, even when you know the printer has run out of ink is not a good idea either.
- Disturbing its beauty sleep by switching it on every few minutes to check out facebook should be avoided.
- Using the CPU as footrest is well demeaning to your computer as is decorating it with smelly pizza boxes, socks and other random trash.
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