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I was at work a few days ago when these two guys, not much older than me, came in with a laptop that had a problem with it’s DVDROM. It wasn’t recognising there was a disc in the drive. They were nice enough guys, chatting away with me while I looked at the computer. I did a little digging and found the problem is what’s known in the tech community as the “upper filters” problem. It’s a registry issue with the computer.
Basically what happens with upper filters (and this is particularly common with computers running Norton antivirus or Kaspersky internet security AND that have a TSS Corp DVDRW drive) is your computers registry gets ever so slightly screwed and kicks out the CD drive, making the computer think it’s disabled. Easy enough fix. You run a free tool from microsoft, follow the instructions, re-start the computer, job done. Pretty simple fix.
What I have found happens is the simpler the fix, the more in awe people are of your tech skills. I have gone up to computers before now, fixed them in 12 seconds flat and people have been like “WOOOOOW! Alan is a super-genious. He fixed my computer really fast!” then the more complicated issues like the times I have had to almost completely strip-out and rebuild a persons computer, I usually get “Oh cool. Thanks Al!
” Both are good to hear, because no matter the situation, the person appreciates me BUT it’s clear which situation they are more in awe of. People think that speed = knowledge. Not always true. Speed usually means “simple solution” 
Anyway, I fixed the guys computer but in the brief time I was doing this, I found out he owns a business in the city centre. I didn’t ask what business it was purely because his business is none of mine and I wasn’t really all that interested anyway. As we’re done, He thanks me and pulls some gold coloured cards out of his pocket. He hands me them but they are upside down, so all I see is an address. He tells me “Show one of these cards at that address. I’ll make sure you get a good deal” or something like that. I thanked him, pocketed the cards and he left.
I pulled a card back out and found it was a card for a place where the tagline was “exclusive gentleman’s retreat” out of curiosity, I typed the URL on the card into the computer and found out that what I had actually been given was a business card for a high-end BROTHEL!! XD (for those who don’t know what a brothel is…google it)
I was stunned, I mean totally shocked. I stood there for a few seconds and then just started laughing. What made me laugh even harder was on their website, right on the front page, one of their bullet points is that they cater for “large groups and corporate events” … WHAT?!! xDDD
By the way, the website was www [dot] librasauna [dot] co [dot] uk (I don’t want stuff like that linking back to my profile
) DO NOT VISIT THAT LINK WHILE AT WORK. I know I have just told you it's a brothel but in keeping with forum rules, I am obligated to tell you that link is NSFW...that and I know that even on here, there's gotta be a few people who aren't quite fireing on all 4 cylendars
From what I see on their map, it’s not too far away from the Birmingham NEC, if anyone is interested
Basically what happens with upper filters (and this is particularly common with computers running Norton antivirus or Kaspersky internet security AND that have a TSS Corp DVDRW drive) is your computers registry gets ever so slightly screwed and kicks out the CD drive, making the computer think it’s disabled. Easy enough fix. You run a free tool from microsoft, follow the instructions, re-start the computer, job done. Pretty simple fix.
What I have found happens is the simpler the fix, the more in awe people are of your tech skills. I have gone up to computers before now, fixed them in 12 seconds flat and people have been like “WOOOOOW! Alan is a super-genious. He fixed my computer really fast!” then the more complicated issues like the times I have had to almost completely strip-out and rebuild a persons computer, I usually get “Oh cool. Thanks Al!
” Both are good to hear, because no matter the situation, the person appreciates me BUT it’s clear which situation they are more in awe of. People think that speed = knowledge. Not always true. Speed usually means “simple solution” Anyway, I fixed the guys computer but in the brief time I was doing this, I found out he owns a business in the city centre. I didn’t ask what business it was purely because his business is none of mine and I wasn’t really all that interested anyway. As we’re done, He thanks me and pulls some gold coloured cards out of his pocket. He hands me them but they are upside down, so all I see is an address. He tells me “Show one of these cards at that address. I’ll make sure you get a good deal” or something like that. I thanked him, pocketed the cards and he left.
I pulled a card back out and found it was a card for a place where the tagline was “exclusive gentleman’s retreat” out of curiosity, I typed the URL on the card into the computer and found out that what I had actually been given was a business card for a high-end BROTHEL!! XD (for those who don’t know what a brothel is…google it)
I was stunned, I mean totally shocked. I stood there for a few seconds and then just started laughing. What made me laugh even harder was on their website, right on the front page, one of their bullet points is that they cater for “large groups and corporate events” … WHAT?!! xDDD
By the way, the website was www [dot] librasauna [dot] co [dot] uk (I don’t want stuff like that linking back to my profile
) DO NOT VISIT THAT LINK WHILE AT WORK. I know I have just told you it's a brothel but in keeping with forum rules, I am obligated to tell you that link is NSFW...that and I know that even on here, there's gotta be a few people who aren't quite fireing on all 4 cylendars From what I see on their map, it’s not too far away from the Birmingham NEC, if anyone is interested
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