Hi all I'm new here, and a big fan. I work as a marine scientist/technician on a lot of oceanography projects. A big part of my job is making sure computer systems work when put out to sea. I'm not a proper geek (no formal training), but I spend a lot of time building, testing and troubleshooting systems.
So I get this call one day from a colleague (so if this should be in the other forum, my apologies). We work together a lot even though we are on opposite coasts.
C: Colleague
Me:
C: Sea? you have to help me!! How do I change my keyboard!?!
Me: Wha?!?
C: My keyboard settings!! I accidentally set my computer to a Dvorjak keyboard!
Me: Why?
C: It doesn't matter why!! But evaluations are in, and mine was horrible, and I'm working on a rebuttal.
Me: How?
C: I opened notepad and typed in all the keys, and now I'm copying and pasting each individual letter to make a rebuttal, but its taking too long and I'm going to miss the deadline!!
Me: uh, well lets see... (I forget what I did but it was about 3 minutes of figuring), try this.
C: Oh thats it!!! Thank you Thank you Thank you!!! Bye!
The kicker? Shes our software writer/developer. And we *have* to use Windows, because she can only write programs for Windows. And she was arguing with an evaluation that probably said that her knowledge wasn't up to snuff or something
So I get this call one day from a colleague (so if this should be in the other forum, my apologies). We work together a lot even though we are on opposite coasts.
C: Colleague
Me:
C: Sea? you have to help me!! How do I change my keyboard!?!
Me: Wha?!?
C: My keyboard settings!! I accidentally set my computer to a Dvorjak keyboard!
Me: Why?
C: It doesn't matter why!! But evaluations are in, and mine was horrible, and I'm working on a rebuttal.
Me: How?
C: I opened notepad and typed in all the keys, and now I'm copying and pasting each individual letter to make a rebuttal, but its taking too long and I'm going to miss the deadline!!
Me: uh, well lets see... (I forget what I did but it was about 3 minutes of figuring), try this.
C: Oh thats it!!! Thank you Thank you Thank you!!! Bye!
The kicker? Shes our software writer/developer. And we *have* to use Windows, because she can only write programs for Windows. And she was arguing with an evaluation that probably said that her knowledge wasn't up to snuff or something
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