About six or seven weeks ago I got myself some nice upgrades for my computer: an 80 gig Western Digital hard drive with an 8mb cache and a 40x TDK burner. I got them NEW off of googlegear. With a little bit of tinkering, I got the burner to work, and reluctantly took my friend’s advice to install windows xp (I like 98 better) in order to get the rather stubborn hard drive to work. To do that, I had to switch it to the master channel and make my old one the slave. This wasn’t my optimum setup, and against my friend’s advice, I vowed to “gut” my storage devices after getting a spool of CD-RWs and backing everything up with my new burner.
Unfortunately, that was not to be. Two weeks later the hard drive, as I tried to click on an AIM chat window, began to make a rhythmic clicking noise much like a late 80’s car’s blinker does in the cabin when engaged. With the help of another friend who is much more knowledgeable, we diagnosed the problem as defective headers. In the meantime I’m using an old laptop my parents brought me from home when the school year started.
Within a matter of days after the catastrophe, I’d gotten back into direct contact with my online friends, whom I had informed of my predicament in the meantime.
One of them told me that the “village idiot” of the message board where we frequent had called me an idiot for what had happened. This buffoon of which I speak has a penchant for treating trivial knowledge about something for expertise and outright lying about stuff such as release dates for models and the like. He also fancies himself a real “pimp.”
A few days ago he left his self-imposed exile from the all-but-dead message board to respond to the thread I made about my hard drive failure. This is what he said:
Brill-fucking-iant, Sherlock.
The funny thing is that I couldn’t use the computer without an OS on the master drive. He seems to think that’s possible. Neophyte though I may be, it seems to me that such is NEVER possible. Am I wrong?
Worse still, word around the campfire is that he’s of the opinion that this perceived ill-advised course of action on my part caused the hard drive failure, thus leading him to call me an idiot for MY lack of knowledge.
I could forgive someone who admittedly knew little about computers and ventured such “advice” based on their impressions. But this fellow fancies himself to be a prodigy of sorts, and simply ducks away when someone calls him out on his lies/inaccuracies.
I love it when people assume the worst about someone else’s intelligence in order to justify their self-styled image of skill at, well, anything. Especially this guy.
Stupid lump of herpes-addled twat-yeast.
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