Wracko

Voltou a fazer frio em Caxias! Finalmente! O outono só chega dia 20, mas finalmente começou a fazer frio. Na verdade, esfriou há uns 2 dias atrás, mas eu esperei para ver se o tempo não ia dar uma mudança doida.

Instalei o mac aqui de novo. Sem som e sem rede, mas agora esse dvd iPC osx 10.5.6 tem vários drivers. O jeito é testar um a um. E o ubuntu as mil maravilhas.

Por último: trabalho de inglês da facul é um diálogo (em duplas) com pelo menos 5 frases cada um. Achei umas sugestões:

Dialogos para ingles:
http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/

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* Tech Support: “Ok, ma’am, I need you to do a ctrl-alt-del.”
* Customer: “How do I do that?”
* Tech Support: “Push and hold ‘ctrl’ and ‘alt’ at the same time, and then hit ‘delete’.”
* Customer: “Where are those?”
* Tech Support: (explains the location of the keys)
* Customer: “Nothing happened.”
* Tech Support: “Try again.”
* Customer: “Still nothing.”

A minute or two later….

* Customer: “Should I turn my computer on? Would that help?”
* Tech Support: “Yeah, it might.”

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* Customer: “My computer won’t work. You guys must have broken it when you installed the modem.”
* Tech Support: “What happens when you turn it on?”
* Customer: “It won’t turn on anymore!!!!!”
* Tech Support: “So you don’t see any lights or hear any noise?”
* Customer: “I’m telling you it WON’T TURN ON.”
* Tech Support: “Is it plugged in?
* Customer: “OF COURSE it’s plugged in, you MORON!”
* Tech Support: “When you push the power button it–”
* Customer: “Power button? This computer doesn’t have a power button.”
* Tech Support: “Sir, all computers have power buttons. Look at the front of the case, find the word ‘power,’ and push the button.”
* Customer: “YOU FIXED IT!! Thanks!!!!”

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* Customer: “Uhh, I dont have a ‘7′ key.”
* Tech Support: “It’s between the ‘6′ and ‘8′.”
* Customer: “I don’t have a ‘7′ key.”
* Tech Support: “Do you see the ‘1′ key?”
* Customer: “Yeah.”
* Tech Support: “What’s to the right of that?”
* Customer: “‘2′.”
* Tech Support: “And further right?”
* Customer: “‘3′, ‘4′, ‘5′, ‘6′.”
* Tech Support: “What’s the next one?”
* Customer: “‘8′.”
* Tech Support: “It should be to the left of the ‘8′ and the right of the ‘6′.”
* Customer: “Ohhhh, that ‘7′ key.”

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* My Mother-In-Law: “The computer you have works, right?”
* My Husband: “Yes, it’s brand new, why?”
* My Mother-In-Law: “Well I was wondering if I could put mine like that.”
* My Husband: “What do you mean?”
* My Mother-In-Law: “Well the big box, it’s on the wrong side.”
* My Husband: “What big box?”
* My Mother-In-Law: (pointing to the CPU case) “That one.”
* My Husband: “I don’t know what you mean.”
* My Mother-In-Law: “Well ours is on the right.”
* My Husband: “It doesn’t matter which side it’s on, as long as the cable reaches.”
* My Mother-In-Law: “Really?”
* My Husband: “Really.”
* My Mother-In-Law: “So that means I can put the printer anywhere too?”
* My Husband: (chuckling) “Yeah, Mom.”

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* Customer: “YOU GAVE ME A VIRUS!”
* Tech Support: “I don’t think I’ve got a virus.”
* Customer: “Go download [a brand of virus checker], and you’ll see.”

Sometime later I dutifully ran the checker.

* Tech Support: “Ok, I ran it. No virus.”
* Customer: “You MUST have a virus. You gave it to me. It was all over my system. You must not have run the checker properly.” (yell, rant, rave, repeat checks, etc)
* Tech Support: “How did I give it to you?”
* Customer: “On those floppies with the latest revision of the software you wrote.”
* Tech Support: “The ones you just returned?”
* Customer: “Yeah.”
* Tech Support: “Just a sec…let me check those.” (pause) “Well, I found a virus on the disks. Ahem…seems you were about to pass a virus on to ME.”
* Customer: “Ah…lemme get back to you.” (click)