Teaching has always been a fun thing for me.
Me : “Know what does the term ‘write abort’ means dude ?”
New engineer : “Errmm, not really”
Me : “Basically, it means that your harddrive has a fake bad sector.”
New engineer : [nods]
Me : “It happens when the power is abruptly cut off during a write operation, resulting an incomplete sector, which the stupid harddrive will mistaken it as fucked, and proceed to mark it as a bad sector.”
New engineer : [nods repeatedly]
Me : “Now, how often could that be happening ? Who in their right mind would power off their computer during a write operation ?”
New engineer : “Errrr, no idea”
Me : “Ok, let’s throw in an example. Some kid surfing porn inside his room, and his mom barges into the room without knocking. What’s his first reaction ? Power off the goddamn computer. It’s a hardcoded reflex of any male surfer in this world.”
New engineer : “Ouh …”
Me : “And because he’s downloading porn, his harddrive would definitely be performing a write operation. When he powers his computer off, his harddrive will get a write abort. Now, does that seem like a possible scenario to you ?”
New engineer : [nods repeatedly]
Me : “That is why, we are seeing so many write abort rejects from our customers. Porn corrupts not only the soul, but our hardwares as well…”
Then, all out of a sudden, my technician Milkboy chips into our mentor-apprentice privileged discussion …
Milkboy : “The fella could just switch off the monitor, right ?”
Me : “You stupid fuck, what if it arouses your mom’s suspicion and she turns on the monitor herself ?? You’re gonna get free publicity from her. Fucking up a harddrive is definitely a better choice than getting all the bad publicity…”
Milkboy : [nods]
Me : “Remember, never ever let your parents catch you surfing porn redhandedly. They might have already knew about it but, getting caught is entirely a different thing… got it ?”
Both : [nod]
I think I rawked harder than any of their college lecturers. Their future will never be dim in my pair of good hands…
was that one thing u did when u were younger?
switching off the comp on ur mum’s sudden visit to ur room when u were surfing porn sites?
Good example, porn :p
Occasionally I need to power off the PC because the some drivers lock up the whole OS. But using apps lockup as example is BORING.
In futures, geeky mum just need to sniff the packet though the unprotect WIFI routers. :p
hahahhahahahhahhahahahhahhahaaha!
hahahahaha! MO, the mentor! man, they got so much to learn from you
cyrene - I’m smart. I always lock the door.
moo_t - Porn always will be a very good example. It’s interesting and applicable for all kinds of concept.
ppp - okokokokokokokok
belacans - Yeah, and I’ve got so much to teach them.
My dad would FEEL the computer to see if it was hot when he came home. (No, I wasn’t DLing porn, i was playing StarCraft.)
hohoho Great tutor there. :p
megabigblur - You dad FEELS the computer ? ? WOw… he’s damn easy to please, isn’t he ?
surfnux - I know…