We have this answering machine at home, though I don’t really know why since nobody ever checks the messages on it. When we do check them, they’re mostly days or even weeks old. It still has the generic outgoing message on it since we’re too lazy to change it. I don’t think anyone’s checked the messages on it for a while now since it always picks up after two rings; usually it answers after four rings, if there aren’t any new messages.
Since we all have cell phones, people have other ways of reaching us, so we don’t really bother much with checking the answering machine messages. Besides, caller ID will show who called anyway. We don’t allow private numbers so anyone who calls and wants to get through has to unblock their number. That makes it easy to spot the unwanted telemarketer callers right away. 😉
I hate being the one to have to listen to every message and delete stuff off of the machine because it’s always a bunch of messages that aren’t for me and I don’t know if I should delete it or not. It’s not like anyone else is gonna check it anyway, so I just go ahead and delete whatever’s old… in other words, everything. 😛
It’s kind of the same with taking care of the computer – I seem to be the only one in the house who gives a damn about viruses/virii, trojans, worms, network security, spyware, running defrags, and cleaning out the dust inside with a can of compressed air. I pretty much do all the dirty work when it comes to the computer and other people just carelessly use it. Then when it’s not working they come to me and ask, “what’s wrong with the computer?” :rolleyes: I only use it for file storage and burning CD’s since my laptop hard drive is only 60 gigs (well, my old laptop hard drive was only 6 gigs, so I really needed the PC hard drive for storage). I use my laptop mostly, so whatever screwups happen to the desktop PC usually aren’t my fault. Though I will admit that sometimes some things might be my fault, but not usually. 😮
That computer really ought to be replaced already… the only “new” parts are the case, motherboard, DVD-ROM drive, keyboard, and one of the hard drives. I think even those are old now in computer years. 😛 The rest of it is around 6 years old… crappy video card, sound card, a really dirty optical mouse, CD-RW, other hard drive, memory, some ATI TV wonder card that I used for video capture, and the monitor. If someone complains about how slow it is, I should just tell them to pay for a brand new one… I hate having to spend money on parts for something I hardly ever use. I bought the memory, hard drives, DVD-ROM, TV card, networking equipment (a few different wireless routers and every G one I’ve bought so far all have problems 😐 – my Netgear MR314 802.11b router is rock solid, but I hate the slower wireless transfer speeds I get when doing PC-to-PC or PC-to-Xbox transfers with it so I’d rather have a G router; too bad they’ve [Microsoft MN-700, Airlink AR315W, and Linksys WRT54G v2.2] all been crappy so far)… this stuff isn’t cheap. You want a faster computer?? Go buy a new one because I’m not gonna let anyone mess with my laptop… and it would be easier than upgrading all the old parts.