Dongle Device Attachment

**SupremeSpod** · 12 July 2005, 08:36

Originally posted by threaded

If you are using a USB dongle ignore the instructions to attach the parallel port dongle and click 'OK' to continue.
Please click OK when you have attached the Dongle device to the parallel port on your computer.
Pins on device mate with holes in computer's DB25 socket connector.

<OK><Cancel>

Hmmmm, how interesting, and how does that make you feel?

**WageSlave** · 12 July 2005, 08:51

Originally posted by SupremeSpod

Hmmmm, how interesting, and how does that make you feel?

Spod, are you secretly becoming a counsellor?

**tim123** · 12 July 2005, 09:40

So somebody who doesn't already know how to insert a dongle is automatically assumed to know what a DB25 socket is.

Hum!

(I know what to do with a dongle, if you'd asked me out of context what a DB25 is I wouldn't have known)

tim

**wendigo100** · 12 July 2005, 09:43

Good post

Originally posted by threaded

If you are using a USB dongle ignore the instructions to attach the parallel port dongle and click 'OK' to continue.
Please click OK when you have attached the Dongle device to the parallel port on your computer.
Pins on device mate with holes in computer's DB25 socket connector.

<OK><Cancel>

Part of my job is to take instructions like that and turn them into something that human beings can use. I seem to have more and more of this to do recently.

It is actually quite fun, especially when 100 words of irrelevant bollocks can be distilled down to: Click OK.

**SupremeSpod** · 12 July 2005, 09:50

Originally posted by tim123

So somebody who doesn't already know how to insert a dongle is automatically assumed to know what a DB25 socket is.

Hum!

(I know what to do with a dongle, if you'd asked me out of context what a DB25 is I wouldn't have known)

tim

That's because you're not an engineer.

**tim123** · 12 July 2005, 10:42

Actually I are an engineer, but when I last used a connector that big it was called a D-type. Now nothing that I work on has connectors that big. Big connectors are for consumer products and assuming that a consumer knows the engineering name for an item is silly.

tim

**Ardesco** · 12 July 2005, 13:39

Thats what keep engineers in jobs though, if they used all the normal names consumers wouldn't get confused and call helpdesk and need an engineer to come out.

This sort of thing is keeping hundreds in work!!!

Dongle Device Attachment