From an ex-field sales/support survivor: I used to work in a computer store and one day we had a gentleman call in with a smoking power supply. The service representative was having a bit of trouble convincing this guy that he had a hardware problem. Service Rep: Sir, something has burned within your power supply. …
(version 78.61, material by Joseph Helenihi, et al) Dear: [ ] Clueless Newbie [ ] Lamer [ ] Flamer [ ] “Me too” er [ ] Pervert [ ] Geek [ ] Spammer [ ] Racist [ ] Fed [ ] Stereotypical AOLer [ ] Freak [ ] Troller [ ] Fundamentalist [ ] Satanist …
12 STEP PROGRAM OF RECOVERY FOR WEB ADDICTS I will have a cup of coffee in the morning and read my newspaper like I used to, before the Web. I will eat breakfast with a knife and fork and not with one hand typing. I will get dressed before noon. I will make an attempt …
To: My Boss From: Blondie Subject: Changing calendars from Y2K I hope that I haven’t misunderstood your instructions because, to be honest, none of this Y to K problem made much sense to me. At any rate, I have finished the conversion of all of the months on all the company calendars for next year. …
July 18 – I just tried to connect to America Online. I’ve heard it is the best online service I can get. They even included a free disk! I’d better hold onto it incase they don’t ever send me anther one! I can’t connect. I don’t know what is wrong. July 19 – Some guy …
Common Computer Terminology 486 – Average IQ needed to understand a PC State-of-the-art – Any computer you can’t afford Obsolete – Any computer you own Microsecond – The time it take for your state-of-the-computer to become obsolete Syntax Error – “Hi, I want to buy a computer and money is no object.” Computer Chip – …
Is it better to be a jock or a nerd? To all the hard working Americans…. The answer to the eternal question “Is it better to be a jock or a nerd?” Michael Jordan was making over $300,000 a game. That $10,000 a minute, at an average 30 minutes per game. With $40 million in …
To be sung to the tune of “My Favourite Things.” PPP Daemons and protocol routers TCP/IP and fast system booters Long network cables like tincans on strings These are a few of the Internet things Serial modems and null-modem cables Millions of dip switches, all without labels Flow control, stop bits, software and hard Wondering …
By Joel Garreau, as reported in his Cybersurfing column in the Washington Post. QUESTION: Where do the characters go when I use my backspace or delete them on my PC? ANSWER: The characters go to different places, depending on whom you ask: The Catholic Church’s approach to characters: The nice characters go to Heaven, where …
A woman called the Canon help desk with a problem with her printer. The tech asked her if she was “running it under Windows.” The woman responded, “No, my desk is next to the door. But that’s a good point. The man sitting in the cubicle next to me is under a window, and his …
