Computer Stuff
I saw a lady at work today putting a credit card into her
floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly. I inquired as to what she was doing and she
said she was shopping on the internet">
Computer Stuff I saw a lady at work today putting a credit card into her
floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly. I inquired as to what she was doing and she
said she was shopping on the internet, and they asked for a credit card number, so she was
using the ATM "thingy." I worked with an individual who plugged their power strip
back into itself and for the life of them could not understand why their computer would
not turn on. FAX MACHINE: 1st Person: "Do you know anything about this
fax-machine?" I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her
car. "Do you need some help?" I asked. She replied, "I knew I should have replaced the battery
in this remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to
a distant convenience store) would have a battery for this?" "Hmmm, I dunno. Do you have an alarm, too?" I
asked. "No, just this remote 'thingy,'" she answered,
handing it and the car keys to me. As I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I
replied, "Why don't you drive over there and check about the batteries...it's a long
walk." Tech Support: COPIER PAPER: Several years ago we had an intern who was none too swift.
One day he was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of typing
paper. What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," she told him.With
that, the intern took his last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier
and proceeded to make five blank copies. I replied, "You mean the letter 'i?'" He said, "Yeah, that's it!"
2nd Person: "A little. What's wrong?"
1st Person: "Well, I sent a fax, and the recipient called back to say all she
received was a cover-sheet and a blank page. I tried it again, and the same thing
happened."
2nd Person: "How did you load the sheet?"
1st Person: "It's a pretty sensitive memo, and I didn't want anyone else to read it
by accident, so I folded it so only the recipient would open it and read it."
"What
does the screen say now?"
Person: "It says, 'Hit ENTER when ready'."
Tech Support: "Well?"
Person: "How do I know when it's ready?"
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One of our servers crashed. I was watching our new system administrator trying to restore
it. He inserted a CD and needed to type a path name to a directory named "i386."
He started to type it and paused, asking me Where's the key for that line thing?" I
asked what he was talking about, and he said, "You know, that one that looks like an
upside-down exclamation mark."
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I was in a car dealership a while ago when a large motor home was towed into the garage.
The front of the vehicle was in dire need of repair and the whole thing generally looked
like an extra in "Twister." I asked the manager what had happened. He told me
that the driver had set the cruise control, then went in back to make a sandwich.