Thursday, September 01, 2005
Computer Guys
A plain computer illiterate guy rings tech support to
report that
his computer is faulty.
Tech: What's the problem?
User: There is smoke coming out of the power supply.
Tech: (keep quite)
Tech: You'll need a new power supply.
User: No, I don't! I just need to change the startup
files.
Tech: Sir, the power supply is faulty. You'll need to
replace it.
User: No way! Someone told me that I just needed to
change the startup
and it will fix the problem! All I need is for you to
tell me the command.
Tech support:
10 minutes later, the User is still adamant that he is
right.
The tech is frustrated and fed up.
Tech support: (hush hush)
Tech: Sorry, Sir. We don't normally tell our customers
this,
but there is an undocumented DOS command that will fix
the problem.
User: I knew it!
Tech: Just add the line LOAD NOSMOKE.COM at the end of
the CONFIG.SYS .
Letme know how it goes.
10 minutes later.
User: It didn't work. The power supply is still
smoking.
Tech: Well, what version of DOS are you using?
User: MS-DOS 6.22.
Tech: That's your problem there. That version of DOS
didn't come with NOSMOKE.
Contact Microsoft and ask them for a patch that will
give you the file.
Let me know how it goes.
1 hour later.
User: I need a new power supply.
Tech support: How did you come to that conclusion?
Tech support: (hush hush)
User: Well, I rang Microsoft and told him about what
you said,
and he started asking questions about the make of
power supply.
Tech: Then what did he say?
User: He told me that my power supply isn't compatible
with NOSMOKE.
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