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Are you a QOTWer? Do you want to start a thread that isn't a direct answer to the current QOTW? Then this place, gentle poster, is your friend.
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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
The argument we had was essentially
"how many bytes in a kilobyte?"
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Kroney, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 15:17,
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14 years ago)
1024
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 15:17,
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Trying to convince my boss
that 10,000 bytes is not a megabyte was unbelievably difficult.
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Kroney, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 15:19,
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Why didn't you just google it?
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girlinthehole, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 15:19,
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Because we knew the answer
And because we're professionals.
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Kroney, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 15:20,
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Your boss is an IT manager?
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 15:20,
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Oh yes.
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Kroney, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 15:21,
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+sh
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 15:23,
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I know of an IT head of dept. that asked one of the support guys to find out why windows went grey when he clicked log off.
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Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 16:41,
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If only there was some kind of internet based repository of searchable information
Hang on, I'll just Google and find out
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 15:20,
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zinged - dammit!
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 17 Aug 2011, 15:20,
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