Oldies vs ComputersAs someone who is "good with computers" I get a lot of calls from people who've got problems. Some of them even have problems with their computers.
Back many years ago working for a telecoms company, I was called to a senior secretary who "had put a disk into the drive and couldn't get it out". She had one of the first Mac II machines with two drive slots. But only one drive.
Opening up the case revealed stacks of floppy disks that she'd been posting through the hole in the case for weeks. She'd only decided there was a problem when her boss wanted one of them back...
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chthonic, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 13:58)
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Government SpinI did a year of support in parliament - all I can say is that those people who are entrusted with the safekeeping of the country...
...when you're asked for the 100th time "how do I install the internet?" you begin to lose faith in democracy.
God help the UK when the PM needs to unleash some atom bombs - I can just see the call script now "CeeTRaall, ALt and Deteleete? then enter my launch codes?"
Kudos to a certain un-named Lord who got us to fix his laptop after a massive pr0n session, then took the engineer and the rest of us 'real' people out for a few drinks in the Lord's Bar to say thanks...
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HSDriver was probably still at work on, Sat 23 Sep 2006, 4:07,
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