tkt8763-01: Computer Bloopers

["Charles D. Estes" <cde1@ra.msstate.edu>]

Hope you all are doing well, or asleep, at almost midnight.  I took a nap
earlier and now I'm wide awake.  I read this email and had to forward it
to you.  It kept me laughing for quite a while.  

 
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  Doug Estes<cde1@ra.msstate.edu>
  Graduate Student, Masters of Science and Technology

  **The Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as
we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with signs too deep for words.**

Romans 8:26

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 23 Mar 1999 15:20:50 -0000
From: GCFL <gcfl-info@gcfl.net>
To: cde1@ra.msstate.edu
Subject: [GCFL] Computer Bloopers

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For a computer programming class, I sat directly across from someone, and
our computers were facing away from each other. A few minutes into the
class, she got up to leave the room. I reached between our computers and
switched the inputs for the keyboards.
 
She came back and started typing and immediately got a distressed look on
her face.
 
She called the teacher over and explained that no matter what she typed,
nothing would happen. The teacher tried everything. By this time I was
hiding behind my monitor and quaking red-faced.
 
I started to type, "Leave me alone!"
 
They both jumped back, silenced. "What the . . . " the teacher said.   I
typed, "I said leave me alone!"
 
The kid got real upset. "I didn't do anything to it, I swear!" It was all
I could do to keep from laughing out loud. The conversation between them
and HAL 2000 went on for an amazing five minutes.
 
Me: "Don't touch me!"
 
Her: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hit your keys that hard."
 
Me: "Who do you think you are anyway?!" Etc. Finally, I couldn't contain
myself any longer and fell out of my chair laughing.
 
After they had realized what I had done, they both turned beet red.
 
Funny, I never got more than a C- in that class.
 
-=+=-
 
Customer: "Your sound card is defective and I want a new one."
 
Tech Support: "What seems to be the problem?"
 
Customer: "The balance is backwards. The left channel is coming out
of the right speaker and the right channel is coming out the left.
It's defective."
 
Tech Support: "You can solve the problem by moving the left speaker
to the right side of the machine and vice versa."
 
Customer: (sputter) (click)
 
Tech Support: (snicker)
 
-=+=-
 
This guy calls in to complain that he gets an "Access Denied" message
every time he logs in. It turned out he was typing his user name and
password in capital letters.
 
Tech Support: "OK, let's try once more, but use lower case letters."
Customer: "Uh, I only have capital letters on my keyboard."
 
All three received from Jim E. King.
 
-=+=-
 
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