I was searching for symptoms of a bad psu cuz mine is being stupid, and i found this. Its not HILLARIOUS, but a good laugh.
A guy rings tech support to report that his computer is faulty.
Tech: "What's the problems?"
User: "There is smoke coming out of the power supply."
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."
10 minutes later, the User is still adamant that they are right. The Tech is frustrated and fed up.
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. Let me 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: "How did you come to that conclusion?"
User: "Well, I rang Microsoft and told him all 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."
yeah that is funny...sometimes you just can't help think they just might of been made up!!
They always fall into one of three catagories...
1) True
2) Loosly based on a true story
3) Urban legend
Ya take 'em with a grain of salt. In this case I'm wondering if anyone would really keep plugging away on a computer that was smoking out the back. If they're not smart enough to know that's a bad idea, then they're probably too technically illeterate to identify the power supply as the culprit.
Now that I think about it, I can't imagine the Tech Support response being "you need a new power supply." Probably something along the lines of "Please turn off your computer."
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I've decided not to engage in pig wrestling any more. Although I might poke a stick in the pen every once in a while just for fun. :stickpoke
My new favorite quote (attrributed to Mark Twain, although i haven't been able to confirm the attribution or the wording):
"Those who don't read the newspaper are uninformed.
Those who do read the newspaper are missinformed."
I was searching for symptoms of a bad psu cuz mine is being stupid, and i found this. Its not HILLARIOUS, but a good laugh.
A guy rings tech support to report that his computer is faulty.
Tech: "What's the problems?"
User: "There is smoke coming out of the power supply."
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."
10 minutes later, the User is still adamant that they are right. The Tech is frustrated and fed up.
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. Let me 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: "How did you come to that conclusion?"
User: "Well, I rang Microsoft and told him all 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."
Is that just a lame blonde joke? I know some blondes who actually understand computers.
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If I was VirtualBox, I could load my virtualization module into Hannah and boot up another kernel in the same address space.
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