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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Possibly a world record... for the number of viruses on one computer. God bless the boarding house I used to be in, it did attract some wonderful idiots. One particular idiot brought in a pc from home assuming we would fix it for him for free if he unleashed such a virus-ridden machine on our network (true).
After waiting over 30 minutes for the thing to boot up (I went and grabbed dinner) I gave up and booted up in safe mode, then hit it with a virus scan. 634. I'd have taken a screenshot but that would have meant connecting the pc to something else to transfer files off, not happening, but God's truth, that was the number.
634 tupping viruses thanks to his Kazaa habit. To paraphrase Ricky Gervais a bit, surely you'd notice something was wrong when you had say, 200 viruses and your computer was slower than Steven Hawking in a treacle spill?
Anyway, I formatted the fucker and unplugged his patch cable from the switch. Problem solved.
/penis joke
(, Wed 27 Sep 2006, 17:17, Reply)
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