What Your Computer Is Trying to Tell You
It says: "Press Any Key"
It means: "Press any key you like, but I'm not
going to do anything."
It says: "Fatal Error. Please contact technical
support quoting error no. 1A4-2546512430E"
It means: "... where you will be kept on hold for 10
minutes, only to be told that it's a hardware
problem."
It says: "Installing program to C:\...."
It means: "... And I'll also be writing a few files
into c:\windows and c:\windows\system where you'll
NEVER find them."
It says: "Please insert disk 11"
It means: "Because I know very well there are only
10 disks."
It says: "Not enough memory"
It means: "I don't CARE if you've got 64MB of RAM, I
want to use the bit below 640K."
It says: "Cannot read from drive D:...."
It means: "... However, if you put the CD in right
side up..."
It says: "Please Wait...."
It means: "... Indefinitely."
It says: "Directory does not exist...."
It means: ".... any more. Whoops."
It says: "The application caused an error. Choose
Ignore or Close."
It means: "....Makes no difference to me, you're
still not getting your work back."
It means: "Press any key you like, but I'm not
going to do anything."
It says: "Fatal Error. Please contact technical
support quoting error no. 1A4-2546512430E"
It means: "... where you will be kept on hold for 10
minutes, only to be told that it's a hardware
problem."
It says: "Installing program to C:\...."
It means: "... And I'll also be writing a few files
into c:\windows and c:\windows\system where you'll
NEVER find them."
It says: "Please insert disk 11"
It means: "Because I know very well there are only
10 disks."
It says: "Not enough memory"
It means: "I don't CARE if you've got 64MB of RAM, I
want to use the bit below 640K."
It says: "Cannot read from drive D:...."
It means: "... However, if you put the CD in right
side up..."
It says: "Please Wait...."
It means: "... Indefinitely."
It says: "Directory does not exist...."
It means: ".... any more. Whoops."
It says: "The application caused an error. Choose
Ignore or Close."
It means: "....Makes no difference to me, you're
still not getting your work back."
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