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Would someone please translate this for me? I will sent another to the # one you specified earlier just now.Personally, I think a cat jumped onto the keyboard and managed to send me an email.

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YAY! It's Pay Day Eve! Another day defending the hordes from technological terrors.

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So I sat down for an evening of Internet surfing and I came across this gem. Aromatherapy? You have GOT to be kidding me.

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Folks, do me a favor and try to compose emails as if you were actually mailing a letter. It's bad enough when people try to use email as a chat session. This particular message was not part of a chain of replies, so I was caught a little bit off guard when I opened it. Broke cost down and yes they should have diff retail no has bean the other none always more $That's a direct reproduction with

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Whack! There, that fixed it. Oh wait, it's broke again. Whack! There, that's better. No matter how frustrated you might be, you have to resist that natural human urge to use physical violence to solve your technological problems. The people at Gizmodo know what I'm talking about.

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A computer was something on TV From a science fiction show of note A window was something you hated to clean And ram was the cousin of a goat. Meg was the name of my girlfriend And gig was a job for the nights Now they all mean different things And that really mega bites. An application was for employment A program was a TV show A curser used profanity A keyboard was a piano. Memory was

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YAY! It's Pay Day Eve! Prepare for the triple Pay Days of August!

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So this recently hired user gets a laptop. It's not brand new, but it still works just fine after all the junk the last user that owned it is cleaned up. Anyway, the user has the laptop about a week and has to call in for help. For some reason, Outlook 2003 will not work anymore. Several voicemails and phone calls later I finally get in touch with the user to setup a remote session. I get

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YAY! It's Pay Day Eve! I'm taking tomorrow off and going to the movies.

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This has got to be the funniest tech support thing I've seen in a very long time. It's R-Rated, so don't blame me if your boss fires you for watching it at work. Sales Guy vs Web Dude

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Microsoft just doesn't get it do they? The site Gizmodo gives us the low-down. Microsoft could give their cash monies directly to me to try and convince me that Vista doesn't suck pond scum. It kind of reminds me of a Star Trek episode. How many lights? Speaking of Microsoft and Star Trek, try this.

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Tech support people have a bad enough reputation as light-weight glasses-wearing technobabble-spewing nerds but Geek Squad seems to be giving us good apples an even harder time. Take for example Mike's story. He had some spyware slowing his PC down and took it to the Geeks at Best Buy. Should you trust some guy with a VW and a badge that makes $8 per hour? Mike could have taken me to see

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YAY! It's Pay Day Eve! Since tomorrow is a holiday it's actually Pay Day instead of the usual Pay Day Eve! Not that I'm complaining or anything.

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Well, now that Bill Gates is gone, Microsoft can start making some really big mistakes. They have decided to stop selling Windows XP. Windows Vista is a pretty good operating system, as long as you have a brand new computer printing to a brand new printer and a brand new display. If you have any old components, like say, one to five years old, count on crashing, being down for several days and

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It's time for How Many Minutes! Today's installment of How Many Minutes is different from the usual presentation of the top employee's cell phone and text message usage. This comes from one of Grumpy Tech Support's long time lurkers who sent this link. All I can say is "Wow."

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Logic is a tech support person's greatest weapon. Used correctly it can cut troubleshooting time dramatically. This time logic just did not work right. Warning: This is going to be a long one so forgive me if it becomes too technical. I'll try to keep it in English. Ok, picture this: A tape library unit with two tape drives inside. Drive A is on the left, Drive B is on the right. You

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You have to love consulting computer experts. They come in with all their expertise and tell you what a moron you are and treat you thusly. Every once in a while you catch one of these "experts" and it makes you wonder where they received their fountain of knowledge. Case in point -- Consultant> So where are the files located? GTG> The EXE is out there in the Install folder on the Raleigh

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YAY! It's Pay Day Eve! Everyone go to your local Wal-Mart and buy a single box of Tic-tacs so it will mess with their inventory systems.

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A blonde user calls her husband at work one day and asks him, "Can you help me when you get home?" "Sure," he replies. "What's the problem?" "Well, I started a really hard puzzle and I can't even find the edge pieces." "Look on the box," he said. "There's always a picture of what the puzzle is." "It's a big rooster," she said. The husband arrives home and tells his blonde wife, "Okay,

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Ok, if the $20,000 PC wasn't enough, Gizmodo shows me this. Any more and I'll have to call the church group to start picketing these people!

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First a supercomputer is created that can perform a petaflop and now I find this. I'm getting goose-bumps. I figure it will only take me 18 years to save up for one.

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No, not a bunny hop, a petaflop. IBM and a group of scientists have created a supercomputer that has performed a petaflop. That's 1000 trillion operations in a single second! I wonder how long it takes to reboot...

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If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today, their infamous sketch, "Who's on First?" might have turned out something like this: COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you? COSTELLO: Thanks. I'm setting up an office in my den and I'm thinking about buying a computer. ABBOTT: Mac? COSTELLO: No, the name's Lou. ABBOTT: Your

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YAY! It's Pay Day Eve! Tomorrow I can buy some gas.

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Remember this post? Can you hear me now? Well guess who has been calling me? Yeah, it's him. He has called every day this month because he is in a hotel trying to connect to their network. The concept is easy. Painfully easy. Although I can understand some people have a hard time with it. Let's see if I can explain it to you -- There are a vast number of servers on the Internet. So many

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