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The following Call-of-the-Day was submitted by Terry Carter of the Apple
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Assurance PowerBook Support group in Austin, Texas:
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A customer calls with a PowerBook 520c and had done a clean install last night.
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The unit still isn't working and wants to do another clean install of 7.5. We did
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the Shift-Command-K feature and it said that it couldn't do a clean install....?
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We boot off the Disk Tools and I ask him to locate the system folder. He says
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it's not there. He starts laughing and remarks that he was "a tad under the
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influence² the night before and had apparently thrown away the system folder... 1
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piece at a time.
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Other great lines from this guy were: "I was a might intoxicated" "I see why
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part of the number is SOS, I'm the drowning sailor here..." "I'm the support
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person for this floor." "I tend to drop things." "My mom is running MS Word 6.0
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on her PowerBook 140 and it's kinda slow" " I made an alias of a program and then
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threw away the program. That's when I learned that aliases don't run on their
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own." "I'm in a high stress academic environment where violent computer games are
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a necessity" "I have an arcane Hewlett Packard printer. I dusted it off and tried
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to power it on. It wouldn't start. Turned it off and on again. Still nothing. My
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friend walks over and TOUCHES the printer and it turns on. I touch it and it
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turns off. He touches it again, it turns on and starts to smoke. <I asked him if
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his friend's name was Moses>" "Is that Software erasable? <yes> Well then it's
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probably gone..." "This place is hexed. I found out recently that Doc Holiday
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attended here. This must have been his dorm room" "I'm living in a closet here"
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"I'm giving my mother a CD for mother's day. I can't use a Cookbook CD" "I'm one
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of those people that puts all the crap in the world on my computer and then
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figure out how it works... Extension manager is a great tool"
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