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Megadeth4168

Customer: "So, what ended up being the problem?"

IT Pro: "It was an ID10T error"

LBC90805

Continuing errors with this machine point to PEBCAK. Problem Exist Between Chair And Keyboard.

rdix2501

A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
-By Doug Liner.

arwes

Save early, save often.

Many students lost the essays they were typing up at a trade school I attended. The flaky power in that building pounded the 'save early, save often' mantra deep into their minds.

Vogon Poet

arwes wrote:

Save early, save often.

Many students lost the essays they were typing up at a trade school I attended. The flaky power in that building pounded the 'save early, save often' mantra deep into their minds.

Along the same lines...

Jesus saves, so should you.

Mmartin_47

"Keyboard not detected. Press F1 to reboot"

BradleyHU

Megadeth4168 wrote:

Customer: "So, what ended up being the problem?"

IT Pro: "It was an ID10T error"

LBC90805 wrote:

Continuing errors with this machine point to PEBCAK. Problem Exist Between Chair And Keyboard.

lmaooooo @ both of these...good ones...

tiersten

arwes wrote:

Save early, save often.

Many students lost the essays they were typing up at a trade school I attended. The flaky power in that building pounded the 'save early, save often' mantra deep into their minds.

Met quite a few friends due them using floppy disks as their only copy of their dissertations and then needing it to be recovered.

jamesp1983

LBC90805 wrote:

Continuing errors with this machine point to PEBCAK. Problem Exist Between Chair And Keyboard.

LMAO! that is great.

paintb4707

Vogon Poet wrote:

arwes wrote:

Save early, save often.

Many students lost the essays they were typing up at a trade school I attended. The flaky power in that building pounded the 'save early, save often' mantra deep into their minds.

Along the same lines...

Jesus saves, so should you.

nice

sexion8

Vogon Poet wrote:

Jesus saves, so should you.

I actually forget to save most of the times

cbigbrick

LBC90805 wrote:

Continuing errors with this machine point to PEBCAK. Problem Exist Between Chair And Keyboard.

Along the same lines as above

EEOC= Equipment Exceeds Operators Capability

deadpool287

picnic-problem in chair not in computer

supertechCETma

Users are losers

and of course, RTFM is applicable in so many situations.

mamono

Customer: "This thing isn't working right... I've tried everything I know. Is the answer in the manual?"

IT Pro: "I'm sorry, but I believe the problem has to be RTFM." (Read The F#$%'in Manual)

rift

"There's no place like 127.0.0.1"

Anonymouse

rift wrote:

"There's no place like 127.0.0.1"

I just saw this on the back of a pickup truck on my way to work!

sexion8

Anonymouse wrote:

I just saw this on the back of a pickup truck on my way to work!

I thought about getting my license plates customized with the word PACKET since it was available in my state. Then I thought about how many times I would be getting pulled over for suspected drug running so I left it alone.

UnixGuy

"There are only two kinds of storage devices - those that have failed, and those that are about to fail" -

Jonathan Schwartz (Sun Microsystem's CEO).

Source...
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/not_a_flash_in_the

Mrock4

Fellow IT worker: "what was it?"

Other IT worker: "Layer 8 issue..........."

We used this one often in Iraq in front of pilots..it was the tactful way of saying "it was all the users fault"

jrmeulemans

the 127.0.0.1 joke doesn't fly with me....

there's no place like local host? I have never heard it refereed to as home

anyways..

JavonR

Mrock4 wrote:

Fellow IT worker: "what was it?"

Other IT worker: "Layer 8 issue..........."

We used this one often in Iraq in front of pilots..it was the tactful way of saying "it was all the users fault"

I use this one all the time, the infamous layer 8 aka the end user.

Kaminsky

No user ever phones you when it's working..

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Never under estimate the power of the user to do exactly the wrong thing at precisely the wrong time.

But the all time, most infamous IT saying ... "Have you tried rebooting ?"

ally_uk

We once had this incompetent supervisor who midway through a argument about something completly different would say

" Do I detect a element of BSDism to your approach I am getting a vibe of open source ism there is nothing wrong with Microsoft you guys are just Open Source Evangelists" I was like wtf??

The guy was getting paid like 10k more than me and when he had to come face to face with a debian machine it took him 2 months to perform a netinstall and reluctantly I had to pass on my skills in the end.

sprkymrk

User: I can't get this stupid email attachment to open.
Nick Burns (Company computer guy): Oh, I see, it's the email that's stupid, not you, right?

http://www.vidstogo.com/player.php?vfname=burnsanniston&ext=wmv

http://cnettv.cnet.com/9742-1_53-11125.html

drthtater

Thanks for calling the IT help desk. Have you turned it off and on?

Silentsoul

I got this one the other day:

User:"my internet doesn't work"
Me:"well the interwebz is up i just checked it in the closet"
user:"well my plug fell out of the wall and i can't turn my internet on"
puzzled me:"your plug, like you plug a lamp into, plug?"
l-user:"YES!"
me:"sorry better call building maint. I don't do that.

Come to find out 2 days later from maint. it was the Ethernet jack, some how the cord and jack had been pulled from the wall...

yea probably trying to get her lamp into it....

jamesp1983

drthtater wrote:

Thanks for calling the IT help desk. Have you turned it off and on?

'

classic!

arwes

This was pretty much a daily saying a coworker had at this local ISP I used to work for:

"What's that? You're not getting any emails? OK, let's get scandisk going!"

Of course, I would get them when they'd call back.

"What's that? You're not getting any emails and scandisk did absolutely nothing to solve the problem? OK, let's check those mail settings!"

Another one from the same place, after the phone queue has filled up with people unable to receive emails. Twenty minutes later...

Sys admin: "Hey guys, I set up the ORB blacklist stuff so you might get some phone calls"

Megadeth4168

sprkymrk wrote:

User: I can't get this stupid email attachment to open.
Nick Burns (Company computer guy): Oh, I see, it's the email that's stupid, not you, right?

http://www.vidstogo.com/player.php?vfname=burnsanniston&ext=wmv

http://cnettv.cnet.com/9742-1_53-11125.html

Gotta love Nick Burns!