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Monday, October 6, 2003
Cyber Humour

Computer knowledge
From Sunil Sharma

AN employee of a computer store saw two women wandering around. "Can I help", he asked. One of them said, "Yes, I’m trying to compare these computers." The salesman said: "What are you looking for in a computer?" "I need a computer with both megabytes and gigabytes," she replied. Before the salesman recover and answer, her companion said: "I think I too need to change the hard drive of my computer. Do you think a Pentium hard drive is fast enough?"

Desktop

A company recently bought new monitors for their secretaries. When the IT man tried to take away the old monitors, one employee protested, saying she had important files stored there. He tried to explain she couldn’t save on the monitor, but she insisted. So he asked her to show him. She turned on the computer and exclaimed, "See, there they all are," pointing to the shortcuts on the desktop.

Recycle bin

I overheard a conversation between two women in a store bragging about their computer knowledge:

Woman 1: "What is that little trash can on the screen?"

Woman 2: "My son says it is called the ‘recycle bin’. He tells me when I don’t want a Word document anymore and I delete it, it goes in there."

Woman 1: "Can’t you just erase it?"

Woman 2: "Oh no, Word wouldn’t work for very long if I did that, I would run out of blank pages."

Woman 1: "Why?"

Woman 2: "Because it cleans the words off the pages, then sends the blank sheets back to Word so they can be used again. That’s why it’s called the recycle bin."

Tech support

Customer: "You've got to fix my computer. It won't boot properly.

Tech Support: "What does it say?"

Customer: "Something about an error and non*system disk."

Tech Support: "Look at your machine. Is there a floppy inside?"

Customer: "No, but there's a sticker saying there's an Intel inside."

— Culled from the Net