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Monday, February 23, 2004
Cyber Humour

Acronyms

You may have heard these terms used quite frequently, but do you know what they really mean?

1. ISDN: It Still Does Nothing

2. APPLE: Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity

3. IBM: I Blame Microsoft

4. CD-ROM : Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months

5. OS/2 : Obsolete Soon, Too.

6. SCSI : System Can’t See It

7.DOS: Defective Operating System

8. WINDOWS: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System

9. MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realise Our Software Only Fools Teenagers

10. ASIC : Bill’s Attempt to Seize Industry Control

11.WWW : World Wide Wait

Eunuchs convention?

An old lady on the airplane strikes up a conversation with the fellow sitting in the next seat, "..and where are you going?" "I’m going to San Francisco to a Unix convention," he replies. "Eunuchs convention?" she questions. "I didn’t know there were that many of you."

PC and submarine

Computers are like submarines, they stop working when you open Windows!

Q & A session

Q: What happens when you get a gigabite?
A: It megahurtz.

Q. Somebody asked me "What happens to programmers when they die?"
A. They get deallocated? Their values become undefined? The get re-intialised? Their structues break down? they become WORM food... They start dropping bits........ They branch to a new address! Their social system resources are released? They dump core?

Culled from the Net by Sunil Sharma