h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Oh dear.

I've had to plug my brain directly into the PC in order to reply to this message.

Well done! You didn't happen to see http://www.google.com/ 's april fool, did you?

No, what did they do?

[Broken URL removed by Moderator]the MentalPlex search, a little way down the page...

Hee hee... that would save me a lot of trouble!

I ran across a fun error message the other day... USER ERROR: Hit User to continue!

indeed!

There's a story about someone who called up a helpdesk in a furious temper because his computer kept calling him "bad" and "an invalid"... When they asked him exactly what he meant, it turned out he was referring to the "Bad command or filename" and "Invalid command" messages...

Not that I'd like to suggest that some people are stupid...

That was me!

*hides head in shame*

Surely not?

Oh yes indeedee!

*flexes his tartan braces*

I wish it wasn't so damn late... oh welll

not really sure where to post this so i'll put it here. The guide seems to be doing well, you seem to have come a long way since the days of "whats all this about then?...." I see your a big grown up ACE now... are there any perks (laydeez and fast cars maybe? ) as you can see my contribution to the guide was a 45 week cliff hanger that ended with me getting back with my x. anyhow nice to speak to someone who knows that, inspite of the fact i have written no articles, i'm no newbie. It's late. I blabber. I leave.


Bob

Along this same line...

At a previous job, when doing tracking for problem tickets, they wanted them written in a standardized format: what the problem wasXXX what you planned to do about it. When the problem was caused by the operator, I wrote the following:

Blah blah problem caused by operator error XXX order new operator from supply and replace.

Ahhh if it were only that easy to get (L)Users/operators replaced! I have decided that the most hideous disgusting error message that I have ever seen is "Microsoft Windows 98 installing"

It's kind of frustrating having to troubleshoot operators... especially when they won't let you hook them up to test equipment. I always want to bury a pair of probes in their temples and crank up the megger.

Well I always thought that it would be a good idea to be able to route electricity the same way thrt you route packets. I would love to explode a monitor in some lusers face when they tell me that *my* product will do something that is not only stupid but never in the design of the product to begin with.

Perks of the job... well, honour, prestige, and a rather groovy ACE badge on my homepage, but that's about it... Although you can use your ACE status as a good conversation starter with the ladies, can't you, Sidney?