• Re: cybersecurity jokes..

    From Tracker1@VERT/TRN to Ogg on Friday, March 25, 2022 09:52:08
    On 2/13/22 10:00, Ogg wrote:

    Good IT jokes are few and far between, especially when it comes
    to cybersecurity. That's why we put on our creativity hats to
    brainstorm joke after joke
    Not really a joke, but still remember when I worked at the MCI technical
    call center in Chandler, AZ... there was an Iomega side and a Compaq
    support side (I worked on the Iomega side)... was walking over to lunch,
    and a friend that worked on the Compaq side popped up, looked around for anyone to tell this to... he asked the customer to hold for a moment, he
    had too much trouble to stop from laughing...

    I didn't even understand the statement he made at first, "The c???er is broken" ... huh? ... "they said their cupholder was broken" ... of
    course it was the CD-Rom drive that they had been using as a cup holder.
    IIRC, this was around 1994 or so.

    The worst call I got was someone trying to backup their files when the
    power was out... I swear I spent 20m with they guy while he checked all
    the cables for the Jazz drive were connected, etc... seriously didn't
    think to tell me the power was out until I asked if he could pull the
    computer out so he could check the connection clearly without the
    flashlight. The SCSI card that came with some of the devices had the
    same connector as a printer port, and people would often plug into the
    wrong port, or not install the card, because they didn't know the
    difference.
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Tracker1 on Saturday, March 26, 2022 10:11:00
    Tracker1 wrote to Ogg <=-

    I didn't even understand the statement he made at first, "The c???er is broken" ... huh? ... "they said their cupholder was broken" ... of
    course it was the CD-Rom drive that they had been using as a cup
    holder.
    IIRC, this was around 1994 or so.


    Back about that time I'd had someone who referred to a CRT monitor as "The CPU". She'd talk about taking the CPU out and moving it to another desk.

    I'd be on the phone asking her to turn the PC off and on again, and I'd hear her turn the monitor off and on and wonder why the problems didn't go away.

    Don't miss those days.


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  • From the doctor@VERT/QBBS to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Tuesday, March 29, 2022 17:00:00
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    Tracker1 wrote to Ogg <=-

    Back about that time I'd had someone who referred to a CRT monitor as "The

    CPU". She'd talk about taking the CPU out and moving it to another desk.

    I'd be on the phone asking her to turn the PC off and on again, and I'd
    hear
    her turn the monitor off and on and wonder why the problems didn't go
    away.

    Don't miss those days.

    I used to work with someone who called a motherboard a "cp board".

    I worked with another guy who was insane... all he could do was fix power supplies. Anything else he touched he broke.

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