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A Glossary
of Your PC's Messages
By Kevin Pease
It says:
"Press Any Key"
It means: "Press any key you like but I'm not moving."
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It says: "Fatal Error. Please contact technical support
quoting error no. 1A4-2546512430E"
It means: "...where you will be kept on
hold for 10 minutes, only to be told that it's a
hardware problem".
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It says: "Installing
program to C:\<Directory>...."
It means: "... And I'll also be writing a few files into
c:\windows and c:/windows/system%20where%20you'll%20NEVER%20find%20them."
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It says: "Please insert disk 11"
It means: "Because I know darn well there are only 10
disks."
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It says: "Not enough memory"
It means: "I don't CARE if you've got 64MB of RAM, I want to
use
the bit below 640K."
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It says: "Press A Key"
(This one's a programmers joke. Like nothing happens unless
you press the "A" key.)
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It says: "Cannot read from drive D:...."
It means: "... However, if you put the CD in right side
up..."
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It says: "Please Wait...."
It means: "... Indefinitely."
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It says: "Directory does not exist...."
It means: ".... any more. Whoops."
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It says: "The application caused an error. Choose Ignore or
Close."
It means:
"....Makes no difference to me, you're still not
getting your work back."
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