Favorite Computer Sayings
- Uh-oh.....
- Shit!!
- What the hell!?
- Go get your backup disk. (You do have a backup disk?)
- That's SOOOOO bizarre.
- Wow!! Look at this.....
- Terminated??!
- What software license?
- Well, it's doing something.....
- Wow....that seemed fast.....
- What do you mean that wasn't a copy?
- It didn't do that a minute ago...
- Damn, and I just bought that can of soda...
- The drive ate the tape but that's OK, I brought my screwdriver.
- I cleaned up the root partition and now there's lots of free space.
- What's this "any" key I'm supposed to press?
- Do you smell something?
- What's that grinding sound?
- I have never seen it do that before...
- I think it should not be doing that...
- I remember the last time I saw it do that...
- You might as well all go home early today ...
- My vacation starts tomorrow.
- Ooops.
- Hmm, maybe if I do this...
- Hmmm, curious...
- Well, my files were backed up.
- What do you mean you needed that directory?
- What do you mean /home was on that disk? I just deleted it!
- Do you really need your home directory to do any work?
- The mainframe will be down until 8pm, but you can come back in and finish your work when it comes up tonight.
- I didn't think anybody would be doing any work at 2am, so I killed your job.
- Wonder what this command does?
- You did what to the floppy???
- Sorry, we deleted that package last week...
- NO! Not that button!
- Oops! (said in a quiet, almost surprised voice)
- YEEEHA!!! What a CRASH!!!
- What do you mean that could take down the whole network?
- What's this switch for anyways...?
- If I knew it wasn't going to work, I would have tested it sooner.
- Was that your directory?
- System coming down in 0 min....
- The backup procedure works fine, but the restore is tricky!
- Hey Fred, did you save that posting about restoring the system files? More importantly, did you print it out?
- The sprinkler system isn't supposed to leak is it?
- It is only a minor upgrade, the system should be back up in a few hours. (This is said on a Monday morning.)
- I think we can plug just one more thing in to this outlet strip without triping the breaker.
- What is all this I hear about static charges destroying computers?
- Ummm... Didn't you say you turned it off?
- The network's down, but we're working on it. Come back after dinner. (Usually said at 10pm the night before thesis deadline...)
- Ooops. Save your work, everyone. FAST!
- Boy, it's a lot easier when you know what you're doing.
- I hate it when that happens...
- You can do this patch with the system up...
- What happens to a Hard Disk when you drop it?
- The only copy of Norton Utilities was on THAT disk???
- Well, I've got a backup, but the only copy of the restore program was on that disk....
- What do mean by "fired"?
- Where did you say those backup tapes were kept?
- ...and if we just swap these two disk controllers like this...
- Don't do that, it'll crash the sys........ Shit
- Now it's funny you should ask that, because I was just wondering the same thing...
- We don't support that. We won't support that.
- ...and after I patched the microcode...
- We prefer not to change the root password, it's a nice easy one
- Just add yourself to the password file and make a directory...
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